How MT works.

Authors :: Hovy, Eduard
Source :: Byte.com. Jan1993, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p167. 7p. 1 Color Photograph, 3 Diagrams, 1 Chart.
Publication Year :: 1993
Abstract: Discusses the several ways Machine translation (MT) systems tackle translation. Direct-translation, syntactic transfer, shallow semantic transfer, semantic representation, interlingual, and statistical approaches; System examples; Hybrid statistically based transfer systems shown by the Candide system from IBM.