Language Weaver, a leading software company developing enterprise
software for automated translation of human languages, and Reverso
(formerly Softissimo), a European leader in corporate and Web
translation solutions, have signed a strategic partnership agreement.
The Reverso alliance expands Language Weaver´s presence in the
international business-to-business translation services market with a
high degree of service, and adds new technology and additional
language pairs to Reverso´s instant translation offerings. Language
Weaver technologies will be included in Reverso´s corporate offering,
which combines translation technologies, interfaces, dictionaries,
tools and services tailored to needs of customers. Language Weaver,
which already has an office in Belgium, recently added another sales
and operations office in France that will help to support the
relationship.
Theo Hoffenberg, CEO of Reverso, stated: "We´re glad to benefit
from the huge R & D effort and the highly-skilled team of Language
Weaver and their cutting-edge technologies. We´re convinced that
through this new partnership we will strengthen our position to offer
the best of breed in translation technologies and solutions. It offers
us a very broad coverage of languages and ability to address new
markets."
Reverso´s software is available for PC, Internet and Intranet
platforms, complemented by professional linguistic services. Reverso
provides technical support and maintenance services, as well as
additional electronic dictionaries with user-friendly interfaces and
robust search features.
"Our statistical machine translation systems have great potential
in Europe, especially in specific domain applications," said Dr.
Daniel Marcu, founder and chief technical officer at Language Weaver.
"We needed a partner with strong marketing and technical experience in
the field to expand our operations rapidly. Reverso brings us more
than 10 years´ experience as well as additional market and
technological components to facilitate global success of our
technologies."
About Language Weaver, Inc.
Language Weaver was founded in 2002 to commercialize a unique
approach to automatic language translation using proprietary
statistical translation algorithms that resulted from research and
development at the University of Southern California´s Information
Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Its resulting product, statistical
machine translation software (SMTS), provides the highest quality
output to date in automated translation. Language Weaver´s translation
systems produce fluent, natural sounding translations and save
customers money and time through automation of the translation
process. The company has more than 50 patents pending on its SMTS
technology worldwide. Language Weaver licenses a server version of its
software, currently available for 47 language offerings.
Website: www.languageweaver.com.
About Reverso
Reverso has been providing instant translation and electronic
dictionary solutions to corporations, governments and the consumer
market for the last 10 years. It has over five million users on the
Web and an installed base of over three million users in the corporate
environment, including prestigious global customers such as L´Oreal,
Societe Generale, Total, Schneider, Robert Bosch as well as large
government bodies and international institutions. Website:
www.reverso.com.
