Gartner has recently published the following report: Findings: Language Weaver’s Statistical Machine Translation, Jackie Fenn, 30 September 2008.

An excerpt from the report follows:

In 2004, we featured Language Weaver as the first company to commercialize statistical machine translation of human languages. Statistical machine translation is establishing itself as the dominant approach in the world of machine translation, because of the improved accuracy and the increased speed and cost-efficiency of adding new language pairs.  End-user organizations should examine statistical machine translation as a way to reach a broader international customer base and to facilitate internal communications.

To access the full report, please visit Gartner’s website.

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Mark Tapling, President and CEO of Language Weaver

Language Weaver President and CEO Mark Tapling is delivering a keynote presentation on Wednesday titled Machine Translation 2008: Science Meets Solution at the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) in Waikiki, Hawaii. We are pleased to offer a free white paper on this topic, which is available by request on our website at www.languageweaver.com/forums/whitepaper.

“In the automated translation market, there is a triad of value consisting of volume, speed and accuracy,” explains Tapling. “When all three of these elements exist, business opportunities present themselves on many different levels. The speed of innovation has put us a position where the opportunity for automated translation has never been brighter.”

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Language Weaver: fast in translation
How one firm quickly translates reams of data.

By Gloria Goodale| Staff Writer for The Christian Science Monitor/ October 1, 2008 edition

Los Angeles

If you want to text message your Spanish-speaking neighbor, but don’t know how to say “Please turn down the radio” in that language, you could find a quick translation online at any number of websites. But, if you are, say, a large semiconductor company with customers around the globe, you are in a pickle if all your support data is written only in English.

Enter Language Weaver, a Los Angeles-based firm on the cutting edge of a rapidly growing field known as machine translation (MT). The firm took one chipmaker’s extensive database and translated it overnight into Spanish, the No. 1 tongue in demand by that company’s customers. This task, says the company’s CEO Mark Tapling, would have taken weeks to accomplish not too long ago. Instead, its software made short work of a gargantuan task.

The $100 million MT industry has the potential to grow by more than 50 times that number, some analysts estimate. “Language Weaver is a leader in this field,” says Don DePalma, chief research officer with Common Sense Advisory Inc., who specializes in the somewhat arcane world of computerized translation services.

Read the entire article on CSMonitor.com

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Mark Tapling, CEO of Language Weaver: ‘New market opportunities for language translation solutions’

In recent months, Language Weaver has been doing a lot of thinking and strategizing about how our products and services best fit into the intersection of two ongoing revolutions: the globalization and digital revolutions.

Today we enthusiastically unveil Language Weaver’s new positioning as a “human communications solution company” with a focus on massive volumes of digital content in three new commercial markets: Web Content, Business Intelligence, and Customer Care. The company will also will continue its focus on government work.

“Language Weaver’s industry-changing translation solutions have created entirely new, untapped commercial translation markets because we’ve lowered the cost of quality translation so dramatically,” said Language Weaver CEO Mark Tapling in a podcast interview. “Conventional language translation services are typically priced at 21 cents per word, leaving many high volume requirements behind. Language Weaver is able to provide an automated solution that dependably conveys communication meaning for applications with high volumes, requiring speed, and accuracy.”

The size of the translation market today is estimated at $14 billion according to research and consulting firm Common Sense Advisory. Because of the dramatically lower costs that automated translation technology enables, Language Weaver estimates that untapped markets total more than $67.5 billion.

In the following podcast, Mark explains the thinking behind this extraordinary estimate of market size, and the company’s new focus on cross-language human communications solutions in four key markets:

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As we reposition our company to take advantage of the extraordinary market opportunities in automated language translation in the digital age, Language Weaver is proud to unveil our new next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, Language Weaver’s Enterprise Translation On Demand.

The SaaS model delivers high-speed automated translation technology based on open standards including HTTP, SSL, and XML, and offers subscribers real-time translation capabilities across 60 languages — all with robust support and no hardware to purchase or maintain.

In the following podcast, Language Weaver Co-founder and CTO Daniel Marcu discusses the special benefits of SaaS when it comes to Language Weaver’s automated language communications solutions: