G'day,
there was an entire workshop on the subject of Problems and Potential
of English-to-German MT systems at TMI-99 led by Claudia Gdaniec
<www.research.ibm.com/people/g/cgdaniec/tmi99.html>. I don't have the
proceedings with me at the moment, but as I recall, the consensus was
that processing German is harder than most other European languages,
largely because of the comparatively free word order after the verb.
Of course, it's nothing compared to Japanese ...
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Francis Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CSLI, Stanford (IAP Visitor 1999-2000) <hpsg.stanford.edu/hpsg/lingo.html>
NTT Machine Translation Research Group <www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/icl/mtg/>
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