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Introduction
Translation from one language to another is both an art and science (Bell, 1991). This book presents the art, science, and technology of machine translation (MT). MT has been in existence since the 1940s and has flourished in recent times due to the proliferation of the web. MT was the first computer-based application in natural language processing (NLP), and its history is old (Hutchins and Somers, 1992). The field is said to have served as the forcing function for computer science (CS) itself, when the search for automatic means of translation between English and Russian assumed importance in the 1960s due to the Cold War. Prior to this translation effort in the background of the Cold War, Alan Turing, working on Enigma to ...
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