Compendium of Translation Software
directory of commercial machine translation systems
and computer-aided translation support tools
compiled by John Hutchins
on behalf of the European Association for Machine Translation and the International Association for Machine Translation
Current
edition (15th edition, January 2009) [PDF, 605KB]
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Contents
The Compendium covers the
following categories of software:
MT
systems: for home use (e.g. for personal use by the general public); for
Internet/Web (i.e. for translating electronic documents on the Internet,
electronic mail, Web pages, chat discussions, etc.); for professional use (e.g.
for use by professional translators); for company intranets.
Translation
support tools: Electronic dictionaries; Localization support tools; Translation
memory systems; Alignment tools; Terminology management systems; Foreign language authoring systems; Translator workstations
Online
systems: MT services (i.e. translation service via Internet (or mobile
telephone), with or without human post-editing); MT portals (i.e. services on
Internet providing access to a number of MT services and/or to information
about MT systems).
Older editions:
The market of computer aids for translation changes rapidly from month to month; new systems appear and old ones are discontinued; companies merge, companies are taken over, companies cease trading; software is adapted and revised to take account of changing operating systems, different hardware, developments on the Internet, etc. Because many of the older systems are still known about and are searched for, I am making available here the earlier editions of the Compendium.
Each includes only those products known (or believed) to be currently available at the time, either from the makers or from distributors.
Preliminary draft edition (April 1999). [PDF, 285KB] This version was printed and distributed to all members of the International Association for Machine Translation. It was known to contain inaccuracies and incomplete entries, and even some systems already superseded. The information contained should be used with caution.
First edition (April 2000). [PDF, 456KB] The first edition was printed and distributed free to all members of the International Association for Machine Translation, and it was sold to non-members together with a password for access to later updates. No copies are now available.
Second edition (December 2000). [PDF, 473KB]
Third edition (February 2002). [PDF, 472KB]
Fourth edition (June 2002). [PDF, 498KB]
Fifth edition (October 2002). [PDF, 519KB]
Sixth edition (March 2003) [PDF, 542KB]
Seventh edition (August 2003) [PDF, 534KB]
Eighth edition (January 2004) [PDF, 532KB]
Ninth edition (July 2004) [PDF, 540KB]
Tenth edition (January 2005) [PDF, 540KB]
Eleventh edition (July 2005) [PDF, 718KB]
Twelfth edition (January 2006) [PDF, 734KB]
Thirteenth edition (June 2007) [PDF, 509KB]
Fourteenth edition (January 2008) [PDF, 608KB]
Note that no printed versions of the Compendium have been published since the first edition.
Contact for additions, changes, enquiries, etc.: compendium [“at”] this website
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