Why does machine translation struggle with deictic expressions across languages more than with other word classes?

💡 Explanation

Machine translation has more difficulty with deixis due to the reliance on shared contextual knowledge between the speaker and listener, because the contextual information may not be present, or different in the target language, therefore, the translation becomes ambiguous. Rather than universal semantic roles, the contextual dependency makes accurate translation complex.

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