Comprehension check

Exercise 1. Say what you have learned about:

a) the direct "transformer" approach in machine translation

b) the "linguistic knowledge" method in machine translation

Exercise 2. Answer the questions.

1. What did machine translation lack since its earliest days?

2. Why have the Japanese researchers made energetic steps towards a reliable

machine translation?

Exercise 3. Comment on the following statements.

1. The only purpose of machine translation is to produce a perfect translation at the

click of a mouse.

2. Machine translation is to provide expert translators with good first drafts to polish up.

LANGUAGE ACTIVITY

Exercise 1. Translate the sentences into Russian. Point out the Subjective Infinitive

Constructions.

1. The first thousand of the Net enthusiasts proved to be mainly academic and computer professionals.

2. Even the more sophisticated computational systems are unlikely to substitute the human brain.

3. CERN and MIT are known to be the first to turn towards Web development.

4. The Microsoft Corporation is considered to have become the world's biggest PC software provider.

5. The invention of microchips and new operating systems was expected to enable smaller and cheaper computers to perform difficult tasks faster.

6. The Web is stated to have created a standard that everybody could - and did - follow.

7. The boys enjoy, while looking NASA space flight transmission, to be informed what the astronauts are doing.

Exercise 2. Translate the sentences into Russian. Point out the Objective Infinitive Constructions.

1. Lady Byron considered computers to be basically stupid although they could seem clever.

2. We know the first computers to have represented a mass of vacuum tubes, transistors and integrated circuits.

3. Teachers expect the Centre of Education to provide them with information on programs for keeping students competitive in science and technology.

4. Businesspeople would like selling to be done anywhere via Web and other Internet resources.

5. We believe Hollerith to be the second giant after Babbage due to his "tabulating machine" to have completed the results of the 1890 US Census.

6. People involved in business know several cases of on-line fraud and omputerbased espionage to have been committed.

7. Engineers know the speed of light to be the limiting speed on computers.

8. Do you know the Queen of Great Britain to become the first Head of State to use

the global computer network.

TEXT 3

WORD-STUDY

Exercise 1. Check the transcription in the dictionary and read the words listed

below:

Nouns forefront, assignment, vision, pursuit, literacy, copyright, scheme

Verbs pursue, encourage, to apply

Adjectives typical, curious, previous, adequate, renowned, virtual

Exercise 2. Read and translate the collocations.

Forefront of innovations, to answer assignments, vision of lifelong learning, benefit from other student’s efforts, renowned universities, previous methods, distant institutions, pursuit of knowledge, company-sponsored classrooms, decline of literacy.

Exercise 3. Match the synonyms.

Verbs

1. pursue

2. treat

3. involve

4. explore

5. assist

6. apply

a) consider

b) concern

c) study

d) help

e) use

f) expect

g) provide

h) discover

Nouns

1. assignment

2. education

3. power

4. individual

5. innovation

6. fee

a) growth

b) learning

c) forefront

d) human

e) task

f) price

g) institution

h) energy

i) learning

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