Rapid development of translation tools.

The Computing Research Laboratory is cur- rently developing technologies that allow rapid deployment of automatic translation capabilities. These technologies are de- signed to handle low-density languages for which resources, be that human informants or data in electronically readable form, are scarce. All tools are built in an incremen- tal fashion, such that some simple tools (a bilingual dictionary or a glosser) can be de- livered early in the development to support initial analysis tasks. More complex appli- cations can be fielded in successive func- tional versions. The technology we demon- strate has first been applied to Persian- English machine translation within the Shi- raz project and is currently extended to cover languages such as Arabic, Japanese, Korean and others.