041505432X 9780415054324 hardback 0203128974 e book 9780203128978 electronic book 9786610329106 6610329109 9781134937905 E-Book 1134937903 9781134937851 E-Book 1134937857 9781134937899 E-Book 113493789X
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D 53 NEW.C
Summary
Computers in Translation is a comprehensive guide to the practical issues surrounding machine translation and computer-based translation tools. Translators, system designers, system operators, and researchers, present the facts about machine translation: its history, its successes, its limitations, and its potential. Three chapters deal with actual machine translation applications, discussing installations including the METEO system used in Canada to translate weather forecasts and weather reports, and the system used in the Foreign Technology Division of the U.S. Air Force. As a guide for non-specialists seeking to broaden theoretical knowledge of the practicalities of machine translation, it will be of particular interest to translators, technical authors, technical publications managers, and students and lecturers in language and linguistics. -- Publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-221) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The story so far : an evaluation of machine translation in the world today / Jeanette Pugh Made to measure solutions / Annette Grimaila in collaboration with John Chandioux The Perkins experience / John Newton Machine translation in a high-volume translation environment / Muriel Vasconcellos and Dale A. Bostad Esperanto as an intermediate language for machine translation / Klaus Schubert Limitations of computers as translation tools / Alex Gross Computerized term banks and translation / Patricia Thomas The translator workstation / Alan Melby SYSTRAN : it obviously works but how much can it be improved? / Yorick Wilks Current research in machine translation / Harold L. Somers.