Contrary to perceived wisdom, we explore the role of machine translation (MT) in assisting
with the translation of literary texts, considering both its limitations and its potential. Our …

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal
reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus …

In this article, we explore the potential of using sentence-level discourse structure for
machine translation evaluation. We first design discourse-aware similarity measures, which …

This paper shows that the automatic labeling of discourse connectives with the relations they
signal, prior to machine translation (MT), can be used by phrase-based statistical MT …

This thesis addresses some of the challenges of translating morphologically rich languages
(MRLs). Words in MRLs have more complex structures than those in other languages, so …

En especial, a mi directora de tesis, la Dra. Elisa Calvo Encinas, por su dedicación,
compromiso y tiempo durante todos estos años; por guiarme y saber motivarme tanto en el …

Implicit discourse relation recognition aims to identify logical relations between two
arguments without explicit connectives and is a challenging task in discourse analysis …

Discourse is the study of texts as sequences of sentences which taken together are able to
convey meaning. The properties of a text which enable the conveyance of meaning have …

This paper proposes a method for improving the results of a statistical Machine Translation
system using boundedness, a pragmatic component of the verbal phrase's lexical aspect …

It is important to keep the two concepts of time and tense strictly apart. The former is common
to all mankind and is independent of language; the latter varies from language to language …