Dear Ms. Maghi,
I have asked recently to Lernout and Hauspie to make an offer regarding MT
on our portal. My request was very general and we did not proceeded further.
I work in a b2b company and we are "potential customers" of MT and
translation memory... . I assume in the future there will be a higher
request of MT applied on portals and consequently an increased request of
this type of service to providers like ibm and others. However, in my
opinion, this development is still not very near... . In fact we have to
face a quantity of problems related to the coordination of multilingual
information first. Moreover, MT has a specific place on the scene of
ecommerce, it can be applied to non critical content and offered as value
added service... . Nonetheless this technological development and request
will be necessary at a later stage, when company will have to offer this
"added" service to their portals to remain competitive. I believe one or two
years and the time will be mature enough... for the moment, I think, we are
still on the ground of an "hypothetical" use of MT on portals... .
I hope this may help
have a nice day.
Giuseppe
Giuseppe Gentile
Language Manager
efoodmanager AG
"e-commerce for the food industry"
Phone +49 (0) 211 43 90 3 520
Fax +49 (0) 211 43 90 3 100
www.efoodmanager.com
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