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A Survey of Machine Translation: Its History, Current Status and Future Prospects

What it is about

A tutorial survey of machine translation for readers new to the field. It covers the enthusiasm of the 1950s, the disillusion of the 1960s and the ALPAC report of 1966, which led to the cancellation of most US projects. By 1975 no US government-funded projects were left, though MT systems were still in use, and the paper describes the main research groups and the techniques they used. The conclusions argue that the translation problem will not go away, that human effort is still needed short of full automation, that some applications will succeed on economic grounds alone, and that English is an unrepresentative language for computational linguistics. The survey also argues that translation is not simply understanding the source and reproducing it in the target. No measurements are given.

Ideas

For Mova

The survey gives the historical reason to test on several target languages, not only English, which the Hebrew reader begins to do. The residual split by reader and encoder is the measure that answers the paper's question about understanding versus reproduction. No factual claim from the survey is used in a result.

Topics: Machine translation

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

@article{slocum1985survey,
  title = {{A Survey of Machine Translation: Its History, Current Status and Future Prospects}},
  author = {Slocum, Jonathan},
  journal = {Computational Linguistics},
  year = {1985},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/J85-1001/}
}

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