3 Credit Hour Course
Intended For Level 0 Term 0 Students
Prerequisite:
Theoretical problems: Definition, Context dependency, interpretation and translation; Engineering problems of machine translation: Maintainability, tunability, modularity, and efficiency; Linguistics-based MT: Compositionality and isomorphism, Declarative frameworks, Constraint-based formalisms; Knowledge-based MT: Translation and understanding, Design of interlinguas, The conceptual lexicon; Statistics-based MT: E-M algorithms, Alignment of bilingual corpora, Translation templates; Example-based MT: Similarity measures, Levels of comparison; Treatment of context dependency: Knowledge-based transfer, Sublanguage-based MT, Translation units.
