Machine Translation  Archive

 

Index to applications of MT

                                                                                  

Publications before 1970

 

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Abstracts

(1968) S.Perschke: The use of the “SLC” system in automatic indexing. Mechanized Information Retrieval and Dissemination (North-Holland, 1968); pp.300-311. [PDF, 93KB]

(1967) Kenneth E.Harper: Syntactic and semantic problems in automatic sentence generation. Coling 1967: Conference Internationale sur la Traitement Automatique des Langues, Grenoble, France, August 1967; 9pp. [PDF, 475KB]

(1961) M.Corbé & R.Tabory: Introduction to an automatic English syntax (by fragmentation). 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.616-652. [PDF, 138KB] [discussion]

(1960) H.P.Edmundson: Introduction [to Session 8: Information processing and linguistic analysis.] 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.356-357. [PDF, 39KB]

(1959) J.W.Perry: Exploitation of abstracts by applying machine translation techniques.  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.787-810.

(1959) C.Wordley: C.L.R.U. mechanical abstracting test I. In: Essays on and in machine translation [ML91, appendix IV] (Cambridge Language Research Unit), June 1959;  3 pp. [PDF, 16KB]

Chemistry texts

(1963) Ching-yi Dougherty: Writing of Chinese recognition grammar for machine translation. 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.35

(1963) L.R.Micklesen & P.H.Smith, Jr.: An algorithm for the translation of Russian inorganic-chemistry terms. 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.39-40

(1963) John H. Wahlgren: Derivational suffixes in Russian general vocabulary and in chemical nomenclature. 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.42

(1961) Lawrence Summers: Machine translation of Russian organic chemical names into English by analysis and resynthesis of the component fragments. 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. 266-277. [PDF, 78KB] [discussion]

(1961) John H. Wahlgren: Linguistic analysis of Russian chemical terminology. 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. 250-263. [PDF, 88KB] [discussion]

(1960) M.Zarechnak & A.F.R.Brown: Current research at Georgetown University. 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.63-87. [PDF, 161KB]

(1958) A.F.R.Brown: Language translation. Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, vol.5, no.1; pp.1-8. [PDF, 51KB]

(1957) Paul L.Garvin: Linguistic analysis and translation analysis.  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.19-38. [PDF, 194KB]

(1957) Jane A.Pyne: Some ideas on inter-structural syntax.  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.143-149. [PDF, 106KB]

Electronics texts

(1960) Anthony G.Oettinger & Murray E.Sherry: Current research on automatic translation at Harvard University and predictive syntactic analysis.  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.173-182. [PDF, 102KB]

Humanities

(1961) W.P.Lehmann: Machine translation: agent of the humanities. University of Texas Studies in Literature and Language 3 (2), Summer 1961. PDF, 223 KB]

Information retrieval

(1969) G.Salton: Automatic processing of foreign language documents. Coling 1969: International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1-4 September 1969, Sångy-Säby, Sweden; Preprint no. 4; 29pp. [PDF, 755KB]

(1968) P.W.Culicover: Paraphrase generation and information retrieval from stored text. Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics, vol. 11, nos.3 and 4, September and December 1968; pp. 78-88 [PDF, 225KB]

(1968) S.Perschke: The use of machine translation in documentation. In: 1968 Meeting of European Librarians Working in the Nuclear Field.. April 24-25, 1968 (European Atomic Energy Community – EURATOM, EUR 4256 e) Luxemburg: Centre for Information and Documentation, 1969; pp.76-88. [PDF, 75KB]

(1968) S.Perschke: The use of the “SLC” system in automatic indexing. Mechanized Information Retrieval and Dissemination (North-Holland, 1968); pp.300-311. [PDF, 93KB]

(1965) R.M.Needham: Applications of the theory of clumps. Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics, vol. 8, nos.3 and 4, June and October 1965; pp.113-127 [PDF, 269KB]

(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]

(1962) Maurice Gross: On the equivalence of models of language used in the fields of mechanical translation and information retrieval. In: Automatic Translation of Languages: papers presented at NATO Summer School held in Venice, July 1962. [Ed. Aldo Ghizzetti.] Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1966; pp. 123-137. [PDF, 111KB]

(1960) H.P.Edmundson: Introduction [to Session 8: Information processing and linguistic analysis.] 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.356-357. [PDF, 39KB]

(1960) D.Y.Panov: Machine translation and the human being. Impact of Science on Society 10 (1960); pp.16-25. [PDF, 125KB]

(1960) Thyllis Williams: From text to topic in mechanized searching systems. 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.358-362. [PDF, 52KB]

(1959) N.D.Andreyev: The universal code of science and machine languages .  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.1061-1073. [PDF, 128KB]

 (1959) A.D.Booth [chairman]: Discussions [of conference papers 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.941-953. [PDF, 197KB]

(1959) R.J.Solomonoff: A progress report on machines to learn to translate languages and retrieve information.  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.941-953. [PDF, 714KB]

(1959) Victor H.Yngve: In defense of English. 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.935-940. [PDF, 36KB]

(1958) M.Masterman, R.M.Needham, & K.Spärck Jones: The analogy between mechanical translation and library retrieval. Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information, Washington, D.C., November 16-21, 1958 (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council, 1959); pp.917-935. [PDF, 104KB]

(1958) R.M.Needham & T.Joyce: Information retrieval and the thesaurus. [ML 45. Cambridge: CLRU, 1958]; 7pp. [PDF, 76KB]

(1958) Victor H.Yngve: The feasibility of machine searching of English texts. Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information, Washington, D.C., November 16-21, 1958 (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council, 1959); pp.975-995. [PDF, 115KB]

(1957) T.Joyce & R.M.Needham: The thesaurus approach to information retrieval. [ML 45a.] Cambridge Language Research Unit, October 1957; 8pp. [PDF, 90KB]

(1957) Simon M.Newman: Linguistics and information retrieval.  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.103-111. [PDF, 43KB]

(1952) James W. Perry: Machine techniques for index searching and for machine translation. Presented at the Conference on Mechanical Translation, June 1952, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PDF, 68KB]

Language teaching and learning

(1963) Yves Gentilhomme: La traduction automatique et l’enseignement du russe. 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.35-36

(1960) James W.Marchand: German syntax patterns. 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.234-244. [PDF, 79KB]

(1954) J.E.Holmström: The language problem of science. Research 7 (1954); pp.190-195. [PDF, 57KB]

Literary works

(1967) Michael Levison: The computer in literary studies. In: A.D.Booth (ed.) Machine translation. (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1967); pp.173-194.

(1962) John A.Kouwenhoven: The trouble with translation. Harper’s Magazine August 1962; pp.38-44. [PDF, 59KB]

(1960) D.Yu.Panov : Automatic translation. Translated from the Russian by R.Kisch, edited by A.J.Mitchell. New York, London, Oxford, Paris: Pergamon Press, 1960. iii, 73pp. [PDF, 665KB]

(1959) I.K.Belskaya: Machine translation methods and their application to an Anglo-Russian scheme. Information  processing: International Conference on Information Processing, Unesco, Paris, 15-20 June 1959 (Paris: Unesco, 1960); pp.199-217. [PDF, 404KB]

Mathematics texts

(1968) Gordon L.Walker, Susumu Kuno, Barbara N.Smith, & Roland B.Holt: Chinese mathematical text analysis. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech vol. EWS-11, no.2; pp.118-128. [note]

 (1960) Harry H.Josselson: Research in machine translation [at Wayne State University]. 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.160-172. [PDF, 133KB]

(1960) Anthony G.Oettinger & Murray E.Sherry: Current research on automatic translation at Harvard University and predictive syntactic analysis.  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.173-182. [PDF, 102KB]

(1960) D.Yu.Panov : Automatic translation. Translated from the Russian by R.Kisch, edited by A.J.Mitchell. New York, London, Oxford, Paris: Pergamon Press, 1960. iii, 73pp. [PDF, 665KB]

(1959) I.K.Belskaya: Machine translation methods and their application to an Anglo-Russian scheme. Information  processing: International Conference on Information Processing, Unesco, Paris, 15-20 June 1959 (Paris: Unesco, 1960); pp.199-217. [PDF, 404KB]

(1957) I.K.Belskaja: Machine translation of languages. Research vol.10, part 10, October 1957; pp.383-389. [PDF, 193KB]

(1956) I.S.Mukhin: An experiment on the machine translation of languages carried out on the BESM. 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.463-472. [PDF, 176KB]

Medical texts

(1953) Victor A.Oswald & Richard H.Lawson: An idioglossary for mechanical translation. Modern Language Forum 38 (3/4), September-December 1953; pp.1-11. [PDF, 66KB]

Music

(1965) W.P.Lehmann: Decoding of the Martian language. The Graduate Journal 7 (1), Winter 1965; pp.265-272. [PDF, 185KB]

Patents (see also Copyright)

(1958) Victor H.Yngve: The feasibility of machine searching of English texts. Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information, Washington, D.C., November 16-21, 1958 (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council, 1959); pp.975-995. [PDF, 115KB]

(1957) Simon M.Newman: Linguistics and information retrieval.  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.103-111. [PDF, 43KB]

Physics texts

(1965) Kenneth E. Harper: Measurement of similarity between nouns. Coling 1965: International Conference on Computational Linguistics, New York, USA, May 1965; 23pp. [PDF, 769KB]

(1963) Kenneth E. Harper: A study of the combinatorial properties of Russian nouns. 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.36

(1961) K.E.Harper: Procedures for the determination of distributional classes. 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.688-698. [PDF, 35KB] [discussion]

(1959) K.E.Harper & D.G.Hays: The use of machines in the construction of a grammar and computer program for structural analysis. Information processing: International Conference on Information Processing, Unesco, Paris, 15-20 June 1959 (Paris: Unesco, 1960); pp.188-194. [PDF, 129KB]

Question-answering

 (1963) Bertram Raphael: A computer representation for semantic information. 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.41

Scientific texts

(1960) Linguistic and engineering studies in the automatic translation of scientific Russian into English. Technical report phase II . Prepared for Intelligence Laboratory, Rome Air Development Center, Griffis Air Force Base, New York, by Department of Far Eastern and Slavic Languages and Literature and Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960.

Technical documents

(1960) Lew R.Micklesen: An experiment in the automatic selection or rejection of technical terms. 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.398-408. [PDF, 135KB]

(1955) Anthony G.Oettinger: The design of an automatic Russian-English technical dictionary. In: William N.Locke & A.Donald Booth (eds.): Machine translation of languages, fourteen essays. The Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; New York: John Wiley, 1955; pp. 47-65.

Translation services

(1968) S.Perschke: The use of machine translation in documentation. In: 1968 Meeting of European Librarians Working in the Nuclear Field.. April 24-25, 1968 (European Atomic Energy Community – EURATOM, EUR 4256 e) Luxemburg: Centre for Information and Documentation, 1969; pp.76-88. [PDF, 75KB]

(1961) Paul W. Howerton: The parameters of an operational machine translation system.  Mechanical Translation, vol. 6, November 1961; pp.108-111. [PDF, 131KB]

(1959) N.D.Andreyev: The universal code of science and machine languages .  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.1061-1073. [PDF, 128KB]

User experiences and needs

(1967) Bozena Henisz-Dostert: Experimental machine translation. In: William M.Austin (ed) Papers in linguistics in honor of Léon Dostert (The Hague: Paris, 1967); pp.57-91. [PDF, 500KB]

(1952) Yehoshua Bar-Hillel: Mechanical translation: needs and possibilities Presented at the Conference on Mechanical Translation, June 1952, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PDF, 77KB]

Uses of MT (see also Monolingual use)

(1952) Yehoshua Bar-Hillel: Mechanical translation: needs and possibilities Presented at the Conference on Mechanical Translation, June 1952, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PDF, 77KB]