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- The following was published in the January 1992
- issue of Translation News.
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- PROGRESS IN MACHINE TRANSLATION
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- The Japanese are forging ahead in Machine
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- Translation, and Alex Gross has just received a highly
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- detailed twenty-five page questionnaire on all aspects
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- of this field from the Japan Electronic Industry
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- Development Association (JEIDA). This document clearly
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- reveals how profound and penetrating their concern with
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- language, usage, and translation really is. Here are
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- some direct quotes from the questionnaire:
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- Q1.1.8 What is the amount of spent?
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- Q2.3.6 How are conjugation expressed in the
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- dictionary?
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- Q2.1.3 Is it possible to use a user define
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- dictionaries?
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- Q4.2.5 Does processing to dissolve many parts of
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- speech take place?
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- Q4.3.5 To what degree do you think the system be
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- able to technically process the following?
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- Q4.4.9 Which of the following does the system use
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- dissolve semantic structural ambiguity?
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- Q4.4.10 What does the system do about ambiguity
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- which can not be dissolved by sematic (sic)
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- analysis?
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- Q4.5.3 Can the system does the following anaphora
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- analysis processing?
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- Q4.5.5 Can the system analyze pronounlessness,
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- deletion of conversation, contractions of declined and
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- conjugations?
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- Q4.1 How many years do you think it will take for
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- machine translation to become widespread?
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- 1. Many researchers will use the MT to write
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- parers (sic) ____ years hence.
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- 2. Many translators will use the MT ____
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- years hence.
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- 3. Many businessmen will use the MT with in
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- the company ____ years hence.
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- These are only some of the more outstanding
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- passages, and most errors of spelling or awkward
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- structures have been ignored. The accompanying letter
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- is signed by the "Special Committee on Machine
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- Translation System in JEIDA" and assures us that the
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- members of their parent organization are "Japan's
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- leading manufacturers of computers and computer-related
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- equipments."