25 - BRAILLE GRADE II TRANSLATOR PROGRAM by Monique Truquet * I - SUMMARY This paper describes the Computer Translation of Frenc h inkprint into Grade II . It will be a reminder of what I have presented durin g two workshops and a conference, increased of the las t modifications . II - THE FRENCH GRADE I I The Translator program was written in Basic FORTRAN IV 2 years ago and it has undergone some modifications . We are going to present the method used : To recognize EXPRESSIONS like c'est-a-dire (that is t o say), to recognize WORDS, CONTRACTIONS, NUMBERS . . . we use a syntactic analyser with a list structure and a hashing table . The organigram presented (figure 1) shows what are th e different ways of the program . The grammar used follows . We have choosen for axio m TEXT and the grammar is written on the Backus Normal Form . TEXT : := (TERM ETERM) followed by (PUNCTUATION MARKEPUNCTUATION MARK ) TERM : := SPECIAL SIGN/EXPRESSION/WORD/NUMBE R *Centre d'Informatique de Toulouse (France) - 26 - WORD : : LETTERELETTE R NUMBER : : DIGITEDIGI T SPECIAL SIGNS are in a
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