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From: martin@mplvax.EDU (Martin Olivera)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Language Translator
Keywords: French-English-French transaltion
Message-ID: <1002@mplvax.EDU>
Date: 11 Sep 89 15:46:37 GMT
Organization: UCSD - Scripps Inst. of Oceanography - MPL
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In a recent article raph@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Raphael Mankin) writes:

"Systran will handle most European languages and even
 American. It requires very large, not to say huge, IBM
 mainframes to run and will cost accordingly. This is a 
pure batch system."

No it is not. Systran provides a network service. All you
have to do is set up an account and they will send you a 
floppy with a communications program that will allow you to
 send text from your own PC at home or office. The text will
be processed in their own mainframe an returned to you.
 You can even create and maintain your own dictionaries 
(databases with terminology particular to your trade). I 
think this is only available in the USA and CANADA. Anyway,
I used the French to English with good results. You'll
always need some editing on the translated text, but is 
still faster than having a translator go over the whole
thing. Particularly for large volumes of text.
I was impressed with their system and customer support.
If you need more information talk to:

Alan Portela
Systran Translation Systems, Inc.
1055 Wall Street, Suite 213
La Jolla, CA 92037
(619)459-6700
Fax: (619)459-8487
Telex: 9102400909