The field of machine translation has seen major changes in the last few years.

The idea of machine translation may be traced back to the 17th century.

At the time, the field of statistical machine translation was all but dead.

The idea behind statistical machine translation comes from information theory.

The progress and potential of machine translation has been debated much through its history.

In machine translation, the problem takes the form of target word selection.

He is also regarded as a leading authority on machine translation.

Over the years, the project received funding from government agencies interested in machine translation.

The history of machine translation generally starts in the 1950s, although work can be found from earlier periods.

By the 1980s, both the diversity and the number of installed systems for machine translation had increased.