We argue that, in many situations, Dialogue-Based MT is likely to offer better solutions to translation needs than machine aids to translators or batch MT, even if controlled languages are used. Objections to DBMT have led us to introduce the new concept of “self-explaining document”, which might be used in monolingual as well as in multilingual contexts, and deeply change our way of understand...

This paper presents our most recent research in the context of TTC, an EU funded research project, on using the Web to retrieve terminologically rich texts in a specific domain, and to find similar documents in such comparable corpora. The aim of this work is to provide tools for semi-automatic construction of bilingual term lists. 1 Parallel and comparable corpora Re-use of existing translatio...

Localisation has long been regarded as an appropriate domain for the deployment of MT. This paper reports the results of a qualitative study which investigated the activities of professional translators working in a Language Services Provider. We analyse the observed work practices and highlight issues related to translation efficiency, quality assessment and teamwork. These issues may impact o...

A b s t r a c t The paper presents a descriptive model for measuring the salient traits and tendencies of a translation as compared with the source text. We present some results from applying the model to the texts of the Linköping Translation Corpus (LTC) that have been produced by different kinds of translation aids, and discuss its application to MT evaluation. In this paper we present a cor...

This paper addresses a method for customizing an English-Korean machine translation system from general domain to patent domain. The customizing method includes the followings: (1) extracting and constructing large bilingual terminology and the patent-specific translation patterns, (2) adapting the probabilities of POS tagger trained from general domain to the patent domain, (3) syntactically a...

Courses on Machine Translation MT need to be tailored to di erent sets of students with di ering skills and demands Kenny Way Nevertheless any contemporary course on MT ought to equip students with at least a super cial knowledge of the di erences between rule based and statistical MT direct and indirect approaches and transfer based and interlingual systems With regard to this latter distincti...

The present study aims to evaluate the output quality of an online MT; namely, Google Translate, from English into Persian and compare its with translations made by human translators find out that whether MT applications are considered as aid or a threat translators. For application study, researcher designed translation test consisting 60 statements different types texts proposed Reiss (1989)....

The history of machine translation is described from its beginnings in the 1940s to the present day. In the earliest years, efforts were concentrated either on developing immediately useful systems, however crude in their translation quality, or on fundamental research for high quality translation systems. After the ALPAC report in 1966, which virtually ended MT research in the US for more than...

MT has always attracted a good deal of public attention, particularly that of people involved in translation. It has provoked controversies, sometimes very fierce, and unfounded worries among translators and their administrators. This happened partly because people put too much expectation on the possibility of MT. People talked about MT systems or the possibility of MT systems without using th...

Since the advent of modern statistical machine translation (SMT), much progress in system performance has been achieved that went hand-in-hand with ever more sophisticated mathematical models and methods. Numerous small improvements have been reported whose lasting effects are hard to judge, especially when they are combined with other newly proposed modifications of the basic models. Often the...