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This part isn't true, its old tech

" In the past few years, however, researchers have switched to using statistical analysis to get the job done."

This is not true, that technique dates to the 1970's. I hope this doesn't for tell a patent frenzy because the only new thing is lots more corpus texts in multiple languages exist now in compute readable form. The techniques are old.

Mechanical translation and computational linguistics. A series published MIT 1965-1970
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/5980dbf7e2d2ad08.html

Corpus based Machine translation:
http://accurapid.com/journal/19mt.htm

"The idea of using parallel corpora is not new; it dates back to the early days of machine translation, but it was not used in practice until 1984 (Martin Kay 93). Subsequently, various methods have been proposed for processing the different levels of correspondence between two texts, an original and its translation.

The approach proposed here for the French-Arabic language pair (corpus-based machine translation) can be considered an extension of what was referred to, in the 1980s, as "memory-based machine translation" (MBMT) or "example-based machine translation" (EBMT)1. It is based on a statistical approach making use of probability calculations of equivalences between texts of the corpus. "

History according to Hutchins
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/WJHutchins/Conchist.htm

Posted by: Nigel Johnstone   Posted on: 10/27/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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