Created Monday 05 April 2010
http://www.systransoft.com/
--English Centric Products
--SYSTRAN - Offers translation services and software
--Desktop
--Server (Stystran Enterprise Server) [can translate coorperate docs]
--Online Services
--Looking at Systrans Site Shows that all translations are focused around the english language
--Double translation probably makes translation unrelaiable Spanish -> English -> German
but Spanish -> German doesnt exist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_translation
--How it works
--At the basic level it performs basic substitutions using corpus methods
--Corpus methods are rules for how a natural language relates to another language
--This allows for more comlplex translations and allows better handling of
--Diffirences in linguistic tapology
--Phrase Recignition
--translation of idioms (expressions, phrases etc.)
--the isolation of anomolies
--Corpus methods work by gathering language samples of phrases and idioms
--There is Estimated to be 25,000 idiomatic expressions in American English
--Limiting translation by domain can help improve accuracy
--For example if it is known you are translating a paper on Biology the translator can take
this into account and make better vocabulary and phrasing choices based on the domain
--Machine translation of government documents and formal papers usually work better then
conversations of everyday english
--Translation can also be improved with human intervention
--Translator could ask what the names in the text are. this way it does not try to translate
--it can also give the user choices if it does not know what desision to make
--First Machine translation was 1954 (Ren'e descartes Proposed a universal language)
--Translation requires in-depth knowlege of both the source and the target target language in:
--grammer
--semantics
--syntax
--idioms
--the culture of the speakers
--The problem of machine translation
--The Machine needs to understand the source language like a person
--The machine must re-encode to the target language like a person
--Types of machine translation
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