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<Paper uid="C90-2003">
  <Title>FINDING TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS: AN APPLICATION OF GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper I describe how a significant class of cases that would involve (possibly complex) structural transfer in nmchine translation can be handled avoiding transfer. This is achieved by applying a semantic organization developed for monolingual text generation that is sufficiently abstract to remain invariant, within theoretically specifiable limits, across different languages. The further application of a mechanism motivated from within mono-lingual text generation, 'grammatical metaphor', then allows candidate appropriate translations to be isolated.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The incorporation of these essentially monolingual mechanisms within the machine translation process promises to significantly improve translational capabilities; examples of this are presented for English and German.</Paragraph>
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