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* 'TRANSLATION GREAT PROBLEM' - ON THE PROBLEM OF INSERTING ARTICLES'
 
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* Mel'čuk and Wanner (2008) "Morphological mismatches in machine translation (§6.1)". ''Machine Translation''
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* Mel'čuk and Wanner (2008) "Morphological mismatches in machine translation". ''Machine Translation'' (§6.1)
   
   

Revision as of 00:20, 27 April 2011

Pending tasks

Slovenian monolingual dictionary
  • Proofread pronouns in the Slovenian monolingual dictionary -- They should be complete, and have appropriate subcategorisation (pos, ind, def, qnt, dem, ...)
  • Proofread prepositions in the Slovenian monolingual dictionary -- Take note that the same preposition with different forms should be included in a paradigm (e.g. "de" "d'" etc.)
    • Preposition/pronoun contractions should be added as in other pairs, with <j/>
  • Proofread conjunctions in the Slovenian dictionary -- They should be split into coordinating and subordinating
  • Proofread determiners in the Slovenian dictionary -- They should be complete, and have appropriate subcategorisation (pos, ind, def, qnt, dem, ...)
    • Some determiners are missing (e.g. the possessives moj, naš, vaš, etc.), these need to be added.
  • Proofread open categories
    • Verbs are missing aspect markers (perf, imperf) these will need to be added.
    • Verbs are not marked for transitivity.
    • Nouns are not split in moški spol into animate/inanimate. -- They should be
    • Adjectives with superlatives output superlative lemma e.g. najstar -- these should be changed to output non superlative lemma. e.g. najstarstar. See e.g. example for lep, najlep
    • Proper nouns need to be split from common nouns and appropriately subcategorised (top, ant, ...), proper names should be with initial caps.
Slovenian→Spanish bilingual dictionary
Slovenian→Spanish transfer
  • Move to 3+ levels of transfer
  • Investigate how definiteness in Spanish can be inferred from Slovenian.
    • Perhaps consider marking count/mass in bilingual dictionary.
    • Are there any NP structures which are inherently definite ?
      • Superlatives
      • NPs with proper names (e.g. Parlament SlovenijeEl Parlamento de Slovenia)

See also

Further reading

  • 'TRANSLATION GREAT PROBLEM' - ON THE PROBLEM OF INSERTING ARTICLES'
  • Mel'čuk and Wanner (2008) "Morphological mismatches in machine translation". Machine Translation (§6.1)