Machine Translation - Corpus Linguistics

Due to the importance of communication between two or more people, companies, or even nations, the need for good translators has long been obvious around the world, and since humans are faulty, it is not surprising that many attempts to automate the process of translation have been made throughout history. This is called machine translation. Corpus linguistics, a branch of the machine translation tree, utilises statistical methods to analyse text samples – corpora – and makes conclusions based on the results. The goal of this paper is to identify and account for the problems and possibilities associated with this kind of statistical approach to translation, as well as give a brief view of the history of the topic and glimpse at projects currently in research.