During the next seminar of the Linguistics Circle Seminar Series, Eric Wehrli, LATL-CUI, University of Geneva will talk about 'Collocations and Anaphora Resolution in Machine Translation'. The seminar will be held on Wednesday 9 December at 15:30 in Room 206, M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway Building (GW206).
Collocation identification and anaphora resolution are widely recognised as major issues for natural language processing, and particularly for machine translation. An abundant literature has been dedicated to each of those issues, but to the best of our knowledge their intersection domain – collocations in which the base term has been pronominalised – has hardly been treated.
In this talk, Eric Wehrli will present a (modest) contribution towards filling this gap, focusing on the translation from English to French of collocations of the type verb-direct object (to break a record, to make an appointment, to make a case, to take a break, etc.), with and without pronominalisation of the complement.
