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Harold Somers

Harold Somers has 2 papers in our library, in 1990–1995, most of them on Machine translation; often with Jun-ichi Tsujii. 2 of them are among the papers Mova reads.

2 papers in our library · 1990–1995

OpenAlex · h-index 20 · 120 works · 2,444 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 154 citations in our library · 11 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Star rank #4417

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 Affiliations

🎓University of ManchesterManchester · United Kingdom1978–2012 · 38 paperscurrent🎓Dublin City UniversityDublin · Ireland2009–2011 · 5 papers🏢ToshibaTokyo · Japan1988 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Topics

 Machine translation (2)

 Works by year

1990s

19951 paper19901 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Machine Translation without a source text (1990 · 46 citations)
    The authors propose an MT system that works without a prepared source text. A monolingual writer begins with a rough sketch of what they want to say, and the system acts as an «intelligent secretary» with knowledge of the foreign language. It asks the writer questions in a keyboard dialogue to collect what the target…
  2. Problems with the second generation architecture and new trends in MT (1995)
    A tutorial abstract. It lists the drawbacks of the second-generation rule-based architecture: development effort, robustness, scalability and translation quality, with comparison to commercial systems. Its main subject is example-based MT, also called analogy-based or memory-based MT, which translates by finding the…

Also in our library

11 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them.

 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 154 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); 9 citing papers with a page here →.

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