TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo khoa học: "Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics"

This paper examines the theory of translation in Quine's Word and Object and attempts to show that it involves tacit appeal to a premise concerning a regularity in the behavior of bilinguals. The regularity is one whose existence is neither explained nor rendered probable by the theory. | Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics nos. 1 and 2 March and June 1967 A Note on Quine s Theory of Radical Translation by John M. Dolan University of Chicago This paper examines the theory of translation in Quine s Word and Object and attempts to show that it involves tacit appeal to a premise concerning a regularity in the behavior of bilinguals. The regularity is one whose existence is neither explained nor rendered probable by the theory. The suggestion that the regularity could result from congenital dispositions to organize and pattern linguistic data in certain characteristic ways is considered and rejected as implausible. This leaves the conclusion that if the regularity does obtain the most plausible explanation would be that people when acquiring a language pay attention to and are guided by information and evidence ignored by Quine s criteria of translation. Thus the novelty of the present discussion is this if its principle contention is correct then even if one embraces the analysis in Word and Object accepting all of its most controversial theoretical features for example its identification of a language with a set of behavioral dispositions and its requirement that analyticity and synonymy be operationally defined one is still bound to recognize that its survey of relevant evidence is essentially incomplete and one is logically committed to this recognition by a premise embodied in the very analysis one has embraced. That is the soundness of the analysis entails its incompleteness and thus the analysis is at best incomplete at best an account of a fragment of the relevant evidence. Now the fact that theory in a given domain is undetermined by a fragment of the relevant evidence leaves wholly undecided the question whether theory in that domain is undetermined by all the relevant evidence. Thus assuming the correctness of the contentions in this paper the doctrine of translational indeterminacy does not follow from the analysis .

• Báo cáo khoa học
• Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics
• John M
• Dolan
• Mechanical Translation
• báo cáo khoa học
• báo cáo ngôn ngữ
• ngôn ngữ tự nhiên
• Abstracts of Papers for the 1963 Annual Meeting of the Association for Machine Translation
• Computational Linguistics
• DEVOTED TO THE TRANSLATION OF LANGUAGES BY THE AID OF MACHINES
• Automatic Paraphrasing in Essay Format
• Sheldon Klein
• Applications of the Theory of Clumps
• R
• M
• Needham
• English Article Insertion
• Jocelyn Brewer
• An Experiment in Evaluating the Quality of Translations
• John B
• Carroll
• Structural Definition of Affixes from Multisyllable Words
• Lois L
• Earl
• Part of Speech Implications of Affixes
• Some Comments on Algorithm and Grammar in the Automatic Parsing of Natural Languages
• Paul L
• Garvin