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The Language Translation Interface (LTI) is a prototype developed for the Australian Defence Organisation. The aim is to provide a single, simple, interface to a variety of MT tools and utilities for personnel who need to produce translations when they have no easy access to human translators. This paper describes the functionalities of the LTI and reports on our experience with users during development. The LTI has been demonstrated and trialled at several military exercises and the feedback received is now leading to the development of the Language Translation Tools Suite (LTTS)
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Estival, D. The Language Translation Interface: A Perspective from the Users. Machine Translation 19, 175–192 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10590-006-9002-x
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