[MT-List] Big software companies and MT

2001-02-26 Thread Giuseppe Gentile
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

RE: [MT-List] Big software companies and MT

2001-02-20 Thread Cremers LMG
59 54 27 http://www.oce.com > -Original Message- > From: Robert Frederking > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 7:22 PM > To: John Kohl > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [MT-List] Big software companies and MT > >

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2001-02-19 Thread Kurt Godden
This is a big topic, much discussed. Of course, to do an evaluation of MT or any other s/w one needs at least: 1. A decision on what dimensions of quality or performance or usability one is interested in. 2. A metric for each of those dimensions. No doubt one important dimension for any MT

Re: [MT-List] Big software companies and MT

2001-02-19 Thread Robert Frederking
> The ISLE framework is interesting, but what I need/want is not just a > list of criteria and considerations, but the facts as they pertain to > the different vendors' products. I think -that- information is a long > way from being made readily available. This is an interesting point. I have ru

Re: [MT-List] Big software companies and MT

2001-02-19 Thread Suzanne Topping
- Original Message - From: "Maghi King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > One thing that has struck me is that some big companies are getting > involved in different ways: translation buttons appearing all over the > place, for example, or IBM re-launching its TM system and launching a > commercial

Re: [MT-List] Big software companies and MT

2001-02-19 Thread ESTeam
Dear Maghi and all, I can report serious growth and I think if you check how much personnel the translation software developers are adding in the last couple of years you will understand that translation software (I don't like either MT or TM as a term, it certainly doesn't fit our product) is a

Re: [MT-List] Big software companies and MT

2001-02-19 Thread Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Maghi, I am also working in an European project (MLIS) with Systran. My group is mainly working on automatic extraction of linguistic information from parallel and non-parallel texts. This will enable the inhancement of lexicons production, be either for single word and multiword lexical units.

RE: [MT-List] Big software companies and MT

2001-02-18 Thread John Kohl
ing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 9:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [MT-List] Big software companies and MT > > > Hello Everybody! > > As some of you know, I'm working on a project that involves > assessing the > present s

Re: [MT-List] Big software companies and MT

2001-02-18 Thread Maghi King
In anything really. I was just wondering if there was a trend developing. Maghi Suzanne Topping wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Maghi King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > One thing that has struck me is that some big companies are getting > > involved in different ways: translatio

Re: [MT-List] Big software companies and MT

2001-02-18 Thread Suzanne Topping
- Original Message - From: "Maghi King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > One thing that has struck me is that some big companies are getting > involved in different ways: translation buttons appearing all over the > place, for example, or IBM re-launching its TM system and launching a > commercial

[MT-List] Big software companies and MT

2001-02-18 Thread Maghi King
Hello Everybody! As some of you know, I'm working on a project that involves assessing the present state of the art in the use of technology to support translation and localisation. One thing that has struck me is that some big companies are getting involved in different ways: translation button