European Patent Office MT system project

A recent post on the European Machine Translation mailing list from Jim Calvert of the UK Patent and Trademark office suggests that the European...

Cultural bias in taxonomies

Numerous bloggers, especially John Battelle, have picked up on David Weinberger’s dissection of bias in the apparently neutral Dewey Decimal system. As Weinberger says,...

Spivack on metalanguage

I don’t usually trust the explanatory power of obvious analogies between the Web and the brain / mind or genes and memes, so I...

More vendor newsletters

Received new newsletters from two young language tech companies this week. Newsletters are obviously a well-established media for keeping in touch with clients and...

Belarusian spell-checker needed for English

The useful DMEurope news service alerted me to the fact that the first Belarusian spell-checking programme for MS Word 2000, (Litara 1.0), has been...

Newsletter on MT implementation

CrossLanguage, possibly the only company in the world dedicated to providing machine translation implementation services (as opposed to actually offering MT technology), has issued...

LanguageWeaver to test MT with P.H. Brink

Translation automation supplier Language Weaver is going to integrate an English-to-French translation module into language service supplier P.H. Brink’s existing automated workflow system under...

Online Vietnamese Dictionary

For an online Vietnamese-English and Vietnamese-French dictionary, go here. You can browse the resource, but the site has not been globalized, so peripheral information...

Alis in MT land

Alis Technologies has released a new version of its Gist-In-Time Linguistic Server. It includes support for Arabic to English translation and a wider...

PDF converters

The list of PDF converters is growing by the week, while options for possible product names are shrinking fast. ABBYY, the enterprising Russian-US document...

Arabic search engine

The Israeli company Melingo has launched Morfix CL, an ‘English-Arabic-English Cross-Language Search with Embedded Translation’ that uses a special engine to handle the massive...

Text analytics

Bernard Huber has recently published Textalyser, a web server with a French-English interface that will analyse any input text into statistical data about word...