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  <Title>Generating Determiners and Quantifiers in Hebrew</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="94" end_page="94" type="concl">
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have presented in this paper observations on the syntax of the Hebrew NP and deduced from its properties an input specification language for complexNPs to a generation grammar. The case study of the determiner system illustrates the general methodology we apply to develop a multideg lingual generator. The key point is to encapsulate knowledge of syntax in separate modules driven by a common set of functional features.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The input specification language extends the one used in SURGE for English to provide enough information to enforce the constraints observed in Hebrew. We have specifically extended the treatment of definiteness (and indefiniteness) with the additional feature mark-definite and the treatment of partitives with a systematic classification of quantifiers as partitives, amounts and determiners.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The resulting formalism provides a good basis for a bilingual generation grammar, and is being used to that end in practical projects.</Paragraph>
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