© 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. Company Overview SYSTRAN Applications Customization for Quality Translations Prepared for Lirics Industrial Advisory Group June 20 & 21, 2005, Barcelona

2 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. Agenda ► Company Overview ► SYSTRAN WebServer ► SYSTRAN Linguistics Platform ► Customization for Quality Translations ► Q&A

3 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. Fast Facts ► Founded in 1968 in La Jolla, CA ► Two operating companies: SYSTRAN SA, Paris France (parent company)SYSTRAN SA, Paris France (parent company) SYSTRAN Software, Inc. (original company)SYSTRAN Software, Inc. (original company) ► Parent company is publicly traded on EURONEX ( ran:fp on bloomberg.com) ► Approximately 60 employees worldwide ► 25M pages translated daily (systransoft.com, Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Altavista Babelfish,Worldlingo etc.) ► +40 language combinations

4 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. Market Segments ► Area of focus: Language Translation Technologies ► Real-world applications Content ManagementContent Management On-demand Website Localization, Multilingual Customer Support, Search Intra-Company CommunicationsIntra-Company Communications Corporate Intranets, , Chat Integration in Workflow EnvironmentIntegration in Workflow Environment

5 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. Activities ► Software Publishing Home & Small BusinessesHome & Small Businesses Corporations (F500), PortalsCorporations (F500), Portals Public AdministrationsPublic Administrations ► Professional Services Machine Translation Systems Development and Customization CorporationsCorporations Public Administrations (US Government Agencies, European Commission)Public Administrations (US Government Agencies, European Commission) Co-funded Projects (French Government)Co-funded Projects (French Government)

6 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. Why Use Machine Translation? ► Gisting Quick understanding of foreign contentQuick understanding of foreign content Web content Web content Documents Documents ► Publishing Documents require high-quality translationDocuments require high-quality translation Technical support documents Technical support documents eLearning eLearning

7 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. v5 Desktop Products ► SYSTRAN Professional Premium™ ► SYSTRAN Professional Standard ™ ► SYSTRAN Personal ™ ► SYSTRAN Office Translator ► SYSTRAN WebTranslator Used by businesses to individual consumers Available by downloadAvailable by download or packaged CD-ROM

8 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. Online Services Hosted on SYSTRAN Servers ► SYSTRANLinks On-demand translation of websitesOn-demand translation of websites ► SYSTRANBox Translation interface for content provider for URLs and textTranslation interface for content provider for URLs and text ► SYSTRANet Interface for customizable translation for URLs, text and uploaded filesInterface for customizable translation for URLs, text and uploaded files

9 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRANLinks

10 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRANBox

11 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRANet

12 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. Client-Server Applications Local Hosting ► SYSTRAN Enterprise (intranet environment) Web-based interfaceWeb-based interface Application Packs – MS Office plugins + linguistic toolsApplication Packs – MS Office plugins + linguistic tools ► SYSTRAN WebServer Enterprise features +Enterprise features + Scalable, open and robustScalable, open and robust Multiple OS (Windows, Solaris, Linux)Multiple OS (Windows, Solaris, Linux) Open API for integrationOpen API for integration ► SYSTRAN Linguistics Platform Enterprise solution for managing localization projectsEnterprise solution for managing localization projects

13 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRAN WebServer Architecture Integration Open Open Scalable ScalablePlatforms Linux Linux Solaris Solaris Windows Windows Other Other

14 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRAN WebServer – Application Packs ► User Tools One-stop access to translationOne-stop access to translation Seamless translations with plugins for Microsoft® Office Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Internet Explorer™Seamless translations with plugins for Microsoft® Office Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Internet Explorer™ ► Expert Tools Translation Project ManagerTranslation Project Manager Dictionary ManagerDictionary Manager

15 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRAN Linguistics Platform ► Enterprise solution for managing localization projects Centralized architecture for multiple usersCentralized architecture for multiple users Manage linguistic resourcesManage linguistic resources Version controlVersion control QAQA ► Comprised of two components SYSTRAN Review Manager (SRM)SYSTRAN Review Manager (SRM) SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM)SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM)

16 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SLP - SYSTRAN Review Manager ► Productivity tool used to review, assess and maintain linguistic resources in combination with SYSTRAN WebServer Allows users to segment a corpus and fluidly evaluate translations, and identify the typology of errorsAllows users to segment a corpus and fluidly evaluate translations, and identify the typology of errors All maintenance tasks leverage examples from the review corpusAll maintenance tasks leverage examples from the review corpus Process for reliable and efficient QAProcess for reliable and efficient QA

17 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRAN Review Manager Interface

18 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRAN Review Manager Architecture

19 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager Interface - Server

20 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SLP - SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager ► Industrial-strength tool that enables users to build and manage multilingual User Dictionaries, consists of: ► Client Windows-based interfaceWindows-based interface IntuitiveCoding™ technologyIntuitiveCoding™ technology Designed for use on dictionary subsetsDesigned for use on dictionary subsets ► Server Manages the complete dictionary: lookup, subset extractionManages the complete dictionary: lookup, subset extraction Multi-user applicationMulti-user application Maintains dictionary history and versioningMaintains dictionary history and versioning

21 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager Interface - Client

22 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager Architecture

23 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. 40 Language Pairs English  Simplified ChineseFrench  Dutch English  Traditional ChineseFrench  German English  DutchFrench  Greek English  FrenchFrench  Italian English  GermanFrench  Portuguese English  GreekFrench  Spanish English  Italian English  Japanese English  Korean English  Portuguese English  Russian English  Spanish

24 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. SYSTRAN v5 ► v5 translation engine powered by XML Interoperability – all SYSTRAN dictionaries are in XML native formatInteroperability – all SYSTRAN dictionaries are in XML native format Extensibility – ability to add linguistic markup in the contentExtensibility – ability to add linguistic markup in the content ► New filtering DOC translationDOC translation PDF translationPDF translation ► Integrated Translation Memory Import and export of TMX filesImport and export of TMX files ► Integrated Spell-Checking Translate texts with common spelling errorsTranslate texts with common spelling errors ► Improved customization capabilities Expert coding rulesExpert coding rules Normalization dictionariesNormalization dictionaries Terminology extractionTerminology extraction Translation review tool for post-translation analysis and integration with SYSTRAN Translation MemoryTranslation review tool for post-translation analysis and integration with SYSTRAN Translation Memory

25 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. Professional Services ► Machine Translation Systems Development - new language pairs or enhancements to existing languages ► Consulting ► Linguistic Customization ► Systems Integration ► Maintenance ► Training Customers Cisco Systems Sun Microsystems Chemical Abstracts Ford Motor Company Saint-Gobain European Commission US Government

26 © 2005 SYSTRAN S.A. Customers ► Corporations Wal-Mart, DaimlerChrysler, PricewaterhouseCoopersWal-Mart, DaimlerChrysler, PricewaterhouseCoopers ► Customization Cisco Systems, Ford Motor CompanyCisco Systems, Ford Motor Company ► Technology Licensing to Portals AltaVista, Yahoo!, Google, AOL, Lycos, AppleAltaVista, Yahoo!, Google, AOL, Lycos, Apple ► Development US Intelligence Community, European CommissionUS Intelligence Community, European Commission ► OEM Integration SEIKO, Electronic ArtsSEIKO, Electronic Arts