Getting the message in: a global company’s experience with the new generation of low-cost,high-performance machine translation systems

Vernon Morland


Abstract
Most large companies are very good at “getting the message out” –publishing reams of announcements and documentation to their employees and customers. More challenging by far is “getting the message in” – ensuring that these messages are read, understood, and acted upon by the recipients. This paper describes NCR Corporation’s experience with the selection and implementation of a machine translation (MT) system in the Global Learning division of Human Resources. The author summarizes NCR‘s vision for the use of MT, the competitive “fly-off” evaluation process he conducted in the spring of 2000, the current MT production environment, and the reactions of the MT users. Although the vision is not yet fulfilled, progress is being made. The author describes NCR’s plans to extend its current MT architecture to provide real-time translation of web pages and other intranet resources.
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2002.amta-studies.2
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Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: User Studies
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October 8-12
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2002
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Tiburon, USA
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AMTA
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Springer
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195–206
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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45820-4_20
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Vernon Morland. 2002. Getting the message in: a global company’s experience with the new generation of low-cost,high-performance machine translation systems. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: User Studies, pages 195–206, Tiburon, USA. Springer.
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