Warren Weaver (1894 -1978) was an American scientist and mathematician who is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation. He was the first person to mention the possibility of using computers to translate documents between natural human languages in 1947. In 1949, he published his ideas in a memorandum, entitled "Translation". Four proposals were included in the memorandum:
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Warren Weaver. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Weaver
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Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the parallel universe one gets into by looking at a mirror. In an early scene in which she first encounters the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language. Realizing that she is travelling through an inverted world, she recognizes that the verse on the pages are written in mirror-writing. She holds a mirror to one of the poems, and reads the reflected verse of "Jabberwocky". She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has passed into. Jabberwocky is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle". Source:
Warren Weaver. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Weaver |