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- The following texts are included in this collection of
- articles, reviews, and other pieces on computers, linguistics,
- natural language, and translation by Alex Gross:
-
- CMPTRANS.TXT, questions concerning translation
- and computers, distributed during the panel "Where Do
- Translators Fit into Machine Translation," chaired by
- Alex Gross, as part of MT SUMMIT III, Washington,
- June 1-3, 1991.
-
- CYRIL.TXT, article entitled "Software Solutions
- for Cyrillic," published in the ATA Chronicle (a publication
- of the American Association of Translators), April, 1991.
- It describes many ways of accessing Russian & other Cyrillic
- characters on various computers.
-
- ENG-AMER.TXT. This article is entitled "How `Correct' Is
- British English?" and will be published in two parts in the
- February and March, 1992, issues of Translation News. It deals
- with perceptions, beliefs, and facts about British and American
- English.
-
- EUROCHAR.TXT, article entitled "The Care and Feeding
- of Foreign Characters." It is an overall system approach to the
- various methods of creating accents and foreign characters
- on various computers & with various software, published
- in the ATA Chronicle, May, 1991.
-
- GLOBLINK.TXT, a review of the Machine Translation (MT)
- software GLOBALINK, published in the ATA Chronicle, June, 1991.
-
- HYPTRANS.TXT, a review of three hypertext oriented
- programs & their possible relevance for translators and the
- study of linguistics, published in Electric Word (Language
- Technology), Amsterdam, March-April, 1989.
-
- IDEAFISH.TXT, a review of the relational database & brain-
- storming program IDEAFISHER, with particular emphasis on its
- long-term potential for foreign language translation and
- education, published in Translation News, October, 1991.
-
- INK-TED.TXT, a review of the Computer Assisted Translation
- (CAT) programs INK TEXTTOOOLS and TED (Translation Editor), pub-
- lished in the ATA Chronicle, June, 1991.
-
- MICROTAC.TXT, a review of the MICROTAC foreign language
- education and "translation" programs for French and Spanish,
- published in the ATA Chronicle, January, 1991.
-
- MT-INTRO.TXT, speech by Alex Gross introducing his panel
- "Where Do Translators Fit Into Machine Translation?" at
- MT SUMMIT III, Washington, D.C., June 3, 1991.
-
- MT-JAPAN.TXT, brief humorous sketch on Japanese work in this field,
- Translation News, January, 1992.
-
- NEEDREAD.ERS, something quite different.
-
- TV-LANG.TXT, piece on foreign language TV news broadcasts currently
- available in many parts of the US, Translation News, January, 1992.
-
- ***PLEASE NOTE***
-
- These pieces are Copyright as noted in each one. By all means
- distribute this file far and wide for individual information and
- enjoyment, but further publication of any of these pieces is by
- agreement with the author only. Please upload the entire archive
- and not just individual files. The author can be reached as
- follows:
-
- ALEX GROSS:
-
- uucp: alexgro@dorsai.com
- CIS#: 71071,1520
-
- or via mail:
-
- P.O. Box 660
- Cooper Station
- New York, NY 10276
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