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
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