Translation of Adverbs in Japanese to English Machine Translation

Kentaro OGURA, Satoshi SHIRAI and Satoru IKEHARA

NTT Communication Science Laboratories
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Abstract

This paper gives a systematic description of how Japanese adverbs are translated into English, based on a study of data about Japanese adverbs in a bilingual corpus. We show how current Japanese-to-English machine translation systems translate adverbials, using our own system as an example, and discuss what new methods are needed beyond these.



key words

Adverb, Machine Translation, Corpus



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