February 13, 2006
  • midterms returned, briefly discussed
  • new topic: machine translation
    • need for MT (int'l orgs, EU, etc.)
    • good/bad situations to use MT (good for weather translations, bad for Shakespeare or 911 calls)
    • MT dictionaries
    • types of MT systems
      • transformer system (no target language grammar, non-reversible, but robust)
      • direct transfer system (source and target grammars, UR rules, reversible)
  • ICA 9: babelfish:
    • transformer or direct transfer system?
    • intelligibility scale