Systran Machine Translation at the Ec Commission Present Status and History
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All the above development work has been coordinated by DG XIII (Information Market and Innovation) with the assistance of four translators seconded from the DG IX translation department in Luxembourg. A considerable amount of development work has been handled under contract with World Translation Center (California), World Translation Company of Canada, Franklin Institut and Systran Institut (Germany). As a result, an average of about twelve professional staff (linguists and data processing experts) have worked full time on the project for the past eight years.
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[Terminology Bulletin 45, 1984, pp.25-37] CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S SYSTRAN MT SYSTEM 1976/84 When the Commission of the European Communities
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