29.2671, Books: Translation, Brains and the Computer: Scott

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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:46:48
From: Helen van der Stelt [Helen.vanderStelt at springer.com]
Subject: Translation, Brains and the Computer: Scott

 


Title: Translation, Brains and the Computer 
Subtitle: A Neurolinguistic Solution to Ambiguity and Complexity in Machine
Translation 
Series Title: Machine Translation: Technologies and Applications  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319766287 


Author: Bernard Scott

Hardback: ISBN:  9783319766287 Pages: 257 Price: Europe EURO 76.99


Abstract:

This book is about machine translation (MT) and the classic problems
associated with this language technology. It examines the causes of these
problems and, for linguistic, rule-based systems, attributes the cause to
language’s ambiguity and complexity and their interplay in logic-driven
processes. For non-linguistic, data-driven systems, the book attributes
translation shortcomings to the very lack of linguistics. It then proposes a
demonstrable way to relieve these drawbacks in the shape of a working
translation model (Logos Model) that has taken its inspiration from key
assumptions about psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic function. The book
suggests that this brain-based mechanism is effective precisely because it
bridges both linguistically driven and data-driven methodologies. It shows how
simulation of this cerebral mechanism has freed this one MT model from the
all-important, classic problem of complexity when coping with the ambiguities
of language. Logos Model accomplishes this by a data-driven process that does
not sacrifice linguistic knowledge, but that, like the brain, integrates
linguistics within a data-driven process. As a consequence, the book suggests
that the brain-like mechanism embedded in this model has the potential to
contribute to further advances in machine translation in all its technological
instantiations.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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