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, October 2010]
* (2010) Outline of machine translation developments in Europe and
America. To be
published in JAPIO yearbook 2011.
* (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 applications 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[Unpublished earlier version of the papers in Somers’ collection (2003),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]