ProMT is a lead Russian developer of

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software for businesses and private users since 1991. The company provides

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based on neural technologies.

History

On March 6, 1998, ProMT launched a free online translation services, which is now known as PROMT.One. In 1997, ProMT and the French company Softissimo developed a line of products for the European company Reverso.

Technology

Historically, ProMT systems used

rule-based machine translation Rule-based machine translation (RBMT) is a classical approach of machine translation systems based on linguistic information about source and target languages. Such information is retrieved from (unilingual, bilingual or multilingual) dictionaries ...

(RBMT) technology. In 2011 a hybrid approach which combined rule-based and

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MT was implemented. In 2019, ProMT introduced its new neural technology and flagship solution - PROMT Neural Translation Server. Since then all MT systems developed by ProMT are based on

neural machine translation Neural machine translation (NMT) is an approach to machine translation that uses an artificial neural network to predict the likelihood of a sequence of words, typically modeling entire sentences in a single integrated model. It is the dominant a ...

. The software can run on

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and

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and works in offline mode providing secure machine translation. As of 2025, it translates 62 languages from and to English, German, and Russian.

References

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History

Technology

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