Exploring Distributed Mt Exploring Distributed Mt

The enormous growth of the Internet has confronted nearly every agent operating in the Internet, human or otherwise, with documents written in unknown languages. In order to allow unrestricted access to these data, the availability of language processing tools within the Internet is a prerequisite. Furthermore, it will be absolutely necessary to interconnect these tools given the almost unlimited number of functionalities which have to be covered. In this paper we describe a practical experiment to connect two machine translation (MT) systems via the Internet, so that the total translation process is distributed across the sites and the Internet is part of the interface.