| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第7-10页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第10-11页 |
| LIST OF Figures | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第12-20页 |
| ·Research Background | 第12-16页 |
| ·Halliday's early studies on computational Linguistics | 第12-14页 |
| ·Studies in China and western countries | 第14-15页 |
| ·The rationality of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research Method and Ouestions | 第16-17页 |
| ·Research Significance | 第17-18页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two RANK-SCALE AND CATEGORICAL GRAMMAR | 第20-29页 |
| ·Origin | 第20-21页 |
| ·Framework | 第21-27页 |
| ·Scale | 第21-24页 |
| ·Category | 第24-27页 |
| ·Application Potential and Value | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Three MACHINE TRANSLATION | 第29-49页 |
| ·Machine Translation from the Perspective of Applied Linguistics | 第29-32页 |
| ·Linguistics as a science | 第30-31页 |
| ·Limitations of views on language in other subjects | 第31-32页 |
| ·Machine Translation with a Method of Comparative Description | 第32-36页 |
| ·Comparative description before translation | 第32-35页 |
| ·Problems in machine translation and their solutions | 第35-36页 |
| ·Translation Process | 第36-43页 |
| ·Basic concept | 第36-37页 |
| ·Translation equivalence in categorical grammar | 第37-38页 |
| ·The enlightenment of translation equivalence to translation | 第38-40页 |
| ·Translation process | 第40-43页 |
| ·The Design of Machine Translation System | 第43-47页 |
| ·Rule-based machine translation | 第43-45页 |
| ·Corpus-based machine translation | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Evaluation of Halliday's Thoughts on Machine Translation | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Four MACHANICAL DICTIONARY | 第49-62页 |
| ·The Relationship between Mechanical Dictionary and Machine Translation | 第49-52页 |
| ·The Compilation Principle of Thesaurus-Context | 第52-54页 |
| ·The Compilation Organization of Thesaurus | 第54-57页 |
| ·The Improvement of Compilation Structure for Mechanical Dictionary | 第57-60页 |
| ·Mechanical Dictionary's Application in Computational Lexicography | 第60-62页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第62-66页 |
| ·The Influence of Machine Translation on Halliday's Later Research | 第62-64页 |
| ·The Influence of Mechanical Dictionary and its Existing Problems | 第64-66页 |
| REFERENCES | 第66-69页 |
| 附录：作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第69页 |
