tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Some New Terminology"

MT research requires cooperation between engineers and linguists. It is important, therefore, to develop a uniform linguistic terminology that can be understood and used by engineers. Furthermore, it is necessary that linguists develop an understanding of the engineering problems involved. | Mechanical Translation December 1957 pp. 52-53 Some New Terminology Erwin Reifler University of Washington Seattle Washington MT research requires cooperation between engineers and linguists. It is important therefore to develop a uniform linguistic terminology that can be understood and used by engineers. Furthermore it is necessary that linguists develop an understanding of the engineering problems involved. The results of cooperation between linguists and engineers working with the MT Pilot Model at the University of Washington are presented here. THE LINGUIST interested in pioneering in MT has to struggle with two difficult problems from the very outset 1 the formulation of an adequate linguistic terminology that can be understood and used by the engineer and 2 an understanding of the engineering problems involved. During our eight years of MT research at the University of Washington we have had the great advantage of close cooperation between linguists and engineers. I wish to submit for discussion under the heading of Terminology some of the results of this cooperation. Recent developments in MT research at the University of Washington have necessitated the redefinition of some old linguistic terms and the formulation of some new ones. They concern the concepts of MT symbols . all graphic symbols used in the machine translation process. These MT symbols consist of the Control Symbols and Contextual Symbols. 1. Control Symbols MT symbols which coded into the machine memory control certain steps in the translation process. Since they are not contextual symbols they appear neither in the input nor in the output. 2. Contextual Symbols the minimal contextual constituents used to produce a material stimulus for a machine-operational step relevant for MT such as an alphabetic letter a numerical figure a dollar sign a punctuation mark a single space. Contextual symbols consist of Input Symbols and Output Symbols. 3. Input Symbols include all contextual