Whither MT?

Bente Maegaard


Abstract
MT started out as a ‘technology push’: more than 50 years ago, researchers had the bright idea of doing translation with the use of the newly developed computers. MT remained in the technology push area for many years. However, in the nineties we are seeing the ‘market pull’ beginning to play a role and there are good reasons to believe that this trend will continue. MT is going where the market and the users wants it to go, and MT will be prospering in the future. MT will be available electronically over the network, and MT will be available in environments which also offer a variety of other tools for translation, as well as tools for other types of information management. Also in research and in development of new technologies, MT will further develop, e.g. along the lines of knowledge-based MT, advanced integration of different analysis techniques (rule-based, statistics-based, etc.), integration with speech etc.
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1997.mtsummit-plenaries.13
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Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VI: Plenaries
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October 29 – November 1
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1997
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San Diego, California
Editors:
Virginia Teller, Beth Sundheim
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MTSummit
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191–199
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https://aclanthology.org/1997.mtsummit-plenaries.13
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Bente Maegaard. 1997. Whither MT?. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VI: Plenaries, pages 191–199, San Diego, California.
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Whither MT? (Maegaard, MTSummit 1997)
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