Path: utzoo!lsuc!nrcaer!cognos!todds
From: todds@cognos.UUCP (Todd Sandor)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: (Gigatext Fuss--was The Newspaper Effect.)
Message-ID: <7142@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 15:13:18 GMT
References: <141@isgtec.UUCP> <89Sep19.123413edt.2449@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: todds@cognos.UUCP (Todd Sandor (2704))
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In article <89Sep19.123413edt.2449@neat.cs.toronto.edu> gh@ai.toronto.edu (Graeme Hirst) writes:
>In article <1989Sep14.152608.24946@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> "The Newspaper Effect:  when you read a newspaper article on a topic you
>I recently spent an hour talking to a reporter from Regina who wanted to
>know all about machine translation and related topics.  (This was in
>connection with the GigaText fuss.)  I later saw the article he wrote,

Can someone fill me in on this GigaText fuss, from what I've heard
(I may be wrong, that is why I'm asking)
a consulting firm was to convert (automagically) all the Saskatchewan
laws etc.., from English to French, they were given a couple of
Million dollars to do it, but turns out they missed their deadlines
and are now getting $50,000.00/month to keep the project going.
Someone sure collected a few bucks....
Is there actually products that can do this or similar translations?
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