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  <Title>CLASSIFICATION OF MODALITY FUNCTION AND ITS APPLICATION TO JAPANESE LANGUAGE ANALYSIS</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="32" end_page="32" type="concl">
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7. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We proposed an analysis method for Japanese modality. In this purpose, we classified the meaning of modality into four categories, and then defined five modality functions which characterize the role of modality. By employing logical expressions to represent the meaning structure, we could effectively specify the modality function. Though logical expression has the same expressive power as frames or semantic networks, a more concise semantic representation can be realized by this method.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Although we dealt with the modality analysis restricted within the scope of one sentence in this paper, we must investigate the effect of discourse information on the analysis of modality in the future.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We have applied this modality analysis method to the Japanese sentence analysis in the Japanese-English experimental machine translation system, LUTE.IV!</Paragraph>
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