Extracting Transfer Rules for Multiword Expressions from Parallel Corpora

This paper presents a procedure for extracting transfer rules for multiword expressions from parallel corpora for use in a rule based Japanese-English MT system. We show that adding the multi-word rules improves translation quality and sketch ideas for learning more such rules.

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