Machine Translation, Thierry Poibeau
Machine Translation, Thierry Poibeau
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Machine Translation

Author: Thierry Poibeau

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 02/27/2018


Synopsis

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 tools—computer programs capable of automatically translating a text from a source language to a target language. This has become one of the most fundamental tasks of artificial intelligence. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and market potential. The main approaches are presented from a largely historical perspective and in an intuitive manner, allowing the reader to understand the main principles without knowing the mathematical details.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greer

Quick overview: The book states that natural language processing is inherently subjective. Computers cannot interpret or handle subjectivity. So the challenge is to create a "good" interpretation by objective analysis of the languages. The book details historical approaches to machine translation, th......more

Already outdated in 2019, as Deep/Machine Learning changed this area already significantly in the last 2 years, but still very helpful to understand the basic methods and historical development in this area.......more

Goodreads review by Emelie

Interesting and informative description of a field that develops so quickly that the book already feels a bit outdated. Nevertheless, it gives a good historical overview which is interesting for anyone involved or interested translation.......more

It is a good historical review of the field and the progress that has been made in the last 60 years.......more