This paper discusses the application of
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Unification Categorial Grammar ( UCG )
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to the framework of
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Isomorphic Grammars
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for
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Machine Translation
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pioneered by Landsbergen .
#17863This paper discusses the application of Unification Categorial Grammar (UCG) to the framework of Isomorphic Grammars for Machine Translation pioneered by Landsbergen.
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The
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Isomorphic Grammars approach
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to
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MT
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involves developing the
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grammars
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of the
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Source and Target languages
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in parallel , in order to ensure that
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SL and TL expressions
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which stand in the
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translation relation
</term>
have
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isomorphic derivations
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.
#17907The Isomorphic Grammars approach to MT involves developing the grammars of the Source and Target languages in parallel, in order to ensure that SL and TL expressions which stand in the translation relation have isomorphic derivations .
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The principle advantage of this approach is that
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knowledge
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concerning
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translation equivalence
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of
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expressions
</term>
may be directly exploited , obviating the need for answers to
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semantic questions
</term>
that we do not yet have .
#17935The principle advantage of this approach is that knowledge concerning translation equivalence of expressions may be directly exploited, obviating the need for answers to semantic questions that we do not yet have.