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This article focuses on syntactic function by linear context. In an earlier paper, scholars attempted to formulate an unambiguous set of operational instructions which would enable an electronic computer to deal with a certain problem in the syntax of Russian; namely, to identify the Russian -o/-e/-ee adverbial modifier or predicative complement, and to supply its correct English equivalent. The set of instructions which we developed was based upon the examination of approximately 31,000 running words of Russian scientific text.

The article sets out a mechanical procedure for eliminating lexical ambiguities in machine translation in cases where a word in the source language has a number of equivalents in the target language. It can be argued for this method that it does away with the need for multiple meaning analyses, for "look-up" operations, and for some machine subroutines and programming, and thus minimizes machine time. Furthermore, it is generally agreed that machine translation will be realized for one limited universe at a time and not for "language" as a whole.