Although they have traditionally kept a low profile about it, IBM is not new to the translation software industry. IBM has been involved in computational linguistics and NLP (natural language processing) research for over 30 years and has a machine translation (MT) system called WebSphere Translation Server which has been around for about 10 years. You can try IBM’s machine translation online by clicking here.
IBM has not promoted this business aggressively and relatively little is known about this product. I searched the Internet for relevant customer case studies and found very few. Press releases about the product are also hard to find.
But IBM’s approach to language software will probably become more market-oriented and will result in new product offerings. continue reading…
