Background: Introduction -- Computers in Translation -- History of Machine Translation -- Strategies for Machine Translation -- Artificial Intelligence -- Conclusion -- Basic Terminology and Background -- Linguistics -- Formal Background -- Review of Prolog -- Conclusion -- Machine Aided Translation: Text Processing -- Format Preservation -- Character Sets and Typography -- Input Methods -- Conclusion -- Translators Workbench and Translation Aids -- Translators Workbench -- Translation Memory -- Bilingual Alignment -- Subsentential Alignment -- Conclusion -- Machine Translation: Computational Linguistic Techniques -- Introduction -- Computational Morphology and the Two-level Model -- Syntactic Analysis -- Parsing -- Generation -- Conclusion -- Transfer Machine Translation -- Syntactic Transfer MT -- Semantic Transfer MT -- Lexicalist MT -- Conclusion -- Interlingua Machine Translation -- Lexical Conceptual Structure MT -- Knowledge-Based Machine Translation -- Conclusion -- Other Approaches to MT -- Example-Based Machine Translation -- Statistical Machine Translation -- Minimal Recursion Semantics -- Constraint Systems -- Conclusion -- Common Issues: Disambiguation -- POS Tagging -- Disambiguation of Syntactic Analysis -- Word Sense Disambiguation -- Transfer Disambiguation -- Conclusion -- Evaluation -- Evaluation Participants -- Evaluation Strategies -- Quality Measures -- Software Evaluation -- Software User Needs -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Trends -- Further Reading -- Appendices -- Useful Resources -- Bibliography -- Index.