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City Board of Education
Asks for Tax Increase
HARVARD RESEARCHERS:
Group Solves Russian Grammar Computer Problem
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The Ann Arbor Board of Educa-
tion decided Wednesday to ask
taxpayers for an additional two
and three-fourths mills for a ten-
year period.
The special election will be held
Tuesday, May 10.
Taxpayers who live in the city
would pay abolt $4.70 additional
for each $1,000 of assessed valu-
ation. Figures for other parts of
the school district will be pub-
lished later.
Next year the board will ask to
renew a three mill extra levy that
expires in December. 1960. An-
other two and a half mills will
expire in December, 1962.
Approximately $590,000 would be
brought in next year if the two
and three-fourths mills are passed.
All board members agreed that
the millage request is insufficient
for the type of program they
favor.
Most of the money will be used
to hire new teachers and raise
teachers' salaries. The rest will go
for curriculum development, pro-
fessional improvement, equipment
and supplies for the Buhr Park
and Lakeway elementary schools,
and rehabilitation of five existing
schools to meet fire regulations.
The salary schedule approved by
the board would increase the
starting teacher's salary.
Elect Heads
Of Schools.
Linda Hiratsuka was chosen
president of the nursing school
senior class in elections held with-
in the school Wednesday, publicity
chairman Judith Gray, '61N, an-
nounced.
Vice-president Is Ann Fang-
boner, Judy Dukesherer is secre-
tary and Linda Mayer was elected
treasurer.
In the pharmacy school senior
class elections, Roger Nykamp was
chosen president, Marian Johnson
vice-president, Mildred Conlin sec-
retary, and Patricia Yeotis treas-
urer.
Since working on the computer,
project and learning of the fa-
vorable results, Prof. Matejka is
very interested in doing more of
this type of research.
The range of the computer is
limited to Russian technical lan-
guage and is used as a research
aid in the translating of techni-
cal articles into English,
The computer, a Univac, holds
over 15,000 words -- only a por-
tion of the total Russian vocabu-
lary. It was necessary to limit the
scope of the computer in order
to assure the successful perform-
ance of the machine.
Russian Chosen
Russian was chosen for trans-
lation by machine because it is
an inflected language in which
the meaning of the word depends
to a larger extent on the ending.
This makes it easier to control
than a language like English in
which the position of the word
plays an important part in deter-
mining the grammatical meaning.
The language was also chosen
because of the increased need for
a mechanical translator of Rus-
sian technical articles, although
this was of secondary importance
because the project originated as
an academic problem and the di-
rect "usefulness" was only a
minor consideration, Prof. Matej-
ka pointed out.
Prof. Oettinger "succeeded in
mixing usefulness and academic
research" in the project, he said.
The Harvard mathematician was
interested in the computer trans-
lation primarily as an academic
problem; "How much can y'ou
do?" was the question.
Attempts Fail
necessary for him to have some
knowledge of the electronic pro-
gramming techniques because the
project was "too intricate."
Recognizes Functions
"Recognition of the grammati-
cal ,functions of the word" was
the most important achievement
of the computer while he was
working on the project, Prof. Ma-
teika said.
There were three information
problems which had to be solved
in preparing the computer. pro-
gram: the morphological, the syn-
tactical and the semantic, the lin-
guist explained.
He was quick to add that the
machine is far from a perfect
translator but it is the best that
has been completed at the pres-
ent time.
Despite present mechanical and
judgement impediments, Prof.
Matejka sees the day when a
translator will solve these prob-
lems but he does not think that
a machine can ever perfectly
translate Russian into English.
Prof. Mateka plans toreturne
to Harvard this summer to use
the computer for the study of Old
Russian.
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