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This paper gives a presentation of the E-framework, the formalism used in Eurotra for implementing the prototype translation system. In Section 1, we outline some of the underlying design principles and briefly discuss the evolutionary history of the Eurotra formalism, relating it to its predecessors and other recent unification-based formalisms. Section 2 introduces the reader to some central concepts and gives a comprehensive description of the core of the formalism.
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The work described in this paper was carried out as a joint effort by the Framework Engineering Group in Eurotra in 1987 and 1988. Membership of the group has fluctuated, but apart from the authors the following persons have at one time or another contributed to the work: David Haines, Peter Lau, Jeremy Lindop, Dieter Maas, Giovanni Malnati, Archie Michiels, Carsten Kruse Olsson, Sergei Perschke, Tony Raw, Jörg Schütz, Randall Sharp, Giovanni B. Varile.
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Bech, A., Maegaard, B. & Nygaard, A. The Eurotra MT formalism. Mach Translat 6, 83–101 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00417679
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