A programming language for mechanical translation

The use of statistics in language research

A framework for syntactic translation

The current MIT approach to mechanical translation is aimed at providing routines intrinsically capable of producing correct and accurate translation. We are attempting to go beyond simple word-for-word translation; beyond translation using empirical, ad hoc, or pragmatic syntactic routines. The concept of full syntactic translation has emerged: translation based on a thorough understanding of ...

The Relevance of Linguistics to Mechanical Translation

Linguistics is relevant only to certain restricted and clearly-defined aspects of Mechanical Translation. In particular, the Immediate-Constituent model is relevant to input routines, and the Transformational Model is relevant to output routines. Since these do not cover the most important part of the translation process, a middle stage has to be inserted, even when translating between only two...

A Survey on the Attitudes of Students Majoring in English Language towards the Teaching Methods in Translation Courses

As a subset of descriptive studies, the current research focused on learners’ perception of the common teaching methods in translation courses. Accordingly, a multi-item Likert-scale questionnaire with 29 items was developed based on the proposed strategies applied in the three traditional, complex and modern methods of teaching for collecting the research data. Cronbach’s alpha was administere...

On the Translation Quality of Google Translate: With a Concentration on Adjectives

Translation, whose first traces date back at least to 3000 BC (Newmark, 1988), has always been considered time-consuming and labor-consuming. In view of this, experts have made numerous efforts to develop some mechanical systems which can reduce part of this time and labor. The advancement of computers in the second half of the twentieth century paved the ground for the invention of machine tra...