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Implementing monolingual grammars and transfer components in the Eurotra formalism

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This paper illustrates the implementation of 9 language modules and 72 transfer components in the Eurotra formalism. It gives an overview of the grammatical and lexical coverage of the monolingual grammars and transfer components and a detailed description of the translation process following a sentence from input text to output text.

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Kirchmeier-Andersen, S. Implementing monolingual grammars and transfer components in the Eurotra formalism. Machine Translation 6, 149–170 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00397279

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