Problems Of Formal Representation Of Text Structure From The Point Of View Of Automatic Translation

The p a p e r i s d e v o t e d t o l i n g u i s t i c problems of defining the basic formalized representation of text in an automatic translation system within the frsmlework of the so-called integral formal model of tile tr~ulslation process, the primary requirement for tills representation considered to be a compromise between its semal~ticity, superficiality~ a/id exhaustiveness. A representation covering five major aspects of text structure (its lexico-gra~]matical composi$ion; its predicate-ar~iment organization on the semantico-syntactic level; the syTitactic groupinz ~ of its units; the a/iaphoric relations between them; tile peculiarities of their linear arrmlgement) and referred ~o as Combined Structural Representation (CSR) of text, is described to show tile ways and means of achieving this compromise in the Japanese-Russian Automatic Translation Project, now under development at tile Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences o£ the USSR (Moscow).