One of the greatest stimuli for language industry applications during the 1980s was the mass adoptance of product localization within the computer industry. Translation companies sprung up to address this lucrative market, vying for contracts by offering one-stop package deals for multiple target languages, the fast turnaround required in the notoriously ephemeral software world, and ostensibly...

It is indeed an honour to be a part of this International Conference on Computer Aided Translation. As I am not a linguist, but an Information Scientist, my address presumes that we accept the established machine translation theories and practices as true and correct, and that we agree, in principle with the concept, practicality and cost effectiveness of its application. My presentation will f...

This paper introduces the use of speech translation technology for a new type of voice-interactive Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) application. We describe a computer game we have developed, in which the system presents sentences in a student’s native language to elicit spoken translations in the target new language. A critical technology is an algorithm to automatically verify the appr...

Automatic language processing makes a current use of multilingual databases as a component of the computer environment of machine translation projects or computer-aided translation~ and as a means of coordinating terminological standardization across several lar~cages. Translation database projects have been developed in North America and Europe and there is a great variability in their content...

Learner modeling Authentic Text ICALL First Language Acquisition Stages of First Language Acquisition Typical stages of first language acquisition: I Babies play with making sounds and around six months, typical babies begin to babble I use sequences of consonants and vowels, e.g., bababa I Quickly start learning words by first birthday I Form simple 2-word utterances by the time they turn 2 I ...