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From: chrisbr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Chris Brew)
Subject: Re: Machine Translation
In-Reply-To: Karen Dixon's message of Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:56:07 +0000
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>>>>> In article <3278A1E7.323C@cant.ac.uk>, Karen Dixon <k.l.dixon@cant.ac.uk> writes:
In article <3278A1E7.323C@cant.ac.uk> Karen Dixon <k.l.dixon@cant.ac.uk> writes:


> I'm a final year degree student, studying MT for my dissertation.

> I have found some historical background to this area of study, but I
> can't find much information on who uses it now (only that WHO, PAHO,
> and the EC use it).  I know that NASA, and USAF were involved in
> funding a couple of systems in the 1970s, but do any of you know if
> they're still involved?  Or how I can find out the appropriate
> department to contact.  I've searched the Web pages of NASA, and
> found nothing of use, and I can't seem to track down a good starting
> place for USAF.

> If any of you know of other organisations who are currently using
> MT, please could you pass their e-mail and Web addresses to me?
I don't have a ready list of email addresses, but heres what I do
know.

There is a European Association for Machine Translation, at 
ISSCO 54 route des Acacias, CH-1227 Carouge (Geneva) SWITZERLAND.

also:

American Association for Machine Translation, Suite 319, 655,
Fifteenth Street, Washington, DC 20005, USA

International Association c/o the american one, same address

Most of the big Japanese companies use MT in one way or another, 
many have products (usually E to J, for obvious marketing reasons),
and some have active research groups who publish in academic journals.
My impression is that NEC and NTT publish the most, but there is
serious work in Sharp, Canon, Hitachi and Fujitsu at least. Siemens
are active now, and I think Phillips are (they've had cutbacks). 

A good overview is in the CSLI book on Verbmobil by Martin Kay, Peter
Norvig and Mark Gawron. 

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