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TranSphere™

Concept
Machine Translation is the use of computer software to translate text from one natural language into another. This definition accounts for the grammatical structure of each language and uses rules and assumptions to transfer the grammatical structure of the source language (text to be translated) into the target language (translated text).

Approach
TranSphere™ has been designed and implemented by utilizing natural language high-level linguistic programming tools in the Lexical Functional Grammar paradigm. The programming language has been used to create data tables containing linguistic symbol definitions, lexical entries, linguistic rules (for analysis, transfer, and generation), and other control tables, which are then compiled into the file system. The high-level programming language is compiled using the ANSI C programming language, which provides a robust and powerful tool for the computational linguist to focus efforts on MT development while providing maximum portability across various platforms and operating systems. The system provides integrated hardware and software solutions that will:

Analyze semantic, morphological and syntactic structures and produce the output translation.
Function as a fully automated Machine Translation system.
Utilize a general-purpose lexicon.
Access special domains micro-dictionaries pertaining to such domains as Computer, Aviation, Military, Telecommunications, Economics, Diplomacy, Nuclear, Drug, Chemical, Law Enforcement and Business.
Provide users with options to define the stacking of those dictionaries.
Support a workstation based solution with a client-server architecture.
Support a Vocabulary Search Utility to identify words not in the systems dictionaries.
Support a Dictionary Maintenance Utility to add user’s own defined words.
Produce Latin-character-dropped -words for those unfound in dictionary.
Interface with a Text Management System.
Interface with an OCR and a spell checker.
Interface with an ASR and TTS to produce Speech -to-Speech Machine Translation.

These tools can be modules in an integrated translation and editing environment compatible with existing platforms, email and office applications. They are part of the overall environment in the English source as well as the telecommunication needs of a bilingual translation, editing and electronic publishing in a global multi-site organization. The issues pertaining to the timeliness, quality of translated content and the productivity of the translation and editing teams will be optimally enhanced with the use of MT.

Features
Capacity and Speed
A human translator can translate about 2,000 to 3,000 words a day. TranSphere™ translates thousands of words per minute.

Cost
Human translation costs anywhere from US $ 20 cents to US $ 60 cents per word. TranSphere™ pays for itself within the first year of use.

End-user Products
TranSphere™ is available in several versions.
Standalone
Client /Server
Web Trans Server
     TranSphere™ also has the following optional add-ons:
     Office + MS-web translator.
     Third Party Integration API.
     Term Substitution.
     TranSphere™ is integrated with:
     Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
     Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
     Text-to-Speech (TTS)
     Speech-to -Speech MT (Both ASR & TTS)

Languages Available: Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Persian\Dari, Pashto Bahasa, Tagalog and Turkish, Also AppTek provides a line of European languages pairs: German, Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Dutch with English, as well. Urdu/English translation capabilities are currently under development.

Please, contact George N. Hallak for Multi-License pricing and customized solutions