Machine (assisted) translation software and companies

Real time online machine translation services

Translation memories and translation workbenches

Relevant sites and related pages

Universities and Organizations working on MT

Online publications

a cura di Federico Zanettin Last updated 14/07/06

Machine translation software and companies

• Compendium of translation software, by John Hutchins, 1999-2003.
  Commercial machine translation systems and computer-aided translation support tools
  Published on behalf of The International Association for Machine Translation by The European Association for Machine Translation.

• Applied Language Solutions (free translation tools and other translation services)

• ATA Software (Arabic/English)

• HEISOFT/Reverso (German/French, German/Russian)

• Hypertrans (German/French/Spanish/Italian/English)

• IBM Translation Software (English to Spanish/French/Italian/German)

• Language Engineering Corporation (Japanese/English)

• Language Experts Ltd. (Many Languages)

• Language Master (English/Russian,English/Ukrainian)

• Language Partners International (LPI) distributes foreign language translation software and translation assistance tools (most of listed products)

• LANT (Knowledge management & language technology)

• Lernout & Hauspie (The speech and language company - MT products)

• Lingvistica '98 (English/Azerbaijani, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Ukrainian)

• PAHO (Spanish/English)

• Polyglossum (Russian/English Ukranian/English German/English)

• PROject MT (Russian/English Russian/French Russian/German )

• SMART - Translator Software English/French/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian

• Systran (French/German/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian/Japanese/Chinese/English)

• Tapestry (English/Chinese,English/Malay, English/Thai,English/Indonesian)

• Tolken97 (English/Swedish to/from Danish/French/German/Norwegian/Spanish)

• Total-Data (Danish, English, French, Spanish)

• Transcend (German/English Spanish/English French/English)

• Translation Experts (translation software and translation services)

• Translingo (Japanese/English)

• WinBabel (Spanish/Russian/English/French/German/Italian/Portuguese)

• World Language Resource (Danish/English Dutch/English German/English Italian/English Portuguese/English Spanish/English Swedish/English)

• PetaMem (Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Understanding technologies)

• WMTrans  (Multilingual Morphology Software, text processing software for information retrieval and language processing applications)

• WordMagic Software (English Spanish translation software, dictionaries, text translators, specialized dictionaries, online translation tools, synonyms and idioms dictionary, website translator)

Real time online translation services

• Amikai  
  (Japanese/Spanish/French/German/Korean/Chinese/Portuguese/English)

• Altavista Babel Fish

• Al Misbar (English/Arabic)

• Go translator (Systran) (English/Hebrew/Spanish/German/French/Portuguese/Russian/Italian)

• FreeTranslation.com
  (Spanish/German/French/Italian/Noorwegian/Portuguese/English)

• Englishfree personal translator
  (English - Italian / Italian - English)

• Lernout & Hauspied online translations (English/French/German/Italian/Portuguese/Spanish)

• Lingo24 offers a  free online Arabic-English and English-Arabic translation, an  Arabic language paraphrasing tool and English language paraphrasing tool. They also offer a collection of free online machine translation tools

• Toggletext - Kataku 
  (English to Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia))

Translation memories and translator's workbenches

• Trados Translation Tools

• Atril Déjà Vu

• Cypresoft Trans Suite 2000

• STAR Transit

• SDLX

• WordFisher TM tool for Windows - MS Word Macro Kit

• WordFast TM tool for Windows and Mac - MS Word Macro Kit

• Metatexis TM tool for Windows and Mac - MS Word Macro Kit

Relevant sites and related pages

• MACHINE TRANSLATION: An Introductory Guide (by Doug Arnold et al.)

• Machine Translation Journal

• European Association for Machine Translation

• European Language Resources Association

• Translation relevant software by P. A Schmitt

• Tools and Techniques for Machine Translation Teaching: A Survey at University of Essex

• Machine Translation Links at Georgetown University

• Computational Linguistics and Language Engeneering (by Fredrik Olsson)

• CLUK - Computational Linguistics UK

• Language Engineering Corporation Home Page

• LISA - Localization Industry Standards Association

• Corpus linguistics

• Terminology

Universities and Organizations working on MT

• Machine Translation projects at CLIP (Computational Linguistics and Information Processing) Laboratory at (UMIACS - University of Maryland)

• Laboratoire de Recherche Appliquée en Linguistique Informatique, University of Montreal (RALI)

• Center for Machine Translation at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMT)

• Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University (CRL)

• UMIST - Centre for Computational Linguistics

• Brigham Young University (Translation Research Group)

• University of Essex (CL/MT Research Group)

• CMU AI Repository: MT

Online publications

• Abaitua, Joseba (1999). Is it worth learning translation technology? [http://sirio.deusto.es/abaitua/konzeptu/ta/vic.htm]. Training translators and interpreters: New directions for the Millennium. III Jornades de Traducció: 209-220, Universitat de Vic.

• Abaitua, Joseba (1999). Quince años de traducción automática en España. [http://sirio.deusto.es/abaitua/konzeptu/ta/ta15.htm] Perspectives: Studies in Translatology. 7-2: 221-230.

• Abaitua, Joseba (1997-2000). La traducción automática: presente y futuro. [http://sirio.deusto.es/abaitua/konzeptu/ta.htm]

• Barite, Mario (2000) Diccionario de organización y representación del conocimiento: clasificación, indización, terminología [http://eubca1.eubca.edu.uy/diccionario]

• Benis, Michael (2000) Translation Memory From O to R; Michael Benis [http://www.star-group.net/press/tm-review01.htm]

• Benis, Michael (20000) Extended comparative review of Translation Memory products part 2 [http://www.star-group.net/press/tm-review02.htm]

• Bensch, Peggy Translation Memories: Übersetzungshelfer mit Gedächtnis. [http://www.doculine.de/???]

• Demos, Kristin y Frauenfelder, Mark (8.05. 2000). Machine Translation's Past and Future. [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/timeline.html ] Wired (http://www.wired.com)

• EAGLES I (1995): Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems. [http://issco-www.unige.ch/ewg95/ewg95.html] EAGLES Document EAG-EWG-PR.2.

• EAGLES II (1999). ): Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems [http://issco-www.unige.ch/projects/eagles/ewg99/index.html] EAGLES Document EAG-II-EWG-PR.1

• Hoppe, Birgit Translation Memories: Das elektronische Gedächtnis der Übersetzung. [http://www.doculine.de/???]

• Language Partners International An Introduction to Computer Aided Translation (CAT) [http://languagepartners.com/reference-center/whitepapers/catinto.htm]

• LDV-Forum (1999) Doppelband: Maschinelle Übersetzung. [http://www.gldv.org/LDV-Forum/LDV-Forum1999.pdf]. LDV-Forum Zeitschrift für Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie

• Melby, Alan K. Globalization and the Need for International Language Standards [http://www.translat2000.com/discussion/melby/]

• Melby, Allan K. (04/2000) XML and the Translator [http://accurapid.com/journal/12xml.htm] en: Translation Journal (http://accurapid.com/journal/)

• Melby, Allan K. (11/1998) Eight Types ofTranslation Technology. [http://www.ttt.org/technology/8types.pdf]

• Silberman, Steve (8.05. 2000). Hello World. [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/tpintro.html 9 Wired (http://www.wired.com)

• Silberman, Steve (8.05. 2000). Talking to Strangers. [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/translation.html]Wired (http://www.wired.com)

• Spinrad, Paul (8.05. 2000). Say Anything. [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/tpproduct.html] Wired (http://www.wired.com)

• Steinglass, Matt (8.05. 2000). Communication breakdown. [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/tpcharticle.html] Wired (http://www.wired.com)

• Zimmer, Carl (8.05. 2000). Universal Translators. [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/tpmap.html] Wired (http://www.wired.com)