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 |
Météo | 12 |
Linguistic background | 34 |
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adjective ALPAC anaphora applied approach basic expressions Chapter complement complex computational linguistics context corresponding databases deep structure dependency described disambiguation English equivalent Esperanto Eurotra evaluation example formalism French function German grammar grammatical categories homographs human translation inflectional input interactive interlingua intermediate representations interpretation involved Japanese labelled language pairs lexical items lexical transfer lexicon machine translation meaning Météo modules monolingual Montague grammar morphological analysis MT research MT systems multilingual system natural language natural language processing node noun phrase operation parser parsing particular phrase structure phrase structure rules possible post-editing potential pre-editing prepositional problems produce Prolog pronoun reference relations restricted Rosetta semantic features sentence sequence source language source text specific stage structural ambiguity structural transfer subgrammars sublanguage syntactic syntax Systran target language target text tense transformational rules translation process translation system tree structure types typical users valency verb vocabulary words