General Information
Basic general information for popular Machine translation applications.
| Name | Platform | License | Price | Latest stable release | Source availability | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Online
Language Studio |
Windows, Linux, Web | Commercial | Depends on configuration. | 2.1 | No | Language Studio is a server platform for mass scale translation designed as well as a set of desktop tools to aid in translation. Language Studio is a hybrid rules-based and Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) platform. | |
| Apertium | Unix compatible Precompiled packages available for Debian |
GPL | Free | 3.1.1 | Yes | Rule-based, shallow transfer; all programs and language data are free and open source | |
| Anusaaraka | Unix compatible | GPL | Free | 0.50 | Yes | Rule-based, deep parser based, paninian framework based; all programs and language data are free and open source | |
| Carabao Language Kit | Cross-platform web service or embedded Windows | Commercial | $10,000 (server) + $5,000 per language model | 2.0.0.0 | No | Hybrid semantically aware interlingua MT; language models can be reused for morphological analysis, crosslingual retrieval, entity extraction, question answering | |
| IBM | Cross-platform |
Commercial | Commercial | ? | No | Both rule-based and statistical models developed by IBM Research. Only the rule-based engine is available as a product, WebSpere Translation Server. | |
| LNISOFT | Cross-platform |
Commercial | Commercial | 5.0 | No | Hybrid, statistical syntactic parsing model for syntactic transfer, bidirectional translation model training for lexical generation | |
| Matxin | Unix compatible | GPL | Free | 1.3.0 | Yes | Rule-based, deep transfer; programs and some language data are free and open source | |
| WorldLingo | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware | Free | ? | No | Uses both Rules based and Statistics based TEs | |
| OpenLogos | Windows, Linux | GPL or Paid
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Free or not | 1.0.3 | Yes | rule-based, deep transfer | |
| Moses (machine translation) | Cross-platform | LGPL | Free | 2008-07-11 | Yes | Drop-in replacement for Pharaoh, features factored translation models and decoding of confusion networks. | |
| NiuTrans | Cross-platform | GPL | Free | 1.1.0 | Yes | Competitive performance for Chinese-Foreign translation tasks, statistical Machine Translation and already supported phrase-based, hierarchical phrase-based and syntax-based (string-to-tree, tree-to-string and tree-to-tree) models for research-oriented studies. | |
| Google Translate | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Paid | Free | Beta | No | Statistical | |
| Bing Translator | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Commercial | Free | Final | No | ||
| SAIC Omnifluent | Windows, Linux, Web, i0S | Commercial License, Server, SaaS | Depends on configuration | 3.0 | No | Hybrid Machine Translation combines rule-based machine translation and statistical machine translation, integrated with automatic speech recognition on a single platform that translates text and audio files. | |
| SYSTRAN | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Commercial | $200 (desktop) - $15,000 and up (enterprise server) | Version 7 | No | Hybrid rules-based and SMT | |
| GramTrans | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware | Free | ? | No | Rule-based, using Constraint Grammar | |
| Promt | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Commercial | Commercial | 9.5 | No | Hybrid rules-based and SMT | |
| SDL Language Weaver | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Commercial | Commercial | ? | No | ||
| Babylon | Windows, Mac | Paid | Depend on license (from 34$ to 89$ for one license) | 9.0 | No | Prompts to install the Babylon Toolbar, a browser hijacker which is difficult to remove. | |
| Web Lite SWeTE | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Free Version | Free Automatic Translation / Human Translations also available | 1.0 | No | ||
| MetaMorpho | Cross-platform (Web application) |
Freeware | Free | ? | No | ||
| IdiomaX | Windows, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile | Paid | Depends on configuration | 6.0 | No | Rule-based | |
| Translation Experts | Windows | ? | Depends on configuration | ? | No |
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