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Early Machine Translation

Integration and Transfers between Computing and the Language Sciences

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Language, Life, Limits (CiE 2014)

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Early Machine Translation was devised as a war technology originating in war sciences, and was intended to provide mass translations for the strategic purposes of the Cold war. Linguistics, which did not belong to war sciences, did not play any role at the beginning of Machine Translation. However, thanks to machine translation, the language sciences have been engaged in the process of the second mathematization of language which can be called the computational mathematization of language. In my paper, I propose to examine how linguistics integrated such a technology and entered into the second mathematization by doing a comparative study of two European traditions, the British tradition and the Russian tradition.

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  1. CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

    Jacqueline Léon

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  1. College of Science, Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK

    Arnold Beckmann

  2. Department of Algorithms and Their Applications, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c,, 1117, Budapest, Hungary

    Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú

  3. Computer Science Institute, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany

    Klaus Meer

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Léon, J. (2014). Early Machine Translation. In: Beckmann, A., Csuhaj-Varjú, E., Meer, K. (eds) Language, Life, Limits. CiE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8493. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08019-2_28

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