In spite of this quote there are many machine translation systems in use today, and more are being made, as the need for translations is seemingly boundless. For instance the contracts, agreements, laws and parliamentary sessions of the EU need to be translated somehow, and even if machine translation as good as human translation is infeasible, as that is what Bar-Hillel was concerned about, ev...

Toward Semantic Machine Translation

I Translation is of immediate importance for multilingual countries (Canada, India, Switzerland, . . . ), international institutions (United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, . . . ), multinational or exporting companies. I The European Union used to have 11 official languages, since May 1, 2004 it has 20. All federal laws and other documents have to be translated ...

Models of neural machine translation are often from a discriminative family of encoder-decoders that learn a conditional distribution of a target sentence given a source sentence. In this paper, we propose a variational model to learn this conditional distribution for neural machine translation: a variational encoder-decoder model that can be trained end-to-end. Different from the vanilla encod...

Machine translation remains one of the grand challenge problems of natural language processing. Recent advances in the field have led to a number of applications demonstrating the potential and impact of the technology. Statistical machine translation (SMT) has emerged as the currently most promising approach to tackle the translation problem. During the last decade, it advanced to solidly outp...

This research suggests a method for machine translation among two Kurdish dialects. We chose the two widely spoken dialects, Kurmanji and Sorani, which are considered to be mutually unintelligible. Also, despite being spoken by about 30 million people in different countries, Kurdish is among less-resourced languages. The research used bi-dialectal dictionaries and showed that the lack of parall...

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This paper aims at providing the reader with a comprehensive survey of the human quest for devising software for the translation of natural languages. This human quest resulted in what is called 'machine translation' (MT). It has left its imprint on the evolution of linguistics and computer science in the latter half of the 20 century and has an ever increasing impact on the developments in the...

About 2~ years ago, ARPA initiated a new program in Machine Translation (MT). Three projects were funded: CANI)II)E, built by IBM in New York; I,INGSTA'I~, built by Dragon Systems in Boston; and PAN(;I,()SS, a col laborat ion of the Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University, the Center for Machine Translation at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Information Sciences Institu...

Due to the importance of communication between two or more people, companies, or even nations, the need for good translators has long been obvious around the world, and since humans are faulty, it is not surprising that many attempts to automate the process of translation have been made throughout history. This is called machine translation. Corpus linguistics, a branch of the machine translati...