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	Jul 2003
	ISBN 0262140748
	429 pp.
	94 illus.

Readings in Machine Translation

Sergei Nirenburg , Harold L. Somers and Yorick A. Wilks

The field of machine translation (MT) -- the automation of translation between human languages -- has existed for more than fifty years. MT helped to usher in the field of computational linguistics and has influenced methods and applications in knowledge representation, information theory, and mathematical statistics.

This valuable resource offers the most historically significant English-language articles on MT. The book is organized in three sections. The historical section contains articles from MT's beginnings through the late 1960s. The second section, on theoretical and methodological issues, covers sublanguage and controlled input, the role of humans in machine-aided translation, the impact of certain linguistic approaches, the transfer versus interlingua question, and the representation of meaning and knowledge. The third section, on system design, covers knowledge-based, statistical, and example-based approaches to multilevel analysis and representation, as well as computational issues.

Table of Contents

		Introduction
		I Historical by Sergei Nirenburg
1		Translation by Warren Weaver
2		Mechanical Translation by A.D. Booth
3		The Mechanical Determination of Meaning by Erwin Reifler
4		Translation by Warren Weaver
5		Stochastic Methods of Mechanical Translation by Gilbert W. King
6		The Present Status of Automatic Translation of Languages by Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
7		A New Approach to the Mechanical Syntatic Analysis of Russian by Ida Rhodes
8		A Preliminary Approach to Japanese-English Automatic Translation by Susumu Kuno
9		On the Mechanization of Syntactic Analysis by Sydney M. Lamb
10		Research Procedures in Machine Translation by David G. Hays
11		ALPAC: The (In)Famous Report by John Hutchins
12		Correlational Analysis and Mechanical Translation by Silvio Ceccato
13		Automatic Translation: Some Theoretical Aspects and the Design of a Translation System by O.S. Kulagina and I.A. Melcuk
14		Mechanical Pdgin Translation by Margaret Masterman
15		English-Japanese Machine Translation by S. Takahashi, H. Wada, R. Tadenuma, and S. Watanabe
		II Introduction by Yorick Wilks
16		Automatic Translation and the Concept of Sublanguage by J. Lehrberger
17		The Proper Place of Men and Machines in Language Translation by Martin Kay
18		Machine Translation as an Expert Task by Roderick L. Johnson and Peter Whitelock
19		Montague Grammar and Machine Translation by Jan Landsbergen
20		Dialogue Translation vs. Text Translation-Interpretation Based Approach by David G. Hays
21		Translation by Structural COrrespondences by Ronald M. Kaplan, Klaus Netter, Jürgen Wedekind, and Annie Zaenen
22		Pros and Cons of the Pivot and Transfer Approaches in Multilingual Machine Translation by David G. Hays
23		Treatment of Meaning in MT Systems by Sergei Nirenburg and Kenneth Goodman
24		Where Am I Coming From: The Reversibility of Analysis and Generation in Natural Language Processing by Yorick Wilks
25		The Place of Heuristics in the Fulcrum Approach to Machine Translation by Paul L. Garvin
26		Computer Aided Translation: A Business Viewpoint by John S. G. Elliston
		III System Design: Introduction by Harold Somers
27		Three Levels of Linguistic Analysis in Machine Translation by Michael Zarechnak
28		Automatic Translation-A Survey of Different Approaches by B. Vauquois
29		Multi-level Translation Aids by Alan K. Melby
30		EUROTRA: Computational Techniques by Rod Johnson, Maghi King, and Louis des Tombe
31		A Framework of Mechanical Translation between Japanese and English by Analogy Principle by Makoto Nagao
32		A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation by Peter F. Brown, John Cocke, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, Frederick Jelinek, John D. Lafferty, Robert L. Mercer, and Paul S. Roossin
33		Automatic Speech Translation at ATR by Tsuyoshi Morimoto and Akira Kurematsu
34		The Standford Machine Translation Project by Yorick Wilks
35		The Textual Knowledge Bank: Design, Construction, Applications by Victor Sadler
36		Machine Translation Without a Source Text by Harold L. Somers, Jun-ichi Tsujii, and Danny Jones
		Source Notes
		Index