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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already in operation, helping Japanese companies like Mazda translate technical material. A powerful computer called SHALT, designed by IBM Japan, is being used extensively for in-house translations. In 1988 SHALT converted four IBM manuals from English into Japanese. This year the target is 20 to 30. Predicts Kiyotaka Yasui, manager of the language and image- technology section at IBM Japan's Tokyo research laboratory: "In five years the internal-publication department of IBM Japan will be fulfilling 100% of its translation requirements via machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Trying To Decipher Babel | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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