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Any natural language is regarded as a representation of semantic language. The translation between two languages (I, J) is regarded as a transformation between two representations. A natural language-I is translated into another natural language-J only by two steps. One is semantic-analysis of language-I based on “semantic-element-representation-base of language-I”, the other is deploying into the representation of language-J baded on “semantic-element-representation-base of language-J”. For translating inN natural languages, it is needed to developN translation systems only, rather thanN(N-1)/2, or 2N systems.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.60083008 and 60273016) and the Foundation of Institute of Computing Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.20016250).
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Gao, Q., Hu, Y., Li, L. et al. Semantic language and multi-language MT approach based on SL. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 18, 848–852 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02945475
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