METAL MT
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A machine translation
system developed at the University of Texas and at Siemens
which ran on Lisp Machine
s.
Multi-Lingual Word Processing software was requested by the German Government for the Siemens
Corporation of Germany in September 1980 and was nicknamed the Siemens-Weidner Engine (originally English-German). This revolutionary multi-lingual word processing engine became foundational in the development of the Metal MT project according to John White of the Siemens Corporation.
After the Metal MT development Rights to the Siemens-Weidner Engine were sold to a Belgium company, Lernout & Hauspie
.
The Siemens
copy of the Weidner
Multi-lingual Word Processing software has since been acquired through the purchase of assets of Lernout & Hauspie
by Bowne Global Solutions, Inc., which was later acquired by Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. and is demonstrated in their itranslator software.
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...
system developed at the University of Texas and at Siemens
Siemens AG
Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....
which ran on Lisp Machine
Lisp machine
Lisp machines were general-purpose computers designed to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. In a sense, they were the first commercial single-user workstations...
s.
Background
Originally titled the Linguistics Research System (LRS), it was later renamed METAL (Mechanical Translation and Analysis of Languages). It started life as a German-English system funded by the USAF.1980
A copy of the WeidnerWeidner
Weidner is a German surname of:* Brant Weidner , NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs* Gabrielle Weidner , Belgian World War II heroine* Johan Hendrik Weidner , Belgian World War II resistance fighter...
Multi-Lingual Word Processing software was requested by the German Government for the Siemens
Siemens
Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
Corporation of Germany in September 1980 and was nicknamed the Siemens-Weidner Engine (originally English-German). This revolutionary multi-lingual word processing engine became foundational in the development of the Metal MT project according to John White of the Siemens Corporation.
After the Metal MT development Rights to the Siemens-Weidner Engine were sold to a Belgium company, Lernout & Hauspie
Lernout & Hauspie
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, or L&H, was a leading Belgium-based speech recognition technology company, founded by Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, that went bankrupt in 2001...
.
The Siemens
Siemens
Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
copy of the Weidner
Weidner
Weidner is a German surname of:* Brant Weidner , NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs* Gabrielle Weidner , Belgian World War II heroine* Johan Hendrik Weidner , Belgian World War II resistance fighter...
Multi-lingual Word Processing software has since been acquired through the purchase of assets of Lernout & Hauspie
Lernout & Hauspie
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, or L&H, was a leading Belgium-based speech recognition technology company, founded by Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, that went bankrupt in 2001...
by Bowne Global Solutions, Inc., which was later acquired by Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. and is demonstrated in their itranslator software.