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  <Title>THE MURASAKI PROJECT: MULTILINGUAL NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING</Title>
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ABSTRACT
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes a multilingual data extraction system under development for the Department of Defense (Do\[)). The system, called Murasa.ki, processes Spanish and Japanese newspaper articles reporting AIDS disease statistics. Key to Murasaki's design is its language-independent and domain-independent architecture. The system consists of shared processing modules across the three languages it currently handles (English, Japanese, and Spanish), shared general and domain-specific knowledge bases, and separate data modules for language-specific knowledge such as grammars, lexicons, morphological data and discourse data. This data-driven architecture is crucial to the success of Murasaki as a language-independent system; extending Murasaki to additional languages can be done for the most part merely by adding new data. Some of the data can be added with user-friendly tools, others by exploiting existing on-line data or by deriving relevant data from corpora.</Paragraph>
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