Opentrad: Spanish-Basque Translator

This note about a new translator on the web that allows you to transfer texts from Spanish to Euskera (Basque) appeared today at EITb.

This is the link to the page (a demo actually):

Opentrad

And this is the note at EITb:

Free software

First Spanish-Basque translator, Opentrad

Three computer companies and four universities in the Spanish State have designed the first automatic translation system for texts, documents and Web sites from Spanish into Basque, Catalan and Galician.

The translator, available in Opentrad.com, is already working and can be used for free.

This is the first tool that translates from Spanish into Basque, but the system is just a prototype and for the moment makes important errors that affect its quality.

The difficulty of the linguistic analysis of the Basque language and its important differences with Romance languages spoken in the State hinder the setting up of the Basque-Spanish translation system.

The project of this translator, financed by the Industry, Tourism and Commerce Ministry, was designed by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia jointly with the University of the Basque Country, Alicante and Vigo, as well as the company Eleka Ingeniaritza Linguistikoa, Elhuyar Foundation and Imaxin Software from Galicia.

For the moment, the translator accepts TXT, RTF and HTML formats, and it will soon accept DOC, of Microsoft Word.

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