EU sponsors Machine translation

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According to ospint.com, PROMT has started developing the first machine translation system for a language spoken by less than 10 million people.

According to the article, the EU has funded the project which creates a MT-solution for English-Lithuanian. Generally, investment into language-pairs that are spoken by a few million people only is not profitable. However, with the EU-funding, PROMT currently works on a MT-software solution that it said will be launched to the Lithuanians by the end of 2007. Similar projects may be carried out for citizens of other small European countries and become PROMT's new source of income.

Apart from the translation system, the project provides the creation of tools for development of linguistic resources in the Lithuanian language.

According to Vaidas Repecka, project manager at the Center of Computational Linguistics of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), Kaunas, the service will be free of charge. There will be built either a special public website with translation forms or freeware additional modules compatible with all types of browsers.

Moreover, the article continues, PROMT expects that similar projects will be supported by the EU, which has allocated around US million for the development of the English-Lithuanian language pair.

source: ospint.com