Machine Translation History

HUTCHINS, John. The history of machine translation in a nutshell. [online]. 2005. Available at <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/WJHutchins/Nutshell.htm>

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§1. Before the computer
It is possible to trace ideas about mechanizing translation processes back to the seventeenth century, but realistic possibilities came only in the 20th century. In the mid 1930s, a French-Armenian Georges Artsrouni and a Russian Petr Troyanskii applied for patents for ‘translating machines’. Of the two, Troyanskii’s was the more significant, proposing not only a method for an automatic bilingual dictionary, but also a scheme for coding interlingual grammatical roles (based on Esperanto) and an outline of how analysis and synthesis might work. However, Troyanskii’s ideas were not known about until the end of the 1950s. Before then, the computer had been born. (...)

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Title: The history of machine translation in a nutshell.
Creator: Hutchins, John
Subject: machine translation, translation, MT,
Description: Presents a brief history of machine translation.
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