LA PREMIÈRE RELANCE DE LA TA - UNE APPROCHE «INDIRECTE»
THE FIRST RELAUNCH OF MT - AN "INDIRECT" APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to outline the period of rebirth of machine translation (MT) research after the ALPAC report (i.e. Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee) in 1966, which called for its abandonment. In fact, this renewed interest started with the advent of indirect machine translation that encompasses two methods, namely interlingual translation and transfer-based translation. The interlingual approach, as its name suggests, relies on a syntactic representation in an intermediate language and will benefit from advances in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics (e.g. KBMT – Knowledge-based Machine Translation). As for the transfer-based mechanism, it is essential to note that it involves multiple stages and that Systran is one of the large-scale projects that will exploit it. These advances will have a positive effect on the subsequent work in the field of MT from the 1970s -1980s up to the present.

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