Lexical Functions and the Translation of Collocations

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Page 298-305
Author Kerry Maxwell, Dirk Heylen
Title Lexical Functions and the Translation of Collocations
Abstract This paper discusses the lexicographical concept of Lexical functions (Mel'chuk and Zholkovsky, 1984) and their potential exploitation in the development of a machine translation lexicon designed to handle collocations. We show how lexical functions can be thought to reflect crosslinguistic meaning concepts for collocational structures and their translational equivalents, and therefore suggest themselves as some kind of language-independent semantic primitives from which translation strategies can be developed.
Session PART 2 - The way words work together / combinatorics
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@InProceedings{ELX94-033,
	   author = {Kerry Maxwell, Dirk Heylen},
	   title = {Lexical Functions and the Translation of Collocations},
	   pages = {298-305},
	   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th EURALEX International Congress},
	   year = {1994},
	   month = {aug-sep},
	   date = {30-3},
	   address = {Amsterdam, the Netherlands},
	   editor = {Willy Martin, Willem Meijs, Margreet Moerland, Elsemiek ten Pas, Piet van Sterkenburg & Piek Vossen},
	   publisher = {Euralex},
	   isbn = {90-900-7537-2},
	}
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