Disposition

1. Introduction to Machine Translation                                            

2. Information about Machine Translation                                       
2.1 Historical Background                                                                      
2.2 Operating Principle                                                                           
2.3 Various Translation Systems                                                             
          2.3.1 Dictionary-Based Machine Translation                                                           
          2.3.2 Interlingual Machine Translation                                                                       
          2.3.3 Transfer-Based Machine Translation                                                              
          2.3.4 Example-Based Machine Translation                                                             
          2.3.5 Statistical Machine Translation Systems                                                      
          2.3.6 Machine-Aided and Human-Aided Translation
    2.4 Difficulties for Machine Translation Systems                                   
          2.4.1 Ambiguous Words and Structures                                                                 
          2.4.2 Compound Nouns                                                                                            
          2.4.3 Syntactic and Semantic Difficulties                                                               
    2.5 Machine Translation Systems versus Human Translators?              
          2.5.1 Expense Factor                                                                                               
          2.5.2 Speed, Efficiency and Productivity                                                                
          2.5.3 Accuracy                                                                                                           
          2.5.4 Improvisation and Consistency                                                                      
          2.5.5 Solution                                               
                                                             
3. Prospects