Surveys, overviews and general aspects of
machine translation
by John Hutchins
arranged from recent to oldest
The older publications are obviously now of only historical interest
[* = latest addition, July 2009]
* (2009) 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]
(2008) Recent developments in the use and application of machine
translation. To be published in
(2008) A brief
overview of machine translation in Europe and North America. JAPIO 2008 Yearbook (
(2005) 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]
(2005) Computer-based translation systems and tools.
[Revision 2005]. British Computer Society state of the art reports: natural
language translation [PDF, 87KB]
(2004) Machine translation and computer-based translation
tools. A new spectrum of translation
studies, ed. José Maria Bravo (
(2003) Commercial systems: the state of the art. Computers
and translation: a translator’s guide, ed. Harold Somers. (
(2003) Computer-based translation systems and tools.
[Revision 2003] For British Computer Society state of the art reports: natural
language translation. [PDF, 89KB]
(2002) 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]
(2002) The state of machine translation in Europe and future
prospects. HLT Central, January 2002. [HLT Central website no longer in
operation.] [PDF, 99KB]
(2001) Commercial systems: the state of the art in 2001
[Unpublished earlier version of the papers in Somers’ collection (2003),
reflecting the situation in mid 2001; PDF, 132KB]
(2000) Machine translation. In: Encyclopedia
of computer science, 4th edition. Editors: Anthony Ralston, Edwin D.
Reilly, David Hemmendinger. Basinstoke/Oxford: Nature Publishing Group, 2000.
ISBN: 0-333-77879-0.
(2000) Machine translation. In: Encyclopedia
of literary translation into English, ed. Olive Classe (
(1999) 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,
(1999) Commercial systems: the state of the art in 1999.
[Unpublished earlier version of the paper in Somers’ collection (2003),
reflecting the situation in mid 1999; PDF, 136KB]
(1997) Translation technology and the translator. ITI
Conference 11. Proceedings [of] International conference, exhibition & AGM,
8-10 May 1997. Compiled by Catherine Greensmith & Marilyn Vandamme.
(London: Institute of Translation & Interpreting, 1997), 113-120. Also in: Machine
Translation Review, issue no.7 (April 1998), 7-14 [PDF, 103KB]
(1996) Computer-based translation systems and tools.
[Version for: British Computer Society state of the art reports: natural
language translation.] [PDF, 93KB]
(1996) The state of machine translation in Europe. In: Expanding
MT horizons: proceedings of the Second Conference of the Association for
Machine Translation in the
(1995) Machine translation. In: An encyclopedia of
translation: Chinese-English, English-Chinese; edited by Chan Sin-wai and
David E.Pollard (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1995), 591-602. [PDF,
143KB]
(1995) Reflections on the history and present state of machine
translation. In: MT
(1995) Trends in machine translation research.
[Unpublished. Written 1995 for Sprog och
Erhverv.] [PDF, 101KB]
(1994) Vers une époche nouvelle en traduction automatique:
développements depuis 1990. In: Clas, André et Bouillon, Pierrette (eds.) TA-TAO:
recherches de pointe et applications immédiates. Troisièmes Journées
Scientifiques du réseau thématique “Lexicologie, Terminologie, Traduction”
Montréal, 30 septembre, 1er et 2 octobre 1993. Montréal (Québec): AUPELF/UREF,
1994 [i.e. 1995], pp.3-16. [PDF, 133KB]
(1994) A new era in machine translation. In: Translating
and the Computer 16. Papers presented at a conference jointly sponsored by
Aslib, The Association for Information Management, Aslib Technical Translation
Group, Institution of Translation and Interpreting, European Association for
Machine Translation, 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers,
(1993) Latest developments in machine translation technology:
beginning a new era in MT research. In: The Fourth Machine Translation
(1993) Language translation. In: Encyclopedia
of Computer Science. 3rd editon; editors: Anthony Ralston, Edwin D.Reilly.
(1992) (with Harold L. Somers) An introduction to machine translation.
(1991) Machine translation in the eighties. Zápisník
slovenského jazykovedca 10 (1/2), 1991 [i.e. 1992], 13-16. [PDF, 92KB]
(1989) Why take the machine's word for it? Computer
Weekly, October 19, 1989, 30-31 [PDF, 62KB]
(1988) Recent developments in machine translation: a review
of the last five years. In: New directions in machine translation:
conference proceedings,
(1978) Machine translation and machine-aided translation. Journal
of Documentation 34(2), June 1978, 119-159 (Progress in Documentation).
Reprinted in: Progress in documentation: some themes and topics. A
selection from the Progress in Documentation articles published in Journal of
Documentation, 1969-1979 (London: Aslib, 1981); pp.205-245. Reprinted in: Translation:
literary, linguistic, and philosophical perspectives. Edited by William
Frawley. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1984); pp.93-149 [PDF, 378KB]