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From: yi-hua@gumby.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Anyone interested in prolog and translation into/out of Esperanto?
Message-ID: <359@gumby.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 23:46:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 23:46:35 1985
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> > The European Economic Community is sponsoring the Dutch company BSO (in
> > Utrecht) to study semi-automatic translation between European languages
> > using an Intermediate Language (IL) based on Esperanto (see below).
> > First, a non-linguist would enter the original text, while the system
> > (a set of 5 68000's) translated it into the IL, and asked questions (in
> > the source language) to resolve ambiguities.  The end user would then
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> > use a workstation equipped with a single 68000 to call up the database
> > of IL text and translate (fully automatically) selected material into
> > the desired target language.  They are writing the system in PROLOG,
> > using a Vax running UNIX as the development system.
> 
> 
> Wow!  I had always thought this would be a good method (using Esperanto in
> the middle) to translate between two languages.  I guess it's too late
> to rush off and do it myself now.  Oh well.....

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