Language Weaver, a leading software company developing
enterprise software for the automated translation of human languages,
today announced it signed a partnership agreement with Cross Language
n.v. to become an authorized competence center for Language Weaver's
European and multinational corporate enterprise customers. Cross
Language will provide consultation and training services for the
customization, integration and deployment of Language Weaver's
automated translation systems.
The alliance expands Language Weaver's support in the
international localization industry and business-to-business services
market, and broadens capabilities and language offerings for Cross
Language. Cross Language has typically worked with rule-based machine
translation technologies; this marks the first time it has shifted its
approach to support statistically-driven translation. The
collaboration leverages Cross Language's experience and skills in
translation memory, linguistic analysis and terminology management
with Language Weaver's unique customization capabilities to build
rapidly evolving translation systems that result in translations
approaching first draft human quality.
"We are confident Cross Language will do an excellent job of
representing Language Weaver in Europe," said Bryce Benjamin, CEO of
Language Weaver. "Their practical skills, clear focus and long-term
experience with enterprise customers complement our advanced
technology and experience with government clients. This alliance
allows us to grow much faster in Europe and the multinational
corporate marketplace."
Cross Language has installed a complete Language Weaver
translation system with all language modules and utilities necessary
to provide full customization services. Cross Language will also
provide integration of the translation engine into other enterprise
software systems such as translation workflow and content management
systems. Their employees have been trained to do customizations and to
teach customers how to customize for specialized vocabulary and styles
found in industry niches. The two organizations will collaborate
closely to ensure they deliver the highest quality translations
capable for customers.
According to Heidi Depraetere, director and founding partner of
Cross Language, Cross Language has experienced growing demand in the
enterprise market for real-time translation. She asserts that in the
past 10 years, many companies have accumulated high quality
translation memory databases that could enable the rapid customization
of their translations if the Language Weaver technology is tuned to
the unique requirements of the company.
"Our customers rely on us to provide the best integration of
translation technologies and customization. Language Weaver's
technology, with customization capabilities utilizing previous
translations, is uniquely qualified to respond to this growing market
requirement," Depraetere said. "Its unique advantage, compared to
traditional machine translation systems, is that it can be customized
rapidly and at lower cost. The translation output in general is more
fluent than what we have been used to. And, of course, we are happy to
have a much broader range of language pairs available to us so that we
can better support our industrial clients and new markets in central
Europe."
Cross Language offers complete translation automation solutions.
The company has a dedicated staff providing linguistic customization,
implementation, software hosting, program management and consulting
services.
About Cross Language n.v.
Cross Language is a dedicated system integrator and consultancy
company for language and translation technologies. The company,
headquartered in Belgium, works with customers in Europe, North
America and Asia. Cross Language brings together skills for
customization of machine translation and translation workflow systems,
system integration, software hosting, training, technical support,
program management and consulting. Website: http://www.crosslang.com/
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 18 language offerings. Website:
www.languageweaver.com
