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  <Title>LEXICAL FUNCTIONS AND MACHINE TRANSLATION</Title>
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4 Summary and Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> hi ihis paper we have discussed how the lexicographical concept of h,xical./iulctionx, introduced by Mel'~,uk h) describe collocations, can lie used as till intmlingual device in the machine mlnslation of such structures.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We have shown how the essentials of the E(33 analysis can be embedded ill the lexicou and gramnlar of a unit|cation based theory of language.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Our use of lexical functions as an intcrlingua assunles thai the relevant aspects of tile meaning of the colhleate are fully captured by the LK The 1,1: there.fore determ i lies tl m accu racy of )ran s l at |on s, whi chm ay s This is our own |nit|alive it seems lo hc the case as we examine the literal urc lhat neither l,Fs such as Magll, BOll etc (i.c., those repro sent|rig slandard qualifiers/attributes) nor indeed metxed 13:s tt'aluic in lexical imralflnasing rides, Wc wouhl argue thai cross-linguistic analysis stiggt~Ms Ihal Ihcy should enter this donmin; COlnpotmd lot lnation alld other lypcs of leg|ell|sat|on appear Io bc ICe)liar pal)of rig of II'aUshllioll tR;ross lllally o:~llocatioll,'d COllStrHctS, as WE ilhlslralc here.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> 9()no could Ihink of an example such as mis-ituerl)ret.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4">  be impoverished due to the generalised nature of basic LFs. We have suggested some ways in which LFs can be enriched with lexical semantic intbrmation to improve translation quality.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> The interlingua level reflects what is semantically common to expressions which form translational equivalents. It abstracts away from specific syntactic realisations. Given that collocations may translate as non-collocations, we also have to provide a way to represent these expressions using lexical functions. We have provided an illustration on how to proceed in one such case.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="6"> Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following partners and colleagues: Susan Armstrong-Warwick, Laura Bloksma, Nicoletta Calzolari, R. Lee Humphreys, Simon Murison-Bowie and Andr6 Schenk.</Paragraph>
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