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This chapter presents some introductory material in the areas of linguistics, mathematics and computer science useful for rest of the book. The presentation is brief, including just the minimum required to follow the book. Pointers to more thorough treatments are given at the end.

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Some linguistic and formal notions relevant to machine translation are introduced.

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Trujillo, A. (1999). Basic Terminology and Background. In: Translation Engines: Techniques for Machine Translation. Applied Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0587-9_2

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  • Publisher Name: Springer, London

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