Progress in Machine Translation

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Thirty selected and revised papers from a conference in Washington, DC, July 1991 comprise a review of the current progress in getting computers to translate texts from one natural language to another. Describes ongoing research projects, commercial and experimental systems, computational tools, ideas on how to use the systems and how to introduce them into workplaces, opinions on government support, and the relevance of machine translation to other fields. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)