Sunday, May 20, 1956
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Pa ae Eleven
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, Mayr 20,.. _.9...THE..M.CH.IGAN _DAILY poop c~t
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LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
Machines Can Do the Job With Marked Efficiency and Fuse
By RICHARD LAING should be, in looking at a Chinese doggedly refus ed to become en- unaption of the assertions of communicate practical knowledge
'jNE OF THE unnecessaruy bar- text, to say, 'This book is really thusiarstic. In a letter to Werver mathe maticians and c o ma p u t e r to our fellow men, much more than
r' rers btweenm men, that of in English but it has been put into he asserted, "Mechanization of engineers have been aoothred by, thrs rmay be gamned. Many ling-
Wthe Chinese code I sill no pro- language sceers very prema- the rea1 modesty of the 1larms uisti theorres sent receive an aeid
1 a rit e diffbrese. Espomngree todipet tur'e male and the gradual niature of test. Machaines rcqurire explieit ini-
1nt lit a :, n outer 1 AVER'S fourth suggestiori wa Sonmc others seemed inispireci by Ithe progess. struetoras asnd errorsa in tran. ta-
uonti ed hvbensg thtoesolpehpsarhIa sort of irratiorali fea tha ai i Texts car b fcd ir autsronatiitr tron tchniqures still become alms
g estedt as soul is but miii cousin 'orirae "con gua ge baased;itl maclame ciprabte of ac tint iwasalynd printe oiut atomatically. !mmcciaCety aparent.
t ief and atup us s; ira ur ati n h t 'ca montanuctr ofa i sed f ? eealotly burnan atosuid some- The printed out te'xt ssaiy re- Semntcistrs and sistiropolo-
tiief Is tthe bilth flu i n tire loia tucsr ii host "degrade" the husmani to its ciuqures the services of a "trust-e it- isthace in the last few deemades
miutually uninitcti<.e nats ura it oswn miachirne level. These paesonis for" wtho "cearas tip antI makes ad-'psointed out that mciis amninds are
1 nguaa t" Weve' sgetio, , sr c at obvious did not doubit that thre irraimnts." usually ordtered according to lbe
In int erntional pultical, scin first met acti disrias arid macinre could translate, they wsere 11Those persons who ocried out that lorical presuppositions of their
tifie, amad commria i nterciiuruse! often dcirisiun. Eve(n Niorm e-t Wren- 'merely sfraid to let it llogically everymnan's favorite tine of verse laguges and that tproper transla-
there is a gruti unete d fur quik en of time Mmassacehuusetts Initurte their eoionaltismo on thtu sub et would bebutehered hase been1 troir ma' involv'e proper wtorld
ecunooric'al truiai tuni Thie fll-!of Teehnoiiuy, atho nmight have 'led them to deny' the pussibaility of ;temporarily placated, vieat' Efforts at mechanical trans-
ture of artificial 1a noise arid tiebeen exteceted Io encuurage sueh Kuch a matctune. elation may well clarity both our
incremasing awarcuesof the gra t an effort, suas seemingly appalled IBut now a lmrost sit who wsere ALTH OUGHI mechail transa- knowlecdge of the world and our
omptexiuy of 1,i mnI,-ue las for a by thre eumlxili.ies involved arid ;once shockcd by the see'ring pre- I tion begins in an attempt to knowledge of ourselves.
'hlte orade it seem turaikely tlrat -- __ _----_ -
any great "break-throughs" wsuldc) "'~"---"-------------- ________________
oceur in sutving. thre problerns of ~- -
langnuage difference.
B3 UT today, surprisingly enough,
the waIt of languafe differencek
bssoating craueks and large gaps
are 'einning to appear. A new ap-
proaeh seems possilhe. It invoives
the use of a large hiatc n ecoem-
puting machines. ThDie nachetines;
'were develop'd 1aCe in World Wmr
Ito solve problenma requiring the
reorembering and manipatulti of
'immens e amounts of dmata- sume -
thing simila r to athat rues on in
the mind of a huma istransamto'.
The improvement in compauting
6-vice e'1d Dr. Warren We'averf>u
Mathematieian, Director, thre
Natural Sciences, Thse Rockefeller,
°Foundationt to write and distribute
his f'amous me'oo of July 11, 19491
In which he asserted thaut mac'hines'z
might readily be designed to tranas-
late languages. 'Die stimnulus of
this memo has resulted in the
establishing of several research'
groups attemptirng to solve the
problems of Mechanieal T'ras-
lion. One of these gp is
a 5 Michnigan at thae Wilow Run Ca- t
oratories. The atork is t" ciun-
dueled by Anadrea Ksutsouis n un-Y
der the presenrt taons'o', tia of
Project MICHtIGAN, a Duefursec
puartmrent ronrac-t
osoderr~ f Vin'"nu. 'isusai ii
-luit of rm i s c I uaii'Ci it
ts is is' ~ . .., _i cs u sc
w r dg s is ia plii situ- A
itsere nuns rc uns upd sould
atlidiat noth nou "o-ro as not
lusuaitt" bitiruse th m achroine
wo uuld tinen pmresuamaly select
"carmine" as the bast possibility,
home use of mricro-context in dts-
tinushina nnm" multiple mean-
ings lis been! dousie at Willoat Run
EAVER'fS second sugucestion
was in thr trmo of a reminder
nt bio-matheormaeicins had prosv-
ern 1941 lbhit a, compiuter atith
chf d~ ck toour" i ' ahitile of dc-
rluetmn anay 1reuimaste conclusion
from a finiui 't Co(f premiises"--,
sk lathnni is do saus thait mooues of rdc-
cismon open t explricit tormulnutioin
by man ire ultimately asor openm
to the machine.
SiHE third sugg'stion by Wea vet
wa he appulicatieon of surnue-
thint' like the probabilirty urnalyvsesj
femployed in cryptograutry, 5't~5
n ten depenad on the "normaln" per-
centas or ccrangements of ec-
tar eItiers, woirds, or troup' of
ICaror words tin English c' s"
ar mAITore frequent, 'thu' clusters are
frequent, "the" is seldcm. followed.
byavretc).
It as Wea ver's sugestion that
ynestigation of statistical1 relations
between languags might prove
fruitful, and that our approa'h.
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