Contents

• Contents
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 A Quick Glance at History
  • 1.2 Terminology
• 2. Common Misunderstandings about Language
  • 2.1 Bloomfield's Secondary and Tertiary Responses to Language
  • 2.2 The Chomskiyan Approach
• 3. Machine Translation Roentgenized
  • 3.1 Strengths and Weaknesses of Computers in General
  • 3.2 Well-known Problems of MT
  • 3.3 What Computers Probably Will Never Be Able to Translate
  • 3.4 More Linguistic Problems
• 4. Applications of Machine Translation
  • 4.1 Translating Large Volumes
  • 4.2 Limited Context / Highly Standardized Language
• 5. Conclusion
  • 5.1 Current Situation
  • 5.2 Perspectives
• Bibliography