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  <Title>An Analysis of Indonesian Language for Interlingual Machine-Translation System</Title>
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1. Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Bahasa Indonesia (lndonesianlanguage) is anationallanguage for tile Republic of Indonesia which imites 27 cultural backgrounds.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> It is widely nsed bymore than 100millious speaker but unfortunately, does not gain much attention for its automatic processing by computers. In 1987, a co operative research in machine trans lation with Japan sparks thenatural languageprocessingresearch in Indonesia. In support to the on going project of Multilingual Machine Translation Sytem for Asian Language organized by Center for International Cooperaliou in Computerization (CICC)-Japan and other Asian cotmtries (China.Indonesia,Malaysia and Thailand), we developed BIAS: an analysis prograni for Indonesian language which output an interlingual representation. By incorporating interlingual an',dysis technology, we will be able to include BIAS as part of multi-language translation system in a very effective way.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Tiff s paper describes the design consideration of BIAS from the view point of linguistic theories and knowledge representation formalism, The design is based on an interlingual approach to machine !ranslation which accepts input sentences in one language and produces sentences in other languages \[Figure 1 \]. In particular BIAS is a program that takes natural language text ms input and produces its tmderlying interlingual representation at a certain level of details that serve as a language-independent representation for the machine translation environment.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> ahasa Indonesia j/ Figare 1. BIAS and lntcrlingual Approach to MT The approach wtfich being used here is an approximation of basic linguistic theories such as Chomsky's Standard Theory * Supported by the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Tectmohigy, Jakarta. Indonesia ACTES DE COLING-92, NANTES, 23-28 AOt3T 1992 1 2 2 8 PROC. OF COLING-92, NANTES, AUG. 23-28. 1992 \[Chomsky,651, C,xse Grmnmar \[Fillmore, 67 \] and Definite Clause Gr;unmar \[Pereira,80\]. We also incorporates theuse of appropriate representation forutalism such as Frames \[Minsky,81 \] attd Semantic Network \[Quillian,68 \] for a suitable type of reasoning system. It is noted that eventhough there are many knowledge representation languages which are theoretically sufficient to describe any natural language, they need to be modified in their theory and implementation for a particular language such as Bahasalndonesia. 'late existence ofvarions theories and knowledge representation techniques lead us to consider sever',d models of reasoning formalism. This in turn may serve as an indicator to the expressive adequacy of ow chosen1 representalion.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> The rest of tiffs paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents fran~ework of BIAS front the view point of linguistic theories. We will discuss in detail the language analysis method of BIAS. \[t will be followed by a discussion on representation formalism and reasoning techniques in Section 3. The paper ends with a conclusion.</Paragraph>
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