Products

The converter between ODIF and MDIF, developed as part of the remote access to METAL, has been improved and customised; it will be released as a Add-on product for METAL before 6/92.

The lexicon lookup interface between the editor and the Term Bank has been stabilised and connected with the Term Bank of Siemens Nixdorf (called “Term-PC”). It is in internal use in Siemens Nixdorf’s translation and documentation department, and it is planned to release it as a product in 12/92 (a similar product under DOS and Windows is already on the market).

The Controlled Grammar Verifier is in internal and external pilot applications (also in the documentation department). As explained above, it needs some refinement and tuning; a beta release is planned to be available in 12/92.

Talks have been started to attach some of the MATE functions to the “Term-Tools” terminology products marketed by Siemens Nixdorf; in particular the corpus based tools are of interest if they can be connected to the Term-PC.

A facility to offer remote translation services, integrating parts of the work done for the remote METAL access, has been set up in Munich; its first version was completed in 9/91. It is run and maintained by the Siemens Nixdorf translation department