BUDAPEST, Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ --
Free, Unique Website Offering Multiple Translations
iTranslate4.eu, the innovative machine translation portal was
created as a result of a two year project funded by the EU. The
Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (HAS) coordinated the development of the platform, which
provides high quality translations even in the less-frequent
language pairs, and offers up to five alternatives in the frequent
ones.
Automatic online translation services aiming to support the better
understanding of foreign languages, have constantly improved in
quality around the world. The launch of
http://www.iTranslate4.eu (Internet Translators for all European
Languages) website is a significant step in this process. The
primary aim of the project is to provide the best available machine
translations among the languages of the EU. This free and public
service is made available by a consortium of the best translation
service providers of Europe (SYSTRAN, PROMT, Linguatec,
MorphoLogic, Amebis, Sunda, pwn.pl, SkyCode, Trident) coordinated
by the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences. The website enables users to translate emails texts
and websites and even carry out live chatting in all the official
European languages and many more. These translations of course do
not equal human translations, but they assist understanding among
people and languages with an increasing efficiency.
The website uses 300 language engines and offers solutions in 45
languages including national languages, European minority languages
and other world languages. Alternative translations are available
in several language pairs. The simultaneously available multiple
translations guarantee the best solutions as the users themselves
can choose the one which helps most the understanding from the
offered alternatives. It is also possible to evaluate and rank the
translations online.
The special technology developed by iTranslate4.eu's programers
connects the different translation systems.
The free http://www.itranslate4.eu website will soon offer further
services on subscription. For individual users, it offers
translation boxes which can be integrated into the user's own
website, translation plug-ins built in Firefox, as well as
applications for popular chat programs. The website also has a
public interface for programmers, which allows anyone to develop an
own application.
Furthermore it will also provide translations memories such as SDL
Trados Studio, MemQ or DeJa Vu for translators and translation
companies.
'Using MorphoLogic's technology pioneered by Laszlo Tihanyi, the
consortium partners pooled their expertise and resources and
created an innovative web-based service that is unique in the
world. High standard of translations are ensured by continuous
monitoring and evaluation' - said Tamas Varadi, project coordinator
and deputy director of the Research Institute for Linguistics,
HAS.
Visitors of the portal can come across with translation boxes that
can be tailor made. Website owners can add the service to their own
pages, since the applications that can be integrated in their own
sites can translate both texts and the websites for those foreign
visitors who do not speak a foreign language.
The developers of the project anticipate significant traffic for
the website and they expect not only new users but also new service
providers to join.
Further information:
e-mail: [email protected]( mailto:[email protected] )
web:
http://www.itranslate4.eu facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/iTranslate4.eu
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