OpenLogos

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This is the Open Source version of the Logos Machine Translation System (MT), developed by Logos Corporation. Logos was one of the earliest, production-scale machine translation systems. Like the Logos System, OpenLogos admits different formats of documents and maintains the format of the original document in translation.

Logos does not claim to replace human translators; rather, it aims to enhance the professional translator's work environment.

1 History
2 Languages
3 Historical competitors
4 See also
5 Bibliography
6 External links

[edit] History

Logos Corporation was founded by Bernard (Bud) Scott in 1970 and worked on its Logos System for thirty years, until the company's disolution in 2000. Everything began with an English-Vietnamese translation system which became operational in 1972 (during the American-Vietnamese war). Thereafter, the Logos System was developed as a multi-target translation solution, with English and German as source languages. Recently the DFKI has been working in an open version of the original Logos program: OpenLogos. Today this tool is meant to be one of the most important ones and a real competitor to other major MT systems such as Systran or IBM's WebSphere. Its landmark are both its accuracy and the fact that it does not discard the need of a human translator. This new version works with Linux and is available for individuals, universities, translators...completely for free (yet under a license).

[edit] Languages

Up to this point the OpenLogos MT only translates from German and English into the most important European languages (French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese). The main aim is to provide a translation service among all of them.

[edit] Historical competitors

SYSTRAN Language Translation Technologies [1]
SDL International [2] and its free translator [3]
Intergraph [4]
Siemens' METAL MT [5]

[edit] See also

[edit] Bibliography

Bernard (Bud) Scott: "The Logos Model: An Historical Perspective", in Machine Translation, vol. 18 (2003), [6] pp. 1-72
Linguistic and computational motivations for the LOGOS machine translation system, by Bernard E. Scott [7]
OpenLogos introduction by Bernard (Bud) Scott in OpenLogos Mt-list (mailing list) [8]
The Logos Model: An Historical Perspective by Bernard (Bud) Scott [9]