1852330570 9781852330576 alk. paper 9781447105879 electronic book 1447105877 electronic book
Alternate Call Number
D 53 TRU.T
Summary
"Machine (aided) Translation (MT) is the area of information technology and applied linguistics dealing with the translation of human languages such as English, German and Spanish."--BOOK JACKET. "Translation Engines covers theoretical and practical aspects of MT, both classic and new, including: character sets and input methods, translation memory, linguistic and computational foundations, basic computational linguistic techniques, transfer and interlingua MT, and Evaluation."--BOOK JACKET. "Software accompanies the text, providing readers with hands on experience of the main algorithms."--BOOK JACKET. "Programmers as well as final year undergraduate and postgraduate students in natural language processing and translation will find the book a valuable guide to MT technology."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-289) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
pt. 1. Background 1. Introduction 2. Basic Terminology and Background pt. 2. Machine-Aided Translation 3. Text Processing 4. Translator's Workbench and Translation Aids pt. 3. Machine Translation 5. Computational Linguistics Techniques 6. Transfer Machine Translation 7. Interlingua Machine Translation 8. Other Approaches to MT pt. 4. Common Issues 9. Disambiguation 10. Evaluation 11. Conclusion.
"Machine (aided) Translation (MT) is the area of information technology and applied linguistics dealing with the translation of human languages such as English, German and Spanish."--BOOK JACKET. "Translation Engines covers theoretical and practical aspects of MT, both classic and new, including: character sets and input methods, translation memory, linguistic and computational foundations, basic computational linguistic techniques, transfer and interlingua MT, and Evaluation."--BOOK JACKET. "Software accompanies the text, providing readers with hands on experience of the main algorithms."--BOOK JACKET. "Programmers as well as final year undergraduate and postgraduate students in natural language processing and translation will find the book a valuable guide to MT technology."--Jacket.