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Asia Online is the first technology supplier to have addressed the need to develop a statistical machine translation (SMT) solution in Asia for often data-poor Asian languages. Building on an initial set of technology that has its roots in the open source Moses engine, Asia Online has used this technical knowledge to develop a comprehensive commercial enterprise-class SMT-as-a-service platform.

Asia Online is also a large-scale user of machine translation in its own Asian context, enabling it to learn about and develop solutions to challenging translation and quality issues.

Overall, the company’s main thrust is to encourage the development of SMT engines by combining intensive human work with machine processing in a virtuous circle. By concentrating on this process in the initial ramp-up period, Asia Online offers higher quality, better-tuned engines in the subsequent stages of its development. It is therefore interested in building an ecosystem of partners and users to develop a broad range of high quality engines/language pairs.

Asia Online’s Language Studio Pro (LSPro) portfolio of translation automation products was announced in 2009 and launched in 2010 targeting LSPs and large organization end users. It has been designed from the start to offer a suite of tools that provide solutions for different parts of the language industry work flow, from managing projects, clients and partners to translators and posteditors, all in a seamless whole around the core concept of statistical machine translation.

This TAUS Technology Briefing provides an overview of the company, its background and approach, the LSPro solution, and technology roadmap.

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Table of Contents

1. The company today
2. Origins and general approach of Language Studio technology
3. The translation engine
4. Managing resources
5. Language pairs available
6. Customizing, training and tuning
7. Integrating LSPro into different environments (APIs etc)
8. Postediting tools
9. Calculating ROI
10. Quality metrics
11. Market focus
12. Making LSPro LSP-friendly
13. Technology roadmap

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