Automatic creation of a semantic description of a target language

A system for creating a semantic description of a target language, comprising:

• a processing device configured to:
• align parallel text of a source language and a target language such that text in the source language is correlated to text in the target language;
• parse the text in the source language to construct a syntactic structure and a semantic structure of a sentence in the source language, wherein the syntactic structure comprises a lexical element of the source language, and wherein the semantic structure comprises a language-independent representation of the sentence in the source language;
• generate, based on a translation dictionary, a hypothesis about a lexical element of the target language that corresponds to the lexical element of the source language;
• compare the lexical element of the target language to the corresponding lexical element of the source language, wherein the comparison is based on the hypothesis;
• and
• associate, based on the comparison, a syntactic model for the lexical element of the target language with a syntactic model for the lexical element of the source language.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for creating a semantic description of a target language, the instructions comprising:

• instructions to align parallel text of a source language and a target language such that text in the source language is correlated to text in the target language;
• instructions to parse the text in the source language to construct a syntactic structure and a semantic structure of a sentence in the source language, wherein the syntactic structure comprises a lexical element of the source language, and wherein the semantic structure comprises a language-independent representation of the sentence in the source language;
• instructions to generate, based on a translation dictionary, a hypothesis about a lexical element of the target language that corresponds to the lexical element of the source language;
• instructions to compare the lexical element of the target language to the corresponding lexical element of the source language, wherein the comparison is based on the hypothesis;
• and
• instructions to associate, based on the comparison, a syntactic model for the lexical element of the target language with a syntactic model for the lexical element of the source language.