... technology and a short historical perspective before considering the present status and state of the art, and then moving on to a discussion of the future prospects. For reasons of space and perspicuity, ... community, and the trend can hardly fail to continue as users demand further improvements and greater speed, and MT system vendors respond. Of course, the need for research is great, but some current ... LOGOS are weak and inexplicit (they appear to involve dependency structures); and the analysis and synthesis rules, though separate, seem to be designed for particular source and target languages,...