Media: AP Article on Machine Translation
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Karen Chung
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| Submitter Email: | karchung@ntu.edu.tw |
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There's an article from the AP, posted on the Excite.com site, on an award-winning English-Vietnamese translation device: Software Translates Restaurant Orders Aug 18, 10:55 AM (ET) By Jean Ortiz Some sample paragraphs: Life is much easier for Lam, now that her 23-year-old son, Tu Nguyen, developed the software that enables her to understand the needs of her English-speaking customers in her native language. Nguyen, who enters his senior year at the University of Nebraska at Omaha this fall, developed what he calls the Intelligent Pocke Order Delivering System. It allows waiters to take orders on a wireless pocket computer, then transmit them to the kitchen in a different language. Not only has his invention bridged the language barrier in his family's business, it also won him the $25,000 first prize in the recent Imagine Cup competition sponsored by Microsoft. The URL: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030818/D7T0EI080.html Visit very soon - the link will probably expire within 24 hours. The link and an intro to this article were posted in the Augus 19, 2003 issue of NewsScan Daily http://www.newsscan.com/. Karen Steffen Chung http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/ http://www.topica.com/lists/phonetics/ </body> |
| Issue Number: | 14.2202 |
| Date Posted: | August 20, 2003 |
