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  <Title>Building Parallel LTAG for French and Italian Made-H616ne Candito</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we view Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars as the compilation of a more abstract and modular layer of linguistic description :the metagrammar (MG). MG provides a hierarchical representation of lexico-syntactic descriptions and principles that capture the well-formedness of lexicalized structures, expressed using syntactic functions. This makes it possible for a tool to compile an instance of MG into an LTAG, automatically performing the relevant combinations of linguistic phenomena. We then describe the instantiation of an MG for Italian and French.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The work for French was performed starting with an existing LTAG, which has been augmented as a result. The work for Italian was performed by systematic contrast with the French MG. The automatic compilation gives two parallel LTAG, compatible for multilingual NLP applications.</Paragraph>
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