翻譯時如果遭遇匹配的問題，不管是詞彙上或結構上不對應，可預期的整個翻譯過程就會慢下來。如果找不到對應或者任何轉換動作都改善不了無法對應的情況，譬如”P is for parking”與「P是用來表示泊車」之間的對譯，那就更讓人傷腦筋，原因是譯者找遍整顆腦袋就是找不到現成可以用的東西。收集那些會讓翻譯趨緩無法輕易轉換的例子，必然有助於翻譯的訓練，因為透過孰悉這些例子、預先多做練習，可以幫學習者準備好如何在遭遇類似的情況下安然脫困。
本研究使用英語語言剖析器在分析完英文文件之後自動以「誰對誰做啥」加註每個事件的格框資訊，並以所使用的造句法註記事件之間的關係，作為電腦的閱讀報告。至於中文的句子則以人工的方式比照英文的註記內容加註分析所得的資料。如此中英翻譯的原文與譯文所傳達的事件指稱以及事件內和事件間的指稱關係得以詳實對照比較。本研究主要的目標放在深入探討中英原文譯文無法對應匹配的部分如何造成無法轉換，或謀合困難的窘境。本研究從語言相對論與中英對比分析的角度切入歸納無法對應的中文與英文的差異，切入的角度包括不同語言的溝通偏好、採用的造句法的異同、詞類與結構的互動變化、還有格框格位和語言觀點的出入等。期望對比分析結果有助於了解翻譯的本質，找出解決翻譯問題的關鍵，並提出翻譯訓練的方向。

In the mental process of translation from one language to another, the processing time is expected to increase when different kinds of mismatch such as lexical mismatch or structural mismatch are encountered. Among them, the mismatches that defy transferring, or the ones that have no easy counterparts, for example, “P is for parking” vs. “P是用來表示泊車”, are sure to be more challenging because no corresponding or ready-made expressions come to mind right away. The collection of transfer-defying structures will certainly help translator training programs in that student translators will have the chance to prepare themselves for how to find their way out in similar situations.
In this study, an English parser is used to annotate English sentences of different corpora automatically by representing each event in each sentence with a case frame of normalized Who Did What to Whom and its inter-event relations between related events in the same sentence. Then, an annotation in Chinese similar to the automatic annotation in English will be manually performed to each sentence’s translation in Chinese. Comparing the case frames and the inter-event relations between the original English text and its Chinese counterpart, it is expected to identify sentences that defy transferring in translation, ranging from missing some parts of speech to having entirely different case frames. Those sentences are expected to show mismatch of different kinds, based on linguistic relativity and contrastive analysis. The paired case frames of events of the same meaning in different languages will be used to show how a cure may be found for such transfer-defying mismatch with a hope to accelerating translation speed or easing processing burden.

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