A machine translation application is a program which can translate text or speech from one natural language to another. Machine translation applications are essential to the modern language industry. Please see the individual products’ articles for further information.
General information
Basic general information for popular Machine translation applications.
| Name | Platform | License | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia OnlineLanguage Studio | Windows, Linux, Web | Commercial | Depends on configuration. |
| Apertium | Unix compatible Precompiled packages available for Debian |
GPL | Free |
| Matxin | Unix compatible | GPL | Free |
| WorldLingo | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware | Free |
| OpenLogos | Windows, Linux | GPL or Paidinitiative taker | Free or not |
| Moses (machine translation) | Cross-platform | LGPL | Free |
| Google Translate | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware | Free |
| Bing Translator | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware | Free |
| SYSTRAN | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware | Free |
| GramTrans | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware | Free |
| Promt | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware | Free |
| SDL International | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware/Human translation | Free Automatic Translation / Human Translation 0.20$ per word |
| Babylon | Windows, Mac | Paid | Depend on license (from 34$ to 89$ for one license) |
| Web Lite SWeTE | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Free Version | Free Automatic Translation / Human Translations also available |
| MetaMorpho | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware | Free |
| IdiomaX | Windows, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile | Paid | Depends on configuration |
| Name | Latest stable release | Source availability | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia OnlineLanguage Studio | 2.1 | No | Language Studio is a server platform for mass scale translation designed as well as a set of desktop tools to aid in translation. |
| Apertium | 3.1.1 | Yes | Rule-based, shallow transfer; all programs and language data are free and open source |
| Matxin | 1.3.0 | Yes | Rule-based, deep transfer; programs and some language data are free and open source |
| WorldLingo | ? | No | Uses both Rules based and Statistics based TEs |
| OpenLogos | 1.0.3 | Yes | rule-based, deep transfer |
| Moses (machine translation) | 2008-07-11 | Yes | Drop-in replacement for Pharaoh, features factored translation models and decoding of confusion networks. |
| Google Translate | Beta | No | Statistical |
| Bing Translator | Final | No | Microsoft’s linguistically informed statistical MT system |
| SYSTRAN | ? | No | Rule-based |
| GramTrans | ? | No | Rule-based, using Constraint Grammar |
| Promt | 9.0 | No | Rule-based |
| SDL International | ? | No | |
| Babylon | 7.5.2 | No | |
| Web Lite SWeTE | 1.0 | No | |
| MetaMorpho | ? | No | |
| IdiomaX | 6.0 | No | Rule-based |
References
- Apertium wiki (list of language pairs and licence information)
- Bing Translator Language List
- Haitian Creole support in Bing/Microsoft Translator
- Microsoft Research: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT
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