Using Dependency-Based Contextualization for transferring Passive Constructions from English to Spanish

  1. Pablo Gamallo Otero
  2. Gorka Labaka Intxauspe
Journal:
Procesamiento del lenguaje natural

ISSN: 1135-5948

Year of publication: 2021

Issue: 66

Pages: 53-64

Type: Article

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Abstract

Formulamos la hipótesis de que los corpus paralelos así como los resultados de la traducción automática contienen muchas traducciones literales que son el resultado de la transferencia de las construcciones del idioma de origen al idioma de destino. Cuando se traducen expresiones pasivas del inglés al español, hay varias construcciones disponibles, sin embargo, tanto las traducciones automáticas como las humanas (si son de baja calidad) tienden a seleccionar la estructura perifásica, que es la construcción literal. El objetivo de este artículo es hacer uso de estrategias entrenadas a partir de corpus monolingües para traducir las expresiones pasivas del inglés al español, a fin de verificar si la traducción no supervisada con corpus monolingües beneficia la diversidad sintáctica. Se prestará especial atención al método semántico que se apoya en el proceso de contextualización en el marco de la sintaxes de dependencias. Los resultados obtenidos en los experimentos muestran que los métodos basados en corpus monolingües tienden a generar más traducciones no literales (voz media) que los entrenados con corpus paralelos.

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Funding information

This work has received financial sup port from DOMINO (PGC2018-102041- B-I00, MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE), eRisk (RTI2018-093336-B-C21), the Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universi-taria (accreditation 2016-2019, ED431G/08, Groups of Reference: ED431C 2020/21) and the European Regional Development Fund.

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