A Status Report on the Lrc Machine Translation System

T h i s p a p e r d i s c u s s e s t h e l i n g u i s t i c and c o m p u t a t i o n a l t e c h n i q u e s employed i n t h e c u r r e n t version of Machine Translation s y s t e m b e i n g developed at the Linguistics Research Center of the University of Texas, under contract to Siemens AG in Munich, West Germany. We pay particular attention to the reasons for our choice of certain t e c h n i q u e s o v e r o t h e r c a n d i d a t e s , b a s e d on b o t h o b j e c t i v e and s u b j e c t i v e c r i t e r i a . We t h e n r e p o r t t h e s y s t e m ' s s t a t u s v i s a v i s i t s r e a d i n e s s f o r a p p l i c a t i o n i n a p r o d u c t i o n e n v i r o n m e n t , a s a means of j u s t i f y i n g o u r c l a i m s r e g a r d i n g t h e p r a c t i c a l u t i l i t y o f t h e m e t h o d s we e s p o u s e .