key people svetlana sokolova products machine translation systems website www.promt.com www.online translator.com promt from project mt the project of machine translation is a russian company focused upon the development of machine translation systems . at the moment promt translators exist for english german french spanish italian portuguese and russian languages . promt is headquartered in saint petersburg russia and also has offices in moscow russia san francisco the usa and hamburg germany . 1 except the system of machine translation promt also delivers its own solutions on the basis of the translation memory technology . 2 contents 1 history 2 technology 3 online translator.com 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit the company was founded in st. petersburg in 1991 by the former employees of laboratory of engineering linguistics of herzen university . svetlana sokolova is the head of the company from its first day . 3 on october 6 1998 promt launches the first russian web service translate.ru intended for translation of the text or a web pages . 4 it also has an english version online translator http www.online translator.com . 5 in 1997 promt together with the french company softissimo develops a number of products for the western market called reverso . 6 in 2008 the company controlling stake has been redeemed by renova group . the sum of transaction is not disclosed but according to renova the total amount of the world market of a translation service for the companies valued in 2007 at 9 10 billion promt sales are 2 % from this sum that is 180 200 million . hence by evaluations of one of observers of the market who wanted to remain unnamed cost of the packet acquired by renova is no more than 20 40 million . 7 technology edit promt translation is a rule based machine translation rbmt . 8 rbmt is a machine translation system based on linguistic information about source and target languages basically retrieved from bilingual dictionaries and grammars covering the main semantic morphological and syntactic regularities of each language respectively . 9 having input sentences in some source language an rbmt system generates them to output sentences in some target language on the basis of morphological syntactic and semantic analysis of both the source and the target languages involved in a concrete translation task . at the end of 2010 of promt provided the hybrid technology of translation leverages the strengths of statistical machine translation and rule based translation methodologies . 10 the approaches differ in a number of ways rules post processed by statistics translations are performed using a rules based engine . statistics are then used in an attempt to adjust correct the output from the rules engine . statistics guided by rules rules are used to pre process data in an attempt to better guide the statistical engine . rules are also used to post process the statistical output to perform functions such as normalization . this approach has a lot more power flexibility and control when translating . online translator.com edit online translator.com is an english version of the web service intended for translation of texts and web pages . it was launched by promt on the 6th of march 1998 . 11 every day online translator.com provides translation to 70.000 people . 12 online translator.com uses promt technology 13 and provides rule based machine translation 14 unlike google translator which uses statistical machine translation . 15 see also edit asia online comparison of machine translation applications babylon google translate omniscien technologies sdl trados systran yandex.translate references edit promt team . promt.com . retrieved november 23 2011 . translation memory . promt.com . retrieved november 23 2011 . quintura blog blog archive renova capital to acquire promt machine translation software company . blog.quintura.com . retrieved november 23 2011 . translate.ru . translate.ru.siteaero.com . march 6 1998 . retrieved november 23 2011 . promt free online translator and dictionary english german french spanish italian portuguese brazilian and russian languages . online translator.com . retrieved november 23 2011 . end users products translation software reverso promt . reverso softissimo . retrieved november 23 2011 . http eng.cnews.ru news top printen.shtml 2008 06 25 306445 promt 9.0 product family details taus enabling better translation . translationautomation.com . retrieved november 23 2011 . natural language processing december 13 2009 . rule based machine translation . language.worldofcomputing.net . retrieved november 23 2011 . news svarog capital . svarogcapital.com . october 4 2010 . retrieved november 23 2011 . translate.ru promt internet solutions promt free online translator and dictionary english german french spanish italian portuguese brazilian and russian languages multilingual computing inc. article inside google translate google 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