We describe two methods relevant to multi-lingual machine translation
systems, which can be used to port linguistic data (grammars, lexicons and
transfer rules) between systems used for processing related languages. The
methods are fully implemented within the Spoken Language Translator system, and
were used to create versions of the system for two new language pairs using
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