MT Application For The Translation Agency

[MT Summit III, Washington, DC, USA, July 1991] MT Application for the Translation Agency Keizou SAKURAI Masahiko OZEKI Yoshiyuki NISHIHARA International Business Applications Systems Information Services Mar- Service(IBS) Department keting Promotion Division 1-24-5 Koyasu, Hachiouji, NEC Corporation NEC Corporation Tokyo, JAPAN 4-12-35 Shibaura, Minato, 5-7-1 Shiba, Minato, Tokyo, JAPAN Tokyo, JAPAN Abstract We wrote this report in Japanese and trans- lated it by NEC's machine translation system PIVOT/JE.) IBS (International Business Service) is the com- pany which does the documentation service which contains translation business. We in- troduced a machine translation system into translation business in earnest last year. The introduction of a machine translation system changed the form of our translation work. The translation work was divided into some steps and the person who isn't experienced became able to take it of the work of each of transla- tion steps. As a result, a total translation cost reduced. In this paper, first, we report on the usage of our machine translation system. Next, we report on translation quality and the trans- lation cost with a machine translation system. Lastly, we report on the merit which was gotten by introducing machine translation. Introduction We want to lower a translation cost. And then, at the same time, we want to make the work of the translation delightful. Recently, the economical and cheap machine translation system is developed. We introduced a ma- ne translation system from 1990 and began to use it in earnest for translation business because our staff became able to use a machine translation system effectively. At present, we are using 25 personal computers, four UNIX work stations and four X stations. The trans- lation machine is PIVOT/JE and PIVOT/EJ which is running on UNIX work station. Because these equip- ment connects each other on LAN, the input of original sentences and translation, laying-out editing (DTP) of a translated sentence the can be efficiently realized by it. In December 1990, we connected this LAN with per- sonal computer communication network PC-VAN and ;an machine translation service between Japanese and English. PC-VAN has 104 access points in Japan and has equal to or more than 550 access points in North Amer- ica through GEnie. The user transmits the original sen- ces of Japanese or English to IBS using an electronic mail on PC-VAN. This document is downloaded and is sent to a translation machine. The translated document is sent, back by an electronic mail to a user. PC-VAN collects a translation charge with the charge of personal computer communication service and pays it for IBS. 2 The procedure of the machine translation in IBS IBS receives various translation request. We look at orig- inal sentences and do the following decision, • Does a translator translate? • Does a translation machine translate first? For example, a translator translates if the original sen- tences which were asked for the translation are a con- tract. To a document except the document which must be very strictly translated, we try to apply a translation …

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