Experiments in Distributed Mt

Connecting two NLP modules which have been developed at diierent sites required until recently that one system had to be frozen in its current state and then transferred and linked by an interface to the second system. With the use of the Internet it has now become possible to keep both NLP modules at their sites, where they are maintained and updated independently. The total translation process then is distributed across the sites and the Internet is part of the interface. In this paper we report on 3 experiments under-taken wrt distributed Mt and the underlying harmonization and sharing of linguistic resources