Rationalism and Empiricism on the Combination in Machine Translation
理性主义与经验主义相结合的机器翻译研究策略

This paper firstly discussed the development of machine translation, secondly described the advantages and disadvantages of the rationalism and empiricism in natural language processing and machine translation, and thirdly introduced our basic ideas of combination of the rule-based approach and statistical approach. Furthermore, the paper deliberated the tendency of combination of the rationalism and empiricism in word sense disambiguation, finally summarizcd the developmental tendency of machine translation.