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{{short description|Russian language translation software company}}
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'''PROMT''' (from PROject MT — the project of [[machine translation]]) is a Russian company focused upon the development of machine translation systems. At the moment PROMT translators exist for more than 25 languages. PROMT is headquartered in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia and also has offices in Moscow, Russia, San Francisco, the USA and Hamburg, Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.promt.com/company/profile/ |title=PROMT team |publisher=Promt.com |date= |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref> Except the system of machine translation PROMT also delivers its own solutions on the basis of the [[Translation memory]] technology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.promt.com/company/technology/translation_memory/ |title=Translation Memory |publisher=Promt.com |date= |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref>
'''ProMT''' is a lead Russian developer of [[language translation]] software for businesses and private users since 1991. The company provides [[on-premises software]] based on neural technologies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.promt.com/company/profile/ |title=PROMT team |publisher=Promt.com |date= |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
On March 6, 1998, ProMT launched a free online translation services, which is now known as PROMT.One.<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=PROMT - Free Online Translator and dictionary - English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Chinese and many more languages |url=https://www.online-translator.com/translation |accessdate=November 23, 2011 |publisher=Online-translator.com}}</ref>
[[File:20190624 151601 Anna Krukova Corpora-2019.jpg|thumb|Anna Kriukova, PROMT employee, reports about [[Explicit semantic analysis|ESA]] implementation for Russian language at the conference Corpus linguistics ‒ 2019, [[Saint Petersburg]]]]


The company was founded in St.-Petersburg in 1991 by the former employees of laboratory of engineering linguistics of [[Herzen University]]. Svetlana Sokolova is the head of the company from its first day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.quintura.com/2008/06/25/renova-capital-to-acquire-promt-machine-translation-software-company/ |title=Quintura blog » Blog Archive » Renova Capital To Acquire PROMT Machine Translation Software Company |publisher=Blog.quintura.com |date= |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref>
In 1997, ProMT and the French company Softissimo developed a line of products for the European company [[Reverso (language tools)|Reverso]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reverso.softissimo.com/en/reverso-promt |title=End-users products : Translation Software : Reverso Promt |publisher=Reverso Softissimo |date= |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref>

On October 6, 1998 PROMT launches the first Russian web service [[:ru:Translate.ru|Translate.ru]], intended for translation of the text or a web pages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://translate.ru.siteaero.com/ |title=Translate.ru |publisher=Translate.ru.siteaero.com |date=March 6, 1998 |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref> It also has an English version Online-Translator http://www.online-translator.com.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.online-translator.com/about.aspx?prmtlang=en |title=PROMT - Free Online Translator and dictionary - English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian languages |publisher=Online-translator.com |date= |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref>

In 1997 PROMT together with the French company Softissimo develops a number of products for the western market called [[Reverso (language tools)|Reverso]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reverso.softissimo.com/en/reverso-promt |title=End-users products : Translation Software : Reverso Promt |publisher=Reverso Softissimo |date= |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref>

In 2008 the company controlling stake has been redeemed by [[Renova Group]]. The sum of transaction is not disclosed, but according to Renova, the total amount of the world market of a translation service for the companies valued in 2007 at $9–10 billion, PROMT sales are 2% from this sum, that is $180–200 million. Hence by evaluations of one of observers of the market, who wanted to remain unnamed, cost of the packet acquired by "Renova" is no more than $20–40 million.<ref>http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/printEn.shtml?2008/06/25/306445 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420084240/http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/printEn.shtml?2008%2F06%2F25%2F306445 |date=April 20, 2012 }}</ref>


==Technology==
==Technology==
At first PROMT translation was a [[rule-based machine translation]] (RBMT).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.translationautomation.com/details/promt-9.0-product-family.html |title=promt-9.0-product-family &#124; details &#124; TAUS - Enabling better translation |publisher=Translationautomation.com |date= |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref> RBMT is a machine translation system based on linguistic information about source and target languages basically retrieved from (bilingual) dictionaries and grammars covering the main semantic, morphological, and syntactic regularities of each language respectively.<ref>{{cite web|author=Natural Language Processing |url=http://language.worldofcomputing.net/machine-translation/rule-based-machine-translation.html |title=Rule Based Machine Translation |publisher=Language.worldofcomputing.net |date=December 13, 2009 |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref> Having input sentences (in some source language), an RBMT system generates them to output sentences (in some target language) on the basis of morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of both the source and the target languages involved in a concrete translation task.
Historically, ProMT systems used [[rule-based machine translation]] (RBMT) technology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.translationautomation.com/details/promt-9.0-product-family.html |title=promt-9.0-product-family &#124; details &#124; TAUS - Enabling better translation |publisher=Translationautomation.com |date= |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref> In 2011 a hybrid approach which combined rule-based and [[Statistical machine translation|statistical]] MT was implemented.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.svarogcapital.com/news/?id=43 |title=News / Svarog capital |publisher=Svarogcapital.com |date=October 4, 2010 |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref>


In 2019, ProMT introduced its new neural technology <ref>{{cite web |title=Neural Machine Translation |url=https://www.promt.com/company/technology/neural-machine-translation/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021140927/https://www.promt.com/company/technology/neyronnyy-podkhod/ |archive-date=2019-10-21 |website=www.promt.com}}</ref> and flagship solution - PROMT Neural Translation Server.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.promt.com/translation_software/corporate/promt-translation-server-neural/ | title=PROMT Translation Server 19 is a multi - functional transfer system}}</ref> Since then all MT systems developed by ProMT are based on [[neural machine translation]].
At the end of 2010 of PROMT provided the Hybrid technology of translation leverages the strengths of [[Statistical machine translation]] and rule-based translation methodologies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.svarogcapital.com/news/?id=43 |title=News / Svarog capital |publisher=Svarogcapital.com |date=October 4, 2010 |accessdate=November 23, 2011}}</ref>


The software can run on [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Linux]], [[MacOS]], [[iOS]] and [[Android (operating system)|Android]] and works in offline mode providing secure machine translation.
At 2019 PROMT introduced its new neural technology <ref>[https://www.promt.com/company/technology/neyronnyy-podkhod/]</ref> and flagship solution - PROMT Neural Translation Server <ref>[https://www.promt.com/translation_software/corporate/promt-translation-server-neural/]</ref>. New technology combines neural machine translation and RBMT.<ref>http://blog.translate.ru/2019/04/nejronnye-seti-oflajn-perevodchiki-i-konkurenciya-nikita-shablykov-o-texnologiyax-mashinnogo-perevoda/</ref>


As of 2022, it translates 45 languages from and to English, German, and Russian.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PROMT Language Pairs {{!}} machine translation between following languages |url=https://www.promt.com/translation_software/directions/ |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=PROMT.com |language=en}}</ref>
'''Neural algorithms:''' Neural algorithms pre-analyze the text and decide which technology is best suited for translating a particular piece of text.

==Online-translator.com==
''Online-translator.com'' is an English version of the web-service, intended for translation of texts and web pages. It was launched by PROMT on March 6, 1998.<ref>[http://translate.ru.siteaero.com/ Translate.ru<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Every day Online-Translator.com provides translation to 70.000 people.<ref>[http://www.promt.com/company/profile/internet/ PROMT Internet Solutions<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Online-translator.com uses PROMT technology<ref>[http://www.online-translator.com/About.aspx PROMT - Free Online Translator and dictionary - English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian languages<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and provides [[rule-based machine translation]]<ref>[http://www.multilingual.com/articleDetail.php?id=1699 MultiLingual Computing, Inc., Article<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> unlike [[Google Translate]], which uses [[statistical machine translation]].<ref>[https://translate.google.com/about/index.html Inside Google Translate – Google Translate<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Main Features==
• Translation of single words and texts of any volume.

• Translation of documents with maintaining structure and formatting. All popular formats are supported: doc(x), xls(x), ppt(x), rtf, html, xml, txt, ttx, pdf (including scanned), (.odt), (.ods), jpeg, png, tiff.

• Translation of webpages with maintaining structure and hyperlinks.

• Translation of single words and text fragments in third-party applications and browsers (PROMT Agent).

• Domain-specific dictionaries and translation profiles.

• Translation Memories.

• SDL Trados Studio, Memsource, SmartCAT supported.

• Automatic language detection.

• MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS.

• API and SDK for integration of translation functions in programs websites.

==Main Products==

'''For Home'''

· [https://www.online-translator.com/ Online-Translator.com]

· [https://www.promt.com/translation_software/home/forwindows/promt-master/ PROMT Master]

· [https://www.promt.com/translation_software/home/cloud/start/ PROMT Start]

· Mobile app for iOS and Android

'''For Business'''

· [https://www.promt.com/translation_software/corporate/promt-translation-server-neural/ PROMT Neural Translation Server]

· [https://www.promt.com/translation_software/corporate/professional/ PROMT Professional]

· [https://www.promt.com/translation_software/corporate/expert/ PROMT Expert]

· Industry solutions on the basis of PROMT Neural Translation Server for banks, a public sector, various industries, IT and other industries.

'''For Developers and Integrators (API)'''

· [https://www.promt.com/translation_software/corporate/promt-translation-server-sdk/ PROMT Translation Server Developer Edition]

· [https://www.promt.com/translation_software/corporate/promt-cloud-api/ PROMT Cloud API]

· [https://www.promt.com/translation_software/corporate/promt-mobile-sdk/ PROMT Mobile SDK]

· [https://www.promt.com/translation_software/corporate/promt-for-sharepoint/ PROMT for SharePoint]

· [https://www.promt.com/translation_software/corporate/promt-analyzer-sdk/ PROMT Analyzer SDK]


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Comparison of machine translation applications]]
*[[Comparison of machine translation applications]]
*[[DeepL Translator]]
*[[Babylon (software)|Babylon]]
*[[Babylon (software)|Babylon]]
*[[Google Translate]]
*[[Google Translate]]
*[[SDL Trados]]
*[[Systran]]
*[[Systran]]
*[[Yandex.Translate]]
*[[vidby]]
*[[Yandex Translate]]


==References==
==References==
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{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.promt.com/ Official Website]
*[http://www.online-translator.com Online-Translator Website]


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Latest revision as of 13:51, 28 March 2024

ProMT
Founded1991 (1991)
ProductsNeural machine translation systems
Websitewww.promt.com

ProMT is a lead Russian developer of language translation software for businesses and private users since 1991. The company provides on-premises software based on neural technologies.[1]

History

[edit]

On March 6, 1998, ProMT launched a free online translation services, which is now known as PROMT.One.[2]

In 1997, ProMT and the French company Softissimo developed a line of products for the European company Reverso.[3]

Technology

[edit]

Historically, ProMT systems used rule-based machine translation (RBMT) technology.[4] In 2011 a hybrid approach which combined rule-based and statistical MT was implemented.[5]

In 2019, ProMT introduced its new neural technology [6] and flagship solution - PROMT Neural Translation Server.[7] Since then all MT systems developed by ProMT are based on neural machine translation.

The software can run on Microsoft Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS and Android and works in offline mode providing secure machine translation.

As of 2022, it translates 45 languages from and to English, German, and Russian.[8]

See also

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ "PROMT team". Promt.com. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  2. ^ "PROMT - Free Online Translator and dictionary - English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Chinese and many more languages". Online-translator.com. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  3. ^ "End-users products : Translation Software : Reverso Promt". Reverso Softissimo. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  4. ^ "promt-9.0-product-family | details | TAUS - Enabling better translation". Translationautomation.com. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  5. ^ "News / Svarog capital". Svarogcapital.com. October 4, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  6. ^ "Neural Machine Translation". www.promt.com. Archived from the original on October 21, 2019.
  7. ^ "PROMT Translation Server 19 is a multi - functional transfer system".
  8. ^ "PROMT Language Pairs | machine translation between following languages". PROMT.com. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
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