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  <Title>A Flexible Example Annotation Schema: Translation Corresponding Tree Representation</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, a novel annotation schema for translation examples, called Translation Corresponding Tree (TCT) structure, is proposed and has been applied to the construction of bilingual knowledge base (example base) to be used for the Portuguese to Chinese machine translation system. The TCT representation provides a flexible nature to describe the corresponding relations between the inter levels of the structure against its substrings in a sentence, in particular the corresponding translation fragments (substrings) from the target translation sentence are explicitly expressed in the structure. We have proposed a strategy to semi-automate the example base construction process. A preliminary TCT structure for a translation example is first produced by the system, then the representation structure can be further modified manually through an TCT editor to get the final structure.</Paragraph>
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