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September 6, 2006

Language Search Engines and Lingotek

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I recently came across a new company called Lingotek. Here’s a description of what they are doing:

“Lingotek is a new online translation tool for language professionals. Lingotek is not machine translation (MT) and it is not translation memory (TM). Lingotek is a Language Search Engine — the only tool of its kind. It may be used where TM will not work or may replace TM as a higher value, more affordable solution. Lingotek is a global web 2.0 collaborative service that enhances translator’s efficiency by quickly finding meaning-based translated material for reuse.”

A language search engine? What an interesting idea!! I’m really impressed with the idea. Even more interesting is that the guy who started it had been working for LDS church doing all the translations for all the different publications and general conferences. It’s nice to see that he could spread his wings and become an entrepreneur. I really hope it does well.

I wonder how Lingotek could work with an interesting Cambrian House project called BigHal – official website.

Here’s a description of BigHal:
“BigHal is a language translator plugin for your favorite Instant Messaging program including MSN, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and AIM. With BigHal you can chat in your native language and it will be translated to any of the supported languages.

BigHal can help you get beyond the barrier of languages and enables conversations that could never have happened before; giving people the means to communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world.”

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One response to "Language Search Engines and Lingotek"

  1. # Tim Hunt commented on September 9th, 2006:

    This is Tim Hunt the founder of Lingotek. Thanks for taking interest in our new technology. Your comment about helping another tool you like. BigHal. is valid. We don’t create the machine translation systems like BigHal, but we can provide them with access to public domain multilingual content. Most machine translation systems need to be fed bilingual content to make them smarter and better. Often the more knowledge you pump into one the better it gets.

    Thanks again for blogging about us,

    Tim Hunt
    CEO Lingotek

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