... our ap- proach with examples of translation between En- glish and Japanese. 1 Introduction The focus of machine translation (MT) technol- ogy has been on the translation of sentence struc- ... of translation mis- matches. In this paper, we propose a framework based on Situation Theory (Barwise and Perry 1983). First we will define the problem of translation mismatches, the key translation ... i ~s i, Phrasal Situations Psi Psi,, Figure 4: Situated Translation THE TRANSLATION MODEL. Here is our characterization of a TRANSLATION: Given a SUR ( DeT, PS, DiS, US ) of the nth source...