An Inductive Approach to Language Translation The possibility of natural language translation by means of fixed operations on example translations is considered. The conception of sentence translation which motivates the work is informally presented, and the measurement of physical similarity in pairs of strings is discussed, a notion which plays a central role in the proposed type of translator. Experimental evidence is presented in support of the premise upon which this conception is based. CACM November, 1964 Faulk, R. D. CA641101 JB March 9, 1978 4:28 PM 982 5 982 982 5 982 982 5 982 1592 5 982 982 6 982 1112 6 982 619 6 982