Essay1949
Translation
Warren Weaver
Proposes treating translation as a cryptographic decoding problem, arguing that a text in one language can be seen as the same message encoded, and that wartime code-breaking statistics could help recover it.
Linguistics & Language · Computational Linguistics
A topic within Computational Linguistics, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Warren Weaver
Proposes treating translation as a cryptographic decoding problem, arguing that a text in one language can be seen as the same message encoded, and that wartime code-breaking statistics could help recover it.
Brown et al.
Argues that translation equivalences can be learned automatically from a large aligned bilingual corpus alone, without any hand-written bilingual dictionary or grammar rules.