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Tag Archives: word-sense disambiguation
Grammatical word-disambiguation again
The challenge is especially that of generalizing the grammatical word-disambiguation to several languages. Creating a module of grammatical word-disambiguation for each language appears to be a long and arduous task. This seems to be the main difficulty. But if a … Continue reading
Hinting at the Control problem
The question of choosing the best system to solve the problems posed by word disambiguation in the field of translation seems to be linked to the AGI control problem (how to avoid that an AGI finally turns out to be … Continue reading
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On the implementation of grammatical disambiguation
Grammatical disambiguation – i.e. whether ‘maintenant’ is and adverb (now) or the gerundive (maintaining) of the verb ‘maintenir’ – seems to be the crucial issue for the adoption of the rule-based model or statistical model for machine translation. This problem … Continue reading
Performing our first open test of the year
Let us comment on the remaining errors encountered in the above open test: French ‘carrière’ remains undisambiguated: either carriera (career) or cava (quarry): two occurrences ‘de’: French ‘de’ is perhaps the most difficult word to translate into another language, due … Continue reading
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Word sense disambiguation: a hard case
Let us consider a hard case for word sense disambiguation, in the context of French to Corsican MT. But the same goes for French to English MT. It relates to French words such as: ‘accomplit’, ‘affaiblit’, ‘affranchit’, ‘alourdit’, ‘amortit’. The … Continue reading
More on grammatical type disambiguation
Let us focus on grammatical type disambiguation, which is a subproblem of word disambiguation. General grammatical types are: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, gerundive, etc. But for grammatical type disambiguation purposes, more accuracy is in order: instances of grammatical types … Continue reading
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New insight on the issue of pair reversal (updated)
The issue of pair reversal: it goes as follows: Suppose your have a given translation pair A>B that translates language A into language B, how hard is it to build the reverse pair B>A? Now the current instance of this … Continue reading
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What is required from Artificial General Intelligence with regard to Machine Translation?
We will be interested in a series of posts to try to define what is required of an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) in order to reach the level of superintelligence in MT (machine translation). (All this is highly speculative, but … Continue reading
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Superintelligent machine translation (updated)
Let us consider superintelligence with regard to machine translation. To fix ideas, we can propose a rough definition: it consists of a machine with the ability to translate with 99% (or above) accuracy from one of the 8000 languages to … Continue reading
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Disambiguating ‘nombre de’
Let us consider here the disambiguation of ‘nombre de’ which can be according to the cases: a singular masculine noun followed by a preposition: in this case, ‘nombre de’ translates to numaru di (number of) an indefinite pronoun: in this … Continue reading
Semantic disambiguation of French ‘femme’: in the mud, gold is still shining
In Corsican language, French word ‘femme’ can be translated, depending on the context either into donna (woman) or into moglia (wife) The above sample still contains a lot of vocabulary and grammatical disambiguation errors (easy/medium difficulty), but it handles … Continue reading
Four consecutive ambiguous words
Translating the following sentence: ‘ce fait est unique’ is not as easy as it could seem at first glance. In effect, it is made up of four consecutive ambiguous words: ‘ce’: ‘ssu (demonstrative pronoun, this) or ciò (it, relative pronoun) … Continue reading
