语言学概论Chap10.pptVIP

Chapter 10 Language and Computer I. Review of the major points in Chapter 8 (Part 2) 1. The analysis of literary language from a macro-point of view: Form, style, theme, image, etc. 2. The analysis of literary language from a linguistic/micro-point of view: Morphological, grammatical, structural, pragmatic, rhetorical, cognitive, etc. II. Warm-up questions 1. Can you give the full forms of the following acronyms concerning learning through the computer or the Internet? CAI, CAL, CALL, LAN, CD-ROM, USB 2. What is unassisted MT and assisted MT as regards translation? 3. In which area can machine translation perform the best at present? 4. Do you think machine translation can finally replace all human translation in the future? 5. What is corpus linguistics? 6. How often do you write/chat on the internet, including e-mails, QQ, micro-blog, micro-message, etc. in English? III. Major points to study 1. Machine translation; 2. Corpus linguistics; 3. Computer mediated communication IV. Discussion of the major points 1. Machine translation: 1) Concept: The use of machine, usually computers plus the internet, to translate texts from one natural language to another. 2) Process of machine translation: Source text Translation Process -- The processes of decoding and re-encoding require in-depth knowledge of the grammar, semantics, syntax, idioms, etc., as well as the culture of its speakers, of the source and target languages respectively. 3) Research methods used for machine translation: Source text Target text -- Pyramid showing comparative depths of intermediary representation, interlingual machine translation 4) Quality of machine translation: Generally not satisfactory, but comparatively, it works better for written than for spoken language, and for specific domains than for general purposes. e.g. a. (Chinese to English) 汽车的方向盘位于左边。 b. (English t