ATLAS: Fujitsu machine translation system

l. Introduction In 1984 Fujitsu marketed the automatic machine translation systems, ATLAS-I and ATLAS II. ATLAS-I was the world's first commercial Eng1ish-Japanese translation system. Fujitsu is also conducting a joint project on research and development of a Japanese-Korean machine translation system in cooperation with Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. ATLAS II aims at achieving multilingual translation. At present, however, the commercial version of the ATLAS II system translates Japanese to English. However, some effort has been directed toward achieving multilingual translation. In addition from 1983 to 1985, Fujitsu contributed technological support to the SEMSYN project, a German-Japanese translation system being developed at Stuttgart University, West Germany. At the Tsukuba Expo '85, we also conducted machine translation experiments, translating Japanese children's compositions into English, French, and German, English news texts into Japanese, French, and German, and also mutual translation of simple sentences between Japanese, Swahili, and Innuit (Eskimo).