anguages (HTML, XML, and others), and to act as a forum for
information, commerce, communication and collective understanding. In
1998, the section Internationalization/Localization gave a definition
of protocols used for internationalization/localization: HTML, base
character set, new tags and attributes, HTTP, language negotiation,
URLs & other identifiers including non-ASCII characters, etc. It also
offered some help with creating a multilingual website.

The Localisation Industry Standards Association (LISA) was created in
the mid-1990s as a forum for "software publishers, hardware
manufacturers, localization service vendors, and an increasing number
of companies from related IT sectors." LISA has defined its mission as
"promoting the localization and internationalization industry and
providing a mechanism and services to enable companies to exchange and
share information on the development of processes, tools, technologies
and business models connected with localization, internationalization
and related topics". Its website was first housed and maintained by the
University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Launched in January 1999 by the European Commission, the website
HLTCentral (HLT: Human Language Technologies) gave a short definition
of language engineering: "Through language engineering we can find ways
of living comfortably with technology. Our knowledge of language can be
used to develop systems that recognize speech and writing, understand
text well enough to select information, translate between different
languages, and generate speech as well as the printed world. By
applying such technologies we have the ability to extend the current
limits of our use of language. Language enabled products will become an
essential and integral part of everyday life."

MACHINE TRANSLATION

= [Quote]

Tim McKenna is an author who thinks and writes about the complexity of
truth in a world of flux. He wrote in October 2000: "When software gets
good enough for people to chat or talk on the web in real time in
different languages, then we will see a whole new world appear before
us. Scientists, political activists, businesses and many more groups
will be able to communicate immediately without having to go through
mediators or translators."

= A definition

Machine translation can be defined as the automated process of
translating a text from one language to another language. MT analyzes
the text in the source languag