Computers in translation

A practical appraisal

Edited by John Newton

 

London and New York

Routledge

1992

[ISBN: 0-415-05432-X]

 

Contents

 

Figures … ix

Contributors … x

Preface … xvi

Abbreviations and acronyms … xviii

1  Introduction and overview. … 1

            John Newton

 

2 The story so far: an evaluation of machine translation in the world today. … 14

            Jeannette Pugh

 

3 Made to measure solutions…. .33

            Annette Grimaila in collaboration with John Chandoux

 

4 The Perkins experience. …46

            John Newton

 

5 Machine translation in a high-volume translation environment. …58

            Muriel Vasconcellos and Dale A.Bostad

 

6 Esperanto as an intermediary language for machine translation. … 78

            Klaus Schubert

 

7 Limitations of computers as translation tools.  … .96

            Alex Gross

 

8 Computerized termbanks and translation.  ...131

            Patricia Thomas

 

9 The translator workstation.  …147

            Alan Melby

 

10 SYSTRAN: it obviously works but how much can it be improved? … 166

            Yorick Wilks

 

11 Current research in machine translation… 189

            Harold L.Somers

 

Bibliography … 208

 

Glossary of terms …222

 

Index … 228