Abstract: | The design and implementation of EATS, a machine translation system for e-mail, are presented. It first puts forward the notion of "instan t machine trans lation service" and illustrates how it is provided through client-server mode i n EATS. Then this paper gives a panoramic view of the realization of Chinese-En glish bi-directional translation module through multi-engine strategy. The pro totype of the system has been successfully demonstrated in campus net in PPP mod e, with 70%~80% translation accuracy. |