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Type of site | Neural machine translation |
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| Available in | 55 languages (140 combinations) |
| Founder(s) | Dr. Peter Toma |
| URL | www www www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 1968 |
| Current status | Active |
SYSTRAN, founded by Dr. Peter Toma in 1968,[1] is one of the oldest machine translation companies. SYSTRAN has done extensive work for the United States Department of Defense and the European Commission.
SYSTRAN provided the technology for Yahoo! Babel Fish until May 30, 2012, among others. It was used by Google's language tools until 2007.[2] SYSTRAN is used by the Dashboard Translation widget in macOS.
Commercial versions of SYSTRAN can run on Microsoft Windows (including Windows Mobile), Linux, and Solaris. Historically, SYSTRAN systems used rule-based machine translation (RbMT) technology. With the release of SYSTRAN Server 7 in 2010, SYSTRAN implemented a hybrid rule-based/statistical machine translation (SMT) technology which was the first of its kind in the marketplace.[3]
As of 2008[update], the company had 59 employees of whom 26 are computational experts and 15 computational linguists.[4] The number of employees decreased from 70 in 2006 to 59 in 2008.[4]
- ^ Systran: Past and Present - https://lilab.unibas.ch/staff/tenhacken/Applied-CL/3_Systran/3_Systran.html#history
- ^ Google Switches to Its Own Language System, Google Operating System, October 2007
- ^ Grunwald, David. "Inside SYSTRAN Training Server 7". GTS. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
- ^ a b "SYSTRAN annual financial report 2008" (PDF). SYSTRAN. 2008. Retrieved 2012-04-04.