@inproceedings{hovy-1997-gentle,
title = "A gentle introduction to {MT}: theory and current practice",
author = "Hovy, Eduard",
editor = "Teller, Virginia and
Sundheim, Beth",
booktitle = "Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VI: Tutorials",
month = oct # " 29 {--} " # nov # " 1",
year = "1997",
address = "San Diego, California",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/1997.mtsummit-tutorials.1",
abstract = "This tutorial provides a nontechnical introduction to machine translation. It reviews the whole scope of MT, outlining briefly its history and the major application areas today, and describing the various kinds of MT techniques that have been invented{---}from direct replacement through transfer to the holy grail of interlinguas. It briefly outlines the newest statistics-based techniques and provides an introduction to the difficult questions of MT evaluation. Topics include: History and development of MT; Theoretical foundations of MT; Traditional and modern MT techniques; Newest MT research; Thorny questions of evaluating MT systems",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[A gentle introduction to MT: theory and current practice](https://aclanthology.org/1997.mtsummit-tutorials.1) (Hovy, MTSummit 1997)
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