New language technology evaluation website
The industrious Jeff Allen has built a site collecting together a number of useful references in the field of translation technology evaluation. He plans...
Arresting news from both sides of the Atlantic
Two contrasting ways of leaping the language barrier when you’re busting crime. First old tech. In Norwich (UK), shopkeepers ganged together under project Siren....
yakushite distributed MT service
OKI Electric has finally launched its distributed automatic translation system as a free service for Internet users. The heart of this system is...
FBI yet to decipher secrets of translation
There are news items all over the map today on the U.S. Justice Department report that there are more than 120,000 hours of “potentially...
MT prizewinners
Tip of the hat to MT companies who have recently won or helped win prizes for their enterprise solutions. On Monday the Depart of...
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...