Transfer InterStructure: Designing an 'Interlingua' for Transfer-based MT Systems
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While the use of a normalized pivot structure between analysis and synthesis is a fact for many current transfer-based FAMT systems, this structure is usually tailored for one particular language-pair. The question for a "universal" pivot structure arises when the FAMT is intended to be multilingual. Such universal pivot structure (i.e., the TIS) deviates from the Interlingua approach in that it does not include a universal representation for lexical items nor for semantic relations (discourse analysis).
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