History
Logos Corporation was founded by Bernard (Bud) Scott in 1970, who worked on its Logos System for thirty years, until the company's dissolution in 2000. Everything began with an English-Vietnamese translation system, which became operational in 1972 (during the American-Vietnam 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 on 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 under the GNU GPL license.
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