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  <Title>SHAKE-AND-BAKE TRANSLATION</Title>
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1. Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, I describe a view of Machine Translation (MT) that promises radical new solutions to some of the problems of structural approaches such as transfer and interlingua. The new approach is based on a lexicalist view of grammar in which lexical items are multi-dimensional signs. Translation equivalence is defined between bags (multi-sets) of lexical items.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Source language analysis determines the bags on one side of the equivalence, and Shake-and-Bake generation combines the corresponding TL signs freely according to the grammar of the target language. The sharing of variables between the logical forms of the signs in the two languages realises the necessary semantic constraints. It is easy to formulate statements of equivalence between expressions having widely divergent syntactic or logical structures, and apply this knowledge decidably for translation in either direction.</Paragraph>
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