Is MT Research Doing Any Good?

Kenneth Church, Bonnie J. Dorr, Eduard H. Hovy, Sergei Nirenburg, Bernard Scott, Virginia Teller
1994 Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas  
Research can be, and often is, conducted purely for its own sake. In this case, lacking external judgment, the criteria for what constitutes good research can be rather shaky, and the research field may go the way of alchemy or astrology. On the other hand, research usually requires time for pure experimentation before it can deliver results of practical import. What is the position with current MT research? Is it useful to pursue pure research instead of using the time and money to develop
more » ... er MT tools and resources for the public domain, which companies could then pick up and deploy? What kind of research is worth pursuing? How does one know?
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