Logos Intelligent Translation System

Product Description

Logos Intelligent Translation System

Logos Intelligent Translation System is a software system for the automatic translation of documents. It analyzes and translates complete sentences. Due to its semantic intelligence and bionet structure, Logos software has an unlimited capacity to learn.

Documents are translated into draft quality. Users can edit them according to their quality requirements. The extensive dictionaries and the resulting terminological consistency are a major advantage of Logos.

Logos - Technology with Semantic Intelligence

The sentence is the basic unit for translation. Logos software analyzes the complete source sentence - it derives information on word classes, morphology and the function of the words in the sentence as well as their semantic content from the extensive dictionaries provided. Logos associates these data and internally converts them to a numeric code for processing. Both the syntactical structure and the semantic connections between the words are taken into account during the analysis.

It is the semantic component in particular which enables Logos to take a step beyond merely replacing words, i.e. to generate complete and idiomatically correct sentences in the target language using internal rules. By adding new dictionary entries and rules Logos can be adapted to the customer's requirements and consequently, productivity can be continually increased. These characteristics give Logos software its unlimited capacity to learn.

Logos is particularly well suited for the translation of:

• Operating instructions
• Manuals
• Product specifications
• Training manuals
• Technical correspondence and documentation

LANGUAGE PAIRS

Because of the software architecture (single source language / multiple target languages) the same analysis process is used for translation from one source language to multiple target languages.

At present, the following language pairs are available:

• English / German
• English / French
• English / Italian
• English / Spanish
• German / English
• German / French
• German / Italian

DESKTOP PUBLISHING

Logos software meets modern demands of typography and layout, and comes equipped with interfaces to the leading word processing, desktop publishing and information systems. The formatting information of the input document is automatically stored and re-inserted after the translation. This Logos feature fulfills today's demand for an integrated documentation process.

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

All Logos functions are available to the user via a graphical user interface (GUI). This graphical interface conforms to current Windows standards and is compatible with the leading Windows manager systems.

CLIENT/SERVER-ARCHITECTURE

Logos is based on the principle of client/server architecture and consequently enables the user to create, translate and edit documents without changing work environment.

The maintenance of the dictionaries and the semantic database is performed on the Logos server.

The Logos client/server products are suitable for integration into homogeneous and heterogeneous UNIX ® and PC networks using TCP/IP protocol and NFS ®. The Logos server can be integrated into a LAN consisting of workstations, PCs or X-terminals. The graphical user interface is compatible with X11R4 and X11R5 and conforms to the OSF/Motif ® standard.

Logos software is installed on a Sun SPARCstation (UNIX). The user can access all Logos functions on this server, including the Logos tools ALEX and SEMANTHA.

FEATURES

Structure and Size of Logos Dictionaries (unlimited expansion)

• 250 predefined virtual Logos Subject Matter Dictionaries (SMCs)
• 250 virtual Subject Matter Dictionaries freely definable by the user (SMCs)

Number of Basic Entries (stems)

English source language:

• currently more than 50,000 basic entries (stems) incl. more than 3,000 in virtual Subject Matter Dictionaries

German source language:

• currently more than 75,000 basic entries (stems) incl. more than 15,000 in virtual Subject Matter Dictionaries

Structure of Dictionary Entries

• currently a maximum number of characters per source term of 34 characters for ALEX entries
• maximum number of words in the source term: 10 or limited by maximum number of characters
• currently a maximum number of characters per target term of 48 characters for ALEX entries
• maximum number of words in the target term: 10 or limited by maximum number of characters

Dictionary Selection

• a maximum of five Company Dictionaries can be selected hierarchically
• a maximum of five Subject Matter Dictionaries can be selected hierarchically
• three-letter code representing the Company Dictionary
• three-digit code representing the virtual Subject Matter Dictionary

Available Protection Characters

• @ $ { & [ * % } ~ ] # | ^ \

Structure and Size of the Semantic Database (unlimited expansion)

• three-letter code representing the Company Dictionary
• a maximum of five Company Dictionaries can be selected hierarchically
• currently SEMANTHA offers seven rule templates for German source language and eight rule templates for English source language.

Number of Semantic Rules

English source language:

• currently more than 11,000

German source language:

• currently more than 20,000

Input Documents

Maximum Length of Path Names:

• 100 characters

Speed of Translation

The speed of translation is 1 or 2 pages (letter format) per minute. This speed is dependent upon the system configuration, amount of formatting information and the length and complexity of the sentences in the text.

System Configuration

Hardware:

Workstation or Server (mandatory)

• System: Sun SPARCstation
• Processor: SPARC, Model 5/20 or comparable, or higher performance
• Main memory: minimum of 32 MB RAM
• Free disk storage:
• - 210160 MB for English source language
• - 210 MB for German source language
• - 300 MB for both source languages
• - depending on the translation volume: further 200 MB necessary
• Network protocol: LAN TCP/IP (optional)
• Network interface: THIN/THICK ETHERNET (optional)
• Magnetic tape drive: 150 MB QIC or 8 mm DC
• High-resolution monitor

Software:

Operating System

Server

• Sun OS 4.1.3 with System V extension or Solaris ® 2.3
• OpenWindows 3.0 or OSF/Motif

Further Logos Application Software

Client:

• LogosClient for Windows
• LogosClient for OSF/Motif (UNIX)

Partner Products:

• Optimizer for Logos (Eurolang ®)
• XL8 ® for Logos (GlobalWare ®)

The following formats are currently supported:

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