Linguistic Issues in Machine Translation (Communication in Artificial Intelligence Series) - Hardcover

Van Eynde, Frank

 
9781855670242: Linguistic Issues in Machine Translation (Communication in Artificial Intelligence Series)

Synopsis

This volume comes out of the research of the Linguistic Specifications Group of the Eurotra Project, an EC-funded project for machine translation between the EC languages. The key assumption is that machine translation is not merely a mechanical process but in fact requires a high level of linguistic sophistication; the nuances of syntax, semantics and intonation cannot always be conveyed by modern technology. However, practical reality has ensured that machine translation will be a major growth area in the 1990's with an increasing necessity for communication on a much wider scale. The importance of machine translation for economic development by the level of expenditure already being pumped into the area in Japan.

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Book Description

This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of a wide range of classic titles in linguistics and language studies from our prestigious imprints Frances Pinter, Cassell and The Athlone Press.

About the Author

Frank Van Eynde is Professor of Formal and Computational Linguistics at the KU Leuven, The Netherlands.

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ISBN 10:  1474246540 ISBN 13:  9781474246545
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