Yorick Wilks

 

Machine Translation

Its Scope and Limits

 

Springer

2009

[ISBN: 978-0-387-72773-8]

 

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Table of contents

 

1           Introduction                                                                                                                                                              1

Part I    MT past

2           Five generations of MT       [original]                                                                                                                            11

3           An artificial intelligence approach to machine translation                                                                                    27

4           It works but how far can it go: evaluating the SYSTRAN MT system                                                                  65

Part II   MT present

5           Where am I coming from: the reversibility of analysis and generation in natural language processing              89

6           What are interlinguas for MT: natural languages, logics or arbitrary notations?     [original]                             97

7           Stone soup and the French room: the statistical approach to MT at IBM            [original]                                        101

8           The revival of US government research in 1990      [original]                                                                                     115

9           The role of linguistic knowledge resources in MT                                                                                                  125

10       The automatic acquisition of lexicons for an MT system                                                                                       139

Part III   MT future  

11       Senses and texts                                                                                                                                                       157

12       Sense projection                                                                                                                                                      169

13       Lexical tuning                                                                                                                                                          177

14       What would pragmatics-based machine translation be like?                                                                                 195

15       Where was MT at the end of the century: what works and what doesn’t?     [original]                                            215

16       The future of MT in the new millennium                                                                                                                225

References                                                                                                                                                                  237

Index                                                                                                                                                                     247