Main publications on machine translation
since
1999
Compendium of translation software: directory of
commercial machine translation systems and computer-based translation support
tools. [
Machine Translation Archive: electronic
repository and bibliography of articles, books and papers on topics in machine
translation and computer-based translation tools.
General surveys
Multiple
uses of machine translation and computerized translation tools. ISMTCL:
International Symposium on Data Mining and Sense Mining, Machine Translation
and Controlled Languages, and their application to emergencies and safety
critical domains, July 1-3, 2009, Centre Tesnière,
University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
(Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2009); pp.
13-20. [PDF, 66KB]
Current commercial machine translation systems and computer-based
translation tools: system types and their uses. International
Journal of Translation vol.17,
no.1-2, Jan-Dec 2005, pp.5-38.
[PDF, 191KB]
Machine translation and
computer-based translation tools. A new spectrum of translation studies,
ed. José Maria Bravo (
Commercial systems: the state of the art. Computers
and translation: a translator’s guide, ed. Harold Somers. (
Machine translation today and tomorrow.
Computerlinguistik: was geht, was kommt? Computational
linguistics: achievements and perspectives. Festschrift für Winfried Lenders; hrsg. Gerd Willée, Bernhard Schröder, Hans-Christian Schmitz
(Sankt Augustin: Gardez! Verlag, 2002), 159-162. (Sprachwissensschaft, Computerlinguistik
und Neue Medien, Bd.4).
[PDF, 81KB]
The development and use of machine
translation systems and computer-based translation tools. International Conference on Machine
Translation & Computer Language Information Processing, 26-28 June
1999,
Special aspects
(with Federico Garspari) Online and free! Ten years of online machine
translation: origins, developments, current use and future prospects. MT Summit XI,
Example-based machine translation: a review and commentary.
Machine Translation
vol.19, 2005, 197-211. [A review of: Recent
advances in example-based machine translation, ed. Michael Carl and
Towards a
definition of example-based machine translation. In: MT
Towards a new vision for MT. Introductory
speech at MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, 19
September 2001. [PDF, 106KB]
Machine translation and human translation: in competition
or in complementation? International Journal of Translation, vol.13,
no.1-2, Jan-Dec 2001, pp. 5-20. Special theme issue on
machine translation, [editor] Michael S. Blekhman.
Also: Machine translation theory & practice, edited by Michael S. Blekhman.
Retrospect and prospect in computer-based translation. In Machine Translation
Historical
works
General
history
History of MT in a nutshell. A two-page sketch, from the
beginnings to the present. [Written 2000-2001, revised November 2005]
Machine translation: history of research and use.
In: Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics. 2nd edition, edited by
Keith Brown (
Machine translation: general overview. In: Mitkov, Ruslan (ed.) The
Machine translation over fifty years. Histoire, Epistémologie, Langage. Vol. 23 (1), 2001: Le traitement automatique des langues [ed. Jacqueline Léon],
7-31. [PDF, 160KB]
Special
aspects
Has machine translation improved? some
historical comparisons MT
An expanded version [PDF, 288KB] illustrates further
aspects, and a database gives
longer examples of MT texts from the past, with comparative output from some
current systems.
Special periods
The first public demonstration of machine
translation: the Georgetown-IBM system, 7th January 1954. [Expanded version of AMTA-2004 paper. Written November 2005]
[PDF, 1773KB]
The Georgetown-IBM experiment demonstrated in January 1954.
Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC,
USA, September 28 - October 2, 2004. Proceedings, ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor
(
Historical
personages
Two precursors of machine translation: Artsrouni
and Trojanskij. International Journal of
Translation 16(1) Jan-June 2004, 11-31. [PDF, 289KB]
Gilbert W. King and the USAF Translator. In: Hutchins, W.John (ed.) Early
years in machine translation (
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel: a
philosopher’s contribution to machine translation. In: Hutchins, W.John (ed.) Early years in machine translation
(
Warren Weaver and the launching of MT: brief biographical
note. In: Hutchins, W.John (ed.) Early
years in machine translation (
(with Evgeny Lovtskii) Petr
Petrovich Troyanskii
(1894-1950): a forgotten pioneer of mechanical translation. Machine
Translation 15 (3), 2000, 187-221.
[PDF, 279KB]