Language Weaver provides trusted automated translation solutions for high-value, dynamic digital information to improve human communications. Delivering a trusted level of translation quality, Language Weaver ensures that organizations maintain and extend brand voice across global media types and audiences.
Traditionally, automated (machine) translation techniques have been rule-based. This required many linguists, spending many months, to develop systems that correlated the rules of syntax and grammar from one language to another. The problem with this method is that there are too many exceptions to the rules and the translation output from these systems sounded unnatural and was often incorrect.
Language Weaver pioneered a new approach to automated translation called statistical machine translation software, which fundamentally changes the nature of what can be done with automated translation. Language Weaver's approach is statistical – that is, the translation engines are built using pattern recognition and probability statistics. This technique trains the translation engine with pre-translated parallel documents, essentially allowing the computer to learn from existing human translations.
For those familiar with other translation technologies, Language Weaver's translation software is not translation memory. The solution can translate texts that contain no repetition of previously translated material (although we need to have prior knowledge of the vocabulary). The statistical translation and language models learned by Language Weaver and used in the translation process yield not only better quality results than has been available before in automated translation, but more natural-sounding, readable output. This means that users have an easier time working with it and understanding the concepts.
Language Weaver was founded in January, 2002 by Dr. Kevin Knight and Dr. Daniel Marcu, leading USC scientists in the field of statistical machine translation, along with William Wong, one of their graduate students.
Language Weaver’s mission is to provide solutions that accelerate the way the world communicates.
Our management team is comprised of an experienced group of recognized language and computer scientists and successful business executives dedicated to making Language Weaver’s technology the leading human communication solution. For specific backgrounds of individuals, please see the Leadership page.
Language Weaver's customers include several multinationals, government organizations and translation providers.
Langauge Weaver has two deployment offerings: LW Enterprise Translation Server, and LW Translation On Demand. Please visit the Products page for more details about these depolyment options.
Language Weaver currently has several language translation software modules available. For a full list, visit our Languages page.
Language Weaver has more than 50 patents approved or pending worldwide on its proprietary technology and regularly adds to its patent/trade secret portfolio.