Abstract
The paper demonstrates the problem of translating modal verbs and phrases and shows how some of these problems can be overcome by choosing semantic representations which look like representations of passive verbs. These semantic representations suit alternative ways of expressing modality by e.g. passive constructions, adverbs and impersonal constructions in the target language. Various restructuring rules for English, Swedish and Russian are presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | COLING '94 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics |
| Pages | 120-124 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Volume | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1994 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics