Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology

Collocation identification and anaphora resolution are widely recognised as major issues for natural language processing, and particularly for machine translation. This paper focuses on their intersection domain, that is verb-object collocations in which the object has been pronominalised. To handle such cases, an anaphora resolution procedure must link the direct object pronoun to its antecedent. The identification of a collocation can then be made on the basis of the verb and its object or its