This paper discusses the results of an experiment designed to test the quality of translations, in which human subjects were presented with IBM-produced machine translations of several passages taken from the Russian electrical engineering journal Elektrosviaz, and with human translations of some other passages taken from Telecommunications, the English translation of Elektrosviaz. The subjects...

This paper describes an ongoing project which has the goal of improving machine translation quality by increasing knowledge about the text to be translated. A basic piece of such knowledge is the domain or subject field of the text. When this is known, it is possible to improve meaning selection appropriate to that domain. Our current effort consists in automating both recognition of the text’s...