Almost fifty years after the (first?) ALPAC report

摘要

The presentation will provide a historical flashback of Machine Translation (MT) by reviewingrnthe significant milestones in its development and will reflect as to what the future has in store. Tornstart with, the early developments after the Second World War II will be outlined. Next, thernpresentation will elaborate that the addition of morphological, syntactic and semantic knowledgerndid not lead to expected improvements which in turn, triggered the ALPAC report in 1966.rnIn the 1990s that landscape significantly changed due to the emergence of large amount ofrnlanguage data (corpora) which offered new opportunities for the rise and deployment ofrnStatistical Machine Translation (SMT). SMT has been recently enhanced by the incorporation ofrnmorphological, syntactic and semantic information but the results are still not as good asrnexpected. The presentation will review these recent developments and will reflect as to what arernthe options for the EU decision makers given that high quality MT is still a desideratum…