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  <Title>TRANSFORMING ENGLISH INTERFACES TO OTHER NATURAL LANGUAGES: AN EXPERIMENT WITH PORTUGUESE</Title>
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5. CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> It is wiser to concentrate efforts to o 0 tain more and more powerful morpho-syntactic anal~ sets, linguistic semantic analysers and cognitive, semantic interpreters for the natural language we are working in. Constructing replicants of applica tion directed interfaces starting from scratch is unproductive. Constructing more and more powerful interfaces, as the number of applications naturally grows, the natural language analyser, planned to be application independent, is always under improvement because it is always incorporating more and more linguistic knowledge. At the same time one is freed from consideration of morphological and syntactic basic problems and so one can shift his attention to more subtle problems related to tense , modality and others and one can concentrate his mind to the way how concepts related to words are defined. As a consequence, the implementing task can be organized by areas of specialization.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> When one has to construct an interface for a specific language it is reasonable to look for interfaces implemented for other languages wh e re the faced syntactical and morphological prob lems have a similar degree of complexity. Having this in mind, Portuguese language seriously competes with English because it rises quite important syntactic, semantic and pragmatic problems similar to problems risen by latin, slavonic and germanic languages.</Paragraph>
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