OpenLogos

OpenLogos is a free software (GPL ) for rule-based machine translation of human language. The Global Safeware AG also sells commercial licenses for the software. It is intended as an auxiliary tool for professional human translators. It is the free version of the machine translation system logos, one of the oldest and most durable machine translation systems in the world.

It was developed by the U.S. logos Corporation with the help of additional development teams from Germany and Italy.

Features

OpenLogos translated from the English or German language in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. In the future it should be possible unidirectional translations between all supported languages.

Technology

OpenLogos can be used both as a server as well as by a command line program. To OpenLogos includes both a graphical user interface for multi-user applications as well as a comprehensive tool for managing and adapting the translation resources to the user requirements.

History

Logos has been developed since 1967. Logos Corporation was founded in 1970 by Bernard ( Bud) Scott, who worked for 30 years at his Logos- system until the company was acquired in 2000 by the Group AG. The software began as a translation system for the language combination English- Vietnamese and was in this form in 1972 ( during the Vietnam War ) operational. It was then extended to multiple target languages ​​and added German as source language. The system was designed for the Windows operating systems to an Oracle database. In 2005, the DFKI started at a free open source port based on Linux with a PostgreSQL database under the name OpenLogos. It is now revealed one of the most important and is measured at par with other major machine translation systems such as IBM's WebSphere or SYSTRAN.

The first open source Linux version was released in October 2005. It is not yet fully compilable for AMD64 in version 1.0.0. In September 2010, the project moved to SourceForge.