Abstract :
MT works, in the sense that everyday MT systems produce fully automatic translations that many people use with apparent benefits. The failure of intellectual breakthroughs to produce high quality, fully automatic MT is also apparent. The author considers statistical and knowledge-based translation
Keywords :
expert systems; humanities; language translation; statistical analysis; fully automatic translations; hybrid machine translation; knowledge-based translation; statistical translation; Artificial intelligence; Hidden Markov models; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Microelectronics; Natural languages; Ontologies; Research and development; Speech; System recovery;