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One of the translation-relevant phenomena which a machine translation system has to deal with is the phenomenon of scope. Characteristic of scope bearing elements is the possibility that a combination of two or more of them has two or more interpretations. For example, (1) has at least two interpretations, one with every man having wide scope and one with a woman having wide scope:
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Rosetta, M.T. (1994). Scope and negation. In: Compositional Translation. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 273. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8306-0_16
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