Machine Translation

by Thierry Poibeau

A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry.

The dream of a universal translation device goes back many decades, long before Douglas Adams's fictional Babel fish provided this service in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since the advent of computers, research has focused on the design of digital machine translation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534215
• ISBN13: 9780262534215
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher