Machine translation

How did the idea of machine translation originate?

The first concrete proposals were made in 1933 by George Artsrouni, a French-Armenian, and by a Russian, Petr Smirnov Troyanskii.
A prototype was apparently demonstrated in 1937.

How did machine translation develop?
1930-1940: Peter Troyanskii and Weavers’ “Memorandum on Translation”
1950-1980: – Rules-Based Machine Translation (RBMT)
1980: – Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT)
1990-2015: – Statistical Machine Translation (SMT)
2015-: Neural Machine Translation (NMT)
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