New Web sites in foreign languages are appearing everyday, and language barriers threaten to atomize the World Wide Web into closed linguistic communities. The Temple project has developed an open multilingual architecture and software support for rapid development of machine translation systems for assimilation purposes. The targeted languages are those for which natural language processing an...

The interlingua approach to machine translation (MT) is characterized by the following two stages: 1) translation of the source text into an intermediate representation, an artificial language (interlingua) which is designed to capture the various types of meaning of the source text and 2) translation from the interlingua into the target text. Over the years a number of MT projects tried to dev...

The aim of the paper is to present an Open Source Learning Management System for creating courses in translation theory and practice. Some of its most important characteristics are: • Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or social format • Flexible array of course activities Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments • Full user logging and tracking activi...