Some Methods of Mechanized Translation

The following outline summarizes some suggestions about ways in which translation may be mechanized that were worked out by the authors in 19481952. The treatment is not exhaustive, and many modifications in detail would certainly be necessary should the ideas here mooted be put into active operation. It is considered, however, that it would be serviceable to describe the techniques here envisaged in their present rudimentary form, rather than await their further refining, since they may prove of interest to others working along the same lines. The paper is divided into three parts. The first deals with general principles, the second with specimen translations, while the third considers in detail the working of some specific mechanical translation schedules.