GramTrans
Encyclopedia
GramTrans is a cross-platform
machine translation
platform developed in cooperation between Danish
GrammarSoft ApS and Norwegian
Kaldera Språkteknologi AS. The translation engine is transfer-based
.
GramTrans offers free web-based translation for the Scandinavian languages, based on university research in natural language processing
(NLP), corpus linguistics
, and lexicography
.
Cross-platform
In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...
machine translation
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...
platform developed in cooperation between Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
GrammarSoft ApS and Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
Kaldera Språkteknologi AS. The translation engine is transfer-based
Transfer-based machine translation
Transfer-based machine translation is a type of machine translation. It is based on the idea of interlingua and is currently one of the most widely used methods of machine translation-Overview:...
.
GramTrans offers free web-based translation for the Scandinavian languages, based on university research in natural language processing
Natural language processing
Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
(NLP), corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples or "real world" text. This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language. Originally done by hand, corpora are now largely...
, and lexicography
Lexicography
Lexicography is divided into two related disciplines:*Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries....
.
Languages
As of September 2008 the available translations are:| Translation | Text | Web Page |
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| Danish Danish language Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language... to English |
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| Danish to Esperanto Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887... |
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| Danish to Norwegian | ||
| Danish to Swedish | ||
| English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... to Danish |
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| English to Esperanto | ||
| English to Norwegian | ||
| English to Swedish | ||
| Norwegian Norwegian language Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language... to Danish |
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| Norwegian to English | ||
| Norwegian to Esperanto | ||
| Norwegian to Swedish | ||
| Portuguese Portuguese language Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095... to Danish |
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| Portuguese to English | ||
| Portuguese to Esperanto | ||
| Swedish Swedish language Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish... to Danish |
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| Swedish to English | ||
| Swedish to Norwegian |