Machine Translation Its Scope and Limits /

• Main Author: Wilks, Yorick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computational Linguistics.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

Machine Translation is the author’s comprehensive view of machine translation (MT) from the perspective of a participant in its history and development. The text considers MT as a fundamental part of Artificial Intelligence and the ultimate test-bed for all computational linguistics, covering histor...

Table of Contents:

• MT Past
• Five Generations of MT
• An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Machine Translation
• It Works but How Far Can It Go: Evaluating the SYSTRAN MT System
• MT Present
• Where Am I Coming From: The Reversibility of Analysis and Generation in Natural Language Processing
• What are Interlinguas for MT: Natural Languages, Logics or Arbitrary Notations?
• Stone Soup and the French Room: The Statistical Approach to MT at IBM
• The Revival of US Government MT Research in 1990
• The Role of Linguistic Knowledge Resources in MT
• The Automatic Acquisition of Lexicons for an MT System
• MT Future
• Senses and Texts
• Sense Projection
• Lexical Tuning
• What Would Pragmatics-Based Machine Translation be Like?
• Where was MT at the End of the Century: What Works and What Doesn’t?
• The Future of MT in the New Millennium.