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 |
Linguistic background | 11 |
Météo | 12 |
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adjective alternative ambiguities analysis applied approach appropriate basic bilingual changes Chapter common complex computational computational linguistics concerned construction context correct corresponding dependency derivation described determined dictionary direct discussed English equivalent evaluation example expressions fact formalism French function further German given grammar human identified indicate input interactive interlingua interpretation involved Japanese knowledge lexical lexical items lexicon linguistic machine translation meaning methods modules morphological MT systems multilingual natural node noun object operation output pairs parsing particular phrase possible potential practical prepositional present problems procedures produce programs reference relations relatively representation represented restricted result rules selection semantic sentence sequence similar single source language specific stage structure surface syntactic Systran target language theory transfer transformations tree types typical University users values verb words