Machine Translation Archive

 

Index to aids and tools for translators and MT developers

 

Publications before 1970

 

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Collaboration

 (1960) Session 4: Methodology [contributions by A.F.R.Brown, L.Dostert, H.P.Edmundson, V.Giuliano, R.M.Hayes, D.G.Hays, H.H.Josselson, G.W.King, S.M.Lamb, A.W.Lukjanow, A.G.Oettinger, E.Reifler, R.See, D.R.Swanson, S.N.Werbow, V.H.Yngve, and M.Zarechnak]. Proceedings of the National Symposium on Machine Translation, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, February 2-5, 1960; ed. H.P.Edmundson. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961); pp.195-218. [PDF, 108KB]

Human translation and MT

(1966) J.M.Lufkin: Human v. machine translation of foreign languages. The Incorporated Linguist 5(1), January 1966; pp.9-15. [PDF, 436KB]

(1965) W.P.Lehmann: An experiment in machine translation. The Graduate Journal vol.7 (1); pp. 111-131. [PDF, 116KB]

(1962) N.D.Andreyev: Linguistic aspects of translation [with discussion]. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Linguists, Cambridge, Mass., August 27-31, 1962 (The Hague: Mouton, 1964); pp.625-637. [PDF, 166KB]

(1961) Silvio Ceccato & Bruna Zonta: Human translation and translation by machine, 1. 1961 International Conference on Machine Translation of Languages and Applied Language Analysis: proceedings of the conference held at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, on 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th September; pp. 222-246. [PDF, 76KB] [discussion]

(1961) E.von Glasersfeld, Sergei Perschke, & Elsa Samet: Human translation and translation by machine II. 1961 International Conference on Machine Translation of Languages and Applied Language Analysis: proceedings of the conference held at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, on 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th September; pp.508-528. [PDF, 106KB] [discussion]

 (1960) Session 9: Semantic resolution. Questions and discussion [by J.Applegate, E.W.Cannon, L.Dostert, P.L.Garvin, K.E.Harper, D.G.Hays, S.M.Lamb, R.Manly, A.G.Oettinger, V.Oswald, E.Reifler, I.Rhodes, R.See, D.R.Swanson.] Proceedings of the National Symposium on Machine Translation, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, February 2-5, 1960; ed. H.P.Edmundson. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961); pp.422-435. [PDF, 113KB]

 (1957) Léon Dostert: Practical objectives of machine translation research.  Report of the Eighth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies. “Research in machine translation”, ed.by Léon Dostert. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1957); pp.181-186 [PDF, 76KB]

Optical character recognition

(1960) Dimitri A.Kellogg: Modern trends in character recognition machines. Proceedings of the National Symposium on Machine Translation, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, February 2-5, 1960; ed. H.P.Edmundson. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961); pp.511-514. [PDF, 72KB]

(1960) Philipp M.Pahl & David L.Johnson: Pattern recognition in an electronic reader. [In] Linguistic and engineering studies in the automatic translation of scientific Russian into English. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960; pp.477-481. [PDF, 602KB]

(1959) Andrew D. Booth: The current status of direct input in Great Britain.  In: Allen Kent (ed.) Information retrieval and machine translation. Based on the International Conference for Standards on a Common Language for Machine Searching and Translation, Cleveland, Ohio, September 6-12, 1959 (New York/London: Interscience Publishers, 1961); part 2, pp.887-893. [PDF, 42KB]

(1957) Clyde C.Heasly: Character sensing as an input to machine translation.  Report of the Eighth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies. “Research in machine translation”, ed.by Léon Dostert. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1957); pp.53-59. [PDF, 78KB]

(1957) Panel II: Lexical problems in machine translation – discussion [by Victor Oswald, Gilbert King, Leon Dostert, Jack Rabinow, Paul Garvin, Simon Newman, Clyde Heasly, W.P.Lehmann, Jesse Mann, William Austin]. Report of the Eighth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies. “Research in machine translation”, ed.by Léon Dostert. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1957); pp.112-122. [PDF, 58KB]

(1957) Panel III: Scope of syntactic analysis in machine translation – discussion [by Victor Oswald, Dan Belmore, Paul Garvin, Hugo Mueller, W.P.Lehmann, Richard Thomas, N.A.Kirsch, Herbert Paper, Michael Zarechnak, Leon Dostert, Martin Joos, Victor Yngve, Jane Pyne, R.A.Crossland, William Austin, Gilbert King].  Report of the Eighth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies. “Research in machine translation”, ed.by Léon Dostert. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1957); pp.167-177. [PDF, 96KB]

(1956) A.D.Booth: Introduction [to] Session on the computer in a non-arithmetic role, at the Convention on Digital-Computer Techniques, 12th April 1956. Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, vol.103, part B: Supplement no.3 (1956); pp.450-451. [PDF, 85KB]

Tools and aids for MT/NLP developers

 (1963) Ronald W. Jonas: Design of a generalized information system. In: Abstracts of papers for the 1963 annual meeting of the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics, Denver, Colorado, August 25 and 26, 1963.  Mechanical Translation, vol. 7, no.2, August 1963; p.38

Translation tools and aids for translators

 (1967) P.J.Arthern: An electronic dictionary. The Incorporated Linguist 6 (1), January 1967; pp.7-8. [PDF, 25KB]

(1967) Margaret Masterman: Man-aided computer translation from English into French using an on-line system to manipulate a bi-lingual conceptual dictionary, or thesaurus. Coling 1967: Conference Internationale sur la Traitement Automatique des Langues, Grenoble, France, August 1967; 22pp. [PDF, 887KB]

(1965) J.R.Pierce: Report of NAS-NRC Committee on automatic language processing. (Draft). Murray Hill, NJ: Bell Telephone Laboratories, May 4, 1965; 20pp. [lacks Appendices.] [PDF, 66KB]

(1963) Sydney M.Lamb: Machine-aided translation. Berkeley: University of California, Sept.1963; 6pp. [PDF, 27KB]

(1959) K.Spärck Jones: Note on the inappropriateness of the division made by Bar-Hillel between fully automatic high quality mechanical translation (FAHQMT) and man-machine partnership translation (MMPT). In: Essays on and in machine translation [ML94] (Cambridge Language Research Unit), 1959; 1p. [PDF, 12KB]