The Apertium platform Apertium (Forcada et al. 2011, http://www.apertium.org) is a free/open-source rule-based
machine translation (MT) platform that was launched in 2005 by the Universitat d’Alacant. Though
it was initially aimed at translating between closely related languages, it was later extended to be
able to deal with unrelated languages. All of the components of the platform (MT engine,
developer’s tools, and linguistic data for an increasing number of language pairs) are licensed under
the free/open-source GNU General Public License (GPL, versions 2 and 3) and are available to
everyone interested in the website.
Figure 1: A sketch of the Apertium workflow
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http://www.sanasoft.kz/c/ru/node/47 (in Russian) http://www.sanasoft.kz/c/kk/node/53 (in Kazakh).
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http://www.translate.ua/us/on-line; also through http://itranslate4.eu/en/
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They already are: see a snapshot at: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/incubator/apertium-eng-kaz/
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