Presentation Prompsit Apertium Oswc 2012
1 like66 views
This document discusses Prompsit, a company that provides machine translation services using the open-source Apertium platform. Prompsit was spun off from the Transducens group at the University of Alicante in Spain. It aims to make multilingualism accessible to all users, budgets, and languages by offering innovative services based on free/open-source software rather than traditional "black-box" products. The document outlines Prompsit's business model and participation in programs like Google Summer of Code to expand the Apertium platform.
Presentation Prompsit Apertium Oswc 2012
- 1. OSWC 2012 - Granada - Spain 1 Prompsit: free linguistic technologies for translation Gema Ramírez Sánchez Prompsit Language Engineering Campus UMH. Quorum III building Avinguda de la Universitat s/n 03202, Elx (Alacant) Spain
- 2. OSWC 2012 - Granada - Spain 2 Prompsit in brief Prompsit: spin-off fromTransducens group (UA) Area: machine translation + open source Technology: the FOSS Apertium platform Business model: innovative services vs. black- boxed traditional products Team: computer + linguists Aim: multilingualism = reality within reach for all users, budgets and languages
- 3. OSWC 2012 - Granada - Spain 3 Motivation Take advantage of the know-how created in the Transducens group over 6 years Commercialise services around the Apertium open source machine translation platform Revolutionise the translation and language technologies market according to the collaborative development model powered by free software
- 4. OSWC 2012 - Granada - Spain 4 But, is machine translation useful? Yes, of course it is Although some instruction manuals are not good examples Useful to understand a text Useful to obtain a draft useful for publication (after a compulsory revision) There is so much content to be translated and it could be so efficiently managed with the aid of technologies!!
- 5. OSWC 2012 - Granada - Spain 5 The Apertium platform Translation engine, tools and data for language pairs: EVERYTHING is GPL More than 28 language pairs already running (more on the way!!) A world-wide developers community Fast, based on standards, modular, 100% customisable
- 6. OSWC 2012 - Granada - Spain 6 Apertium@Google Summer of Code Three consecutive years participating in Google Summer of Code programme 9 participants by year Two consecutive years participating in the Google Code-In programme 150 tasks by year
- 7. OSWC 2012 - Granada - Spain 7 Apertium-based Prompsit's services Translation servers for corporate environments Adaptation to particular domains (Tourism) or language variants (Portuguese of Brazil) New language pairs (Spanish-Slovenian) Development of plugins, new modules and auxiliary tools for Apertium Consulting and training in language technologies and free software
- 8. OSWC 2012 - Granada - Spain 8 Distinguishing features Customisation vs. black boxes Trust vs. technological dependency Open platform, focus in minority languages Generation of opportunities for companies, individuals and researchers “Work as a network” model Upgrade maintenance
- 9. Success case studies DG-T European Commission
- 10. OSWC 2012 - Granada - Spain 10 Prompsit: free linguistic technologies for translation Visit us: www.prompsit.com Write to us: gramirez@prompsit.com Follow us: http://twitter.com/prompsit