Machine Translation Its Scope and Limits /

• Main Author: Wilks, Yorick. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Translators (Computer programs).; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Language Translation and Linguistics.; History of Computing.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72774-5

Machine Translation is the authors 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:

• Foreword
• History Page
• Introduction
• Part I: 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
• Part II: 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
• Part III: MT Future: Senses and Texts
• Sense Projection
• Lexical Tuning
• What Would Pragmatics-based MT 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.