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  <Title>EURO TRA: A MULTILINGUAL SYSTEM UNDER DEVELOPMENT</Title>
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1 INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper tries to give an overview of the state of EUROTRA development at the beginning of 1985. The system is under development in the sense that the project is now an official project of the European community, much basic preliminary work has been done, and work in the Member States has started. However, as will be seen, linguistic work is in a very early stage, and no very concrete results are as yet available.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The paper is composed as follows. In the first two sections, we describe the project's purpose, some of the external factors influencing its organisation, its infrastructure and some of the design principles deriving from these general considerations.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Section 3 discusses in more detail the model of translation on which the project is based and some of the linguistic and metalinguistic issues involved.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> In section 4 we turn to the issue of communication between the linguists developing the linguistic modules and the computer. It presents our choice of a software environment that allows rapid development and modification of problem-oriented notations for linguists.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Section 5 describes the architecture of the current software prototype, which has been implemented following the principles outlined in section 4.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> Since EUROTRA, as already noted, is barely out of its preparatory phase, the final sections do little more than sketch some factors that will determine the project's future development.</Paragraph>
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