Machine Translation
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Machine Translation

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Machine Translation

About this book

The dream of a universal translation device goes back many decades, long before Douglas Adams's fictional Babel fish provided this service in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since the advent of computers, research has focused on the design of digital machine translation tools—computer programs capable of automatically translating a text from a source language to a target language. This has become one of the most fundamental tasks of artificial intelligence. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and market potential. The main approaches are presented from a largely historical perspective and in an intuitive manner, allowing the reader to understand the main principles without knowing the mathematical details.

The book begins by discussing problems that must be solved during the development of a machine translation system and offering a brief overview of the evolution of the field. It then takes up the history of machine translation in more detail, describing its pre-digital beginnings, rule-based approaches, the 1966 ALPAC (Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee) report and its consequences, the advent of parallel corpora, the example-based paradigm, the statistical paradigm, the segment-based approach, the introduction of more linguistic knowledge into the systems, and the latest approaches based on deep learning. Finally, it considers evaluation challenges and the commercial status of the field, including activities by such major players as Google and Systran.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Series Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 The Trouble with Translation
  10. 3 A Quick Overview of the Evolution of Machine Translation
  11. 4 Before the Advent of Computers…
  12. 5 The Beginnings of Machine Translation: The First Rule-Based Systems
  13. 6 The 1966 ALPAC Report and Its Consequences
  14. 7 Parallel Corpora and Sentence Alignment
  15. 8 Example-Based Machine Translation
  16. 9 Statistical Machine Translation and Word Alignment
  17. 10 Segment-Based Machine Translation
  18. 11 Challenges and Limitations of Statistical Machine Translation
  19. 12 Deep Learning Machine Translation
  20. 13 The Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems
  21. 14 The Machine Translation Industry: Between Professional and Mass-Market Applications
  22. 15 Conclusion: The Future of Machine Translation
  23. Glossary
  24. Bibliography and Further Reading
  25. Index
  26. About Author