MITAP (MITRE text and audio processing) is a prototype system available for monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and other global events. MITAP focuses on providing timely, multilingual, global information access to medical experts and individuals involved in humanitarian assistance and relief work. Multiple information sources in multiple languages are automatically captured, filtered, translated, summarized, and categorized by disease, region, information source, person, and organization. Critical information is automatically extracted and tagged to facilitate browsing, searching, and sorting. The system supports shared situational awareness through collaboration, allowing users to submit other articles for processing, annotate existing documents, post directly to the system, and flag messages for others to see. MITAP currently stores over 1 million articles and processes an additional 2,000 to 10,000 daily, delivering up-to-date information to dozens of regular users.

Machine translation of human languages (for example, Japanese, English, Spanish) was one of the earliest goals of computer science research, and it remains an elusive one. Like many AI tasks, trans-lation requires an immense amount of knowledge about language and the world. Recent approaches to machine translation frequently make use of text-based learning algorithms to fully or partially automate the acquisition of knowledge. This article illustrates these approaches.

Machine translation of human languages (for example, Japanese, English, Spanish) was one of the earliest goals of computer science research, and it remains an elusive one. Like many AI tasks, trans-lation requires an immense amount of knowledge about language and the world. Recent approaches to machine translation frequently make use of text-based learning algorithms to fully or partially automate the acquisition of knowledge. This article illustrates these approaches.

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JANUS translates continuously spoken English and German into German, English, and Japanese. JANUS currently achieves 87% translation fidelity from English speech and 97% from German speech. We present the JANUS system along with comparative evaluations of its interchangeable processing components, with special emphasis on the connectionist modules.

JANUS translates continuously spoken English and German into German, English, and Japanese. JANUS currently achieves 87% translation fidelity from English speech and 97% from German speech. We present the JANUS system along with comparative evaluations of its interchangeable processing components, with special emphasis on the connectionist modules.

JANUS translates continuously spoken English and German into German, English, and Japanese.

The features used in the spatial representations were abstracted from Herskovits (1986). The network was trained using the generalized delta rule (Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams, 1986) on a set of patterns with four components, three syntactic and one semantic. The syntactic components are a pair of nouns separated by a locative preposition [NI-LP-N21, and the semantic component is a representation of the spatial relationship [SR1.

The features used in the spatial representations were abstracted from Herskovits (1986). The network was trained using the generalized delta rule (Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams, 1986) on a set of patterns with four components, three syntactic and one semantic. The syntactic components are a pair of nouns separated by a locative preposition [NI-LP-N21, and the semantic component is a representation of the spatial relationship [SR1.

The network's performance was analyzed over several simulations with training sets in both English and German.