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<Paper uid="C96-1054">
  <Title>Semantic-based Transfer*</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="320" end_page="320" type="concl">
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6 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This pai)er presents a new declarative transfi'.r rule forlnalisin, which provides an iInplementation platform for a selnantic-based transfer approach.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This approa(:h contl)ines ideas fronl a nunlber of re('cnt MT proposals and tries to avoid many of the well known problems of other transfer and interlingua approaches.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The deelaxativc trtmsfer correspondences m'e compiled into an executable Prolog program. The conlpiler exploits indexing for more efficient search of matching rules. There is a nonnlonotonic but rule-independent control strategy based on rifle specificity.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Currently, the transfer conlponent contains about 1700 transfer rules. Thanks to the set orientation and indexing techniques we did not encounter any scaling problenls aald the average run-time pcrfornlanec for a 15 word sentence is about 30 milliseconds.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Fhture work will include tim automatic acquisition of transfer rules fronl tagged bilingual corpora to extend tim coverage and an integration of domain specific dictionaries.</Paragraph>
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