The output of a concordancer may serve as input to a translation memory system for computer-assisted translation, or as an early step in machine translation.
During the next decade, a combination of factors shut down the application of information theory to natural language processing (NLP) problems in particular machine translation.
It has been designed to be used in a variety of natural language processing applications and was tested with speech recognition and machine translation.
The main scholarly research of the institute is on machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, information retrieval, parsing and information extraction.