Terminology

Here are articles on various terminology-related subjects, including termbase design:

• The Birth of a Standard Terminology Format, Sep-Oct 1992
• Alan Melby on TIF, Termbase Design, Mar/Apr 1993
• Termbase Design and TIF, Mar-Apr 1993
• MTX: more than just Termbases, July-Aug 1993
• Lingaware’s Dicobase, Mar-Apr 1994

Localization

Software localization got a lot of coverage, because its practioners tended to be early adopters of linguistic technology:

• Localizing the Bull way, May/Jun 1992
  • Keyword: swimming in virtual reality
• INK Acquired By R.R. Donnelley, Jan-Feb 1993
• LISA: Back for More, May-June 1994

Dictionaries and corpora

Here a couple stories on dictionary building and corpora collection:

• The bigger the better? Corpora (co-) builder John Sinclair, Nov-Dec 1991
• Longman Dictionaries Feed the NLP Community, Jan/Feb 1992
• Cambridge Language Survey: new multilingual corpora, Sep-Oct 1992
• The Lexicographer’s Dream Machine, May-June 1993

Other topics

Unicode and the advent of multilingual computing:

• Improving the Mac operating system, July-Aug 1992
• Al Kaatib: Arabic meets Windows, July-Aug 1992
• A Polyglot Wordprocessor, May-June 1994

Unicode:

• Unicode Software Arriving, Slowly but Surely, Mar-Apr 1994

SGML:

• SGML Today, July-Aug 1992 (cover story)
  • WorldView: electronic distribution of information

Handwriting recognition with neural networks:

• Nestor: putting neural nets to work, May/Jun 1992

Computer-Aided Language Learning:

• PARADISE: Polyglot Courseware, Nov-Dec 1993

Here are a number conference reports:

• Computational Linguists Going Green, Jun/Jul 1991
• MT Evaluator’s Forum, Jun/Jul 1991
• Statistical Methods Gaining Ground, Sep-Oct 1992
  • IBM Tentative
• Translators Still in The Loop, Nov-Dec 1992 (cover story)
  • MT Systems Galore in San Diego

and a review on an important market study:

• New NLP Report from Ovum, Nov/Dec 1991

And here are several pieces sent in by readers:

• Viewpoint: The case for natural numerics, May-June 1992
• MT Research Revitalized from The Hague?, May/Jun 1991
• Opening up Eurotra: Trap or Treasure-house?, Sep/Oct 1991
• A Reply from Ovum, July-Aug 1992
• TMI ’92: A Second Opinion, Nov-Dec 1992