1 is one of the oldest machine translation companies . systran has done extensive work for the united states department of defense and the european commission . systran provides the technology for yahoo babel fish among others . it was used by google s language tools until 2007 . 2 systran is used by the dashboard translation widget in os x. commercial versions of systran can run on microsoft windows including windows mobile linux and solaris . historically systran systems used rule based machine translation rbmt technology . with the release of systran server 7 in 2010 systran implemented a hybrid rule based statistical machine translation smt technology which was the first of its kind in the marketplace . 3 as of 2008 update the company had 59 employees of whom 26 are computational experts and 15 computational linguists . 4 the number of employees decreased from 70 in 2006 to 59 in 2008 . 4 contents 1 history 2 business situation 3 languages 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit with its origin in the georgetown machine translation effort systran was one of the few machine translation systems to survive the major decrease of funding after the alpac report of the mid 1960s . the company was established in la jolla in california to work on translation of russian to english text for the united states air force during the cold war . large numbers of russian scientific and technical documents were translated using systran under the auspices of the usaf foreign technology division later the national air and space intelligence center at wright patterson air force base ohio . the quality of the translations although only approximate was usually adequate for understanding content . the company was sold in 1986 to the gachot family based in paris and is now traded publicly on the french stock exchange . its company headquarters is in paris while its u.s. headquarters is still in la jolla . during the dot com boom the international language industry started a new era and systran entered into agreements with a number of translation integrators the most successful of these being worldlingo . citation needed in 2014 the company was acquired by csli korea . 5 business situation edit most of systran s revenue comes from a few customers . 57.1 % comes from the 10 main customers and the three largest customers account for 10.9 % 8.9 % and 8.9 % of its revenues respectively . 4 revenues had been declining in the early 2000s 10.2 million euros in 2004 10.1 million euros in 2005 9.3 million euros in 2006 8.8 million euros in 2007 and 7.6 million euros in 2008 4 before seeing a rebound in 2009 with 8.6 million euros . 6 languages edit the following is a list of the source and target languages with which systran works . many of the pairs are to or from english or french . russian into english 1968 english into russian 1973 for the apollo soyuz project english source 1975 for the european commission arabic chinese danish dutch french german greek hindi italian japanese korean norwegian spanish swedish persian polish portuguese see also edit asia online bilingual dictionary bing translator comparison of machine translation applications google translate idiomax omniscien technologies promt references edit systran past and present https lilab.unibas.ch staff tenhacken applied cl 3 systran 3 systran.html history google switches to its own language system google operating system october 2007 grunwald david . inside systran training server 7 . gts . retrieved may 2011 . check date values in access date help a b c d systran annual financial report 2008 pdf . systran . 2008 . retrieved 2012 04 04 . http english.hani.co.kr arti english edition e business 639506.html systran annual financial report 2009 pdf . systran . 2009 . p. 63 . retrieved 2012 04 04 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title systran & oldid 742275298 categories machine translationhidden categories cs1 errors datesarticles containing potentially dated statements from 2008all articles containing potentially dated statementsall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from november 2009 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages e tinaespa olfran ais italiano o zbekcha portugu ssloven inasuomi edit links this page was last modified on 2 october 2016 at 19 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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