Many in the translation industry have responded to the need for language services in Haiti. Jeff Allen, who speaks Creole, encouraged Carnegie Mellon University to release a Creole corpus it owned. With that and other data, Microsoft, in turn, released a Creole version of its machine translation. Lori Thicke, of Translators Without Borders, commented that the machine translation will be helpful to volunteers carrying out translations related to treatment protocols, water purification, etc.