Publication
MT Server Land Translation Services
Christian Federmann
In: Hamburg Working Paper in Multilingualism. Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL-11), September 28-30, Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg Working Paper in Multilingualism, German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, 9/2011.
Abstract
We demonstrate MT Server Land, an open-source architecture for machine translation services that is developed by the MT group
at DFKI. The system can flexibly be extended and allows lay users to make use of MT technology within a web browser or by
using simple HTTP POST requests from custom applications. A central broker server collects and distributes translation requests
to several worker servers that create the actual translations. User access is realized via a fast and easy-to-use web interface or
through an XML-RPC-based API that allows integrating translation services into external applications. We have implemented
worker servers for several existing translation systems such as the Moses SMT decoder or the Lucy RBMT engine. We also show
how other, web-based translation tools such as Google Translate can be integrated into the MT Server Land application. The
source code is published under an open BSD-style license and is freely available from GitHub.