Translation Engines: Techniques for Machine Translation

✍ Scribed by Arturo Trujillo BSc, MPhil PhD (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 306
• Series: Applied Computing
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Machine translation (MT) is the area of computer science and applied linguistics dealing with the translation of human languages such as English and German.
MT on the Internet has become an important tool by providing fast, economical and useful translations. With globalisation and expanding trade, demand for translation is set to grow.
Translation Engines covers theoretical and practical aspects of MT, both classic and new, including:
- Character sets and formatting languages
- Translation memory
- Linguistic and computational foundations
- Basic computational linguistic techniques
- Transfer and interlingua MT
- Evaluation
Software accompanies the text, providing readers with hands on experience of the main algorithms.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-7
Basic Terminology and Background....Pages 9-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Text Processing....Pages 39-56
Translator’s Workbench and Translation Aids....Pages 57-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Computational Linguistics Techniques....Pages 85-119
Transfer Machine Translation....Pages 121-166
Interlingua Machine Translation....Pages 167-201
Other Approaches to MT....Pages 203-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Disambiguation....Pages 223-250
Evaluation....Pages 251-266
Conclusion....Pages 267-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-303

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language Translation and Linguistics