TAUM is the name of a research group which was set up at the Université de Montréal in 1965. Most of its research was done between 1968 and 1980.

It gave birth to the TAUM-73 and TAUM-METEO machine translation

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...

 prototypes, using the Q-Systems

Q-systems

Q-Systems are a method of directed graph transformations according to given grammar rules, developed at the Université de Montréal by Alain Colmerauer in 1967--70 for use in natural language processing...

 programming language created by Alain Colmerauer

Alain Colmerauer

Alain Colmerauer is a French computer scientist.After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Grenoble, he spent 1967–1970 as Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal, where he created Q-Systems, one of the earliest linguistic formalisms used in the development of the TAUM-METEO machine...

, which were among the first attempts to perform automatic translation through linguistic

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 analysis. The prototypes were never used in actual production.

The TAUM-METEO name has been erroneously used for many years to designate the METEO System

METEO System

The METEO System is a machine translation system specifically designed for the translation of the weather forecasts issued daily by Environment Canada. The system was used from 1981 to the 30th of September 2001 by Environment Canada to translate forecasts issued in French in the province of Quebec...

 subsequently developed by John Chandioux.

External links

• www.chin.gc.ca, Canadian Heritage Information Network, CHIN, 2003