@article {13799,
	title = {Interlingual machine translation A parameterized approach},
	journal = {Artificial Intelligence},
	volume = {63},
	year = {1993},
	month = {1993/10//},
	pages = {429 - 492},
	abstract = {The task of designing a machine translation system is difficult because, in order to achieve any degree of accuracy, such systems must capture language-independent information while still systematically processing many types of language-specific phenomena in each of the individual languages. This paper provides a catalog of certain types of distinctions among Spanish, English, and German, and describes a parameterized interlingual approach that characterizes these distinctions, both at the syntactic level and at the lexical-semantic level. The parameter-setting approach to machine translation is desirable because it simplifies the descriptions of natural grammars, facilitates the task of modifying and augmenting the system, accounts for cross-linguistic variation uniformly, and provides a more constrained theory of processing. The approach described here is implemented in a system called UNITRAN, an interlingual machine translation system that translates English, Spanish, and German bidirectionally.},
	isbn = {0004-3702},
	doi = {10.1016/0004-3702(93)90023-5},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0004370293900235},
	author = {Dorr, Bonnie J}
}
