Title :
A contrastive study of Chinese progressive aspect structure, "ZAI+verb" and its English correspondents: a bilingual parallel corpus-based perspective
Author :
Qu, Yunhua ; Feng, Zhiwei
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Int. Studies, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
fDate :
30 Oct.-1 Nov. 2005
Abstract :
One of the Chinese-English machine translation burning problems is how to convert the Chinese aspects to their English correspondents. Chinese progressive aspect marker "ZAI+verb" can have multiple English correspondents besides the English progressive aspect. This paper takes an empirical approach to this unresolved conversion, based on a bilingual parallel corpus. It identifies 10 English translation equivalents of "ZAI+verb", figures out the conversion rates between "ZAI+verb" and its English translation equivalents, and presents 14 conversion rules to define the matching relationships between them. The results implies that the precise degree of Chinese-English machine translation of "ZAI+verb" to progressive aspects in English can be expected to be up to 67%.
Keywords :
language translation; linguistics; natural languages; Chinese-English machine translation; ZAI+verb; aspect marker; bilingual parallel corpus; conversion rule; Chaos; Chaotic communication; Modems; Morphology; aspect marker "ZAI"; bilingual parallel corpus; conversion rate; conversion rule; progressive aspect;
Conference_Titel :
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, 2005. IEEE NLP-KE '05. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9361-9
DOI :
10.1109/NLPKE.2005.1598753
