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From: cpshelley@violet.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What Has Traditional AI Accomplished?
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Date: 13 Oct 90 19:01:21 GMT
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In article <3694@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>
>I don't have any hard facts, but have the impression that translation
>is well funded in Japan, and in Europe, where many not-perfect systems
>are in large scale use for rough translation, usually followed up by
>human corrections.  I am told that this is very cost effective.

Can anyone in Europe confirm or deny this?  I dimly recall hearing of
some increased effort in this area in connection with the "drive to
'92".  Btw, there are working programs up here which have proven
cost-effective, but research into improving generality is scarce...
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