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  <Title>PRESENTATION OF THE EUROLANG PROJECT</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In the light of the communication society, which is leading industrial companies to become involved in NLP technology, the EUROLANG parlnexs have decided to pool their technical, human and commercial resources in order to define and develop a new 'high quality' \] 'low cost' MT system. This system will be based on state-of-the-art computing and linguistic techniques, and is aimed at the market for quality translation with post-editing.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> To ensure the reusability of the linguistic resources and the possibility of evolution of the system, a powerful toolbox, providing different NLP tools and useful 'plug and play' functionalities, will be developed. This toolbox will be a linguistic plaffoml providing a usex-liiendly environment to design and davelop different kinds of NLP applications.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In the following paper, we present more specifically the aims and motivations of the project and the main technical choices, with regard to both computing and linguistic issues.</Paragraph>
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