Retrospect and prospect in computer-based translation

John Hutchins


Abstract
At the last MT Summit conference this century, this paper looks back briefly at what has happened in the 50 years since MT began, reviews the present situation, and speculates on what the future may bring. Progress in the basic processes of computerized translation has not been as dramatic as developments in computer technology and software. There is still much scope for the improvement of the linguistic quality of MT output, which hopefully developments in both rule-based and corpus-based methods can bring. Greater impact on the future MT scenario will probably come from the expected huge increase in demand for on-line real-time communication in many languages, where quality may be less important than accessibility and usability.
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1999.mtsummit-1.5
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Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII
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September 13-17
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1999
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Singapore, Singapore
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MTSummit
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30–36
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https://aclanthology.org/1999.mtsummit-1.5
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John Hutchins. 1999. Retrospect and prospect in computer-based translation. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII, pages 30–36, Singapore, Singapore.
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