Adverbs in the transfer module of MDS

Abstract

This manuscript describes the treatment of adverbs in the transfer module of the MDS version of VerbMobil. The following problems are discussed in it: 1) necessity, methodology, and results of the contrastive linguistic analysis pursued, 2) amount of the data, 3) connection between the semantic construction module and the transfer module, 4) transfer rules for adverbs, 5) English semantic lexicon, 6) analysis of the achieved, problems and improvements suggestions.