Universal quantification in machine translation

Abstract

This approach has been developed in the context of the EUROTRA machine translation (MT) project and thus has been designed with respect to a syntax based stratificational translation process? We assume that in a semantic representation determiners are deleted and that their semantic function which is represented by semantic features is percolated into the mothernode. The semantic functions of determiners are explicated. The interaction between grammatical and lexical quantifieatiun is outlined. Ensemble theory is applied to the "count"/"mass" noun distinction. Transfer of quantification between German, English, and French is illustrated with respect to the "count"/"mass" distinction. The article closes with an outlook on [he relevance of generalized quantifiers for Machine Translation.

Unifying tense, aspect and modality across languages

“…With this lexically vague concept while is very untypical of the grammatical category of nouns as content bearers within our cline of grammatical categories. Yet, grammatically the noun while has the autonomous qualities of nouns (Zelinsky-Wibbelt, 1988;Zelinsky-Wibbelt, 1992). It constrains the relational meanings of verbs, it can be determined and modified, and it can have co-referential functions, as it has in ( 9) (Hopper and Traugott, 1993, 104):…”