Machine Translation Research in Czechoslovakia

Research procedures in machine translation

translation The symbolic nature of language is probably responsible for the widely held but erroneous view that linguistics is a branch of mathematics: a string of symbols “looks like” a mathematical formula. And, of course, a high school language textbook, with its rules, looks rather like a mathematical handbook. Mathematicians are forced to adhere to the rules of mathematical systems by the ...

Research methodology for machine translation

The general approach used at The RAND Corporation is that of convergence by successive refinements. The philosophy that underlies this approach is empirical. Statistical data are collected from careful translation of actual Russian text, analyzed, and used to improve the program. Text preparation, glossary development , translation, and analysis are described.

Advances in Machine Translation Research in IBM

IBM is engaged in advanced research and development projects on various aspects of machine translation, between several language pairs. The activities reported on hero are all parts of a rather large-scale, international effort, following Michael McCord’s LMT approach. The paper focuses on seven selected topics: recent enhancements made in the Slot Grammar formalism and the specific analysis co...

A new era in machine translation research

In the 1980s the dominant framework of MT was essentially ‘rule-based’, e.g. the linguistics-based approaches of Ariane, METAL, Eurotra, etc.; or the knowledge-based approaches at Carnegie Mellon University and elsewhere. New approaches of the 1990s are based on large text corpora, the alignment of bilingual texts, the use of statistical methods and the use of parallel corpora for ‘example-base...

Latest Developments in Machine Translation Technology: beginning a new era in machine translation research