John Hutchins

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 1994–1995

John Hutchins wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 1994–1995, most of them on Machine translation.

Papers

Reflections on the history and present state of MT (1995)
An essay on how machine translation developed from the 1950s. Early researchers, limited by hardware and by weak linguistic theory, aimed low: word-for-word or dictionary-based output, pre-editing and post-editing by humans, controlled languages and narrow domains, and improvement by repeated cycles of trial and…
Research methods and system designs in machine translation: a ten-year review, 1984-1994 (1994)
A review of MT research over ten years, organised by the five eras of the field. It describes the state in 1984, when SYSTRAN was in use at several large organisations and the Meteo weather system had been running since 1976. Until the end of the 1980s the rule-based approaches dominated, with transfer and…