"Chatting" in Iraq

A “coalition chat line” now being used at several U.S. and allied sites around Iraq enables commanders and operators who speak different languages to communicate rapidly and reliably, using the “instant messaging” practices familiar to millions of teenagers.

Language Weaver Offers New Language Translation Module For Simplified Chinese

Language Weaver, a software company developing statistical machine translation software (SMTS), today announces the commercial availability of a Simplified Chinese to English language pair module for its automated translation product. The company also announces that Franz Och, world renowned University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI) computer scientist and researcher, has joined the company as a consultant and is guiding the development of the Chinese system, among other tasks.

Creating a Digital Aristotle: A Computerized Knowledge System for Scientists and Students

Project Halo, a staged, long-term research and development initiative that aims to develop a “Digital Aristotle” — an application capable of answering novel questions and solving advanced problems in a wide range of scientific disciplines.

An Opportunity for New NSF Funding for Linguistics

Terascale Linguistics presentations from the January 8th 2004, Boston, LSA, Town-Hall-style Meeting.

Language tools for fight on terror

Software to allow security officials to better search and translate documents in foreign languages, especially Arabic, has been demonstrated at a technology show in Las Vegas.

A Fountain of Knowledge: 2004 will be the year of the analysis engine

The great strength of computers is that they can reliably manipulate vast amounts of data very quickly. Their great weakness is that they don’t have a clue as to what any of that data actually means. Computer scientists have been laboring for decades to eliminate that weakness, with some limited successes in some limited domains. Now, IBM Corp. appears to have made a major breakthrough in the field of machine understanding. [WebFountain's site]

Language Weaver Offers New Language Translation Module For Arabic

Statistical machine translation software in Arabic available for commercial and defense usage.