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  <Title>CONVERSION OF A FRENCH SURFACE EXPRESSION INTO ITS SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION ACCORDING TO THE RESEDA METALANGUAGE</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
1 The work that we intend to present here is a preliminary study concerning the
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    <Paragraph position="0"> automatic translation of natural language statements - which describe the biographies of historical personages taken into account by the RESEDA system into the RESEDA semantic metalanguage.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The RESEDA project itself concerns the creation and practical exploitation of a database containing the biographies of historical personages of the late Middle Ages in France. The most important characteristic of the system'lies in the possibility of using inference procedures to question the database about causal relationships which may exist between the different recorded facts, and which are not explicitly declared at the time of data entry (Zarri 1979, 1981)'.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2">  184 J. LEON et aL</Paragraph>
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