@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/lic.20002.poi, author = "Poiret, Rafaƫl and Mille, Simon and Liu, Haitao", title = "Paraphrase and parallel treebank for the comparison of French and Chinese syntax", journal= "Languages in Contrast", year = "2021", volume = "21", number = "2", pages = "298-322", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.20002.poi", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lic.20002.poi", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "1387-6759", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "syntactic mismatch", keywords = "Paraphrase", keywords = "Meaning-Text Theory", keywords = "Chinese/French", keywords = "parallel treebank", abstract = "Abstract

This paper proposes to study the contrastive syntax of French and Chinese through the lens of syntactic mismatches, and by making use of parallel treebanks. A syntactic mismatch is the non-similarity between the syntactic structures of one linguistic unit and its translation. Syntactic mismatches are formalized using the notion of paraphrase from the Meaning-Text Theory, which allows for capturing mismatches at different levels of the linguistic description (e.g. Semantic, Deep-Syntactic, and Surface-Syntactic). In this paper, we report in details on the types of paraphrases found in the seed corpus used, demonstrating that the Deep-Syntactic paraphrases constitute the best starting point for our study. Then, we show how, starting from the seed corpus, we semi-automatically constructed a multi-layer parallel treebank with the alignment and annotation of paraphrases.", }