Machine translation

Machine translation
Machine translation (MT) is the process of automatic translation from one natural language to another by a computer.

Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT, is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.

Machine Translation
AI Methods forTranslating from One Language to Another
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machine translation automatic translation from one natural language to another, e.g., translation of German to English.

• Machine translation now includes:
- a complete description of modern statistical MT with
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The problem of machine translation for natural language processing led Victor Yngve at MIT to use linked lists as data structures in his COMIT programming language for computer research in the field of linguistics.

For example, even a straight-forward, limited and specific task like machine translation is AI complete. To translate accurately, a machine must be able to understand the text.

Extensive research in NLP over the past decade has brought us one of the most useful applications of AI: machine translation.

Natural language understanding and machine translation
Winograd's SHRDLU (early 1970's)
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In spite of journalistic claims at various moments that machine translation was at last operational, this research produced primarily a much deeper knowledge of the unsuspected complexity of syntax and semantics.

{Wilks 1973} Y. Wilks, An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Machine Translation, in} Schank and Colby, 1973
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See also: Artificial intelligence, Knowledge, AI, Natural language processing, Agent