'T_ THE MICHIGAN DAILY r THE MICHIGAN DAILY White Intruder City Board of Education Asks for Tax Increase HARVARD RESEARCHERS: Group Solves Russian Grammar Computer Problem (Continued from Page 1) 'Y 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. if I -Daily-Peter Dawson UNWANTED-The gentleman standing in front of the Pharmacy Building has Just four days to get out of town. He's an eight- foot-tall snowman, and Monday is the first day of spring. VOURING CAMPUSES: Folksingers To Present Song, Poetry Program " mtISIC SHOPS --CAMPUS-- 211 S. 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