TAUM (''Traduction Automatique à l'Université de Montréal'') is the name of a research group which was set up at the Université de Montréal in 1965. Most of its research was done between 1968 and 1980.
It gave birth to the TAUM-73 and TAUM-METEO
machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT (not to be confused with computer-aided translation, machine-aided human translation or interactive translation), is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates t ...
prototypes, using the
Q-Systems
Q-systems are a method of directed graph transformations according to given grammar rules, developed at the Université de Montréal by Alain Colmerauer in 1967–70 for use in natural language processing. The Université de Montréal's machine t ...
programming language created by
Alain Colmerauer
Alain Colmerauer (24 January 1941 – 12 May 2017) was a French computer scientist. He was a professor at Aix-Marseille University, and the creator of the logic programming language Prolog.
Early life
Alain Colmerauer was born on 24 January 194 ...
, which were among the first attempts to perform automatic translation through
linguistic
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
analysis. The prototypes were never used in actual production.
The TAUM-METEO name has been erroneously used for many years to designate the
METEO System
The METEO System is a machine translation system specifically designed for the translation of the weather forecasts issued daily by Environment Canada. The system was used from 1981 to 30 September 2001 by Environment Canada to translate forecast ...
subsequently developed by
John Chandioux.
External links
www.chin.gc.ca Canadian Heritage Information Network, CHIN, 2003 {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040622113131/http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Digital_Content/Machine_Translation/introduction.html , date=2004-06-22
Computational linguistics
Machine translation