| Free program translates Euro languages to/from English |
Oct. 27, 2005
Heise Online reports that GlobalWare AG is offering individuals, universities, and public institutions open source translation software that runs on Linux. The software, called OpenLogos, reportedly translates between English and German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
OpenLogos requires the presence of a PostgreSQL database and must be currently be run from the Linux command line. The program also supports translation between German and either French or Spanish. Plans are in the works to provide a GUI interface, so that the program does not need to be run from the command line.
According to the program's project website, "Various text documents in different formats can be submitted to the system and within a short amount of time are translated into different target languages. The result, a raw translation, is already of high language quality. But if required, the result can be post-edited by a human translator." Additionally, "The system 'can learn' in the sense that a trained user quickly is able to maintain terminology and dictionaries and can also establish his own user dictionary," the project page states.
Further details are available on the OpenLogos project website, which is hosted by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). The OpenLogos software is available for download , here.
The software appears to be released under GNU General Public License (GPL).
Read the full Heise news item here.
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