The demand for translation

• Inhaltsverzeichnis/Contents

• The demand for translation
• What is ‘translation’?
• What is ‘translation’?
• Problems and contradictions
• Uses of Machine Translation (from Sager, 1993:119)
• The standard MT translation ‘pyramid’
• Problems for MT: structural difficulties
• Classifications of problems

Compiled by:John Bateman
Date: 22.05.2000

Description:

Sequence of overheads providing some first looks at MT: including the question of what translation is anyway, the basic MT pyramid, and some of the standard problems that MT faces.