Readings in Machine Translation (A Bradford Book) - Hardcover

Nirenburg, S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262140748 ISBN 13: 9780262140744

Publisher: MIT Press, 2003

Synopsis

A collection of historically significant articles on machine translation, from its beginnings through the early 1990s. The field of machine translation (MT)-the automation of translation between human languages-has existed for more than fifty years. MT helped to usher in the field of computational linguistics and has influenced methods and applications in knowledge representation, information theory, and mathematical statistics. This valuable resource offers the most historically significant English-language articles on MT. The book is organized in three sections. The historical section contains articles from MT's beginnings through the late 1960s. The second section, on theoretical and methodological issues, covers sublanguage and controlled input, the role of humans in machine-aided translation, the impact of certain linguistic approaches, the transfer versus interlingua question, and the representation of meaning and knowledge. The third section, on system design, covers knowledge-based, statistical, and example-based approaches to multilevel analysis and representation, as well as computational issues.

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About the Author

Sergei Nirenburg is Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Harold Somers is Professor of Language Engineering and Director of the Centre for Computational Linguistics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK. Yorick Wilks is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute of Language, Speech, and Hearing at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262140748
• ISBN 13: 9780262140744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 426