Reviewer : Malek Boualem France Télécom R & D 2 , avenue

Except for W.J.Hutchins books, no other book gives such a wide overview of the major concepts of machine translation (MT) and machine-aided translation (MAT). Indeed this volume of 300 pages presents (almost all) the major translation approaches argued with linguistic and technical implications for each kind of application. Moreover neighbouring concepts that are spontaneously involved in MT/MAT are introduced such as multilingual text processing, formal language theory and artificial intelligence. The audience is well defined by the author in the preface. This book is useful for anyone who is interested in translation. Linguists, computer specialists and professional translators can find useful resources in this book for their research, development, studies and other activities. Moreover the author's writing style is quite fluent making the key concepts accessible to non-specialist readers. Note that the author does not present a new approach to MT/MAT in this book, his own approach is mainly descriptive and less suggestive. Four parts containing ten chapters are intelligently arranged allowing the reader to go through them progressively. A conclusion and a list of complementary references end each one of the ten chapters.