Contributor
Irene Tang

Discontiguous Multiwords


Mentors
Mikel L. Forcada, Jonathan W
Organization
Apertium

Discontiguous multiwords are multi-word expressions that are separated by something in the middle (e.g. "take the garbage out") . Apertium currently doesn’t offer support for discontinuous multiwords, and this is a source of many unfortunate translation errors. My plan is to improve the multiwords processor into being able to recognize sentences with discontiguous multiwords and then reorder the structure to place the whole phrasal verb together before entering bilingual dictionary lookup.