By Bonnie Jean Dorr

This publication describes a singular, cross-linguistic method of computing device translation that solves convinced sessions of syntactic and lexical divergences through technique of a lexical conceptual constitution that may be composed and decomposed in language-specific methods. This strategy permits the translator to function uniformly throughout many languages, whereas nonetheless accounting for wisdom that's particular to every language.The translation version can be utilized to map a source-language sentence to a target-language sentence in a principled style. it's equipped at the foundation of a parametric technique, making it effortless to alter from one language to a different (by atmosphere syntactic switches for every language and delivering lexical descriptions for every one language) with no need to write down a complete new processor for every language.Dorr's strategy advances the sector of desktop translation in a couple of very important methods: it offers a uniform processor during which a similar syntactic and lexical-semantic processing modules are used for every language; it truly is interlingual, in a position to derive an underlying language-independent type of the resource language that permits any of the 3 goal languages - Spanish, English, or German - to be made from this type; and it describes a scientific mapping among the lexical-semantic point and the syntactic point that enables the perfect target-language phrases to be chosen and discovered, regardless of the potential of syntactic and lexical divergences.Bonnie Jean Dorr is Assistant Professor within the laptop technology division on the collage of Maryland.

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16. Note that John is the highest left-most conceptual constituent in this representation, but the subject of the sentence is I . ST. ( - l O) � PHYS . (>- lO) Figure 1 . 1 5 The CD representation for Mary died indicates that Mary changed into a "very bad physical state" ( i. e . , dead ) . The CD representation for John killed Mary indicates that John caused this state to come about. John l¢=>LOC(M) fool n I pO SS -B Y Figure 1 . 1 6 The CD Representation / believe John is a fool indicates that the conceptualization John is a fool is located in the memory of / .

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