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Title

Readings in machine translation / edited by Sergei Nirenburg, Harold Somers, and Yorick Wilks.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• Nirenburg, Sergei.
• Somers, H. L.
• Wilks, Yorick, 1939-

Description

xv, 413 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subjects

• Machine translating
• Traduction automatique

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Historical -- Introduction / Sergei Nirenburg -- 1. Translation / Warren Weaver -- 2. Mechanical Translation / A. D. Booth -- 3. The Mechanical Determination of Meaning / Erwin Reifler -- 4. Stochastic Methods of Mechanical Translation / Gilbert W. King -- 5. A Framework for Syntactic Translation / Victor H. Yngve -- 6. The Present Status of Automatic Translation of Languages / Yehoshua Bar-Hillel -- 7. A New Approach to the Mechanical Syntantic Analysis of Russian / Ida Rhodes -- 8. A Preliminary Approach to Japanese-English Automatic Translation / Susumu Kuno -- 9. On the Mechanization of Syntactic Analysis / Sydney M. Lamb -- 10. Research Procedures in Machine Translation / David G. Hays -- 11. ALPAC: The (In)Famous Report / John Hutchins -- 12. Correlational Analysis and Mechanical Translation / Silvio Ceccato -- 13. Automatic Translation: Some Theoretical Aspects and the Design of a Translation System / O. S. Kulagina and I. A. Mel'cuk -- 14. Mechanical Pidgin Translation / Margaret Masterman -- 15. English-Japanese Machine Translation / S. Takahashi, H. Wada, R. Tadenuma and S. Watanabe -- II. Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- Introduction / Yorick Wilks -- 16. Automatic Translation and the Concept of Sublanguage / J. Lehrberger -- 17. The Proper Place of Men and Machines in Language Translation / Martin Kay -- 18. Machine Translation as an Expert Task / Roderick L. Johnson and Peter Whitelock -- 19. Montague Grammar and Machine Translation / Jan Landsbergen -- 20. Dialogue Translation vs. Text Translation - Interpretation Based Approach / Jun-ichi Tsujii and Makoto Nagao -- 21. Translation by Structural Correspondences / Ronald M. Kaplan, Klaus Netter, Jurgen Wedekind and Annie Zaenen -- 22. Pros and Cons of the Pivot and Transfer Approaches in Multilingual Machine Translation / Christian Boitet -- 23. Treatment of Meaning in MT Systems / Sergei Nirenburg and Kenneth Goodman -- 24. Where Am I Coming From: The Reversibility of Analysis and Generation in Natural Language Processing / Yorick Wilks -- 25. The Place of Heuristics in the Fulcrum Approach to Machine Translation / Paul L. Garvin -- 26. Computer Aided Translation: A Business Viewpoint / John S. G. Elliston -- III. System Design -- Introduction / Harold Somers -- 27. Three Levels of Linguistic Analysis in Machine Translation / Michael Zarechnak -- 28. Automatic Translation - A Survey of Different Approaches / B. Vauquois -- 29. Multi-level Translation Aids / Alan K. Melby -- 30. EUROTA: Computational Techniques / Rod Johnson, Maghi King and Louis des Tombe -- 31. A Framework of a Mechanical Translation between Japanese and English by Analogy Principle / Makoto Nagao -- 32. A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation / Peter F. Brown, John Cocke, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, Frederick Jelinek, John D. Lafferty, Robert L. Mercer and Paul S. Roossin -- 33. Automatic Speech Translation at ATR / Tsuyoshi Morimoto and Akira Kurematsu -- 34. The Stanford Machine Translation Project / Yorick Wilks -- 35. The Textual Knowledge Bank: Design, Construction, Applications / Victor Sadler -- 36. Machine Translation Without a Source Text / Harold L. Somers, Jun-ichi Tsujii and Danny Jones.

ISBN

0262140748 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001056217

OCLC

• ocm48390678
• SCSB-5186670

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries