Group Decision Support Systems are helping many orga
nizations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of
group meetings. In addition, multilingual Group Decision
Support Systems can support groups using many differ
ent languages by automatically translating group mem
bers' comments. In this paper, we describe this new
technology and demonstrate how it can enhance business
communication.
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