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                 The University of Waterloo
                   200 University Avenue
                     Waterloo, Ontario


         The Institute for Computer Research (ICR)

                  Presents a Colloquium on

    An Approach to the Solution of the Data Translation Problem



by    Dr. Sandy Mamrak

of    Dept. of Computer Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio


Wednesday, February 7, 1990
3:30 p.m.
William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, Room 1302


ABSTRACT

There is a need for widespread exchange of electronic documents in
domains as diverse as book publishing, automated offices, factories
and research laboratories.  The variety of data representations, and
the subsequent need for data translation, is a major obstacle to this
exchange.  This talk describes a comprehensive data translation system
with the following characteristics: (1) it is derived from a formal
model of the translation task; (2) it supports the building of
translation tools; (3) it supports the use of translation tools; and
(4) it is accessible to its targeted end-users.  A software
architecture to achieve the translation capability is fully
implemented.  Translators have been generated using the architecture,
both by the original software developers and by industrial associates
who have installed the architecture at their own sites.


Everyone is welcome.  Refreshments served.