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                  AUTHOR                          Lehmann, W. P.; Stachowitz, R. A.
                  TITLE                           Development of German-English Machine Translation
                                                  System.
                  INSTITUTION                     Texas Univ., Austin. Linguistics Research Center.
                  SPONS AGENCY                    Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB, N.Y.
                  REPORT NO                       RADC-TR-72-74
                  PUB DATE                        Apr 72
                  NOTE                            103p.
                  EDRS PRICE                      MF-$0.65 HC-$6.58
                  DESCRIPTORS                     Classification; *Computational Linguistics; *English;
                                                  Form Classes (Lamgmages); *German; Language;
                                                  *Linguistic Theory; *Machine Translation; Semantics;
                                                  Structural Linguistics; Syntax; Systems Development;
                                                  Translation; Verbs
                  ABSTRACT
                                                  This report deals with advances in linguistic
                  analysis and programing. The theoretical theses for this work were
                  presented in the first annual report. This second report concentrates
                  on progress in the descriptive analysis of German and English, and on
                  computer programs which have been developed during the year.
                  Linguistic work during the period was directed at expanding the
                  dictionaries for both German and English. The number of lexical items
                  coded was increased, as were the features associated with each item.
                  The coding involved complex problems of linguistic description, such
                  as treatment of adverbs and extended forms of verbs. Since adverbs
                  had not been adequately classified in any existing grammars of German
                  or English, a new classificatory schema is being developed. The
                  extended forms of German verbs have been treated in a recent                                                                          7.1
                  monograph, which has served as the basis for the lexical analysis of
                  these constructions within the German-English MT System. These
                  extended forms are particularly difficult in having a small group of
                  verbs used primarily to depict the verbal component and nouns
                  combined with them to carry the semantic portion of the expression.
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                                                   DEVELOPMENT OF.GERMAN-ENGLISH
                                                      MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM
                                                               W. P. Lehmann
                                                              R. A. Stachowitz
                                                The University of Texas at Austin
                                                    Approved for public release;
                                                    distribution unlimited.
                                                                              FOREWORD
                                  This technical report was prepared by University of Texas at Austin,
                          Linguistics Research Center, Austin TX, under Contract F30602-70-C-0118,
                          Job Order        45940000.        The work period covered is 1 February 1971 through
                          31 January 1972.            Mt. Charles S. Bond, Jr. (IRDT) was the RADC project
                          engineer.
                                  This technical report has been reviewed by the Office of Information
                           (0I) and is releasable to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
                                  This technical report has been reviewed and is approved.
                            Approved:     CHARLES S. BOND Jr.,                              USAF
                                         .Technical Evaluator
                           Approved:
                                        eOVI          M B. MOORE                             Branch
                                           Chief, Intel Data Handling
                                           Intel and Recon Division
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