Mechanical Translation by the Thesaurus Method Using Existing Machinery

The thesaurus method of machine translation is designed to provide a means of obtaining the best translation of a word in a given context by defining every word in terms of the context in which it can occur. These definitions can be represented by elements of a lattice. By operations on the elements representing the words of a text, it is possible in principle to derive a new set of elements (a) which together carry the same information as the input set; and (b) each of which corresponds to some word in the given target language. Work is proceeding on practical methods of programming such procedures using (a) punched-card equipment and (V digital computers.

Print ISSN

0361-4573

Published

1959-04

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J11061