This paper describes a multi-site project to annotate six sizable bilingual parallel corpora for interlingual content. After presenting the background and objectives of the effort, we will go on to describe the data set that is being annotated, the interlingua representation language used, an interface environment that supports the annotation task and the annotation process itself. We will then...

Understanding natural language assumes one way or another, being able to select the appropriate meaning for each word in a text. Word-sense disambiguation is, by far, the most difficult part of the semantic processing required for natural language understanding. In a limited domain of discourse this problem is alleviated by considering only a few of the senses one word would have listed in any ...

This paper describes the integration of a Turkish generation system with the KANT knowledge-based machine translation system to produce a prototype English–Turkish interlingua-based machine translation system. These two independently constructed systems were successfully integrated within a period of two months, through development of a module which maps KANT interlingua expressions to Turkish ...

We report on two different approaches to the incorporation of adjectives in Spanish WordNet based on automatic extraction techniques using EuroWordNet and machine-readable dictionaries. We show that a monolingual dictionary approach enables to exploit relations between different parts of speech and enrich the internal structure of the Spanish WordNet, while the methods based on bilingual dictio...

In this paper an interlingual mechanism oriented to pronominal references resolution and generation in Machine Translation (MT) systems is proposed. This mechanism is based on Slot Structure (SS) presented in [3] [2]. A comparison of pronominal references resolution both in English and in Spanish is developed to accomplish a study of the existing discrepancies between two languages. From this s...

A comprehensive review about machine translation and ontologies is meant to investigate both the topic of ontologies for MT and MT for ontologies. The former identifies a research area (’80s-’90s) dealing with interlingual knowledge-based MT systems. A general background is presented, together with two case studies, namely PANGLOSS and Mikrokosmos. The latter is a topic appeared recently with r...

Wordnets are semantic networks containing nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs organized according to linguistic principles, by means of semantic relations. In this work, we adopt a complex network perspective to perform a comparative analysis of the English and Polish wordnets. We determine their similarities and show that the networks exhibit some of the typical characteristics observed in o...

OMNIA is an on-going project that aims to retrieve images accompanied with multilingual texts. In this paper, we propose a generic method (language and domain independent) to extract conceptual information from such texts and spontaneous user requests. First, texts are labelled with interlingual annotation, then a generic extractor taking a domain ontology as a parameter extract relevant concep...

This paper describes a multi-site project to annotate six sizable bilingual parallel corpora for interlingual content. After presenting the background and objectives of the effort, we describe the data set that is being annotated, the interlingua representation language used, an interface environment that supports the annotation task and the annotation process itself. We then present our evalua...

In light of the current generation’s extensive familiarization with technology and exposure to a vast amount audiovisual materials daily, researchers have been investigating effects subtitled products in foreign language learning for years. It has generally found that polysemiotic nature content (Lertola 2019) enhances learning, as message conveyed is supported by audio visual textual informati...