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Here are some requests and information submitted to the list. As always,
responses should be sent to the person who sent the request or
announcement directly instead of back to the list.


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I have a request from a government office interested in a machine
translation system, or perhaps two systems for English <> German
and English <> French. They want reasonable but not necessarily
100% quality output of non-technical language. Commerical or non-commercial
systems are acceptable. No particular hardware requirements.

I have been out of this area for a while. Can anyone offer any
recommendations, people to contact for opinions, or addresses?
Please mail direct to me:
        sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au
and I shall summarize the results and post them to the list when
it is complete.

Many thanks,


Roly Sussex
Director
Centre for Language Teaching and Research
    and
Language and Technology Centre of the National Languages and Literacy
        Institute of Australia
University of Queensland
Queensland 4072
Australia

phone:  +61 7 365-6896 (work)
fax:    +61 7 365-7077
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Hello.

We are interested in finding out people's experiences in using automatic
translation software packages which are available for purchase.
Specifically, we are trying to locate the package(s) that does the best
possible job of translating from English to and from Spanish and German.
Cost is a secondary consideration.  The subject matter is moderately
technical - construction materials.  Both PC and Mac environments are
available - it is conceivable that other environments could be arranged
to run this package.  Two of the packages we have heard of are PC
Translator (from Linguistic Products in Texas), and Power Translator
(from Globalink in Virginia).  We have also heard of a company in Israel,
Polyglot software, but know nothing of their products.

Any information or suggestions you would have would be warmly
appreciated.  We are on a short deadline, so if you could respond by the
beginning of March, it would be wonderful.

Please send messages directly to me at habib@world.std.com

Thanks much!

yours truly,


steve habib rose
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Subject: Re: Basque computer terminology
Status: RO

Thanks for the contact!

Licia Corbolante
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Da: Mark Leisher  <netmail!mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu>
A:  <insoft-l@trans2.b30.ingr.com>
Oggetto: Re: Basque computer terminology
Data: Wednesday 23 February 1994 21.25

I've stupidly lost the message from the Microsoft person wanting to
know about Basque computer terms.  So whoever you are, this may be a
starting place:

 Kepa Sarasola at the University of the Basque Countries

 kepa@gorria.if.ehu.es
 34 43 219306

mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu
Mark Leisher
Computing Research Lab                    "Elegance is not optional!"
New Mexico State University                  -- Attributed to Richard O'Keefe
Box 3CRL, Las Cruces, NM  88003
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Hello,
Some time ago someone requested info on Russian translation
software. I can be of some help. Interested persons are invited
to contact me directly at the address below.
Vit Matsarski
matsarski@ties.itu.ch
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Sender: " (Taoufik Nouri)" <nouri@imacsg1.epfl.ch>
Subject: Ptech ADT Information needed


Hello;

I am looking any informations about a sotfware product called
Ptech produced by a ADT. They should be in the boston area.
What is the quality of this Ptech software. Is there any similar
 software available on the market.
Any tips will be helpfull.

--
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Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne
Phone: ++ 41 21 693 2457
Fax:   ++ 41 21 693 4748
e-mail:	nouri@imacsg1.epfl.ch
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Sender: Somsak Junwun <s6064015@crsc.kmitl.ac.th>
Subject: Win'Font

Hello.
     Is there a package of STRANGE ENGLISH font for window 3.X ?
						    Thank you,
						
                     Rungrote Phonkam
		     E-mail : s6064015@crsc.kmitl.ac.th
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Hi.

I'm trying to figure out if there's any way to run a Motif
program that handles Japanese text on Solaris 1.x/JLE
(which is the Japanese language version of SunOS 4.1.3 and
the Japanese language version of OpenWindows 2.0.1D).
It runs an X11R4 server.

I believe the program needs to make the following calls:

	XtSetLanguageProc(): to read the locale info
	some FontSet function to combine fonts

The problem seems to be that under JLE we need to combine fonts
to handle Japanese text.  For this we need FontSet, which
is not available under Motif 1.1. So, we need Motif 1.2.

However, I'm (very) concerned that if we build under Motif 1.2,
we won't run correctly on an X11R4 server. Will it?

If it can, will I will be able to  get a front-end processor to work with
it?

The application currently links with Motif 1.1, so these new I18N
functions are the only Motif 1.2 dependencies.

Is there any way to do this?  I DON'T want to re-write the application
in Xview.

Thanks,
Steve Billings
srb@world.std.com
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Brian Tatro
Senior Editor
Product Translation		COMPUSERVE: 72154,531
Intergraph Corporation              bptatro@trans2.b30.ingr.com
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