Machine translation : linguistic characteristics of MT systems and general methodology of evaluation
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Machine translation : linguistic characteristics of MT systems and general methodology of evaluation
(Linguisticae investigationes, . Supplementa ; v. 15)
J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988
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Bibliography: p. [229]-240
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The use of the computer in translating natural languages ranges from that of a translator's aid for word processing and dictionary lookup to that of a full-fledged translator on its own. However the obstacles to translating by means of the computer are primarily linguistic. To overcome them it is necessary to resolve the ambiguities that pervade a natural language when words and sentences are viewed in isolation. The problem then is to formalize, in the computer, these aspects of natural language understanding. The authors show how, from a linguistic point of view, one may form some idea of what goes on inside a system's black box, given only the input (original text) and the raw output (translated text before post-editing). Many examples of English/French translation are used to illustrate the principles involved.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. Preface
- 3. Introduction
- 4. Identification of system characteristics
- 5. Linguistic components of a system
- 6. Building a system
- 7. Linguistic evaluation by the user
- 8. Conclusion
- 9. Notes
- 10. Appendix A: A Synthesis of Evaluations of MT Systems
- 11. Appendix V: An Example of a fully automatic MT chain
- 12. Bibliography
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