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  <Title>TRANSLATION BY STRUCTURAL CORRESPONDENCES</Title>
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CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have sketched and illustrated an approach to machine translation that exploits the potential of simultaneous correspondences between different levels of linguistic representation. This is made possible by the equality and description based mechanisms of LFG. This approach relies mainly on codescription, and thus it is different from other aFG-based approaches that use a - 280description-by-analysis mechanism to relate the f-structure of a source language to the f-structure of a target language (see for example Kudo and Nomura, 1986). Our proposal allows for partial specifications and multi-level transfer. In that sense it also differs from strategies pursued for example in the Eurotra project (Arnold and des Tombe, 1987), where transfer is based on one level of representation obtained by transforming the surface structure in successive steps.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We see it as one of the main advantages of our approach that it allows us to express correspondences between separate pieces of linguistically motivated representations and in this way allows the translator to exploit the linguistic descriptions of source and target language in a more direct way than is usually proposed.</Paragraph>
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