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2 unusual facts about machine translation


AI-complete

Machine translation, therefore, is believed to be AI-complete: it may require strong AI to be done as well as humans can do it.

Machine translation

Thus, the algorithm matched locally unambiguous meanings (for instance, while the word seal as such is ambiguous, there is only one meaning of "seal" in the animal subhierarchy).


ISO 12620

ISO 12620 is a standard from ISO/TC 37 which defines a Data Category Registry, a registry for registering linguistic terms used in various fields of translation, computational linguistics and natural language processing and defining mappings both between different terms and the same terms used in different systems.

Meaning–text theory

The theory provides a large and elaborate basis for linguistic description and, due to its formal character, lends itself particularly well to computer applications, including machine translation, phraseology, and lexicography.


see also

Automatic Language Translator

In 1954 IBM gave an influential demonstration of machine translation, known today as the "Georgetown-IBM experiment".

Herbert Marvin Ohlman

At the same time, Hans Peter Luhn (working with IBM) distributed his paper titled "Bibliography and index: Literature on information retrieval and machine translation", which contained "titles indexed by Key Words-in-Context system", or KWIC.

Philipp Koehn

 A 2003 paper which he authored with Franz Josef Och and Daniel Marcu called Statistical phrase-based translation has attracted wide attention in Machine translation community and has been cited over a thousand times.

Koehn is a professor and Chair of Machine Translation at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics and contributes to its Statistical Machine Translation Group which organizes workshops, seminars and project related to the subject.

UTX

Universal Terminology eXchange, a set of formats for machine translation user dictionaries.