Abstract
On December 9 1997, SYSTRAN and the AltaVista Search Network launched the first widely available, real-time, high-speed and free translation service on the Internet. This initial deployment, treated as a global experiment, has become a tremendous success. Through this service, machine translation (MT) technology has been pushed to the forefront of worldwide awareness. Besides growing media coverage, user response during the first five months has been overwhelming. This paper is a study of the user feedback from the MT developer’s perspective, addressing such questions as: Who are the users? What are their needs? What is their acceptance of MT? What types of texts are being translated? What suggestions do users offer? Finally, this paper outlines our view on opportunities and challenges, and on how to use this feedback to guide future development priorities.- Anthology ID:
- 1998.amta-papers.24
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers
- Month:
- October 28-31
- Year:
- 1998
- Address:
- Langhorne, PA, USA
- Venue:
- AMTA
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Note:
- Pages:
- 275–285
- Language:
- URL:
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-49478-2_25
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Jin Yang and Elke D. Lange. 1998. SYSTRAN on AltaVista. In Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, pages 275–285, Langhorne, PA, USA. Springer.
- Cite (Informal):
- SYSTRAN on AltaVista (Yang & Lange, AMTA 1998)
- PDF:
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-49478-2_25