STRUCTURAL TRANSFER IN AN ENGLISH TO TURKISH
                  MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM

                     Cigdem Keyder Turhan

In the present thesis, the design and implementation of the
transfer component of a transfer-based, human-assisted English 
to Turkish machine translation system using structural mapping
has been discussed. The main objective of the system is to produce
high-quality, low-cost, timely translations in technical domains.
The source language intermediate representation utilized stores
the feature structures and grammatical functions of the input
sentence in a language independent formalism allowing the system
to extend to other source languages. The important issues dealing
with the differences between the languages are reflected on the
transfer module in the form of complex transfer rules. The performance
of the system has been evaluated according to the system's behaviour 
and linguistic coverage.