... Report on the Insertion of English Articles in Russian -English MT Output,” Me- chanical Translation, Vol. 8 (1964). 2. Barton, J. “The Application of the Article in English, ” Proceedings of ... referent of a noun— that is, to identify semantic antecedents of nouns in the ENGLISH ARTICLE INSERTION 93 discourse; this is relevant because often within the con- text of a single sentence ... and 4, September and December 1966] English Article Insertion* by Jocelyn Brewer, Colorado State University, Fort Collins For an 8,300-word sample of English text we have found that it is...