Machine Translation Archive

Index to statistical and computational aspects

Publications 1970-1989

 

For other periods go to: Publications since 2010; publications 2005-2009; publications 2000-2004; publications 1990-1999; publications before 1970

 

ATN parser

(1988) Hiroyasu Nogami, Yumiko Yoshimura, & Shia-ya Amano: Parsing with look-ahead in real-time on-line translation system. Coling Budapest: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 22-27 August 1988, John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; vol.2, pp.488-493. [PDF, 480KB]

(1988) Lee Ann Schwartz: Coordination: some problems and solutions for the analysis of English with an ATN. Second International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, June 12-14, 1988, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Machine Translation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [USA]; 12pp.. [PDF, 117KB]

(1986) E.Luctkens & Ph.Ferment: A prototype machine translation based on extracts from data processing manuals. Coling ’86: 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 25th to 29th, 1986, University of Bonn, [Germany]. Proceedings; pp. 643-645. [PDF, 263KB]

(1984) Hitoshi Iida, Kentaro Ogura, & Hirosato Nomura: A case analysis method cooperating with ATNG and its application to machine translation. Coling84: 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2-6 July 1984, Stanford University, California. Proceedings; pp.154-158. [PDF, 433KB]

(1984) Yoshiyuki Sakamoto, Masayuki Satoh, & Tetsuya Ishikawa: Lexicon features for Japanese syntactic analysis in Mu-project-JE. Coling84: 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2-6 July 1984, Stanford University, California. Proceedings; pp.42-47. [PDF, 461KB]

(1983) Xiuming Huang: Dealing with conjunctions in a machine translation environment. First conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 1-2 September 1983, Pisa, Italy; pp. 81-85. [PDF, 395KB]

(1980) Werner Dilger: Automatic translation with attribute grammars. Coling 80: proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Sept.30 – Oct.4, 1980, Tokyo; pp. 397-404. [PDF, 530KB]

Character coding

(1988) David C.Jackson: Multilingual word processing for translation.  Translating and the Computer 10:The translation environment 10 years on, ed. Pamela Mayorcas. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1988, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1990); pp.31-41. [PDF, 103KB]

(1986) Burham Bukhari: BAPCOMP’s universal computer system. International Conference on the State of the Art in Machine Translation in America, Asia and Europe. Proceedings of IAI-MT86, 20-22 August 1986, Bürgerhaus, Dudweiler; pp.95-111. [PDF, 247KB]

(1986) Peter Fenwick: Recent developments in IT standards of interest to translators.  Translating and the Computer 8: a profession on the move, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 13-14 November 1986, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1987); pp.31-39. [PDF, 191KB]

(1985) Christopher Croft: Part-timer’s progress.  Translating and the Computer 7, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 14-15 November 1985, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1986); pp.47-53. [PDF, 31KB]

(1984) Hugh McGregor Ross: Handling non-Roman character sets with computers. Translation and Communication: Translating and the Computer 6. Proceedings of a conference … 20-21 November 1984, The Waldorf Hotel, London; pp.135-146. [PDF, 123KB]

(1980) Makoto Nagao & Jun-ichi Tsujii: Some topics of language processing for machine translation. International Forum on Information and Documentation  5 (2), 1980; 32-37. [PDF, 135KB]

(1976) William Stallings: Machine processing of Chinese characters. In: FBIS Seminar on Machine Translation, 8-9 March 1976, Rosslyn, Virginia. American Journal of Computational Linguistics, microfiche 46; pp. 60-64 [PDF, 218KB]

Chart parsing

(1986) Heinz-Dirk Luckhardt & Manfred Thiel: Controlled active procedures as a tool for linguistic engineering. Coling ’86: 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 25th to 29th, 1986, University of Bonn, [Germany]. Proceedings; pp. 464-469. [PDF, 543KB]

(1986) Heinz-Dirk Luckhardt: A CAP parser generator for German. International Conference on the State of the Art in Machine Translation in America, Asia and Europe. Proceedings of IAI-MT86, 20-22 August 1986, Bürgerhaus, Dudweiler; pp.244-266. [PDF, 87KB]

 (1982) H.L.Somers & R.L.Johnson: Bede: a microprocessor-based machine translation system. Coling 82 [Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Prague, July 5-10, 1982] Abstracts, edited by Eva Hajičová. Charles University, Prague, 1982; pp. 266-272. [PDF, 231KB]

(1973) Martin Kay: Morphological analysis. Computational and mathematical linguistics: proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Pisa, 27/VIII – 1/IX 1973, editors: A.Zampolli, N.Calzolari (Firenze: Olschki, 1980) (Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum, serie II: Linguistica, 37); vol.2, pp.205-223. [PDF, 163KB]

 (1971) Martin Kay: The MIND system. In: Randall Rustin (ed.) Natural language processing: Courant Computer Science Symposium 8, December 20-21, 1971 (New York: Algortithmics Press, 1973); pp.155-188. [PDF, 119KB]

Compact disks

(1989) Joan M.Day: CD-ROM: what can it offer the translator?  Translating and the Computer 11: Preparing for the next decade, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 16-17 November 1989, The Conference Forum, The Sedgwick Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1990); pp.75-78. [PDF, 20KB]

(1989) Patrick Sutton: Session 3: summary of the discussion. Translating and the Computer 11: Preparing for the next decade, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 16-17 November 1989, The Conference Forum, The Sedgwick Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1990); pp.84-87. [PDF, 23KB]

Computational complexity (see also Modularity)

(1988) Ian Crookston: Linguistic unmotivation in Eurotra. (Eurotra-Essex Internal Memoranda 11) Colchester: University of Essex, November 1988; i, 9pp. [PDF]

(1988) Hee Sung Chung: A principle-based Korean/Japanese machine translation system: NARA. Second International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, June 12-14, 1988, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Machine Translation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [USA]; 11pp. [PDF, 161KB]

(1988) Roland Hausser: Computational complexity of left-associative grammar. Second International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, June 12-14, 1988, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Machine Translation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [USA]; 12pp. [PDF, 196KB]

Computer equipment and accessories [see also Compact disks, Microcomputers, Photoscopic store; Programming and algorithms]

(1986) Thomas Pahl: Ensuring compatability in the Systran environment. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.112-117. [PDF, 25KB]

(1985) Benoît Thouin: Translation and information processing: a Canadian viewpoint.  Translating and the Computer 7, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 14-15 November 1985, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1986); pp.95-108. [PDF, 55KB]

(1983) Wyn L. Price: Development of computers and communications: the role of the National Physical Laboratory. Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.21-30 [PDF, 69KB]

(1981) Barbara Snell: The translator in the office of the future. The Incorporated Linguist 20 (4), Autumn 1981; pp.143-145. [PDF, 53KB]

(1971) D.Walker: The current status of computer hardware and software as it affects the development of high quality machine translation. In: Feasibility study on fully automatic high quality translation. New York: Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss Air Force Base, December 1971; pp.533-535. [PDF, 17KB]

(1970) E.O.Lippmann & W.J.Plath: Time-sharing and computer-aided translation. The Finite String 7 (8), October  1970; pp.1-4. [PDF,33KB]

Computer networks

(1984) A.P.M.Witkam: Distributed language translation, another MT system. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; 11pp. [PDF, 63KB]. [Printed in: Ian D.K.Kelly (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural language and personal computers (Wilmslow, UK: Sigma Press, 1989); pp.133-142.]

(1981) A.P.M.Witkam: Natural language translation in information distribution networks. [Private publ.], 1981; 15pp. [PDF, 87KB]

Customization and implementation

(1989) Ralf Kohlrausch: Philips Kommunikations Industries. Language Technology/Electric Word 13, May-June 1989; p.57. [PDF, 393KB]

(1989) Ian M.Pigott: Systran at the Commission of the European Communities. IFTT’89: Harmonizing human beings and computers in translation. International Forum for Translation Technology, April 26-28, 1989, Oiso Prince Hotel. (Japan Electronic Industry Development Association.); pp.29-31. [PDF, 18KB]

(1988) Andrew Joscelyne: Logos beats the wheels of fortune. Language Technology/Electric Word 8, July-August 1988; pp.25-27. [PDF, 1237KB]

(1988) Isabella Moore: Criteria for selecting MT systems. Translating and the Computer 10:The translation environment 10 years on, ed. Pamela Mayorcas. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1988, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1990); pp.18-30. [PDF, 59KB]

(1987) Eva Hajičova & Zdeněk Kirschner: Fail-soft (“emergency”) measures in a production-oriented MT system.  Third conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 1-3 April 1987, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp. 104-108. [PDF, 308KB]

(1987) Cay-Holger Stoll: Translation tools on PC. Translating and the Computer 9: potential and practice, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 12-13 November 1987, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1988); pp.11-26. [PDF, 71KB]

 (1987) NCR: computer-aided-translation in the real world. Language Technology 1, May-June 1987; p.18. [PDF, 890KB]

 (1986) Jean Datta: Machine translation in a large organisation.  Translating and the Computer 8: a profession on the move, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 13-14 November 1986, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1987); pp.67-73. [PDF, 38KB]

 (1986) James Houston: Provision of Systran mainframe production service. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.43-47. [PDF, 18KB]

(1986) Tae Wan Kim, Jin Tae Lee, Chang Ho Park, & Ki Sik Lee: Machine translation of the Ural-Altaic as an agglutinative language - On the Korean to Japanese translation. International Conference on the State of the Art in Machine Translation in America, Asia and Europe. Proceedings of IAI-MT86, 20-22 August 1986, Bürgerhaus, Dudweiler; pp.148-157. [PDF, 154KB]

(1986) Margaret King: Machine translation already does work. [Contribution to] Forum on machine translation, 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 10-13 June 1986, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; pp.269-270. [PDF, 135KB]

(1986) Stanley P.Sereda: Translations that communicate. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.96-101. [PDF, 24KB]

(1986) Muriel Vasconcellos: Application of MT in an integrated environment: update on the Pan American Health Organization. American Translators Association Conference – 1986: Proceedings of the 27th annual conference of the American Translators Association, Cleveland, Ohio, October 16-19, 1986, ed. Karl Kummer (Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc., 1986); pp.129-133. [PDF, 2954KB]

(1986) Yoshiyuki Sakamoto, Taeko Ariga, & Atsushi Washio: Unified operation control system for Mu machine translation. International Conference on the State of the Art in Machine Translation in America, Asia and Europe. Proceedings of IAI-MT86, 20-22 August 1986, Bürgerhaus, Dudweiler; pp.114-128. [PDF, 172KB]

(1986) John S. White: What should machine translation be?  [Contribution to] Forum on machine translation, 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 10-13 June 1986, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; p.267. [PDF, 66KB]

(1985) D. Bachut: On the production environment proposed for the Eurotra project.  Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, August 14-16, 1985 [TMI-1985]; pp. 15-26. [PDF, 182KB]

(1985) Christian Boitet, Nelson Verastegui, & Daniel Bachut: Various representations of text proposed for Eurotra. Second conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 27-29 March 1985, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; pp. 73-78. [PDF, 419KB]

(1985) Toyoaki Nishida & Shuji Doshita: Machine translation: Japanese perspectives. Translating and the Computer 7, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 14-15 November 1985, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1986); pp.152-174. [PDF, 98KB]

(1985) Benoît Thouin: Translation and information processing: a Canadian viewpoint.  Translating and the Computer 7, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 14-15 November 1985, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1986); pp.95-108. [PDF, 55KB]

(1985) Muriel Vasconcellos: Machine aids to translation: a holistic scenario for maximizing the technology. In: Humphrey Tonkin and Karen Johnson-Weiner (eds.) Overcoming language barriers: the human/machine relationship. Report of the Fourth Annual Conference of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Problems, New York, December 13-14, 1985; pp.27-34. [PDF, 573KB]

(1985) N. Verastegui: On debugging environment proposed for EUROTRA.  Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, August 14-16, 1985 [TMI-1985]; pp. 323-334. [PDF, 439KB]

(1985) John S. White: Characteristics of the METAL machine translation system at production stage.  Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, August 14-16, 1985 [TMI-1985]; pp. 359-369. [PDF, 128KB]

(1984) Linn Hedwig Downs: Selecting a machine translation software vendor. Translation and Communication: Translating and the Computer 6. Proceedings of a conference … 20-21 November 1984, The Waldorf Hotel, London; pp.75-84. [PDF, 44KB]

(1984) John Hutchins, Monique L’Huillier & Brian McCluskey: Summary of discussion (Parallel session III: Machine translation). Translation and Communication: Translating and the Computer 6. Proceedings of a conference … 20-21 November 1984, The Waldorf Hotel, London; pp.85-91. [PDF, 30KB]

(1984) Benoit Thouin: Machine translation from designers to users: management problems and solutions. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; abstract, 2pp. [PDF, 9KB]

(1984) B.D.Tikhomirov: AMPAR and NERPA systems of machine translation: some specific features of software and technology.  International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; 8pp. [PDF, 29KB]. [Printed in: Ian D.K.Kelly (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural language and personal computers (Wilmslow, UK: Sigma Press, 1989); pp.51-57.]

(1984) B.D.Tikhomirov: Some specific features of software and technology in the AMPAR and NERPA systems of machine translation. International Forum on Information and Documentation, 1984, vol. 9 (2); 9-11. [PDF, 91KB]

(1984) Muriel Vasconcellos: Machine translation at the Pan American Health Organization. British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group, Newsletter no 14, May 1984; 18pp.. [PDF, 235KB]

(1983) Peter Wheeler: The errant avocado. British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group, Newsletter no 13, February 1983; 16pp.. [PDF, 287KB]

(1982) John Alvey: Setting up a term bank using minicomputers. Term banks for tomorrow’s world: Translating and the Computer 4. Proceedings of a conference… 11-12 November 1982, London Press Centre, ed. Barbara Snell. (London: Aslib, 1983); pp.111-118. [PDF, 32KB]

(1982) Ch.Boitet, P.Guillaume, & M.Quezel-Ambrunaz: Implementation and conversational environment of ARIANE 78.4: an integrated system for automated translation and human revision. Coling 82: proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Prague, July 5-10, 1982; edited by Ján Horecký. Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982 (North-Holland Linguistics Series 47); pp. 19-27. [PDF, 434KB]

(1982) Ulla Magnusson-Murray: Computer-assisted translation at ITT: a talk given…15th April 1982. British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group, Newsletter no 12, April 1982; pp.6-14. [PDF, 231KB]

(1982) Ivan I.Oubine & Boris D. Tikhomirov: Machine translation systems and computer dictionaries in the information service: ways of their development and operation. Coling 82: proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Prague, July 5-10, 1982; edited by Ján Horecký. Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982 (North-Holland Linguistics Series 47); pp. 289-294. [PDF, 408KB]

(1980) Ch.Boitet, P.Chatelin, & P.Daun Fraga: Present and future paradigms in the automatized translation of natural languages. Coling 80: proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Sept.30 – Oct.4, 1980, Tokyo; pp. 430-436. [PDF, 648KB]

(1980) Alan K.Melby: Design and implementation of a computer-assisted translation system. British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group, Newsletter no 9, January 1980; pp.7-19. [PDF, 372KB]

(1979) Wayne W.Zachary: A survey of approaches and issues in machine-aided translation systems. Computers and the Humanities 13 (1979); pp.17-28. [PDF, 118KB]

(1978) John S.G.Elliston: Computer aided translation: a business viewpoint. Translating and the Computer: proceedings of a seminar, London, 14th November, 1978; ed. Barbara M.Snell (Amsterdam/New York/Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1979); pp. 149-158. [PDF, 172KB]

Cybernetics

(1980) David G.Hays: Communication and control in man and machine. International Forum on Information and Documentation  5 (2), 1980; 6-8. [PDF, 48KB]

File interchange and exchange formats

(1988) David C.Jackson: Multilingual word processing for translation.  Translating and the Computer 10:The translation environment 10 years on, ed. Pamela Mayorcas. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1988, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1990); pp.31-41. [PDF, 103KB]

(1977) G.Beling: The use of EDP in terminology work. Overcoming the language barrier: third European Congress on Information Systems and Networks, Luxembourg, 3-6 May 1977, organised by the Commission of the European Communities (München: Verlag Dokumentation, 1977); vol.1, pp.101-121. [PDF, 154KB]

Finite-state methods (see also Statistical analysis)

(1987) Peter Lau & Sergei Perschke: Morphology in the Eurotra base level concept. Third conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 1-3 April 1987, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp. 19-25. [PDF, 522KB]

(1975) J. Chauche: The ATEF and CETA systems. American Journal of Computational Linguistics, microfiche 17; pp. 21-40. [PDF, 3453KB]

Fulcrum approach

(1984) Paul L.Garvin: Grammar in the light of machine translation. International Forum on Information and Documentation, 1984, vol. 9 (2); 28-30. [PDF, 93KB]

 (1980) Paul L.Garvin: The fulcrum approach – twelve years later. International Forum on Information and Documentation  5 (2), 1980; 27-29. [PDF, 40KB]

(1971) Paul L.Garvin: Operational problems of machine translation: a position paper. In: Feasibility study on fully automatic high quality translation. New York: Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss Air Force Base, December 1971; pp.95-118. [PDF, 116KB]

Lattices and networks

(1988) P.C.Rolf: Machine translation: the languages network (versus the intermediate language). Coling Budapest: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 22-27 August 1988, John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; vol.2, pp.544-548. [PDF, 440KB]

Learning and training

(1982) Makoto Nagao & Jun-ichi Nakamura: A parser which learns the application order of rewriting rules. Coling 82: proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Prague, July 5-10, 1982; edited by Ján Horecký. Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982 (North-Holland Linguistics Series 47); pp. 253-258. [PDF, 362KB]

Mathematical linguistics

(1986) G.W.Moore, U.N.Riede, R.A.Polacsek, R.E.Miller, & G.M.Hutchins: Group theory approach to computer translation of medical German. Methods of Information in Medicine 25 (1986); pp.176-182. [PDF, 346KB]

(1981) Jan Landsbergen: Adaptation of Montague grammar to the requirements of parsing. In: J.A.G.Groenendijk, T.M.V.Janssen, M.B.J.Stokhof (eds.) Formal methods in the study of language (MC Tract 136) Amsterdam Mathematical Centre, 1981; pp.399-419. [PDF, 352KB]

Microcomputers

(1987) John Hayes: The three faces of Joyce: word processors and other hardware allegedly of use to translators. Translating and the Computer 9: potential and practice, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 12-13 November 1987, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1988); pp.3-10. [PDF, 37KB]

(1987) Ian Press: Word processors and academics. Language Monthly 43, April 1987; pp.28-30. [PDF,

(1987) Rainer Reisenberger: Publish and be damned! Principle and practice of desktop publishing.  Translating and the Computer 9: potential and practice, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 12-13 November 1987, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1988); pp.27-55. [PDF, 276KB]

(1987) Cay-Holger Stoll: Translation tools on PC. Translating and the Computer 9: potential and practice, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 12-13 November 1987, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1988); pp.11-26. [PDF, 71KB]

(1986) Patrick N.Chaffey: Translating administrative terminology using an Olivetti M24.  Translating and the Computer 8: a profession on the move, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 13-14 November 1986, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1987); pp.95-104. [PDF, 68KB]

(1986) Andy Vincent: Multilingual word processing – a supplier’s view. Language Monthly 38, November 1986; pp.17-19. [PDF, 172KB]

(1986) New ALPS system running on IBM PCAT. Language Monthly 39, December 1986; p.10. [PDF, 49KB]

(1985) Christopher Croft: Part-timer’s progress.  Translating and the Computer 7, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 14-15 November 1985, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1986); pp.47-53. [PDF, 31KB]

(1985) Nélida E.Depiante: Freelancer on the line.  Translating and the Computer 7, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 14-15 November 1985, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1986); pp.54-60. [PDF, 35KB]

(1984) Brian Farrington: A micro-computer program for checking translation at sentence level. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; 11pp. [PDF, 38KB] [Printed in: Ian D.K.Kelly (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural language and personal computers (Wilmslow, UK: Sigma Press, 1989); pp.209-217.]

(1984) Liu Shiao-shu: TECM – translation of English into Chinese on a micro. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; 11pp. [PDF, 66KB]. [Printed in: Ian D.K.Kelly (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural language and personal computers (Wilmslow, UK: Sigma Press, 1989); pp.191-200.]

(1984) John Newton: Computer-aided translation on personal micro. Language Monthly 10, July 1984; pp.12-13. [PDF, 112KB]

(1983) Translators move into the electronic age. Language Monthly 1, October 1983; p.9. [PDF, 60KB]

Modularity (see also Customization and implementation)

(1988) Heidi M.Johnson, Yukiko Sekine, John S.White, & Gil C.Kim: Application of natural language interface to a machine translation problem. Second International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, June 12-14, 1988, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Machine Translation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [USA]; 15pp. [PDF, 189KB]

(1987) Lisette Appelo, Carel Fellinger, & Jan Landsbergen: Subgrammars, rule classes and control in the Rosetta translation system.  Third conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 1-3 April 1987, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp. 118-133. [PDF, 1161KB]

(1987) Peter Lau: Eurotra: past, present and future. Translating and the Computer 9: potential and practice, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 12-13 November 1987, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1988); pp.186-191. [PDF, 31KB]

(1986) Jeanne Homer: Improving machine translation quality or eliminating the “invisible idiot”. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.118-127. [PDF, 37KB]

 (1986) Pierre Isabelle & Elliott Macklovitch: Transfer and MT modularity. Coling ’86: 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 25th to 29th, 1986, University of Bonn, [Germany]. Proceedings; pp. 115-117. [PDF, 239KB]

(1986) Fujio Nishida, Yoneharu Fujita, & Shinobu Takamatsu: Construction of a modular and portable translation system. Coling ’86: 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 25th to 29th, 1986, University of Bonn, [Germany]. Proceedings; pp. 649-651. [PDF, 278KB]

(1983) Harold L. Somers: Investigating the possibility of a microprocessor-based machine translation system. First conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 1-3 February 1983, Miramar-Sheraton Hotel, Santa Monica, California, USA; pp. 149-155 [PDF, 537KB]

(1982) H.L.Somers & R.L.Johnson: Bede: a microprocessor-based machine translation system. Coling 82 [Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Prague, July 5-10, 1982] Abstracts, edited by Eva Hajičová. Charles University, Prague, 1982; pp. 266-272. [PDF, 231KB]

(1981) M. King: EUROTRA: an attempt to achieve multilingual MT. Practical experience of machine translation. Proceedings of a conference, London, 5-6 November 1981. Ed.Veronica Lawson (Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982); pp, 139-147. [PDF, 35KB]

(1977) Christian Boitet: Where does GETA stand at the beginning of 1977?  Overcoming the language barrier: third European Congress on Information Systems and Networks, Luxembourg, 3-6 May 1977, organised by the Commission of the European Communities (München: Verlag Dokumentation, 1978); vol.2, pp.88-120. [PDF, 220KB]

(1977) P.P.Toma: SYSTRAN as a multilingual machine translation system. Overcoming the language barrier: third European Congress on Information Systems and Networks, Luxembourg, 3-6 May 1977, organised by the Commission of the European Communities (München: Verlag Dokumentation, 1977); vol.1, pp.569-581. [PDF, 119KB]

(1973) Christian Boitet: Towards an adaptative and interactive system in automatic translation. Computational and mathematical linguistics: proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Pisa, 27/VIII – 1/IX 1973, editors: A.Zampolli, N.Calzolari (Firenze: Olschki, 1980) (Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum, serie II: Linguistica, 37); vol.2, pp.731-759. [PDF, 543KB]

Natural language understanding

 (1989) Geoff Hirst: Mother tongue to Boolean. Language Technology/Electric Word 14, July-August 1989; pp.38-39. [PDF, 1863KB]

 (1989) Jun-ichi Tsujii: Machine translation in natural language understanding. Literary and Linguistic Computing 4 (3), pp.214-217. [PDF, 173KB]

(1988) Hirosato Nomura: Meaning understanding in machine translation. Second International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, June 12-14, 1988, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Machine Translation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [USA]; 10pp. [PDF, 138KB]

(1986) Yoshihiko Nitta: Machine translation: a problem of understanding. Japan Computer Quarterly 64 (1986); pp.36-54. [PDF, 365KB]

(1986) Hirosato Nomura, Shozo Naito, Yasuhiro Katagiri, & Akira Shimazu: Translation by understanding: a machine translation system LUTE. Coling ’86: 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 25th to 29th, 1986, University of Bonn, [Germany]. Proceedings; pp. 621-626. [PDF, 711KB]

(1985) David D. McDonald: Recovering the speaker’s decisions during mechanical translation.  Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, August 14-16, 1985 [TMI-1985]; pp. 183-199. [PDF, 173KB]

(1985) Kazunori Muraki, Shunji Ichiyama, & Yasutomo Fukumochi: Augmented dependency grammar: a simple interface between the grammar rule and the knowledge.  Second conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 27-29 March 1985, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; pp. 198-204. [PDF, 450KB]

(1985) James Pustejovsky: The level hypothesis in discourse analysis.  Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, August 14-16, 1985 [TMI-1985]; pp. 245-267. [PDF, 213KB]

(1985) Yorick Wilks: Relevance, points of view and dialogue modelling.  Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, August 14-16, 1985 [TMI-1985]; pp. 370-387. [PDF, 198KB]

(1976) Roger C. Schank: Programs to understand stories [abstract]. In: FBIS Seminar on Machine Translation, 8-9 March 1976, Rosslyn, Virginia. American Journal of Computational Linguistics, microfiche 46; p.65 [PDF, 3691KB]

Neural networks

(1989) Christian Boitet: Representation and computation of units of translation for machine interpretation of spoken texts. Computers and Artificial Intelligence 8 (6); pp.505-545. [PDF, 1065KB]

Predictive methods

(1986) Rika Yoshii: A robust machine translation system. SPIE vol.635 Applications of Artificial Intelligence II (1986); pp.455-463. [PDF,422KB]

(1984) J.Jelinek & J.Hawgood: Automatic integrated dictionary systems. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; 20pp. [PDF, 155KB] [Printed in: Ian D.K.Kelly (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural language and personal computers (Wilmslow, UK: Sigma Press, 1989); pp.171-190.]

Programming and coding [see also Computer equipment and accessories, Dynamic programming, Parallel processing]

(1989) Ch.Boitet: Current projects at GETA on or about machine translation. In: J.A.Campbell and J.Cuena (eds.) Perspectives in artificial intelligence, vol.II: machine translation, NLP, databases and computer-aided instruction (Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1989); pp.48-73. [PDF, 198KB]

(1988) Hiroyuki Kaji: An efficient execution method for rule-based machine translation. Coling Budapest: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 22-27 August 1988, John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; vol.2, pp.824-829. [PDF, 601KB]

(1987) Kazuhiro Fuchi: The FGCS project and machine translation systems.  MT Summit: Machine Translation Summit.  Manuscripts & Program, September 17-19, 1987, Hakone Prince Hotel, Japan; pp. 40-47 [PDF, 137KB] [Reprint in: Makoto Nagao (ed.) Machine translation summit (Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1989), pp. 13-18]

(1987) Gerald Gazdar: COMIT ==>* PATR II. TINLAP-3: Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing 3: New Mexico State University, 7-9 January 1987. Position papers; pp.39-41. [PDF, 630KB]

(1987) Dominique Petitpierre, Stevn Krauwer, Doug Arnold, & Giovanni B.Varile: A model for preference.  Third conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 1-3 April 1987, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp. 134-139. [PDF, 526KB]

(1986) Kenneth R.Beesley & David Hefner: PeriPhrase: lingware for parsing and structural transfer. Coling ’86: 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 25th to 29th, 1986, University of Bonn, [Germany]. Proceedings; pp. 390-392. [PDF, 335KB]

(1986) Johann Haller & Dieter Maas: Eurotra-D: linguistic research and software test systems for machine translation. International Conference on the State of the Art in Machine Translation in America, Asia and Europe. Proceedings of IAI-MT86, 20-22 August 1986, Bürgerhaus, Dudweiler; pp.177-196. [PDF, 65KB]

(1986) Peter Hellwig: Programs for language analysis and inference (PLAIN): a workbench for machine translation. International Conference on the State of the Art in Machine Translation in America, Asia and Europe. Proceedings of IAI-MT86, 20-22 August 1986, Bürgerhaus, Dudweiler; pp.210-226. [PDF, 94KB]

(1986) H.Jäppinen, A.Lehtola, & K.Vaikonen: Functional structures for parsing dependency constraints. Coling ’86: 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 25th to 29th, 1986, University of Bonn, [Germany]. Proceedings; pp. 461-463. [PDF, 267KB]

(1986) Heinz-Dirk Luckhardt: A CAP parser generator for German. International Conference on the State of the Art in Machine Translation in America, Asia and Europe. Proceedings of IAI-MT86, 20-22 August 1986, Bürgerhaus, Dudweiler; pp.244-266. [PDF, 87KB]

(1986) Heinz-Dirk Luckhardt & Manfred Thiel: Controlled active procedures as a tool for linguistic engineering. Coling ’86: 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 25th to 29th, 1986, University of Bonn, [Germany]. Proceedings; pp. 464-469. [PDF, 543KB]

(1986) Fujio Nishida, Yoneharu Fujita, & Shinobu Takamatsu: Construction of a modular and portable translation system. Coling ’86: 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 25th to 29th, 1986, University of Bonn, [Germany]. Proceedings; pp. 649-651. [PDF, 278KB]

(1986) P.C.Rolf & J.Chauché: Machine translation and the SYGMART system. Computers and the Humanities 20 (1986); pp.283-288. [PDF, 252KB]

(1986) Zaharin Yusoff: Strategies and heuristics in the analysis of a natural language in machine translation. Coling ’86: 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 25th to 29th, 1986, University of Bonn, [Germany]. Proceedings; pp. 136-139. [PDF, 403KB]

(1985) Ch. Boitet, P. Guillaume, & M. Quezel-Ambrunaz: A case study in software evolution: from Ariane-78.4 to Ariane-85.  Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, August 14-16, 1985 [TMI-1985]; pp. 27-58. [PDF, 340KB] [abstract, 2pp.]

(1985) Jun-ichi Nakamura, Jun-ichi Tsujii & Makoto Nagao: Grammar writing system (GRADE) of Mu-machine translation project and its characteristics. Journal of Information Processing vol. 8, no.2, October 1985; pp.93-100. [PDF, 355KB]

(1985) Benoît Thouin: Translation and information processing: a Canadian viewpoint.  Translating and the Computer 7, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 14-15 November 1985, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1986); pp.95-108. [PDF, 55KB]

(1985) N. Verastegui: On debugging environment proposed for EUROTRA.  Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, August 14-16, 1985 [TMI-1985]; pp. 323-334. [PDF, 439KB]

(1984) Doug Arnold & Rod Johnson: Robust processing in machine translation. Coling84: 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2-6 July 1984, Stanford University, California. Proceedings; pp.472-475. [PDF, 354KB]

(1984) Daniel Bachut & Nelson Verastegui: Software tools for the environment of a computer aided translation system. Coling84: 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2-6 July 1984, Stanford University, California. Proceedings; pp.330-333. [PDF, 244KB]

 (1984) J.-L.Cochard: A brief look at a typical software architecture. In: Margaret King (ed.) Machine translation today: the state of the art. Proceedings of the Third Lugano Tutorial, Lugano, Switzerland, 2-7 April 1984 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1987); pp. 117-123.

(1984) Xiuming Huang: Dealing with conjunctions in a machine translation environment. Coling84: 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2-6 July 1984, Stanford University, California. Proceedings; pp.243-246. [PDF, 328KB]

(1984) R.L.Johnson, S.Krauwer, M.A.Rosner, & G.B.Varile: The design of the kernel architecture for the Eurotra software. Coling84: 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2-6 July 1984, Stanford University, California. Proceedings; pp.226-235. [PDF, 726KB]

(1984) R.Johnson & M.Rosner: Machine translation and software tools. In: Margaret King (ed.) Machine translation today: the state of the art. Proceedings of the Third Lugano Tutorial, Lugano, Switzerland, 2-7 April 1984 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1987); pp. 154-167

(1984) Heinz Dieter Maas: Control and data structures in the MT system SUSY-E.  International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; abstract, 3pp. [PDF, 160KB]

(1984) Jun-ichi Nakamura & Makoto Nagao: A software system for describing a grammar of machine translation: GRADE. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; abstract, 2pp. [PDF, 15KB]

(1984) Dominique Petitpierre: Software background for machine translation: a glossary. In: Margaret King (ed.) Machine translation today: the state of the art. Proceedings of the Third Lugano Tutorial, Lugano, Switzerland, 2-7 April 1984 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1987); pp. 111-116.

(1984) Ian M.Pigott: The difficulty of developing logical algorithms for the machine translation of natural language. Terminologie Bulletin 45; pp. 7-19. [PDF, 47KB]

(1984) Peter J.Wheeler: Changes and improvements to the European Commission’s Systran MT system 1976/84. Terminologie Bulletin 45; pp. 25-37. [PDF, 48KB]

(1983) P.J.Whitelock & K.J.Kilby: Linguistic and computational techniques in machine translation system design. Final report with descriptions of the systems: SYSTRAN, TAUM METEO, TAUM AVIATION, GETA ARIANE-78, LRC METAL, Wilks’ PS, [and] Yale MT (to follow). Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, December 1983; var. pp. [Yale MT not included]. [PDF, 5719KB]

(1982) Ch.Boitet, P.Guillaume, & M.Quezel-Ambrunaz: Implementation and conversational environment of ARIANE 78.4: an integrated system for automated translation and human revision. Coling 82: proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Prague, July 5-10, 1982; edited by Ján Horecký. Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982 (North-Holland Linguistics Series 47); pp. 19-27. [PDF, 434KB]

(1981) Nigel Bevan: Psychological and ergonomic factors in machine translation. Practical experience of machine translation. Proceedings of a conference, London, 5-6 November 1981. Ed.Veronica Lawson (Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982); pp, 75-78. [PDF, 53KB]

(1980) Ch.Boitet, P.Chatelin, & P.Daun Fraga: Present and future paradigms in the automatized translation of natural languages. Coling 80: proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Sept.30 – Oct.4, 1980, Tokyo; pp. 430-436. [PDF, 648KB]

(1980) M.Nagao, J.Tsujii, Y.Ueda & M.Takiyama: An attempt to computerize dictionary data bases. Coling 80: proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Sept.30 – Oct.4, 1980, Tokyo; pp. 534-542. [PDF, 760KB]

(1977) Christian Boitet: Where does GETA stand at the beginning of 1977?  Overcoming the language barrier: third European Congress on Information Systems and Networks, Luxembourg, 3-6 May 1977, organised by the Commission of the European Communities (München: Verlag Dokumentation, 1978); vol.2, pp.88-120. [PDF, 220KB]

(1977) I.D.K. Kelly: PROTRAN – a generalized translation tool for natural and algorithmic languages.  Overcoming the language barrier: third European Congress on Information Systems and Networks, Luxembourg, 3-6 May 1977, organised by the Commission of the European Communities (München: Verlag Dokumentation, 1977); vol.1, pp.647-660. [PDF, 182KB]

(1977) Bernard E. Scott: Linguistic and computational motivations for the Logos machine translation system – an overview. Mt Arlington: Logos Corporation, 1977 rev. 1998. 40pp. Repr in: IAI Working Paper no.36, 2000. [PDF, 181KB]

(1974) Peter Toma: Computer translation: in its own right. Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik: Festschrift zum fünfzigsten Bestehen des Instituts für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik der Universität Bonn (IKP Forschungsberichte 50] (Hamburg: Buske Verlag, 1974), pp.155-164. [PDF, 44KB].

(1973) Nicholas D. Andreyev: Algorithmisation of linguistic research using the structural-probabilistic properties of language units. Computational and mathematical linguistics: proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Pisa, 27/VIII – 1/IX 1973, editors: A.Zampolli, N.Calzolari. vol.1 (Firenze: Olschki, 1977) (Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum, serie II: Linguistica, 36); pp.155-160. [PDF, 219KB]

(1973) Christian Boitet: Towards an adaptative and interactive system in automatic translation. Computational and mathematical linguistics: proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Pisa, 27/VIII – 1/IX 1973, editors: A.Zampolli, N.Calzolari (Firenze: Olschki, 1980) (Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum, serie II: Linguistica, 37); vol.2, pp.731-759. [PDF, 543KB]

(1972) Sergei Perschke: SLC-II: a programming system for natural-language text processing. A comparison with previous special-purpose programming languages. International Computing Symposium: proceedings, CINI Foundation, Venice, 12-14 April 1972; pp.73-81. [PDF, 221KB]

(1971) Winfred P.Lehmann & Rolf Stachowitz: Feasibility study on fully automatic high quality translation. New York: Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss Air Force Base, December 1971; vol.1, pp.ii-xi, 1-72pp. [PDF, 236KB]

(1970) André R. Gouin: French to English machine translation system based upon digital computer software programs (Systran). MSc thesis, School of Engineering, Air Force Institute of technology, Air University (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, [USA]), March 1970. xii, 41pp. (appendices omitted) [PDF, 4077KB]

Robustness

(1984) Doug Arnold & Rod Johnson: Robust processing in machine translation. Coling84: 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2-6 July 1984, Stanford University, California. Proceedings; pp.472-475. [PDF, 354KB]

(1984) Doug Arnold & Rod Johnson: Robust processing in machine translation. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; 12pp. [PDF, 86KB]  [Printed in: Ian D.K.Kelly (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural language and personal computers (Wilmslow, UK: Sigma Press, 1989); pp.231-242.]

Statistical analysis

(1988) Keh-Yih Su & Jing-Shin Chang: Semantic and syntactic aspects of score function. Coling Budapest: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 22-27 August 1988, John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; vol.2, pp.642-644. [PDF, 350KB]

(1986) R.Piotrowski: Text processing in the Leningrad Research Group ‘Speech Statistics’ – theory, results, outlook. Literary and Linguistic Computing 1 (1),pp.37-40. [PDF, 192KB]

(1984) F.J.Smith, K.Devine & P.Craig: Searching single-word and multi-word dictionaries. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; 11pp. [PDF, 243KB] [Printed in: Ian D.K.Kelly (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural language and personal computers (Wilmslow, UK: Sigma Press, 1989); pp.243-254.]

(1980) Raimond G.Piotrovsky: Machine translation in the research group on Speech Statistics: theory, results and outlook. International Forum on Information and Documentation  5 (2), 1980; 9-11. [PDF, 43KB]

(1973) Nicholas D. Andreyev: Algorithmisation of linguistic research using the structural-probabilistic properties of language units. Computational and mathematical linguistics: proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Pisa, 27/VIII – 1/IX 1973, editors: A.Zampolli, N.Calzolari. vol.1 (Firenze: Olschki, 1977) (Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum, serie II: Linguistica, 36); pp.155-160. [PDF, 219KB]

(1973) R.G.Piotrowski & I.V.Palibina: Automatic pattern recognition applied to semantic problems. Computational and mathematical linguistics: proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Pisa, 27/VIII – 1/IX 1973, editors: A.Zampolli, N.Calzolari. vol.2 (Firenze: Olschki, 1980) (Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum, serie II: Linguistica, 36); pp.103-106. [PDF, 194KB]

(1970) K.H.V.Booth: Statistical parsing by computer. Pensiero e Linguaggio  1, pp.107-110. [PDF, 81KB]

System development (see also Customization and implementation)

(1989) Veronica Lawson: Practice makes less imperfect: users’ needs and their influence on machine translation development. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1989: “Language teaching, testing, and technology: lessons from the past with a view toward the future”, James E.Alatis, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1989); pp.51-58. [PDF, 54KB]

 (1989) Ian M.Pigott: Systran at the Commission of the European Communities. IFTT’89: Harmonizing human beings and computers in translation. International Forum for Translation Technology, April 26-28, 1989, Oiso Prince Hotel. (Japan Electronic Industry Development Association.); pp.29-31. [PDF, 18KB]

(1989) J.Slocum: Machine translation: practical issues. In: J.A.Campbell and J.Cuena (eds.) Perspectives in artificial intelligence, vol.II: machine translation, NLP, databases and computer-aided instruction (Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1989); pp.13-38. [PDF, 204KB]

 (1989) Jürgen Vollmer: Eurotra – goals, organization and framework design. Terminologie et Traduction, 1.1989; pp.85-95. [PDF, 38KB]

(1988) Bente Maegaard: Designing and testing linguistic development phases in a machine translation project. Coling Budapest: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 22-27 August 1988, John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; vol.1, pp.387-389. [PDF, 306KB]

(1988) Giovanni B. Varile & Peter Lau: Eurotra: practical experience with a multilingual machine translation system under development.  Second conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 9-12 February 1988, Austin-Marriott at the Capitol, Austin, Texas, USA;  pp. 160-167. [PDF, 522KB]

(1987) Magnar Brekke & Roald Skarsten: Machine translation: a threat or a promise?  Translating and the Computer 9: potential and practice, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 12-13 November 1987, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1988); pp.71-79. [PDF, 42KB]

(1987) Eva Hajičova & Zdeněk Kirschner: Fail-soft (“emergency”) measures in a production-oriented MT system.  Third conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 1-3 April 1987, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp. 104-108. [PDF, 308KB]

(1986) Johann Haller & Dieter Maas: Eurotra-D: linguistic research and software test systems for machine translation. International Conference on the State of the Art in Machine Translation in America, Asia and Europe. Proceedings of IAI-MT86, 20-22 August 1986, Bürgerhaus, Dudweiler; pp.177-196. [PDF, 65KB]

(1986) Jeanne Homer: Improving machine translation quality or eliminating the “invisible idiot”. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.118-127. [PDF, 37KB]

(1986) Ian M.Pigott: Current Systran developments at the EC Commission. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.10-16. [PDF, 81KB]

(1986) Peter Toma: Systran’s contribution to mankind. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.1-6. [PDF, 32KB]

(1986) Summary record of the workshop on cooperation in new developments. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.189-190. [PDF, 10KB]

(1985) Christian Boitet, Nelson Verastegui, & Daniel Bachut: Various representations of text proposed for Eurotra. Second conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 27-29 March 1985, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; pp. 73-78. [PDF, 419KB]

(1984) Daniel Bachut & Nelson Verastegui: Software tools for the environment of a computer aided translation system. Coling84: 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2-6 July 1984, Stanford University, California. Proceedings; pp.330-333. [PDF, 244KB]

(1984) Christian Boitet & René Gerber: Expert systems and other new techniques in MT systems. Coling84: 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2-6 July 1984, Stanford University, California. Proceedings; pp.468-471. [PDF, 353KB]

(1984) C.Boitet: Research and development on MT and related techniques at Grenoble University.  In: Margaret King (ed.) Machine translation today: the state of the art. Proceedings of the Third Lugano Tutorial, Lugano, Switzerland, 2-7 April 1984 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1987); pp. 133-153.

(1984) Yu.N.Marchuk: Machine translation in the U.S.S.R. Computers and the Humanities 18 (1), 39-46. [PDF, 121KB]

(1984) Ian M.Pigott: The difficulty of developing logical algorithms for the machine translation of natural language. Terminologie Bulletin 45; pp. 7-19. [PDF, 47KB]

(1984) Ian M.Pigott: The difficulty of developing logical algorithms for the machine translation of natural language. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; 12pp. [PDF, 42KB] [Printed in: Ian D.K.Kelly (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural language and personal computers (Wilmslow, UK: Sigma Press, 1989); pp.83-95.]

(1984) Peter J.Wheeler: Changes and improvements to the European Commission’s Systran MT system 1976/84. Terminologie Bulletin 45; pp. 25-37. [PDF, 48KB]

(1984) Peter J.Wheeler: Changes and improvements to the European Commisssion’s Systran system 1976/84. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; 12pp. [PDF, 48KB] [Printed in: Ian D.K.Kelly (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural language and personal computers (Wilmslow, UK: Sigma Press, 1989); pp.69-82.]

(1983) Muriel Vasconcellos: Management of the machine translation environment: interaction of functions at the Pan American Health Organization.  Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.115-129 [PDF, 90KB]

(1981) Dale A. Bostad: Quality control procedures in modification of the Air Force Russian-English MT system. Practical experience of machine translation. Proceedings of a conference, London, 5-6 November 1981. Ed.Veronica Lawson (Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982); pp, 129-133. [PDF, 27KB]

(1981) Michael G. Hundt: Working with the Weidner machine-aided translation system. Practical experience of machine translation. Proceedings of a conference, London, 5-6 November 1981. Ed.Veronica Lawson (Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982); pp, 45-51. [PDF, 58KB]

(1981) Ian M. Pigott: The importance of feedback from translators in the development of high-quality machine translation. Practical experience of machine translation. Proceedings of a conference, London, 5-6 November 1981. Ed.Veronica Lawson (Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982); pp, 61-73. [PDF, 301KB]

(1976) David G.Hays & Jim Mathias: Conceptual outlines of machine translation: systems and experience. Appendix of FBIS Seminar on Machine Translation, 8-9 March 1976, Rosslyn, Virginia. American Journal of Computational Linguistics, microfiche 46; pp.91-96 [PDF, 3691KB]

(1973) Christian Boitet: Towards an adaptative and interactive system in automatic translation. Computational and mathematical linguistics: proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Pisa, 27/VIII – 1/IX 1973, editors: A.Zampolli, N.Calzolari (Firenze: Olschki, 1980) (Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum, serie II: Linguistica, 37); vol.2, pp.731-759. [PDF, 543KB]

(1971) Paul L.Garvin: Operational problems of machine translation: a position paper. In: Feasibility study on fully automatic high quality translation. New York: Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss Air Force Base, December 1971; pp.95-118. [PDF, 116KB]

Telecommunications

(1988) Shin-ya Amano, Hiroyasu Nogami, & Seiji Miike: A step toward telecommunication with a machine interpreter. Second International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, June 12-14, 1988, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Machine Translation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [USA]; 10pp. [PDF, 119KB]

(1988) Barry Mahon: International (tele)coms: a guide for the faint-hearted.  Translating and the Computer 10:The translation environment 10 years on, ed. Pamela Mayorcas. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1988, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1990); pp.47-56. [PDF, 48KB]

(1988) Seiji Miike, Koichi Hasebe, Harold Somers, & Shin-ya Amano: Experiences with an on-line translating dialogue system. 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 7-10 June 1988, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA; pp.155-162. [PDF, 647KB]

(1988) Hiroyasu Nogami, Yumiko Yoshimura, & Shia-ya Amano: Parsing with look-ahead in real-time on-line translation system. Coling Budapest: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 22-27 August 1988, John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; vol.2, pp.488-493. [PDF, 480KB]

(1987) Malcolm Jones: New ways to communicate: services provided by British Telecom. Translating and the Computer 9: potential and practice, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 12-13 November 1987, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1988); pp.56-68. [PDF, 51KB]

(1985) Nélida E.Depiante: Freelancer on the line.  Translating and the Computer 7, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 14-15 November 1985, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1986); pp.54-60. [PDF, 35KB]

(1984) D.W.F.Medcraft: Intenational telecommunications. Translation and Communication: Translating and the Computer 6. Proceedings of a conference … 20-21 November 1984, The Waldorf Hotel, London; pp. 33-38. [PDF, 25KB]

(1984) Linda Crombie-Talhami: Office automation and the Teleglobe experience. Translation and Communication: Translating and the Computer 6. Proceedings of a conference … 20-21 November 1984, The Waldorf Hotel, London; pp.95-104. [PDF, 44KB]

(1984) A.P.M.Witkam: Distributed language translation, another MT system. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation: processing from words to language… Cranfield, 13-15 February 1984, Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society; 11pp. [PDF, 63KB]. [Printed in: Ian D.K.Kelly (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural language and personal computers (Wilmslow, UK: Sigma Press, 1989); pp.133-142.]

(1983) Julie Harnett: The tools for the job: an overview. Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.7-13 [PDF, 57KB]

(1983) Wyn L. Price: Development of computers and communications: the role of the National Physical Laboratory. Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.21-30 [PDF, 69KB]

(1983) A.P.M.Witkam: DLT: distributed language translation – a multilingual system for computer networks. Feasibility study of a multilingual facility for videotex information networks. Utrecht: Buro voor Systeemontwikkeling, 1983. 8 files. [PDF]

(1981) A.P.M.Witkam: Natural language translation in information distribution networks. [Private publ.], 1981; 15pp. [PDF, 87KB]

(1980) Pauline Duckitt: Translating and online. Machine aids for translators: Aslib Technical Translation Group conference and exhibition, London, 20 November 1980 (Aslib Proceedings 33 (7/8), July/August 1981); pp.290-296. [PDF, 167KB]

Word processors

(1988) David C.Jackson: Multilingual word processing for translation.  Translating and the Computer 10:The translation environment 10 years on, ed. Pamela Mayorcas. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1988, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1990); pp.31-41. [PDF, 103KB]

(1987) John Hayes: The three faces of Joyce: word processors and other hardware allegedly of use to translators. Translating and the Computer 9: potential and practice, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 12-13 November 1987, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1988); pp.3-10. [PDF, 37KB]

(1987) Cay-Holger Stoll: Translation tools on PC. Translating and the Computer 9: potential and practice, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 12-13 November 1987, CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London (London: Aslib, 1988); pp.11-26. [PDF, 71KB]

 (1987) Word processor does Japanese to English translation. Language Technology 2, July-August 1987; p.5. [PDF, 96KB]

 (1986) Peter Arthern: The translator’s word processor. Language Monthly 37, October 1986; p.13. [PDF, 46KB]

 (1986) Peter Arthern: The translator’s word processor. Language Monthly 36, September 1986; p.9. [PDF, 36KB]

 (1986) Peter Arthern: The translator’s word processor. Language Monthly 35, August 1986; p.18. [PDF, 44KB]

 (1986) Peter Arthern: The translator’s word processor. Language Monthly 34, July 1986; pp.24-25. [PDF, 99KB]

 (1986) Ian Johnston: TRANPRO – the translation processor. Language Monthly 34, July 1986; pp.26-27. [PDF, 95KB]

 (1986) Juan C.Sager: Conclusions. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.175-180. [PDF, 23KB]

 (1986) Andy Vincent: Multilingual word processing – a supplier’s view. Language Monthly 38, November 1986; pp.17-19. [PDF, 172KB]

(1986) Peter A.Walker: The importance of word processing in the user environment. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.102-111. [PDF, 52KB]

(1986) The search is on for the translator’s word processor. Language Monthly 31, April 1986; p.11. [PDF, 95KB]

(1986) Summary record of the workshop on word processing. (World Systran Conference, 11-14 February 1986; Commisssion des Communautés Européennes, Luxembourg). Terminologie et Traduction, 1, 1986; pp.183-185. [PDF, 14KB]

(1985) Peter Cholas: Quill pen, typewriter, word processor… Language Monthly 25, October 1985; pp.10-11. [PDF, 96KB]

(1985) Nélida E.Depiante: Freelancer on the line.  Translating and the Computer 7, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 14-15 November 1985, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1986); pp.54-60. [PDF, 35KB]

(1985) Everett M.Ellestad: Word processing on a shoestring budget. Language Monthly 16, January 1985; pp.11-13. [PDF, 107KB]

(1985) O.K.Ewell: Multi-lingual word processing with dictionary. In: A.Razzak A.Wahab & Mohmoud E.Sieny (eds.) Studies in machine translation: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Computer Aided Translation, organized by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Riyadh… 16-17 March, 1985 (Riyadh: 1986); pp.125-127. [PDF, 23KB]

(1985) Josette Guédès: The new technology and the translator: a personal view.  Translating and the Computer 7, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 14-15 November 1985, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1986); pp.39-46. [PDF, 38KB]

(1984) Alan Danik: Interactive machine translation: the ALPS computer assisted translation system. British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group, Newsletter no 14, May 1984; 11pp.. [PDF, 162KB]

(1984) Brian McCluskey, Andy Evans & Nélida Depiante: Summary of discussion (Parallel Session II: Translation aids: how modern technology is changing translation practice for the small translation unit). Translation and Communication: Translating and the Computer 6. Proceedings of a conference … 20-21 November 1984, The Waldorf Hotel, London; pp.67-71. [PDF, 22KB]

(1983) Peter Barber: The benefits from handling translations electronically. Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.37-56 [PDF, 100KB]

(1983) Robert Clark: Word processors three years on. Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.57-73 [PDF, 104KB]

(1983) Julie Harnett: The tools for the job: an overview. Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.7-13 [PDF, 57KB]

(1983) Ralph E.Hawes: Logos: the intelligent translation system. Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.131-139 [PDF, 34KB]

(1983) Horace Mitchell: Some IBM equipment for the translator’s office.  Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.15-20 [PDF, 52KB]

(1983) Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown: A glossary on your word processor. Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.74-81 [PDF, 28KB]

(1983) Aletta Stevens & Barbara Wilson: Summary of discussion (session 2). Tools for the Trade: Translating and the Computer 5. Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983, London Press Centre, ed. Veronica Lawson. (London: Aslib, 1985); pp.87-88 [PDF, 42KB]

(1982) A.R.Clarke: The scope for machine aids to translation – with a view from the sharp end.  Quinquereme 5 (1), 1982; pp.83-92. [PDF, 84KB]

(1982) Robert Clark: WP and the translator – “It all depends…” Newsletter of the Translator’s Guild, vol.VII no 3, July 1982; pp.19-21. [PDF, 88KB]

(1982) Barbara Snell: The machine aided translator. Aslib Proceedings 34 (3), March 1982, pp.160-172. [PDF, 85KB]

(1981) Shin-ya Amano: Japanese word processor; mimeograph, 7pp. [PDF, 137KB]

(1980) P.J.Arthern: Aids unlimited: the scope for machine aids in a large organization. Machine aids for translators: Aslib Technical Translation Group conference and exhibition, London, 20 November 1980 (Aslib Proceedings 33 (7/8), July/August 1981); pp.309-319. [PDF, 192KB]

(1980) Robert Clark: Machine aids: a small user’s reactions. Machine aids for translators: Aslib Technical Translation Group conference and exhibition, London, 20 November 1980 (Aslib Proceedings 33 (7/8), July/August 1981); pp.278-289. [PDF, 194KB]

(1980) J.McNaught & H.L.Somers: The translator as a computer user. Quinquereme 3 (2), 1980; pp.149-163. [PDF, 64KB]

(1980) Barbara Snell: Electronic translation? Aslib Proceedings 32 (4), April 1980, pp.179-186. [PDF, 50KB]

(1980) A.D.Stiegler: Machine aids for translators: a review. Machine aids for translators: Aslib Technical Translation Group conference and exhibition, London, 20 November 1980 (Aslib Proceedings 33 (7/8), July/August 1981); pp.268-277. [PDF, 183KB]