Globalization Insider

MobileMT Market Watch in Japan

Dr Hitoshi Isahara, Group Leader, Computational Linguistics Group &Keihanna Human Info-Communications Research Center, Communications Research Laboratory, Japan

This article outlines new Machine Translation (MT) applications emerging in Japan for a range of mobile devices. The term "MobileMT" is used in a broad sense of automatic translation functionality which may be peripheral to MT proper. The discussion is limited to mobile terminals (mobile phones and PHS) and palm-sized PCs (e.g. Palm), and excludes other handheld PCs such as WinCE machines.

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