The Commission ́s MT system: today and tomorrow

Angeliki Petrits, Francine Braun-Chen, Jesús Manuel Martínez García, Cameron Ross, Rosemarie Sauer, Angelo Torquati, Alain Reichling


Abstract
This paper presents a snapshot of how the Commission's MT system (EC SYSTRAN) is used today and a glimpse of how that picture will change tomorrow. It looks in turn at: the origins of the system; how it is accessed; who requests MT and why; how users can influence the quality of output; the Rapid Post-editing Service; and the latest usage statistics, which augur well for the future. The paper closes with a look at that future, touching on the move to a new computer platform and plans for new language pairs, concluding that after twenty-five years of development, MT has become an integral part of the Commission's working environment.
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2001.mtsummit-papers.49
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Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII
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September 18-22
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2001
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Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Bente Maegaard
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MTSummit
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https://aclanthology.org/2001.mtsummit-papers.49
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Angeliki Petrits, Francine Braun-Chen, Jesús Manuel Martínez García, Cameron Ross, Rosemarie Sauer, Angelo Torquati, and Alain Reichling. 2001. The Commission ́s MT system: today and tomorrow. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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