Báo cáo khoa học: DEVOTED TO THE TRANSLATION OF LANGUAGES BY THE AID OF MACHINES

Annual Meeting The Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics will hold its first annual meeting in the Denver Hilton Hotel, August 25 and 26. The Association meets in alternate years in conjunction with a major computer conference and a major linguistics conference.
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Báo cáo khoa học: "DEVOTED TO THE TRANSLATION OF LANGUAGES BY THE AID OF MACHINES" [Mechanical Translation, Vol.7, no.2, August 1963] mechanical translation Vol. 7, No.2 August, 1963 DEVOTED TO THE TRANSLATION OF LANGUAGES BY THE AID OF MACHINESAnnual Meeting by the Institute of Linguistics of the Hungarian Acad- The Association for Machine Translation and Com- emy of Sciences (HAS), in collaboration with the Presi-putational Linguistics will hold its first annual meeting dential Committee of Cybernetics and the Workingin the Denver Hilton Hotel, August 25 and 26. The Committee of General Linguistics, both of HAS. TheAssociation meets in alternate years in conjunction with first day was devoted to mathematical and statisticala major computer conference and a major linguistics linguistics; the second, to mechanical translation and in-conference. This year the dates were chosen so that the formation retrieval; and the third, to a general dis-meeting would take place the two days immediately cussion concerning plans, projects, publications, etc.preceding the ACM National Conference in the same The conference had a national character; no foreignhotel. It is expected that many of the persons attending guests participated, and all papers and discussions wereone meeting will also attend the other. The program in Hungarian. There were more than forty active par-for the two-day meeting includes thirty-four papers. ticipants in the discussions. The entire proceedings willFour foreign countries are represented, although the be published in 1963 by HAS (Akadémiai Kiadó, Buda-bulk of the papers come from the United States. pest). The secretary for the meeting is Professor H. H. The colloquium “Foundations of mathematics, math-Josselson, Wayne State University, Detroit 1, Michigan. ematical machines, and their applications,” organized byThe papers cover a wide variety of topics, including the János Bolyai Mathematical Society and held insyntactic analysis, semantics, particulars of languages, Tihany, September 11-15, 1962, had a section ontheoretical linguistics, research procedure and tech- “mathematical linguistics and machine translation.” Theniques. Abstracts of the papers follow in this issue of proceedings of this colloquium will be published inMT. 1963 by HAS (Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest) and by The Association for Machine Translation and Com- Gauthier-Villars (Paris).putational Linguistics was formed about a year ago by Some of the principal Hungarian groups currentlya number of people interested in the problem of trans- active in mechanical translation and mathematicallating languages by machine. The interest of the Asso- linguistics are:ciation covers a broader field, however, including the (1) Institute of Linguistics of HAS, Group for Generaluse of computers for language processing in general. and Structural Linguistics. Director: Prof. Zsig- mond Telegdi. Recently founded group, engagedReport from Hungary in research on transformational grammar of Hun- The first Hungarian “Conference on mathematical garian.linguistics and mechanical translation” was held March (2) Computing Center of HAS. Director: Ferenc8-10, 1962, in Budapest. The conference was organized 31Kiefer. In 1961, this group conducted the first ex- that this group will form an official liaison withperiments on an M-3 Hungarian-built computer. HAS.The group sponsors an MT seminar, organized in (4) Technical University of Budapest, Institute ofApril, 1962. Meetings are held regularly every Languages. Includes a group, headed by Györgyfortnight, and are attended by mathematicians and Hell, working on Russian-Hungarian MT, andlinguists of different institutions. The Center plans planning to work on English-Hungarian MT.to form an official MT group in 1964. In addition, there are many persons, some of whom3) Debrecen Group for Mathematical and Applied are not associated directly with t ...