Translation of Idiomatic Expressions Across Different Languages: A Study of the Effectiveness of TransSearch

Stéphane Huet (1) , Philippe Langlais (2)

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

This chapter 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 by paying close attention to the queries made to the system, TRANSSEARCH can effectively identify a fair number of idiomatic expressions and their translations. For indicative purposes, we compare the translations identified by our application to those returned by Google Translate and conduct a survey of recent Computer-Assisted Translation tools with similar functionalities to TRANSSEARCH.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Traitement du texte et du document

Stéphane Huet, Philippe Langlais. Translation of Idiomatic Expressions Across Different Languages: A Study of the Effectiveness of TransSearch. Amy Neustein and Judith A. Markowitz. Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions to Knotty Natural Language Problems, Springer New York, pp.185-209, 2013. ⟨hal-02021924⟩