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The Present State of Machine Translation
Pages 19-24

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From page 19...
... In this context, there has been no machine translation of general scientific text, and none is in immediate prospect. The contention that there has been no machine translation of general scientific text is supported by the fact that when, after 8 years of work, the Georgetown University MT project tried to produce useful output in 1962, they had to resort to postediting.
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From page 20...
... When he used postedited output, he was 5 percent less accurate, 11 percent slower, and had a comprehension level 23 percent lower than when he read human translations. Subjectively, a lot of the trouble seems to lie in unnatural constructions and unnatural word order, though strange translations of individual words or multiple translations of one word, with the choice left to the reader, are bothersome.
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From page 21...
... , MIKROSPORY of TRADESKANQII the culture of an alga chlorella in different nourishing mediums, the numerous biological and QITOLOGICESKI ones objects on the TKANEVOM, cellular, subcellular and molecular levels (GhrUj fan, 1962 and Antipov from Soavt 1962) arid in experiences to mammals particular attention was being allotted to the research of the condition of the system of KROVOT~ORENI4, to the definition of the intermediate products of the exchange of nucleic acids DEZOKSIQITIDINA and DIWEPOLOJITEL6NYX substances)
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From page 22...
... FTD, USAF No. 3 Biological experiments, conducted on different space aircraft/vehicles, astrophysical space research and flights of Soviet and American astronauts with/from sufficient convincingness showed that short-term orbital flights lower than radiation belts of earth in the absence of heightened solar activity in radiation ratio are safe.
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From page 23...
... Biological experiments, which were conducted on different cosmic LETATEL6NYX APPARATI, the astrophysical investigations of cosmic space and the flights of Soviet and also American KOSMONAVTOV with the sufficient convincingness showed, that the short-term orbital flights of below radiation belts of ground upon the absence of the increased solar activity in radiation relation are safe. Obtained by KOSMONAVTAMI of dose of radiation at the expense of initial cosmic radiation and the radiations of external radiation belt are so small, that cannot have harmful action on the orgamsm of man.
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From page 24...
... . The Committee indeed believes that it is wise to press forward undaunted, in the name of science, but that the motive for doing so cannot sensibly be any foreseeable improvement in practical translation.
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