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title: "James Barnett — papers and cards"
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# James Barnett

2 paper cards in the Research library · 1991

James Barnett wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 1991, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Elaine Rich](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elaine-rich/), [Inderjeet Mani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/inderjeet-mani/), Chinatsu Aone.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=James+Barnett) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=James+Barnett) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=James+Barnett) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=James+Barnett) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=James+Barnett)

Topics: [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) 2

## Papers

1. **[Capturing Language-Specific Semantic Distinctions in Interlingua-based MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barnett-1991-capturing-language-specific-semantic-distinctions/)** *(1991)* The paper describes an English-Spanish system (KBNL) that uses a Discourse Representation Structure (DRS) as its interlingua.
2. **[Reversible Machine Translation: What to Do When the Languages Don't Line Up](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barnett-1991-reversible-machine-translation-what-do/)** *(1991)* The paper deals with translation mismatches, where the literal meaning of the source is not the meaning of the natural target sentence.

## Co-authors (6)

- [Elaine Rich](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elaine-rich/) ×2
- [Inderjeet Mani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/inderjeet-mani/) ×2
- Chinatsu Aone
- Juan C. Martinez
- [Kevin Knight](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/)
- Paul Martin