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Some History
- 17th Century ideas (Leibniz,Descartes)
- pre/post-war interest
- 1933: France, Russia (Troyanskii) - independent patents appeared
- 1947-49: US/GB (Booth/Weaver) - plan to use cryptography
- US initiatives
- 1951: Bar-Hillel (MIT) - later (1959) to cast doubts re feasibility of FAHQMT
- 1954: Georgetown/IBM - led to MT funding in US
- 1966: ALPAC Report - led to demise of MT in US
- Non-US initiatives
- 1976: Canada - Météo
- 1976: EC - Systran
- late 70's: EC - Eurotra - influenced by Ariane, SUSY
- late 70's: Japan - Mu
- late 70's: LRC@Austin - METAL - one of the few to continue after ALPAC
- 1980's: CMU - knowledge-based systems
- 1980's: NL- Rosetta - experiments with Montague semantics
as interlingua
- 1980's: BT, ATR(Japan) - Speech-based systems
- late 80's: IBM - statistical methods
- 1980's: Commercial Systems
- Japan: most major electronic firms
- PC-based: Globalink, Tovna
- Siemens - METAL
- Other in-house systems: PAHO - SPANAM
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Andy Way CA
1998-10-05