User Guide

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SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 Overview
SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 is the only comprehensive solution able to meet the full range
of translation needs on an enterprise scale. As the first product powered by SYSTRAN's
hybrid machine translation engine, it combines the strengths of rule-based and statistical
machine translation. It merges the predictability and language consistency of rule-based MT
with the fluency and flexibility of statistical MT. The net result is that SYSTRAN Enterprise
Server 7 meets corporate expectations for quality, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and
productivity.
SYSTRAN machine translation products are used by hundreds of companies worldwide to
meet the growing demand for quick and accurate translations. They translate all types of
documents and file formats, support unlimited user access and millions of translations per
day
Easy to deploy on a corporate intranet or extranet, SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 increases
enterprise collaboration and meets the translation needs of all employees. It seamlessly
integrates with any business application and professional workflow to help enterprises handle
day-to-day multilingual challenges in content management, eCommerce, customer support,
business intelligence, knowledge management, eDiscovery, and all other business practices.
SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 helps turn multilingual information into reusable knowledge, a
key to succeeding in today's global market.
SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 is available in three editions — Workgroup, Standard, and
Global — suited for the business needs of small, midsized, and larger business platforms.
SYSTRAN’s new Hybrid technology is the foundation of SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7. It
combines the best attributes of rule-based and statistical machine translation. SYSTRAN
Enterprise Server 7 offers the predictability and language consistency of rule-based MT with
the fluency and flexibility of statistical MT. This technologies merger sharply decreases the
amount of data required to train the software, and also reduces the size of the statistical
models while maintaining high performance. Most of all SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7
reaches quality levels comparable to human translations.
SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 Components
SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 has three key components: SYSTRAN Translation Server,
SYSTRAN Application Packs, and SYSTRAN Training Server.
SYSTRAN Translation Server
Users of SYSTRAN Translation Server access the product's rich features through Online
Tools.
Online Tools is a Web-based interface with which users can instantly translate texts, emails,
Web pages, RSS feeds, and documents in a wide variety of file formats, while preserving the
original document layout in their translations. The product also offers a dictionary lookup tool
which provides instant access to alternative meanings of selected terms from both built-in
dictionaries and user-defined dictionaries. In addition, users can improve and control