Elia Yuste - MSc in MT (elia@ccl.umist.ac.uk)
Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:01:18 GMT
Dear HSPG-readers, I was wondering whether you could help me with this. At the moment I'm concentrating mainly on my postgraduate course at the Department of Language Engineering in UMIST (Univ. of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology), which is called MSc in MACHINE TRANSLATION. I've just started the literature survey for my dissertation, which has to do with the compilation of a bilingual lexicon (English/Catalan) and formal bilexical rules in Prolog to design an automatic translation tool. The linguistic topic I am going to be handling is spatial prepositions and their behaviour with verbs of movement, of course, in the above-mentioned languages!! My main concern now is to find out if there have already been studies on the same thing. I would particularly like to know if there is an implementation in HPSG, since I intend to apply my theoretical background on this to my research project. So, please, if anybody has any information about bibliography or knows any specialist in this particular field, I would be eternally grateful. I'd be also delighted to be given any reference/feedback about prepositions in Spanish/ English/Catalan. This can help me to consider the difficulties when implementingthe so-called "bi-lexical rules" in the system. Many thanks in advance for your co-operation. Elia Yuste Degree in English Philology (Univ.of Valencia, Spain) Postgraduate student at CCL, UMIST e-mail --> e-mail --> elia@uk.ac.umist.ccl
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