%0 Journal Article %A Yukiko Sasaki Alam %D 2017 %J International Journal of Cognitive and Language Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 122, 2017 %T Knowledge Required for Avoiding Lexical Errors at Machine Translation %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10006362 %V 122 %X This research aims at finding out the causes that led to wrong lexical selections in machine translation (MT) rather than categorizing lexical errors, which has been a main practice in error analysis. By manually examining and analyzing lexical errors outputted by a MT system, it suggests what knowledge would help the system reduce lexical errors. %P 393 - 399