Its - An Interactive Translation System
Alan K. Melby · 1979
It is well known that computers are tremendously useful in solving long and involved arithmetic calculations. We are now seeing an explo-sion of additional application areas for computers. The Translation Sciences Institute (TSI) of BYU is exploring various ways that computers can be made useful in translation. FAHQT- A CURRENT IMPOSSIBILITY The idea of machine translation (MT) is not new. There have been many MT projects since the 1950's. Nearly thirty years of research on this problem have pointed out the immense difficulty of the task, the inadequacies of linguistic theories, and the limitations of computers. It is now generally agreed that fully automatic high quality translation (FAHQT) of general text is impossible, given our current, limited under-standing of language. However, this does not mean that computers are not extremely useful in translation. It simply means that the computer is better suited as a partner with, rather than a replacement for, the human