Negation and Modality in Machine Translation

Preslav Nakov


Abstract
Negation and modality are two important grammatical phenomena that have attracted recent research attention as they can contribute to extra-propositional meaning aspects, among with factuality, attribution, irony and sarcasm. These aspects go beyond analysis such as semantic role labeling, and modeling them is important as a step towards a higher level of language understanding, which is needed for practical applications such as sentiment analysis. In this talk, I will go beyond English, and I will discuss how negation and modality are expressed in other languages. I will also go beyond sentiment analysis and I will present some challenges that the two phenomena pose for machine translation (MT). In particular, I will demonstrate how contemporary MT systems fail on them, and I will discuss some possible solutions.
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W16-5005
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics (ExProM)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Eduardo Blanco, Roser Morante, Roser Saurí
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EXprom
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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41
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Preslav Nakov. 2016. Negation and Modality in Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics (ExProM), page 41, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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