Translation,Brains and the Computer: A Neurolinguistic Solution to Ambiguity and Complexity in Machine Translation

Translation,Brains and the Computer: A Neurolinguistic Solution to Ambiguity and Complexity in Machine Translation (Machine Translation: Technologies and Applications)
Authors: Bernard Scott
ISBN-10: 3319766287
ISBN-13: 9783319766287
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
Released: 2018-06-07
Pages: 241 pages
This book is about machine translation (MT) and the classic problems associated with this language technology. It examines the causes of these problems and,for linguistic,rule-based systems,attributes the cause to language’s ambiguity and complexity and their interplay in logic-driven processes. For non-linguistic,data-driven systems,the book attributes translation shortcomings to the very lack of linguistics. It then proposes a demonstrable way to relieve these drawbacks in the shape of a working translation model (Logos Model) that has taken its inspiration from key assumptions about psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic function. The book suggests that this brain-based mechanism is effective precisely because it bridges both linguistically driven and data-driven methodologies. It shows how simulation of this cerebral mechanism has freed this one MT model from the all-important,classic problem of complexity when coping with the ambiguities of language. Logos Model accomplishes this by a data-driven process that does not sacrifice linguistic knowledge,but that,like the brain,integrates linguistics within a data-driven process. As a consequence,the book suggests that the brain-like mechanism embedded in this model has the potential to contribute to further advances in machine translation in all its technological instantiations.