Implications of Mechanical Translation Research *
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THERE are a number of exciting implications coming out of research into the question of translating languages by machine. In order to appreciate these implications, it is necessary to understand a little of the background of the research itself. The world is divided into over four thousand language communities. Each of these communities speaks a language that is unintelligible to the others; thus all communication between them must take place at present through people who are to some extent bilingual. The problems that this fact causes are well known. The world pays a high price for the luxury of many separate languages. A ray of hope appeared when, some fifteen years ago, a number of people 2, 3, 4, 5 came to realize that the automatic digital computer could do many tasks besides compute. It was the dream of a handful of pioneers that someday computers could be programmed to translate languages and thus ease the burdens that the language barriers impose upon us. If this task could be accomplished, the free flow of information between language communities would be expedited; the
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تاریخ انتشار 2010