Modality Translation for future Internet and telecommunication systems could provide a means for people to access information and conversation in ways that are tailored to their needs.
The Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL) is a research and training unit within the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State. Affiliated with the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, the Institute and its faculty coordinate the four-year Bachelor of Science Program in Translation, the 2-year Master of Arts in Translation and the Ph.D. in Translation Studies.
Over the years, there have been many conferences on MT, involving rule-based approaches, statistical and example-based approaches, hybrid and multi-engine approaches as well as those limited to particular sublanguage domains.
Language translation is a process involving rewriting source language material into a target language, making it appear to have been originally written in that language.
Noville Holmes describes a method of automated language translation using a standardized "completely unnatural" intermediate language and discusses various problems.