Preface
The field of machine translation (MT) is as old as computer science itself—starting in the days of the Cold War. Because of globalization, tourism, commerce, governance, education, etc., the need for translation has become all pervading, and the sheer volume of translation has made automation inevitable. Computers’ entry into translation was natural, like into many other human activities, such as accounting.
Language ability defines humans, and languages define nations. MT has ingrained in it linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), and multilingual computation, besides programming, software engineering, lexical resource building, etc. Like all human activities requiring intelligence, translation too has repetitive components ...
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