Translation equivalence of demonstrative pronouns in Bulgarian-Slovak parallel texts

• Authors: Dimitrova Ludmila , Garabík Radovan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper we describe our automatic analysis of several parallel Bulgarian-Slovak texts with the goal to obtain useful information about Slovak translation equivalents of (definite) articles and demonstrative pronouns in Bulgarian. Rather than focusing on individual translation equivalents, we present a method for automatic extraction and visualization of the translations. This can serve as a guide for pinpointing interesting features in specific translated documents and could be extended for other parts of speech or otherwise identifiable textual units.

Keywords

EN

translation equivalents; demonstrative pronouns; parallel corpora; aligned text; Slovak; Bulgarian

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Slawistyki PAN
• Journal: Cognitive Studies
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 14
• Pages: 65-74

Dates

published

2014-09-04

Contributors

author

Dimitrova Ludmila

• Институт по математикa и информатика, Българска академия на науките [Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences], София [Sofia], Bulgaria

author

Garabík Radovan

• Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra, Slovenská akadémia vied [Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences], Bratislava, Slovakia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.11649/cs.2014.007