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Some Linguistic Problems Connected with Machine Translation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
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Extract

During my recent work on machine translation (3), I have come across many problems of a linguistic nature that should be of general methodological interest. Some of these problems have never been treated extensively before. Others that have been discussed previously appear now in a different and rather interesting light.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , July 1953 , pp. 217 - 225
Copyright
Copyright © 1953, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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Footnotes

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This work has been supported in part by the Signal Corps, The Air Materiel Command, and the Office of Naval Research, and in part by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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