High Level Memory Structures and Text Coherence in Translation

Various memory o rgan iza t ion schemes have been proposed in the l as t f i v e years . Lots of i n t e l l i g e n t computer systems have been experimenting w i t h memory schemes l i k e s c r i p t s , p lans , goa l s , 14] and MOPs [5 ] in the domain of t ex t understanding [3 ] [1 ] and in fo rmat ion r e t r i e v a l [ 2 ] . In t h i s paper, the focus is on the problem of t r a n s l a t i n g sentences that invo lve l e x i c a l items which don ' t have equivalent counterpar ts in the ta rge t language. Examples are drawn from t r a n s l a t i o n s between Engl ish and Mandarin Chinese.