56. Corpora and machine translation
HAROLD L. SOMERS · 2009
This chapter concerns the use of corpora in Machine Translation (MT), and, to a lesser extent, the contribution of corpus linguistics to MT and vice versa. MT is of course perhaps the oldest non-numeric application of computers, and certainly one of the first applications of what later became know as natural language processing. However, the early history of MT is marked at first (between roughly 1948 and the early 1960s) by fairly ad hoc approaches as 10