Machine Translation
related publication(s):
Academic Press. 1992. An Introduction to Machine Translation.
W.J. Hutchins and H. Somers.
Readings in Machine Translation.
Somers, Harold and Nirenburg, Sergei and Wilks, Yorick.
MIT Press. Amsterdam 2002.
http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/harold/readings.html
Machine Translation: A Knowledge-based Approach.
Nirenburg, Sergei and Carbonell, Jaime and Tomita, Masaru and Goodman, Kenneth.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. 2000.
Verbmobil: a translation system for face to face dialog.
M. Kay and J.M. Gavron and P. Norvig.
CSLI Publications. Stanford, California. 1994.
definition:
Machine Translation (MT) is the fully automatic translation from one human language into another one. Machine translation has been worked on since the 1950s. There are a number of commercial products available and in daily use, but there are still open research problems. Tranfer-based MT has a set of transfer rules for each language pair, so that n*(n-1) rule sets are necessary for MT between n languages. In contract, interlingua-based MT uses a language-independent representation into which all source languages are analysed and from which all target languages is generated. Most practically usable MT systems are tranfser-based. Recently, there have been interestinv developments in statistical MT algorithms which are trained on parallel corpora of translated texts, and are very useful for constructing MT systems for new language pairs.
related project(s):
See also the corresponding HLT Survey chapter:
http://www.lt-world.org/hlt_survey/ltw-chapter8-2.pdf
related organisation(s):
- Center for Sprogteknologi (CST)
- Language Technologies Institute (LTI)
- Groupe d'Étude pour la Traduction Automatique (GETA)
- linguatec Sprachtechnologien GmbH
- SYSTRAN S.A.
- Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies (ISSCO)
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- GROUP Technologies AG
- Natural Language Laboratory (NatLang)
- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
related person(s):
relevant source(s):
- Laurie's Links (from Machine Translation News International)
- Martin Kay: Machine Translation: The Disappointing Past and Present
- The Soldiers are in the Coffee -- An Introduction to Machine Translation
- European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)
- Systran Babelfish
- Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)
- Foreignword.com
- Links on Machine Translation
- Asian-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT)
- Technology Background Info - John Hutchins on MT and computer-based translation tools
- Hutchins' Compendium of Translation software
- Free Translation
- Machine Translation : An Introductory Guide
- The Translation Guide
related system(s) / resource(s):
abbreviation(s):
MT