Douglas Arnold, Lorna Balkan, R. Lee Humphreys, Siety  Meijer & Louisa  Sadler 1994

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Publisher: Blackwell

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Download: Machine Translation: An Introductory Guide (Arnold, Balkan, Humphreys, Meijer, Sadler 1994). 

Automatic translation between human languages (‘Machine Translation’) is a Science Fiction staple, and a long-term scientific dream of enormous social, political, and scientific importance. It was one of the earliest applications suggested for digital computers, but turning this dream into reality has turned out to be a much harder, and in many ways a much more interesting task than at first appeared. Nevertheless, though there remain many outstanding problems, some degree of automatic translation is now a daily reality, and it is likely that during the next decade the bulk of routine technical and business translation will be done with some kind of automatic translation tool, from humble databases containing canned translations of technical terms to genuine Machine Translation Systems that can produce reasonable draft translations (provided the input observes certain restrictions on subject matter, style, and vocabulary).