Machine Translation

Machine Translation
Author: John Lehrberger
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027286205

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.

Linguistic Issues in Machine Translation

Linguistic Issues in Machine Translation
Author: Frank Van Eydne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015-12-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1474246559

The key assumption in this text is that machine translation is not merely a mechanical process but in fact requires a high level of linguistic sophistication, as the nuances of syntax, semantics and intonation cannot always be conveyed by modern technology. The increasing dependence on artificial communication by private and corporate users makes this research area an invaluable element when teaching linguistic theory.

Linguistic Aspects in Machine Translation

Linguistic Aspects in Machine Translation
Author: Alexander Täuschel
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2008-10-24
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 3640196074

Project Report from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England und Amerikastudien), course: Translation and Intercultural Communication, language: English, abstract: This paper will give a general overview of the venture that is machine translation with particular focus on linguistic aspects. It will display history of MT and will deal with some of the major issues in the realisation of MT like the difficulty of translating prepositions or integrating semantics, as well as the importance of real world knowledge. To illustrate these difficulties with examples on a basic level, a practice test with a moderately complex translation engine provided by Google has been carried out and will be explained. Finally, I am going to introduce three of the largest and most powerful translation machines currently in use. I will also give a brief over-view of methods of MT. The aim of this paper is to show that the realisation of the primal idea of machine translation in its original sense, which was to perform translation without human intervention (except during the construction phase of the system), is still markedly far away at present and machines are still unlikely to take over the jobs of human translators.

Readings in Machine Translation

Readings in Machine Translation
Author: Sergei Nirenburg
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262140744

The field of machine translation (MT) - the automation of translation between human languages - has existed for more than 50 years. MT helped to usher in the field of computational linguistics and has influenced methods and applications in knowledge representation, information theory, and mathematical statistics.

The Grammar of Genres and Styles

The Grammar of Genres and Styles
Author: Dominique Legallois
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110592843

The book provides new findings about the grammar of genres and styles. It combines new methods with different kinds of empirical material, from social reports to live TV sports commentaries or 16th century newspapers, in English, French, Latin and Spanish. The study of non-discrete units suggests new ways of seeing the linguistic variation between genres and styles and the ways in which belonging to a genre predetermines linguistic choices.

Machine Translation and Transliteration involving Related, Low-resource Languages

Machine Translation and Transliteration involving Related, Low-resource Languages
Author: Anoop Kunchukuttan
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2021-09-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000422410

Machine Translation and Transliteration involving Related, Low-resource Languages discusses an important aspect of natural language processing that has received lesser attention: translation and transliteration involving related languages in a low-resource setting. This is a very relevant real-world scenario for people living in neighbouring states/provinces/countries who speak similar languages and need to communicate with each other, but training data to build supporting MT systems is limited. The book discusses different characteristics of related languages with rich examples and draws connections between two problems: translation for related languages and transliteration. It shows how linguistic similarities can be utilized to learn MT systems for related languages with limited data. It comprehensively discusses the use of subword-level models and multilinguality to utilize these linguistic similarities. The second part of the book explores methods for machine transliteration involving related languages based on multilingual and unsupervised approaches. Through extensive experiments over a wide variety of languages, the efficacy of these methods is established. Features Novel methods for machine translation and transliteration between related languages, supported with experiments on a wide variety of languages. An overview of past literature on machine translation for related languages. A case study about machine translation for related languages between 10 major languages from India, which is one of the most linguistically diverse country in the world. The book presents important concepts and methods for machine translation involving related languages. In general, it serves as a good reference to NLP for related languages. It is intended for students, researchers and professionals interested in Machine Translation, Translation Studies, Multilingual Computing Machine and Natural Language Processing. It can be used as reference reading for courses in NLP and machine translation. Anoop Kunchukuttan is a Senior Applied Researcher at Microsoft India. His research spans various areas on multilingual and low-resource NLP. Pushpak Bhattacharyya is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay. His research areas are Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and AI (NLP-ML-AI). Prof. Bhattacharyya has published more than 350 research papers in various areas of NLP.

Challenges for Arabic Machine Translation

Challenges for Arabic Machine Translation
Author: Abdelhadi Soudi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027273626

This book is the first volume that focuses on the specific challenges of machine translation with Arabic either as source or target language. It nicely fills a gap in the literature by covering approaches that belong to the three major paradigms of machine translation: Example-based, statistical and knowledge-based. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of the methods for incorporating linguistic knowledge into empirical MT. The book brings together original and extended contributions from a group of distinguished researchers from both academia and industry. It is a welcome and much-needed repository of important aspects in Arabic Machine Translation such as morphological analysis and syntactic reordering, both central to reducing the distance between Arabic and other languages. Most of the proposed techniques are also applicable to machine translation of Semitic languages other than Arabic, as well as translation of other languages with a complex morphology.

Neural Machine Translation

Neural Machine Translation
Author: Philipp Koehn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2020-06-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1108497322

Learn how to build machine translation systems with deep learning from the ground up, from basic concepts to cutting-edge research.

An Introduction to Machine Translation

An Introduction to Machine Translation
Author: William John Hutchins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1992
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

The translation of foreign language texts by computers was one of the first tasks that the pioneers of computing and artificial intelligence set themselves. Machine translation is again becoming an important field of research and development as the need for translations of technical and commercial documentation is growing beyond the capacity of the translation profession.