135.000 entries 
   
-— 5.200 " 
9.400 " 
15.000 " 
S - 4.000 " 
anal S - English : 2. 700 à 
- French : 700 " 
- Russian : 2.600 a 
transfer - German-English : 2.200 entries 
- English - German : 4.300 entries 
- French-German : 9.000 entries 
- Russian-German : 9.000 entries 
synthesis - German : : 10.200 entries 
- English : 2.000 entries 
- French =; 1,000 entries 
Basic linguistic theories 
  
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valency grammar 
.Oransformational grammar 
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Translation procedure 
  
I. Analysis (=SATAN) 
1. text input 
2. inflectional analysis, dictionary look-up and derivational analysis 
3. syntactical disambiguation of homographs 
4. segmentation of sentences 
5. analysis of nominal phrases 
6. analysis of verbal phrases 
7. filling of valency frames with noun phrases and subordinate sentences 
8. semantic disambiguation, detection of idioms and transformation of pre- 
positions into an interlingua 
II. Transfer 
III. Generation 
1. semantic determination of ambiguous target language words determination 
of surface prepositions 
2. syntactic synthesis 
3. morphological synthesis 
SALIDAS - Saarbrücken Linguistic Data System 
  
External files with linguistic data for analysis, transfer and generation: 
1. Analysis (monolingual) 
lists of inflectional morphemes 
lists of derivational morphemes 
list of probability values for the sequence of wordclasses (pairs) 
Segmentation grammar (common to all languages) 
matrix for word sequence within noun phrases 
list of types of verbal phrases 
2. Fransfer (bilingual) 
lists of standard translations for valencies 
3. Generation (monolingual) 
lists of pre-generated word forms (articles, pronouns,...) 
linguistic characterisation of every language for the external 
control of the MT-process 
    
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