tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON MECHANICAL TRANSLATION"

THE FOLLOWING is a report on the proceedings of the first , held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., June 17-20, 1952, and my own At the Conference individuals working on MT in this country and in England met for the first time and presented their different approaches. | THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON MECHANICAL TRANSLATION Erwin Reifler Department of Far Eastern and Slavic Languages and Literature University of Washington Seattle Wash. THE FOLLOWING is a report on the proceedings of the first MT Conference held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Mass. June 17-20 1952 and my own At the Conference individuals working on MT in this country and in England met for the first time and presented their different approaches. A detailed list of participants appears on the next page. The important point is that at this Conference linguists and electronic engineers joined for the first time to survey the linguistic and engineering problems presented by MT. At the end of the Conference it was the general impression of the participants that for certain types of source material a mechanization of the translation process is now a distinct possibility. Thus Dr. Warren Weaver s ideas about the possibility of MT in our time ceased to be a dream and moved into the realm of reality. As a matter of fact the engineers envisaged the creation of pilot machines within the next few years that is machines with limited storage for the translation of a limited quantity of scientific material from a foreign language into intelligible English built for the purpose of convincing the general public and especially foundations and other organizations able to support new ventures of the feasibility of MT in order to obtain the funds necessary for further research and improvements. The Conference was ably organized by Dr. Y. Bar-Hillel of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at . Half a year earlier Dr. Bar-Hillel had visited the different groups working on MT in this country and published an excellent REPORT ON tHe present state of RESEARCH ON MECHANICAL There can be no doubt that much of the success of the Conference was due to Dr. Bar-Hillel s efforts and it is I believe no overstatement to say that MT if and when it .