What can MT do for multilingualism on the Net
Toru Nishigaki · 1999
The recent rapid spread of the Internet sug-gests that soon everybody on earth will be able to communicate freely with each other across national borders. The 21st century will be the age of multilingualism and multicultur-alism, when various languages and cultures are dynamically exchanged on a global scale. One may call it the New Great Age of Trans-lation. In such an age, Machine Translation (MT) is obviously expected to play an essen-tial role. What kind of technological efforts, then, are required in the 21st century? A new type of MT product will be sought, which is different from the application products for