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>Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:37:13 EDT
>Subject: Strategic Alliance: Smart Communications and MIT2
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Issued from Kingston, Jamaica
21 August 2000:


Strategic Alliance between Smart Communications and MIT2

A strategic alliance has just been announced between
Smart Communications Inc and Mason Integrated
Technologies Ltd (MIT2).

Smart Communications offers technology and software
tools to help writers, editors and translators create clear
and concise documentation, including computer-aided
language translation and systems integration for
electronic publishing.

MIT2 is a software development and service provider
specialized in language processing solutions with a
particular focus on Creole languages.

Smart Communications has agreed to license to MIT2
the paired English / Haitian Creole versions of the
SMART Translator automated machine translation
system. MIT2 will customize these systems and offer
machine translation technologies to Creole-speaking
and Creole-interested markets as part of its Creole
Tool Suite(tm). This tool suite includes a range of
products and services for authoring / translation
document workflow processes.


For more information:

Smart Communications Inc
885 Third Avenue, 29th Floor
New York, New York 10022 USA
Tel: (+1) 212 486-1894, Fax: (+1) 212 826-9775
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.smartny.com

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)
P.O. Box 181015, Boston, MA 02118 USA
Tel: (+1) 617 247-8885, Fax: (+1) 617 262-8923
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html