From Cyclopaedia to Encyclopédie: Experiments in Machine Translation and Sequence AlignmentIt is well known that the Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers began first as a modest translation project of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia in 1745 [1]. Over the next few years, Diderot and d'Alembert would replace the original editors and the project would be duly transformed from a simple...
