translation engines

Erika Strenski ldp98es at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK
Wed Nov 10 07:18:40 UTC 1999


Sorry this bounced back to me so I hope it works 2nd time round.
Erika

>
> Excellent idea Janet.
> I want to evaluate translation engines as part of my MA in Translation
> Studies and would be very grateful if you could inform me of any enines
> on the web.
> Please mail me personally on ldp98es at shef.ac.uk so as not to bore all
> Flingsters with MT.
> Thanks
> Erika
>
> Janet Bing wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Eve and others who say:
> >
> > "I believe that linguists as academics have a particular obligation to try to
> > encourage academic discourse in languages other than English, so I would welcome
> > a stated
> > language policy for FLING to this effect."
> >
> > It might also be useful to have a paragraph available noting the URL's of
> > different translation sites on the web that could be included even for those
> > writing in English.  We could probably pool our collective knowledge of which
> > ones are better.
> >
> > Janet Bing
> >     Graduate Program Director
> >     Applied Linguistics
> >     Department of English
> >     Old Dominion University
> >     Norfolk, VA
> >     USA
> >                                       23529
> >  Phone: 757 683-4030
> >  FAX: 757 683-3241



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