Early years in machine translation memoirs and biographies of pioneers

Machine translation (MT) was one of the first non-numerical applications of the computer in the 1950s and 1960s. With limited equipment and programming tools, researchers from a wide range of disciplines (electronics, linguistics, mathematics, engineering, etc.) tackled the unknown problems of langu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hutchins, W. John (William John), 1939- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins 2000.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 97.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31181831*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements, Cyrillic transliteration
  • The first decades of machine translation: overview, chronology, sources / John Hutchins
  • Warren Weaver and the launching of MT: brief biographical note / John Hutchins
  • Erwin Reifler and machine translation at the University of Washington / Lew R. Micklesen
  • Early research at M.I.T.: in search of adequate theory / Victor H. Yngve
  • Machine translation at Harvard / Anthony G. Oettinger
  • The Georgetown project and Leon Dostert: recollections of a young assistant / Muriel Vasconcellos
  • Is FAHQ(M)T possible? Memories of Paul L. Garvin and other MT colleagues / Christine A. Montgomery
  • The early days of GAT-SLC / Michael Zarechnak
  • Machine translation: just a question of finding the right programming language? / Antony F.R. Brown
  • From Serna to Systran / Peter Toma
  • My early years in machine translation / Winfred P. Lehmann
  • David G. Hays / Martin Kay
  • Gilbert W. King and the USAF Translator / John Hutchins
  • Translation and the structure of language / Sydney M. Lamb
  • Pioneering MT in the Soviet Union / Olga S. Kulagina
  • Machine translation and formal linguistics in the USSR / Igor A. Mel'cuk
  • My memoirs of MT in the Soviet Union / Tat'jana N. Molosnaja
  • MT in the former USSR and in the Newly Independent States (NIS): pre-history, Romantic era, prosaic time / Raimund G. Piotrovskij
  • Machine translation: early years in the USSR / Jurij N. Marcuk
  • The beginnings of MT / Andrew D. Booth, Kathleen H.V. Booth.