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In this paper, we describe both a multi-lingual, interlingual MT system (ULTRA) and a method of extracting lexical entries for it automatically from an existing machine-readable dictionary (LDOCE). We believe the latter is original and the former, although not the first interlingual MT System by any means, may be first that is symmetrically multi-lingual. It translates between English, German, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish and has vocabularies in each language based on about 10,000 word senses.
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This research was supported by the New Mexico State University Computing Research Laboratory through NSF Grant IRI-9101232.
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Farwell, D., Guthrie, L. & Wilks, Y. Automatically creating lexical entries for ULTRA, a multilingual MT system. Mach Translat 8, 127–145 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00982636
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