Text Treatment and Morphology in the Analysis of Danish within EUROTRA

T h e E U R O T R A T R A N S L A T IO N S Y S T E M consists basica lly o f a C -p rogram m e which operates a front-end program m e package cind a core P R O L O G program ­ m e, the Engine. T h e E ngine com bines w ith a series o f generators and translators w ritten by the linguist in a user language and com p iled in to P R O L O G cod e . T h e generators and the translators conta in linguistic in form ation accord in g to the linguistic specifications in the E U R O T R A m odel. T h e E U R O T R A m odel consists o f three m ain parts: analysis, transfer and synthesis. T h e m ain parts are su bd iv ided in to levels. E ach level in the E U R O ­ T R A m odel has a gram m ar (i.e. a gen erator) and betw een tw o levels there is a translator. T h e E M S, E U R O T R A M orph olog ica l structure, is the first level in analy­ sis. T h e first syn tactic level follow s im m ediately after E M S , it is ca lled E C S , E U R O T R A con stituen t structure. A fron t-end program m e package is bein g tested in E U R O T R A -D e n m a rk , from July to D ecem ber 1989. It consists o f a w ordscanner w ritten in C and an S G M L parser. S G M L is ein abbreviation o f “ S tandard G eneralized M arkup L anguage” . In the present experim ental phase the d ocu m en t w hich is go in g to b e trans­ lated has to b e w ritten in “ V I” or “ Q on e” , tw o ed itors available for U N IX in­ stallations. A “V I” d ocu m en t m ay b e form atted by “NroflF” . B u t in princip le, any text ed itor cou ld b e used for S G M L text entry, ju st as S G M L cou ld deliver an ou tpu t to any text ed itor. S G M L provides m eth ods for m arking up docu m en ts. F or instcince you can m ark up the log ica l structure o f a text (i.e . chapters, sections, paragraphs e tc .) . S G M L also provides a search -and-rep lace m echanism . W e can m ake the S G M L parser search for layout in form ation and replace it by a m arker.