“…Numerous research papers discuss MT and CLIR projects that deal with specific languages; for example, Chinese (Kwok, Grunfeld, Dinstl, & Chan, 2000; Lee, Ng, & Lu, 1999), Japanese (Ma et al 2000; Ogura, Nakaiwa, Matsuo, Ooyama, & Bond, 2000; Yang & Akahori, 2000), Portugese (Barahona & Alferes, 1999), Sinhalese (Herath & Herath, 1999), Spanish (Marquez, Padro, & Rodriguez, 2000; Weigard & Hoppenbrouwers, 1998), Thai (Isahara, Ma, Sornlertlamvanich, & Takahashi, 2000), and Turkish (Say, 1999). Some studies have considered more than two languages; see, for example, Ide (2000).…”