The use of statistics in language research.
A. F. Parker‐Rhodes · Mech. Transl. Comput. Linguistics · 1958
The literature concerning the application of statistics to linguistic problems and in particular to mechanical translation is reviewed. The conclusion is that much of the work done is of little direct use for mechanical translation, and that some of it is based on a misapprehension of what statistical techniques can in fact do. Statistical methods can play a useful part in the development of mechanical translation procedures once these have been well established, but have little to contribute at the present stage of the work.