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  <Title>Ambiguity Preserving Machine Translation using Packed Representations*</Title>
  <Section position="8" start_page="369" end_page="369" type="concl">
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7 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have demonstrated that a Shake-and-Bake inspired MT approach can be applied to flat f-structure respresentations. It has also been shown how such a transfer system can be combined with the treatment of packed ambiguities for the representation of (syntactic) ambiguities to achieve a truly ambiguity preserving translation architecture. Since the particular treatment of syntactic ambiguities is orthogonal to the possiblity of using underspecifled semantic representations, the same extension could also be applied for a semantic-based transfer approach on flat representations as advocated for example in Copestake et al. (1995) and Dorna and Emele (1996). The advantage for doing transfer on the level of under-specified semantic representations is the gain of parallelism between source and target language due to the abstraction and underspecification of language specific idiosyncracies which are already dealt with in the linking between syntactic and semantic information. Popular examples are cases of head-switching, category switching and diathesis etc. which disappear on the level of semantic representations (e.g. Dorna et al.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> (1998)). The discussion of such examples can be found at length in the literature and will therefore not be repeated here.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The proposed transfer architecture is currently being implemented as an extension to an experimental transfer MT system which is fully integrated and interfaced with the XLE system for doing parsing and generation. The application domain comprises the translation of instruction manuals.</Paragraph>
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