Explain the main points concerning Machine

translation of texts from one natural language to

another.
It is the automatic translation of text from one natural language
(source) to another (target).
Types of translation
1. Rough translation
2. Restricted source translation
3. Pre-edited translation
4. Literary translation
Machine translation system
If translation is to be done fluently and perfectly then the
translator (human or machine) must read the original text,
understood the situation to which it is referred and finds a good
corresponding text in the target
language describing same or similar situation.
These systems vary in the level to which they analyze the text.
Statistical machine translation
It is a new approach proposed during last decade. Here the
whole translation process is based on finding the most probable
translation of a sentence, using data gathered from s bilingual
process.
The model for p (F/ E) has four set of parameters.
1. Language model
2. Translation model
3. Fertility model
4. Word choice model
5. Offset model
Learning probabilities for machine translation
Segment into sentence
Estimate the French language model
Align sentences
Estimate the initial fertility model
Estimate the initial choice model
Estimate the initial offset model
Improve estimates