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Knowledge representation support

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The representation of world knowledge in a machine translation system is discussed, especially in terms of the interlingua text that is adopted in KBMT-89. While knowledge about the world is at the core of a knowledge-based machine translation program, it cannot be extracted from a text without knowledge about how languages encode it syntactically. The paper therefore also presents the grammar formalism with which language-specific syntactic knowledge is presented. Details are presented of our version of unification-based grammar, its basis in linguistic theory and its role in a knowledge-based machine translation system.

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Nirenburg, S., Levin, L. Knowledge representation support. Machine Translation 4, 25–52 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00367751

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