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  <Title>A NEW VIEW ON THE PROCESS OF TRANSLATION</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we describe a framework for research into translation that draws on a combination of two existing and independently constructed technologies: the analysis component developed for German by the EUROTRA-D (ET-D) group of IAI and the generation component developed for English by the Penman group at ISI. We have described some of the motivations for and the basic organisation of the combined framework in Steiner and Sch~tz (1988) and Bateman, Kasper, Schfitz, and Steiner (1989). Here we present in more detail some of the linguistic implications of the research and the promise it bears for furthering understanding of the translation process.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Although developed separately and for quite different reasons, there is a decisive link between the two components in that ideas from a single linguistic theory, systemic-functional linguistics (e.g. Halliday, 1985) have been incorporated independently in both projects. A partial implementation of the grammatical stratum of organisation found in Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) provides the core of Penman's linguistic capabilities (Mann and Matthiessen, 1985), whereas there is a strong input from SFG in the semantic interpretation of ET-D's dependency structures (Steiner, Schmidt and Zelinsky-Wibbelt, 1988). It is therefore also one of the motivations of this co-operation to investigate the potential of SFG as a tool for transfer in machine translation MT, and in the wider context of systemic-functional linguistics also as a theoretical environment and as a formalism for expressing semantics. This should be of interest to a wider audience within computational linguistics, especially as SFG has recently been attracting an increasing amount of interest in the field (see, e.g.: Houghton and Isard, 1987; Kasper, 1988; Patten, 1988; Patten and Ritchie, 1987; Mellish, 1988; Paris and Bateman, 1989).</Paragraph>
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