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Machine TranslationFor the Unconvinced or the Curious
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| Some of you are probably unconvinced that computers are as limited
in their abilities as we have depicted them. Some of you may tend
to believe what we have said, but want to examine the argument
in more detail and want to know more about how computers can be
effectively used as tools by humans on the ninety percent of text
for which machine translation is not appropriate. For all of you,
we have written a book on this topic. The book is called The
Possibility of Language, copyright December 1995 (by Melby
and Warner) and it became available in early 1996 as part of a
series of books on various aspects of translation from John Benjamins
Publishing Company. If you choose to read the book, you will share
the results of a particular quest to understand why machine translation
is so much more successful on domain-specific sublanguage than
on general language. But along the way to an answer, you will
read of bumblebees, Babel fish, and spacecraft, and how they and
many other real and imagined objects relate to the fascinating
ability that humans have to use language to deal face-to-face
with each other.
Please let us know about your machine translation adventures in the philosophical world of our book or in the brutal real world.
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