Machine Translation and the Information Soup Third Conference of
Machine Translation and the Information Soup! Over the past fty years, machine translation has grown from a tantalizing dream to a respectable and stable scienti c-linguistic enterprise, with users, c- mercial systems, university research, and government
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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David Farwell Laurie Gerber Eduard Hovy (Eds.)
Machine Translation and the Information Soup Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas AMTA’98 Langhorne, PA, USA, October 28-31, 1998 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors David Farwell New Mexico State University, Computing Research Lab Box 30001 / 3CRL, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA E-mail: [email protected] Laurie Gerber SYSTRAN Inc. 7855 Fay Avenue, Suite 300 P.O. Box 907, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA E-mail: [email protected] Eduard Hovy University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695, USA E-amil: [email protected]
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Foreword
Machine Translation and the Information Soup! Over the past fifty years, machine translation has grown from a tantalizing dream to a respectable and stable scientific-linguistic enterprise, with users, commercial systems, university research, and government participation. But until very recently, MT has been performed as a relatively distinct operation, somewhat isolated from other text processing. Today, this situation is changing rapidly. The explosive growth of the Web has brought multilingual text into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer. We live in a soup of information, an increasingly multilingual bouillabaisse. And to parta
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