Publisher's Synopsis
This book describes the development of computer systems for the translation of non-literary texts, from earliest pioneers' efforts, through the period of intensive research of the 1950s and 1960s, to the present commercially-available systems and increasing research activity. It reflects the recent upsurge of commercial and industrial interest, the large scale involvement of translation services, and the growing interest of individual translators in computer aids.;The author documents research and development activity in machine translation, both fully automatic systems and interactive systems, and looks at the influence and involvement in the field by government and industry. It describes methods, strategies, techniques and system models adopted by machine translation researchers, covering both computational and linguistic aspects. The emphasis is on work in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, but also incorporates Russian and Japanese work.
