[Corpora-List] New Machine Translation book from Springer

[Yorick Wilks]

Machine Translation
Its Scope and Limits
Wilks, Yorick
2009, X, 254 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-387-72773-8
Online version available


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86,95 €

About this book | Table of contents
About this book
Machine Translation is the author’s comprehensive view of machine  
translation (MT) from the perspective of a participant in its history  
and development. The text considers MT as a fundamental part of  
Artificial Intelligence and the ultimate test-bed for all  
computational linguistics, covering historical and contemporary  
systems in Europe, the US and Japan.

The author describes and contrasts a range of approaches to MT’s  
challenges and problems, and shows the evolution of conflicting  
approaches to MT towards some kind of skeptical consensus on future  
progress. The volume includes historic papers, updated with  
commentaries detailing their significance both at the time of their  
writing and now. The book concludes with a discussion of the most  
recent developments in the field and prospects for the future, which  
have been much changed by the arrival of the World Wide Web.

Anyone interested in the progress of science and technology,  
particularly computer scientists and students, will find this a  
fascinating exploration of MT technology.

Yorick Wilks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of  
Sheffield, where he directs the Institute for Language, Speech and  
Hearing. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. (1968) from Pembroke College,  
Cambridge. He has also taught or researched at Stanford, Edinburgh,  
Geneva, Essex and New Mexico State Universities. His interests are  
artificial intelligence and the computer processing of language,  
knowledge and belief. He is a Fellow of the European and American  
Societies for Artificial Intelligence, a Fellow of the EPSRC College  
of Computing and a member of the UK Computing Research Council.

Wilks was awarded the Antonio Zampolli prize by the European Language  
Resources Association in 2008. This prize is given to individuals  
whose work lies within the areas of Language Resources and Language  
Technology Evaluation with acknowledged contributions to their  
advancements. He was also the recipient of an ACL Life Achievement  
Award at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational  
Linguistics in 2008.
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