Idiom treatment experiments in machine translation / by Dimitra Anastasiou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anastasiou, Dimitra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machine translating.

English language--Idioms.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1975, Searle stated that one should speak idiomatically unless there is some good reason not to do so. Fillmore, Kay, and O'Connor in 1988 defined an idiomatic expression or construction as something that a language user could fail to know while knowing everything else in the language. Our language is rich in conversational phrases, idioms, metaphors, and general expressions used in metaphorical meaning. These idiomatic expressions pose a particular challenge for Machine Translation (MT), ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND DIAGRAMS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; KURZZUSAMMENFASSUNG; ABSTRACT; CONVENTIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; WEB REFERENCES; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-227).

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-14167-1

1-4438-2540-9

9786613141675

OCLC:

821180428