Open AccessAutomating Knowledge Acquisition for Machine Translation
Author(s) -
Knight Kevin
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v18i4.1323
Subject(s) - machine translation , computer science , artificial intelligence , knowledge acquisition , natural language processing , translation (biology) , biochemistry , chemistry , messenger rna , gene
Machine translation of human languages (for example, Japanese, English, Spanish) was one of the earliest goals of computer science research, and it remains an elusive one. Like many AI tasks, translation requires an immense amount of knowledge about language and the world. Recent approaches to machine translation frequently make use of text‐based learning algorithms to fully or partially automate the acquisition of knowledge. This article illustrates these approaches.