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In:Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and biographies of pioneers
Edited by John W. Hutchins
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 97] 2000
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Published online: 4 December 2000
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
Common abbreviationsx
Acknowledgements. Cyrillic transliterationxi
The first decades of machine translation: overview, chronology, sources1
Warren Weaver and the launching of MT: brief biographical note17
Erwin Reifler and machine translation at the University of Washington17
Early research at M.I.T.: in search of adequate theory39
Machine translation at Harvard73
The Georgetown project and Leon Dostert: recollections of a young assistant87
Is FAHQ(M)T possible? Memories of Paul L. garvin and other MT colleagues97
The early days of GAT-SLC111
Machine translation: just a question of finding the right programming language?129
From Serna to Systran135
My early years in machine translation147
David G. Hays165
Gilbert W. King and the USAF Translator171
Translation and the structure of language177
Pioneering MT in the Soviet Union197
Machine translation and formal linguistics in the USSR205
My memoirs of MT in the Soviet Union227
MT in the former USSR and in the Newly Independent States (NIS): pre-history, Romantic era, prosaic time233
Machine translation: early years in the USSR243
The beginnings of MT253
R.H. Richens: translation in the NUDe263
Margaret Masterman279
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel: a philosopher’s contribution to machine translation299
Silvio Ceccato and the correlational grammar313
Early MT in France325
Bernard Vauquois’ contribution to the theory and practice of building MT systems: a historical perspective331
Pioneer work in machine translation in Czechoslovakia349
Alexander Ljudskanov361
Memoirs of a survivor377
Index of names387
Index of subjects394
Locations of photographs
Participants at US conferencesxii
Weaver, Reifler, Yngve, Oettinger16
Dostert, Garvin, Zarechnak, Toma146
Brown, Lehmann, Lamb196
Participants at USSR conference; Mel’č uk, Mološnaja, Reformatskij232
Marčuk, Piotrowski, Booth252
Richens, Masterman, Ceccato298
Sgall, Wada, Vauquois386
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