How to get started with lexical selection rules

Choose your words

Before you start making lexical selection rules, you first want to choose a word in your source language (e.g. English) which has more than one translation in your target language (e.g. Spanish). For example

• argument → discusión
• argument → polémica
• argument → argumento

Try a parallel corpus

You can look at which contexts are used in one translation, but not another by looking at a parallel corpus.