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Title: | Bilingual newsgroups in Catalonia: a challenge for machine translation |
Author: | Climent, Salvador Moré López, Joaquim Oliver, Antoni Salvatierra Mallarach, Míriam Sánchez Sáiz, Imma Taulé Delor, Mariona Vallmanya Cucurull, Lluïsa |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) |
Citation: | Climent, S., Moré, J., Oliver, A., Salvatierra, M., Sánchez, I., Taulé, M. & Vallmanya, L. (2003). Bilingual newsgroups in Catalonia: a challenge for machine translation. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 9(1), 1-15. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00360.x |
Abstract: | This paper presents a linguistic analysis of a corpus of messages written in Catalan and Spanish, which come from several informal newsgroups on the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia; henceforth, UOC) Virtual Campus. The surrounding environment is one of extensive bilingualism and contact between Spanish and Catalan. The study was carried out as part of the INTERLINGUA project conducted by the UOC's Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3). Its main goal is to ascertain the linguistic characteristics of the e-mail register in the newsgroups in order to assess their implications for the creation of an online machine translation environment. The results shed empirical light on the relevance of characteristics of the e-mail register, the impact of language contact and interference, and their implications for the use of machine translation for CMC data in order to facilitate cross-linguistic communication on the Internet. |
Keywords: | bilingualism Catalan language Spanish language machine translation |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00360.x |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es |
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