In our system, in some cases the smallest chunk obtainable via the marker-based segmentation process may be something like 27: 27<DET> the good man : le bon homme In such cases, if our system were confronted with a good man, it would not be able to translate such a phrase, assuming this to be missing from the marker lexicon.
accordingly, we convert examples such as (27) into their generalized equivalents, as in (28): (28) <DET> good man : bon homme where Block (2000) substitutes variables for various words in his templates, we replace certain lexical items with their marker tag.