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