Aslib Proceedings: Volume 47 Issue 10

A new era in machine translation research

John Hutchins

In the 1980s the dominant framework of MT was essentially ‘rule‐based’, e.g. the linguistics‐based approaches of Ariane, METAL, Eurotra, etc.; or the knowledge‐based approaches at…

IT — a glimpse of the future

Peter Cochrane

Our ability to generate information and transport it about the planet on superhighways of optical fibre is about to change the way in which we communicate, work and live. There is…

Is electronic publishing viable? An analysis of the factors of electronic publishing affecting viability in bibliographic and reference publishing

David Butcher, Jennifer Rowley

There is currently a general air of euphoria concerning the potential for electronic publishing on CD‐ROM and over the Internet. Yet many publishers are proceeding cautiously and…