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  <Title>Bilingual Hebrew-English Generation of Possessives and Partitives: Raising the Input Abstraction Level</Title>
  <Section position="4" start_page="149" end_page="149" type="concl">
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> To evaluate whether the proposed input structure is appropriate as a bilingual specification, we have tested our generation system on a set of 100 sample inputs for complex NPs in English and Hebrew. In the experiment, we only translated open-class lexical items, thus following the &amp;quot;ideal scenario&amp;quot; discussed in the Introduction. Despite the divergences between their surface syntactic structure, the input structures produced valid complex NPs in both languages in all cases.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We identified the following open problems in the resulting sample: the selection of the unmarked realization option and the determination of the default value of the definite feature remain difficult and vary a lot between the two languages.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> This case study has demonstrated that the methodology of contrastive analysis of similar semantic relations in two languages with dissimilar syntactic realizations is a fruitful way to define a well-founded input specification language for syntactic realization.</Paragraph>
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