MACHINE TRANSLATION TODAY:

THE STATE OF THE ART

Proceedings of the Third Lugano Tutorial,

Lugano, Switzerland

2-7 April 1984

Edited by Margaret King

Edinburgh University Press 1987

[ISBN 0 85224 519 x]

CONTENTS

Contributors vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

part one. introduction

1. Early History of Machine Translation

B.BUCHMANN 3

2. An Overview of post-ALPAC Developments

S.WARWICK 22

3. Linguistic Theory and Early Machine Translation

A.DE ROECK 38

4. Recent Developments in Theoretical Linguistics
and Implications for Machine Translation

E.WEHRLI 58

5. Machine Translation: A Problem of Linguistic Engineering
or of Cognitive Modelling?

P.SHANN 71

6. MT: A Nonconformist's View of the State of the Art

C.SAMPSON 91

part Two. Software

7. Software Background for Machine Translation: A Glossary

D.PETITPIERRE 111

8. A Brief Look at a Typical Software Architecture

J-L.COCHARD 117

9. Creating an Environment for the Translator

A.MELBY 124

10. Research and Development on MT and

Related Techniques at Grenoble University (GETA)

C.BOITET 133

11. Machine Translation and Software Tools

R.JOHNSON & M.ROSNER 154

Part Three. Machine Translation Systems

12. A Brief Survey of some Current Operational Systems

S.ANANIADOU 171

13. SYSTRAN

P.WHEELER 192

14. The MT System SUSY

H-D.MAAS 209

15. Machine Translation at the T A U M Group

P.ISABELLE 247

16. Principles and Results of a German to French MT System
at Grenoble University (GETA)

J-P.GUILBAUD 278

17. METAL: The LRC Machine Translation System

J.SLOCUM with W.S.BENNETT, J.BEAR,

M.MORGAN & R.ROOT 319

18. Isomorphic Grammars and their Use in
the ROSETTA Translation System

J.LANDSBERGEN 351

19. EUROTRA

M.KING & S.PERSCHKE 373

Bibliography

A. MT up to 1973 393

B. MT 1973 onwards 396

C. Software 426

D. Linguistics and Computational Linguistics 429

E. Artificial Intelligence 433

Index 436