OpenLogos is an open source program that translates from
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
and
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ge ...
into
French,
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
,
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
and
Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
. It accepts various document formats and maintains the format of the original document in translation. OpenLogos does not claim to replace human translators; rather, it aims to enhance the human translator's work environment.
The OpenLogos program is based on the Logos Machine Translation System, one of the earliest commercial
machine translation
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programs. The original program was developed by Logos Corporation in the United States, with additional development teams in Germany and Italy.
History
Logos Corporation was founded by Bernard (Bud) Scott in 1970, who worked on its Logos Machine Translation System until the company's dissolution in 2000. The project began as an English-Vietnamese translation system, which became operational in 1972 (during the American-
Vietnam War
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), and later was developed as a multi-target translation solution, with English and German as source languages. Recently, the
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (German: ''Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz'', DFKI) is one of the world's largest nonprofit contract research institutes for software technology based on artificial in ...
has been working on OpenLogos, a
Linux
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-compatible version of the original Logos program released under the
GNU GPL license.
Languages
Currently, OpenLogos translates from German and English into French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. In the long term, the goal of OpenLogos developers is to support bidirectional translation among these languages.
Historical competitors
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SYSTRAN Language Translation Technologies
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SDL International and its free translator
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Intergraph
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Siemens'
METAL MT
See also
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Apertium
Apertium is a free/open-source rule-based machine translation platform. It is free software and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Overview
Apertium is a shallow-transfer machine translation system, which uses finite ...
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Comparison of machine translation applications
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General information
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Languages features compariso ...
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Moses
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Weidner
Bibliography
* Anabela Barreiro, Johanna Monti, Brigitte Orliac, Susanne Preuß, Kutz Arrieta, Wang Ling, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso
"Linguistic Evaluation of Support Verb Constructions by OpenLogos and Google Translate" In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 35–40, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014
* Anabela Barreiro, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso
"OpenLogos Semantico-Syntactic Knowledge-Rich Bilingual Dictionaries" In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 3774–3781, May 2014
* Anabela Barreiro, Bernard Scott, Walter Kasper, Bernd Kiefer
"OpenLogos Rule-Based Machine Translation: Philosophy, Model, Resources and Customization" Machine Translation, volume 25 number 2, Pages 107–126, Springer, Heidelberg, 2011. ,
* Bernard Scott, Anabela Barreiro
"OpenLogos MT and the SAL representation language" In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation / Edited by Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Francis M. Tyers. Alicante, Spain: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos. 2–3 November 2009, pp. 19–26
* Bernard Scott
"The Logos Model: An Historical Perspective" in ''Machine Translation'', vol. 18 (2003), pp. 1–72
* Bernard Scott
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ttp://www.mail-archive.com/mt-list@eamt.org/msg00900.html OpenLogos ''introduction''by Bernard (Bud) Scott in OpenLogos Mt-list (mailing list)
* Bernard Scott
''Translation, Brains and the Computer. A Neurolinguistic Solution to Ambiguity and Complexity in Machine Translation'' Machine Translation: Technologies and Applications 2, Springer 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-76628-7, pp. 3-241
External links
Official WebsiteSourceForge Project PageCreator's technical overview as of February 26, 2012 (Wayback Machine, accessed April 17, 2021)
Free software programmed in C++
Machine translation software
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