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Machine translation (MT) is the area of computer science and applied linguistics dealing with the translation of human languages such as English and German. MT on the Internet has become an important tool by providing fast, economical and useful translations. With globalisation and expanding trade,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trujillo, Arturo
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London : Imprint : Springer, 1999.
Series:Applied computing.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Artificial intelligence.
Translators (Computer programs)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Background: Introduction
  • Computers in Translation
  • History of Machine Translation
  • Strategies for Machine Translation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Conclusion
  • Basic Terminology and Background
  • Linguistics
  • Formal Background
  • Review of Prolog
  • Conclusion
  • Machine Aided Translation: Text Processing
  • Format Preservation
  • Character Sets and Typography
  • Input Methods
  • Conclusion
  • Translators Workbench and Translation Aids
  • Translators Workbench
  • Translation Memory
  • Bilingual Alignment
  • Subsentential Alignment
  • Conclusion
  • Machine Translation: Computational Linguistic Techniques
  • Introduction
  • Computational Morphology and the Two-level Model
  • Syntactic Analysis
  • Parsing
  • Generation
  • Conclusion
  • Transfer Machine Translation
  • Syntactic Transfer MT
  • Semantic Transfer MT
  • Lexicalist MT
  • Conclusion
  • Interlingua Machine Translation
  • Lexical Conceptual Structure MT
  • Knowledge-Based Machine Translation
  • Conclusion
  • Other Approaches to MT
  • Example-Based Machine Translation
  • Statistical Machine Translation
  • Minimal Recursion Semantics
  • Constraint Systems
  • Conclusion
  • Common Issues: Disambiguation
  • POS Tagging
  • Disambiguation of Syntactic Analysis
  • Word Sense Disambiguation
  • Transfer Disambiguation
  • Conclusion
  • Evaluation
  • Evaluation Participants
  • Evaluation Strategies
  • Quality Measures
  • Software Evaluation
  • Software User Needs
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Trends
  • Further Reading
  • Appendices
  • Useful Resources
  • Bibliography
  • Index.