Language Weaver and across Systems Announce Bundled Translation Package
11/29/07 – Los Angeles-based Language Weaver, developer of software for automatic language translation, and across Systems GmbH, a provider of corporate translation management systems, have announced the joint development of a specially-priced, bundled software package that will support German/English translation of documents in industrial manufacturing. The companies say the translation management software bundle can deliver translation productivity increases for companies operating in mechanical engineering, construction, automotive manufacturing and plant construction industries.
The focus of the combined Language Weaver and across bundle is to translate online help texts, printed service manuals and marketing materials into multiple languages for businesses that operate internationally.
The companies, which first announced their partnership in late June, claim their collaboration marks the first time that two vendors have worked together to develop an integrated solution providing all translation approaches—human translation supported by translation memories on the one hand and automated machine translation on the other—for multiple companies in similar industries, simultaneously.
Language Weaver and across expect to have the product ready for general delivery in early 2008. It will be marketed by across Systems internationally. The companies also say they plan to develop additional software packages for other domains and additional languages, to be introduced over the next year.
Language Weaver says its statistical machine translation software offers an established solution and a departure from traditional complex, linguistics rule-based machine translation by producing fluent, natural sounding translations based on what it calls “statistical likelihoods.”
The software is able to learn automatically from existing translated documents to produce what Language Weaver calls the “highest probability translation output,” potentially saving customers time and money by automating the process of translating new documents, according to Language Weaver.
The company was founded in 2002 and is based on research and development done at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute. It claims it has more than 50 patents pending on its technology. It also operates a subsidiary user-generated news web site, called Kontrib, which uses Language Weaver’s technology to automatically translate stories that are originally posted in multiple languages.
The company is backed by Palisades Ventures, the Tech Coast Angels and the Athenaeum Fund.
Language Weaver – www.languageweaver.com
