When it comes to rule-based machine translation (RBMT), two machine translation (MT) systems have been the major players in the market for quite some time: PROMT and SYSTRAN. PROMT, the younger of the two, was founded in Russia in 1991. With its latest offering, PROMT 9, the company has focused not on expanding the language combinations offered but on improving the quality of its existing ones, notably English, French, German, Spanish and Russian. The tool is aimed at savvy users who will be able to exploit all of the possibilities offered by the suite for RBMT. For language service providers (LSPs) ... To read this entire article you must be a MultiLingual subscriber. For immediate access to the current issue, subscribe to the digital version. Already a subscriber?

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