Identifying the Translations of Idiomatic Expressions using TransSearch

Stéphane Huet (1) , Philippe Langlais (2)

1 LIA - Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon
2 DIRO - Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle [Montreal]

This document presents a case study relating how a user of TransSearch, a translation spotter as well as a bilingual concordancer available over the Web, can use the tool for finding translations of idiomatic expressions. We show that with some care on the queries made to the system, TransSearch can identify a fair number of idiomatic expressions and their translations.

Mots clés: idiomatic expression; Machine translations

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Stéphane Huet, Philippe Langlais. Identifying the Translations of Idiomatic Expressions using TransSearch. 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS), Aug 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark. pp.45-56. ⟨hal-01317551⟩