The quest for croatian idioms as multiword units
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Kristina Kocijan
Abstract
Idiomatic expressions are types of MWUs in which the meaning of the unit does not equal the cummulative meaning of its parts. They are culturally dependent, so the translation cannot be inferred from the expression itself. Croatian language has a very rich idiomatic structure. A few such expressions can be understood in direct translation but most are different from the literal translations. As the idioms are rooted in the tradition of the language and society from which they hail, they need special treatment in computational linguistics. Using NooJ as an NLP tool, we describe different types of Croatian idioms that will help us recognize them in texts. Idioms recognition should be given special treatment, being the major task in translation.
Abstract
Idiomatic expressions are types of MWUs in which the meaning of the unit does not equal the cummulative meaning of its parts. They are culturally dependent, so the translation cannot be inferred from the expression itself. Croatian language has a very rich idiomatic structure. A few such expressions can be understood in direct translation but most are different from the literal translations. As the idioms are rooted in the tradition of the language and society from which they hail, they need special treatment in computational linguistics. Using NooJ as an NLP tool, we describe different types of Croatian idioms that will help us recognize them in texts. Idioms recognition should be given special treatment, being the major task in translation.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- About the editors vii
- Multiword units in machine translation and translation technology 1
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Part 1. Multiword units in machine translation
- Analysing linguistic information about word combinations for a Spanish-Basque rule-based machine translation system 41
- How do students cope with machine translation output of multiword units? An exploratory study 61
- Aligning verb + noun collocations to improve a French-Romanian FSMT system 81
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Part 2. Multiword units in multilingual NLP applications
- Multiword expressions in multilingual information extraction 103
- A multilingual gold standard for translation spotting of German compounds and their corresponding multiword units in English, French, Italian and Spanish 125
- Dutch compound splitting for bilingual terminology extraction 147
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Part 3. Identification and translation of multiword units
- A flexible framework for collocation retrieval and translation from parallel and comparable corpora 165
- On identification of bilingual lexical bundles for translation purposes 181
- The quest for croatian idioms as multiword units 201
- Corpus analysis of croatian constructions with the verb doći ‘to come’ 223
- Anaphora resolution, collocations and translation 243
- Index 257
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- About the editors vii
- Multiword units in machine translation and translation technology 1
-
Part 1. Multiword units in machine translation
- Analysing linguistic information about word combinations for a Spanish-Basque rule-based machine translation system 41
- How do students cope with machine translation output of multiword units? An exploratory study 61
- Aligning verb + noun collocations to improve a French-Romanian FSMT system 81
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Part 2. Multiword units in multilingual NLP applications
- Multiword expressions in multilingual information extraction 103
- A multilingual gold standard for translation spotting of German compounds and their corresponding multiword units in English, French, Italian and Spanish 125
- Dutch compound splitting for bilingual terminology extraction 147
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Part 3. Identification and translation of multiword units
- A flexible framework for collocation retrieval and translation from parallel and comparable corpora 165
- On identification of bilingual lexical bundles for translation purposes 181
- The quest for croatian idioms as multiword units 201
- Corpus analysis of croatian constructions with the verb doći ‘to come’ 223
- Anaphora resolution, collocations and translation 243
- Index 257
