Internationalization - slide "The WWW Helps Machine Translation"

Before the WWW:
- Machine Translation (MT) a hard problem since 50 years
- Human translation is expensive and time-consuming
With the WWW:
- Even very bad MT results are helpful when surfing
- Market for client-side translation helpers
- Small improvements create market advantage
- WWW makes integration of translation into reading experience easy (proxy, client)
- WWW serves as a huge data source to improve MT
- Example: iSilk Web Site, English=>Chinese, Chinese=>English