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Identification of non-referential zero pronouns for Korean-English machine translation

  • Kye Sung Kim*
  • , Seong Bae Park
  • , Hyun Je Song
  • , Se Young Park
  • , Sang Jo Lee
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Kyungpook National University

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Abstract

The common use of null arguments is one of the most critical issues in pro-drop languages. When translating Korean into other languages, the omitted elements should be replaced with appropriate pronouns to get grammatical target sentences. One of the most important issues when dealing with zero pronouns is to determine the referentiality of zero pronouns. Since, like expletive 'it' in English, omitted elements do not have always explicit referents, it is important to determine whether a zero pronoun is referential or not. In this paper, we focus on identifying non-referential zero pronouns. Since non-referential zero pronouns are likely to occur in similar contexts, referentiality determination in this paper is regarded as the identification of clauses containing non-referential zero pronouns. Our method outperforms the baseline systems using n-grams and bag of words, and achieves the F-measure of 0.51 and 0.78.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPRICAI 2010
Subtitle of host publicationTrends in Artificial Intelligence - 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings
Pages112-122
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2010 - Daegu, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2010.08.302010.09.2

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6230 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2010
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityDaegu
Period10.08.3010.09.2

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