Re: Corpora: US company claims patent on common machine translation

Fouvry F (fouvry@essex.ac.uk)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:07:14 +0100

> "This technology is the result of years of research by the inventor
> while preparing his preliminary report on translation & genetic
> relationships
> of the dead language Etruscan (Library Of Congress : Oct. 1993)"

Etruscologists would be very interested! Barely anything at all is
known about Etruscan, the main source of the language being short
sepulchral (formulaic?) texts ...

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Frederik Fouvry (Lic. Klass. Fil.)
fouvry@essex.ac.uk