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Systran




SYSTRAN provides the technology for Yahoo! , AltaVista 's ( Babel Fish ) and Google 's online translation services, among others.

Commercial versions of SYSTRAN run under Microsoft Windows (including Windows Mobile ), Linux and Solaris .


HISTORY


With roots in the Georgetown MT effort, SYSTRAN was one of the few machine translation
systems to survive the major cut in funding after the ALPAC Report came out in the
mid-1960's. The company was set up in La Jolla , California to work on Russian
into English for the United States Air Force in the middle of the Cold War .

The company was sold in 1986 to the Gachot family, based in Paris , France ,
and is now a publicly traded company on the French stock exchange. It has a main office
at the Grande Arche in La Defense and maintains a secondary office in La Jolla.


LANGUAGES


Here is a list of the source and target languages SYSTRAN works with.
Many of the pairs are to or from English or French.

  • Russian into English (1968)

  • English into Russian (1973) for the Apollo-Soyuz project

  • English source (1975) for the European Commission

  • Arabic

  • Chinese

  • Danish

  • Dutch

  • Finnish

  • French

  • German

  • Greek

  • Hindi

  • Italian

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Norwegian

  • Serbo-Croatian

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

  • Persian

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

  • Ukrainian

  • Urdu



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