Counting, measuring, ordering: translation problems and solutions

Stephen Helmreich, David Farwell


Abstract
This paper describes some difficulties associated with the translation of numbers (scalars) used for counting, measuring, or selecting items or properties. A set of problematic issues is described, and the presence of these difficulties is quantified by examining a set of texts and translations. An approach to a solution is suggested.
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2004.amta-papers.10
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Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers
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September 28 - October 2
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2004
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Washington, USA
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Robert E. Frederking, Kathryn B. Taylor
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AMTA
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Springer
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86–93
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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-30194-3_10
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Stephen Helmreich and David Farwell. 2004. Counting, measuring, ordering: translation problems and solutions. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, pages 86–93, Washington, USA. Springer.
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Counting, measuring, ordering: translation problems and solutions (Helmreich & Farwell, AMTA 2004)
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