White Papers

 A Brief Guide to PROMT Machine Translation Technology (PDF format, 109K)

This white paper focuses on PROMT machine translation technology. It provides a background of machine translation (MT), the advantages of MT technology used by PROMT, functionality, types of translation demands, and PROMT customization tools.

"MT systems work with natural language - a data set that is infinitely variable, ambiguous, and structurally complex. To translate adequately, an MT system must encode knowledge of hundreds of syntactic patterns, variations, and exceptions, as well as relationships among these patterns. Machine translation software should be equipped with ever-changing vocabulary and specific semantic knowledge about the usage patterns of tens of thousands of words. The system must ensure the accurate identification of parts of speech and the grammatical characteristics of words which may, in different contexts, be nouns, verbs, or adjectives, each having many possible translations. Translation also requires a vast store of knowledge about the world, the intent of the communication, and the subject matter.”