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Toward Language-dependent Applications

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Is adaptation of English NLP applications the right way to gomultilingual? Should one prefer ``language-independent'' systems with aview to applying them to a large number of different languages? Experience from the processing of Portuguese in several differentareas (part-of-speech tagging, corpus tools, lexical decomposition,machine translation, etc.) suggests that neither of these offers a satisfactory solution.

This paper argues for a thorough study of the way individual languageswork in order to develop applications suited for the language inquestion, i.e., ``language-dependent'' systems.

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Santos, D. Toward Language-dependent Applications. Machine Translation 14, 83–112 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008169917741

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