The Danish Languagelens System is a statistical MT engine that began as an academic project two years ago and now drives millions of words of English to Danish patent translation at the Copenhagen based LSP Lingtech. Theoretical linguist Daniel Hardt now supervises development at Language Lens.

"The bottom line to the rise of SMT is Moore's Law. As long as computing power grows exponentially, anything linked to it - such as vast amounts of data - will expand in the same way," says Hardt. Languagelens grew out of a research project on integrating SMT with linguistic knowledge, and has been operating commercially since 2007.