An Introduction to Machine TranslationThe translation of foreign language texts by computers was one of the first tasks that the pioneers of computing and artificial intelligence set themselves. Machine translation is again becoming an important field of research and development as the need for translations of technical and commercial documentation is growing beyond the capacity of the translation profession. |
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General introduction and brief history | 1 |
Computational aspects | 3 |
Evaluation of MT systems | 9 |
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adjective anaphora applied approach basic bilingual cat=n Chapter complement complex computational linguistics context corresponding data structure databases deep structure dependency disambiguation English equivalent Esperanto Eurotra evaluations example expressions formalism French functions German GETA grammar grammatical categories homographs human translation indicate inflectional input interactive interlingua intermediate representations interpretation involved Japanese labelled language pairs lexical items lexical transfer lexicon machine translation meaning Météo modules monolingual morphological analysis MT research MT systems multilingual system natural language natural language processing node noun phrase object operation output parser parsing particular phrase structure phrase structure rules possible post-editing pre-editing problems produce pronoun Q-systems reference restricted Rosetta semantic features sentence sequence source language source text specific stage string structural ambiguity structural transfer subgrammars sublanguage SUSY syntactic Systran target language target text tense transformational rules translation process translation system tree structure types users valency verb vocabulary words