Machine Translation Archive

Index of data, corpora and resources

Publications before 1970

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Bilingual corpora [see also Example-based methods, Test corpora]

(1963) Wayne Tosh: Collecting linguistic data for the grammar of a language. 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

Domain restriction, adaptation and specification

(1965) Swaminathan Madhu & Dean W.Lytle: A figure of merit technique for the resolution of non-grammatical ambiguity. Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics, vol. 8, no.2, February 1965; pp.9-13 [PDF, 167KB]

(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]

(1960) Victor Oswald: Introduction [to Session 8: Semantic resolution.] 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.384-385. [PDF, 40KB]

(1956) Victor H.Yngve: Terminology in the light of research on mechanical translation. Babel 2 (3), October 1956; pp.128-132. [PDF, 40KB]

(1952) Victor A. Oswald: Microsemantics. Presented at the Conference on Mechanical Translation, June 1952, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PDF, 95KB]

Knowledge representation see Ontologies

Language resources (see also Lexical resources)

(1963) Wayne Tosh: Collecting linguistic data for the grammar of a language. 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

Lexical resources and lexical acquisition

(1969) Harry H. Josselson: The lexicon: a system of matrices of lexical units and their properties. Coling 1969: International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1-4 September 1969, Sångy-Säby, Sweden; Preprint no. 36; 25pp. [PDF, 689KB]

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

(1967) Kathleen H.V.Booth: Machine aided translation with a post-editor. In: A.D.Booth (ed.) Machine translation. (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1967); pp.51-76.

(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]

(1967) Erwin Reifler: Chinese-English machine translation: its lexicographic and linguistic problems [with extensive bibliography]. In: A.D.Booth (ed.) Machine translation. (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1967); pp.317-428.

(1967) Ida Rhodes: The importance of the glossary storage in machine translation. In: A.D.Booth (ed.) Machine translation. (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1967); pp.429-449.

(1963) Robert S. Betz & Walter Hoffman: The use of a random access devices for dictionary lookup. 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.33

 (1963) Kenneth E.Harper: Dictionary problems in machine translation. In: Paul L.Garvin (ed.) Natural language and the computer (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963); pp.215-222. [48KB]

(1963) A.Opler, R.Silverstone, Y.Saleh, M.Hildebran, & I.Slutzky: The application of table processing concepts to the Sakai translation technique. 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.40

(1961) Edward S. Klima: Structure at the lexical level and its implications for transfer grammar. 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.98-108. [PDF, 29KB] [discussion]

(1961) Sydney M. Lamb & William H. Jacobsen, Jr.: A high-speed large-capacity dictionary system.  Mechanical Translation, vol. 6, November 1961; pp.76-107. [PDF, 640KB]

 (1961) Michael Levison: The mechanical analysis of language. 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.562-574. [PDF,

(1961) J.McDaniel & S.Whelan: The grammatical interpretation of Russian inflected forms using a stem dictionary. 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.364-377. [PDF, 123KB]  [discussion]

 (1961) P. Meile: On problems of address in an automatic dictionary of French. 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.380-399. [PDF, 47KB] [discussion]

(1961) Lew R.Micklesen: Source-language specification with table lookup and high-capacity dictionary. 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. 318-340. [PDF, 193KB] [discussion]

(1961) Erwin Reifler: The machine translation project at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington: outline of the project.  Mechanical Translation, vol. 6, November 1961; pp.25-32. [PDF, 189KB]

 (1960) A.D.Booth & A.J.T.Colin: On the efficiency of a new method of dictionary construction. Information and Control; 3 327-334. [PDF, 108KB]

(1960) Hugh Kelly & Ted Ziehe: Glossary lookup made easy. 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.325-334. [PDF, 84KB]

(1960) Sydney M.Lamb: Segmentation. 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.335-342. [PDF, 63KB]

 (1960) Lew R.Micklesen: Lexicography. [In] Linguistic and engineering studies in the automatic translation of scientific Russian into English. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960; pp.71-87. [PDF, 474KB]

 (1960) Anthony G.Oettinger: Automatic language translation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960; xix, 380pp.

(1960) Erwin Reifler: Current research at the University of Washington. 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.155-159. [PDF, 59KB]

 (1960) Erwin Reifler: MT linguistics and MT lexicography at the University of Washington. [In] Linguistic and engineering studies in the automatic translation of scientific Russian into English. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960; pp.59-65. [PDF, 206KB]

(1960) Erwin Reifler: The solution of MT linguistic problems through lexicography. 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.312-316. [PDF, 63KB]

(1960) Murray E.Sherry: Automatic affix interpretation and reliability of the Harvard automatic dictionary. 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.317-324. [PDF, 83KB]

(1960) Don R.Swanson: Introduction [to Session 7: The dictionary]. 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.310-311. [PDF, 48KB]

(1960) Session 7; The dictionary. Questions and discussion [by A.F.R.Brown, G.Brown, V.Giuliano, R.M.Hayes, H.H.Josselson, G.W.King, S.M.Lamb, W.P.Lehmann, J.W.Marchand, J.Mersel, E.Reifler, I.Rhodes, T.Ziehe.] 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.343-353. [PDF, 78KB]

 (1959) I.K.Bel’skaya: Fundamental characteristics of the dictionary and grammatical schemes used in machine translation from English into Russian. [Translated from Sbornik statei po mashinnomu perevodu (Moskva, 1958, pp.47-80)]; 15pp. [PDF, 708KB]

(1959) V.E.Giuliano & A.G.Oettinger: Research on automatic translation at the Harvard Computation Laboratory. Information processing: International Conference on Information Processing, Unesco, Paris, 15-20 June 1959 (Paris: Unesco, 1960); pp.163-183. [PDF, 391KB]

(1959) Erwin Reifler: MT linguistics and MT lexicography at the University of Washington: high frequency concepts, German substantive compounds and MT.  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.841-852. [PDF, 135KB]

(1958) A.D.Booth: The history and recent progress of machine translation. In: Aspects of translation (Studies in Communication 2). London: Secker & Warburg; pp.88-104. [PDF, 69KB]

 (1958) Andrew D.Booth: Translating machines (The Social Consequences of Automation.) International Social Science Bulletin 10; pp.55-62. [PDF, 55KB]

 (1958) W.S.Cooper: Compact encoding of reference data. Quarterly Progress Report of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, M.I.T., October, 1958; pp.175-178. [PDF, 38KB]

(1958) William S.Cooper: The storage problem, Mechanical Translation 5 (2), November 1958; pp. 74-83 [PDF, 248KB]

(1958) Anthony G.Oettinger: An input device for the Harvard automatic dictionary, Mechanical Translation 5 (1), July 1958; pp. 2-7 [PDF, 582KB]

(1958) A.G.Oettinger, W.Foust, V.Giuliano, K.Magassy, & L.Matejka: Linguistic and machine methods for compiling and updating the Harvard automatic dictionary. 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.951-973. [PDF, 309KB]

(1957) Roderick Gould: Multiple correspondence, Mechanical Translation 4 (1-2), November 1957; pp. 14-27 and 43 [PDF, 218KB]

(1957) Kenneth E. Harper: Semantic ambiguity, Mechanical Translation 4 (3), December 1957; pp. 68-69 [PDF, 93KB]

(1957) Gilbert W.King: The requirements of lexical storage.  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.79-87. [PDF, 48KB]

(1957) Andreas Koutsoudas: Mechanical translation and Zipf’s law. Language 33, 545-552. [note]

(1957) Victor A.Oswald, Jr.: The rationale of the idioglossary technique. 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.63-69. [PDF, 79KB]

(1957) Paul Pimsleur: Semantic frequency counts, Mechanical Translation 4 (1-2), November 1957; pp. 11-13 [PDF, 111KB]

(1957) Erwin Reifler: The machine translation project at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. [Session ‘Machine translation’] Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Linguists, Oslo, August 5-9, 1957 (Oslo: Oslo University Press, 1958); pp.514-518.

(1956) Andrew D.Booth: Present objectives of MT research in the United Kingdom. Babel 2 (3), October 1956; pp.108-110. [PDF, 34KB]

(1956) W. Ryland Hill: A program for machine translation using a high-capacity store. Notes for discussion at the meetings of Oct. 16-19 preceding the International Conference on Mechanical Translation on Oct.20, 1956 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; 3pp. [PDF, 16KB]

(1956) A.G.Oettinger: Structure identification in automatic translation. Presentation at International Conference on Mechanical Translation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 1956; 2pp. [PDF, 38KB]

(1955) A.D.Booth: Influence of context on translation. In: Information theory: papers read at a symposium on ‘Information theory’ held at the Royal Institution, London, September 12th to 16th, 1955; edited by Colin Cherry, London: Butterworths Scientific Publications, 1956; pp.181-183. [PDF, 19KB]

 (1955) Andrew D.Booth: Use of a computing machine as a mechanical dictionary.  Nature, September 17, 1955;  vol.176, p.565. [PDF,

(1955) William E.Bull, Charles Africa, & Daniel Teichroew: Some problems of the “word”. 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. 86-103.

(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.

(1955) R.H.Richens & A.D.Booth: Some methods of mechanized translation. 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. 24-46.

(1954) Anthony G. Oettinger: A study for the design of an automatic dictionary. A thesis presented…for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy… Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April, 1954; chapter 1 [only]; 11pp. [PDF, 38KB]

(1952) William E. Bull: Problems of vocabulary frequency and distribution. Presented at the Conference on Mechanical Translation, June 1952, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PDF, 82KB]

(1952) R.H.Richens & A.D.Booth: Some methods of mechanized translation. Presented at the Conference on Mechanical Translation, June 1952, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 15pp. [PDF, 178KB]

Ontologies

(1967) Silvio Ceccato: Correlational analysis and mechanical translation. In: A.D.Booth (ed.) Machine translation. (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1967); pp.77-135.

Text-related glossaries

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