机器翻译刍议

A Brief Reflection on Machine Translation

利用机械装置进行翻译的想法由来已久 ,但真正的MT的研究和开发也只是在上个世纪。本文从历史的角度 ,评述了MT发展的曲折历程。从翻译和语言学的层面 ,对英汉两种语言就形式化特征的描述进行了对比 ,简要分析了MT的难点和困境所在 。

It is a long time since the mankind put forward the idea of using mechanical equ ipment to do translation, but the real and important progress in Machine Transla tion (MT) was not made until last century. This paper gives a brief diachronical introduction to MT's tortuous development, compares English and Chinese in the ir formalized descriptions, analyzes the difficulties in MT development, and fin ally offers some suggestions for future MT research.