Computational Stylistics for Natural Language Translation

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From: Violet Syrotiuk
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1989 14:31

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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SEMINAR

                    - Thursday, March 23, 1989

Ms.  Chrysanne  DiMarco,  of the Department of Computer
Science  at  the  University  of Toronto, will speak on
``Computational   Stylistics   for   Natural   Language
Translation''.

TIME:                3:30 PM

ROOM:                DC 1304

ABSTRACT

The  problem  of  style  is  highly relevant to machine
translation   (MT),   but  current  systems  deal  only
superficially with the translation of style.  MT output
may  be  syntactically  correct but aims no higher than
being  strictly uniform in tone. The expressive effects
contained   in  the  source  text,  together  with  the
associated meaning, are lost.

We  have  chosen a non-literary, group-based, and, most
important,  goal-directed  view  of  style.  A ``group-
based''   approach   aims  to  discover  the  stylistic
standards  shared by a body of writers, rather than the
characteristics   of   an  individual  author.  ``Goal-
directed''  means  that we seek to explicitly correlate
specific aspects of style such as clarity, abstraction,
and  concreteness  with  particular lexical, syntactic,
and semantic structures.

The  foundation  of  a  computational  model  of  goal-
directed  stylistics  for French-to-English translation
has   been  designed  and  is  now  being  implemented.
Syntactic  and  semantic  stylistic  grammars have been
constructed and stylistic parsers are being developed.

We believe that the incorporation of stylistic analysis
into  MT  systems will significantly reduce the current
reliance  on human post-editing and improve the quality
of MT output.
-- 
Violet R. Syrotiuk     |                                   vrsyrotiuk@water.uucp
Computer Science Dept. |                                watmath!water!vrsyrotiuk
University of Waterloo |                           vrsyrotiuk@water.uwaterloo.ca
Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1  |                 vrsyrotiuk@water.waterloo.edu (or .cdn)

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From: vrsyrotiuk@water.waterloo.edu (Violet Syrotiuk)
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Subject: Computational Stylistics for Natural Language Translation
Keywords: Ms. C. DiMarco, Thursday March 23, 1989, 3:30pm, DC 1304
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