TECHNOLOGIES FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION.

Advances in hardware have made available micro-coded LISP and PROLOG workstations, supported by text editing and formatting software. Some of these have been augmented with linguistic technology including large bilingual dictionaries, parsers, generators, and translators to make them powerful tools for research and development of automated translation. Some techniques of linguistic engineering for accomplishing translation are described, and it is suggested that the present barely satisfactory approach involving sentence-by-sentence translation will eventually be improved by incorporating the results of research on analyzing discourse.