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title: "Design Characteristics of a Machine Translation System"
authors:
  - "Margaret King"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/9"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0009.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "43-45"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
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# Design Characteristics of a Machine Translation System

Margaret King

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 43-45.

## Abstract

This paper distinguishes a set of criteria to be met by a machine translation system (EUROTRA) currently being planned under the sponsorship of the Commission of the European Communities and attempts to show the effect of meeting those criteria on the overall system design.