Hi, I'm facing the following problem: in the SL I have the sentence
incidenti che nel trasporto su strada, per ferrovia e sulle vie navigabili provocano which should be translated into incidents qui sur les routes, les voies ferrées et navigables provoquent Here "che" is a subject relative pronoun and hence must be translated by "qui" in French (and not by "que" which would be the translation of the same "che" but as an object relative pronoun). To find out the nature of "che" I need to skip the whole chunk "nel trasporto su strada, per ferrovia e sulle vie navigabili" and find the verb "provocano", then check whether it is transitive or not, etc. My first thought was to use advanced structural transfer so that "che", "nel trasporto su strada, per ferrovia e sulle vie navigabili", "provocano" become chunks, so that "che" can communicate with "provocano" and we can deduce that it is a subject and therefore translate it by "qui". But this would mean to have a rule in .t1x of variable length (I cannot know in advance how many words will follow the "nel" as in "nel trasporto su strada, per ferrovia e sulle vie navigabili"), and I gather that this is impossible. How would you deal with this situation? Thanks in advance -- ------------------------------------------------------- Yannis Haralambous Directeur d'études Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom Bretagne Département Informatique UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC Technopôle Brest Iroise CS 83818, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France Tél.: +33 2 29 00 14 27 Fax: +33 2 29 00 12 82 Email: yannis.haralamb...@telecom-bretagne.eu Internet: http://omega.enstb.org/yannis ICBM address: 48°21'31.57"N 4°34'16.76"W Twitter: y_haralambous ------------------------------------------------------- ...the ball I threw while playing in the park has not yet reached the ground (Dylan Thomas) Es gab eine Zeit, wo ich nur ungern über Schubert sprechen, nur Nächtens den Bäumen und Sternen von ihm vorerzählen mögen. (Robert Schumann) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
