SYSTRAN

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SYSTRAN ( SYS tem TRAN slation) is a software system for machine translation that was developed by Peter Toma in the 1960s and has been expanded many times since then. SYSTRAN is being developed and marketed by the company of the same name. SYSTRAN software has been used over time by the United States Air Force , NASA , the European Commission, and online services like Babel Fish and Google .

history

Born in Hungary, Peter Toma began developing software for machine translation from Russian into English in 1956 at the California Institute of Technology on a Datatron 205, the institute's first computer. He later worked at Georgetown University , where the Serna system was created, which also translated Russian texts into English. In 1962 Toma founded his own company, which created the Autotran and Technotran systems, specializing in Russian-English translations in the fields of nuclear energy and medicine.

In the mid-1960s Toma worked in Germany, where he programmed the Systran prototype on IBM 360 computers with the support of the German Research Foundation .

In 1968 Toma founded Latsec in La Jolla , California , which Systran developed for the United States Air Force . Russian scientific and technical documents were translated into English at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio . In the mid-1970s, Systran was used by NASA as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project operated in partnership with the Soviet Union .

In 1975 the European Commission started using Systran as an automatic translation system. To this end, a contract was signed with Toma's new company, World Translation Center (WTC). The Commission's translation service developed numerous translation systems for Systran between the different languages ​​of the later EU (then European Communities ).

In 1986 the World Systran Conference took place in Luxembourg, organized by the European Commission. In the same year, French entrepreneur Jean Gachot Tomas acquired World Translation Center and Latsec, as well as the German Systran Institute. Gachot simplified the company structure and in 1989 founded the company SYSTRAN SA, head of the international SYSTRAN group.

In 2014, SYSTRAN was bought by the Korean company CSLi, which then changed its name to SYSTRAN International.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hugo Bonnaffé: SYSTRAN - Translation Revolutionized Through Neural Networks. OVH News, April 3, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e An Introduction to Machine Translation - 10th Systran . W. John Hutchins and Harold L. Somers, London, Academic Press, 1992. ISBN 0-12-362830-X (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d Dr Peter Toma: Systran's Contribution to Mankind . Terminologie et Traduction, no.1, 1986 (English)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Toma explains why he sold Systran rights . Language Monthly, April 1986 (English)
  5. ↑ Foreign language translation by computer: Systran without a “poetic streak” . Computer Week , March 18, 1977
  6. ↑ SYSTRAN Annual Financial Report 2013 on the SYSTRAN website
  7. ↑ Korean CSLi Acquire French SYSTRAN . Business Wire , May 28, 2014