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D -- NATURAL LANGUAGE MACHINE TRANSLATION SOFTWARE SOL DAAE30 DUE 093096 POC Andrew Pogozelski, Systems Engineer, 201-724-4316, fax 201-627-9575, e-mail at apogozel@pica.army.mil. The US Army is seeking sources of natural language machine translation software specifically for English, German and Russian. Firms that possess such software are encouraged to provide such software for the purposes of evaluation by a group of liguists at the George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany, such evaluation to result in a live demonstration to be held on November 6 and 7, 1996 in the G. C. Marshall Center. Demonstrations will cover translations between English, German and Russian and should be limited to a one hour presentation. It is the desire of the Government that software will be provided, for the purposes of evaluation, at no charge to the Government, or commitment (implied or actual) by the Government, for a period of thirty (30) days, software to be installed on Government owned or Contractor supplied system. All software so provided will be returned at the completion of the thirty day period by the Government. Two distinct types of software products are sought: 1. Machine Translation (MT) software. Documents are fed to a computer through an Optical Character Scanner/Reader (OCR), or manually if they are not in an electronic form, translated by the MT program, and returned in a different language. 2. Translation Memory (TM) software, e.g. glossary and terminology management software. As the name implies, TM program remembers previously translated terms and sentences by storing them in a structed file similiar to a database and allowing to automatically recycle translations in revisions and updates. Vendors who are interested in coducting a demonstration must provide a description of their capabilities no later than October 25, 1996 by fax or e-mail to: POC Andrew Pogozelski, Systems Engieer, 201-724-4316, fax 201-627-9575, e-mail at apogozel@pica.army.mil (0271)

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