Asia Online Language Studio^TM Pro is a comprehensive suite of tools that are designed from the ground up to provide comprehensive management for projects, clients, partners, translators and post editors.

But these features and functions are just the beginning; Language Studio^TM Pro is the world's first desktop product to tightly integrate with all the other key elements that make modern language service providers and mass translation enterprises successful. Advanced features include integration to machine translation platforms, translation memories and legacy translation systems. Peer-to-peer collaborative chat and discussions to aid in human translation and post editing.

Language Studio^TM Pro includes all the tools required to build your own customized
Statistical Machine Translation Engine.

Custom translation engines have traditionally required significant volumes of data. With Language Studio^TM Pro, you can create your custom engine with as little as 10,000 bilingual segments. The more data you provide, higher the quality. Translation engines improve with feedback and use. Language Studio^TM Pro and Language Studio^TM Post Editor enable that post editing to be used immediately as new training data. Corrections are analysed and new data is generated that ensures the error does not reoccur. Custom translation engines are improved incrementally, with a rapid increase in quality and decrease in the time required to post edit. Even early systems can deliver as much as 300% productivity gains by using machine translation with human post editing vs. human translators only.

All the tools needed to create a custom translation engine are included in Language Studio^TM Pro. Over 400 complex processes of data preparation and processing that are required to build a near human quality language pair are greatly automated.

Language Service Providers purchasing Language Studio^TM Pro are able to continue using their existing post editing tools such as SDL Trados and import the edits for anlaysis and custom translation engine improvement or use Language Studio^TM Post Editor, which can be distributed to translators, post-editors and proof readers free of charge.

Language Studio^TM Post Editor is an advanced post editing and proof reading environment that is designed as a specialized post editing environment for machine translation. It includes the more traditional post editing tools that translators are used to, but then takes the post editing experience to an entirely new level.

Advanced Features Include:

• Multiple Views: Different roles such as a proof reader, post editor or translator require different views.
• WYSIWIG: What You See Is What You Get, with support for Microsoft Word, Plain Text and HTML.
• Confidence Scores: A score that indicates how confident the machine translation engine is of the generated output.
• Version Control: Track and view changes with inserted text in bold green and deleted text in strike-through red.
• Machine Translation Choices: See how the machine translation engine made its choices of vocabulary. This enables the editor to see the gaps in the translation engines knowledge and add data to custom translation engines to fill the gaps.
• Corrective Data Analysis: Corrections from post editing are automatically analyzed and then used to generate new corrective data that is added to the custom translation engine, ensuring future machine translations are better.
• Profile and Schedule Management: Translators, post editors and proof readers can manage their profiles, which are synchronized with Language Studio Pro. Schedules are also synchronized, so time and availability can be managed.
• Project/Job Synchronization: Project and job work can be automatically synchronized with Language Studio Pro, ensuring the project is always kept up to date with the latest information.

Language Studio^TM Post Editor can be freely distributed with any purchase of Language Studio^TM Pro

Language Studio^TM Lite is a free tool that provides key metrics for translation quality. This tool can be used to measure quality, but can also be used to measure the improvement in qualty as custom translation engines are incrementially updated via the quality improvement feedback cycle.

Suport is currently available for:

• Bilingual Evaluation Units (BLEU)
• F-Measure
• Translation Error Rate (TER)
• METEOR and NIST metrics will be supported in the next release

Language Studio^TM Lite also provides some key tools for data manipulation such as converting encoding and data extraction.

Language Studio^TM Enterprise is a server based translation platform that provides the enterprise class translation capability and translation job management. Language Studio Enterprise is designed to deliver high volume commercial grade translation services, with the ability to deliver hundreds of thousands of words per minute.

Language Studio^TM Enterprise is available via:

• Software as a Service (On-Demand) - Asia Online hosts a shared infrastructure with a large server farm. All customers transactions are load balanced across the server farm to ensure the maxium performance
• Secure Hosting - Asia Online hosts dedicated servers for customers in its secure data center
• Onsite Licenses - For customers with very high volumes or high security requirements

Following the translaiton industry norm, billing for Lanuage Studio^TM Enterprise Software as a Service model is by the word, with significant discounts based on volume. Monthly and annual packages are also available.

Language Studio^TM Power Train is a server based platform that extends Language Studio Enterprise™ with the capability to learn and constantly improve translation quality. In addition to post edited text, additional data can also be processed to further improve the quality of each translation engine.

Language Studio^TM Power Train is available via:

• Software as a Service (On-Demand) - Asia Online hosts a shared infrastructure with a large server farm. All customers transactions are load balanced across the server farm to ensure the maxium performance
• Secure Hosting - Asia Online hosts dedicated servers for customers in its secure data center
• Onsite Licenses - For customers with very high volumes or high security requirements

Custom engines continue to improve as translations are post edited and more data is gathered. Language Studio Power Train processes this data incrementally and continues to learn and improve.

The key to translation quality is continued human feedback.

Language Studio^TM API is an Application Programmer Interface (API) that allows for direct integration into applications, workflow and translation memory management systems. Support is currently available for SOAP and C# .NET. Additional support for REST, and JAVA will be available in the near future.

Our trusted and authorized channel partners, language service providers, system integrators, linguistic and technical consultants and technology vendors are ready and waiting to work with you to make your translation and linguistic experience with Asia Online a true success. Asia Online provides the core technology at the heart of the translation process and our partners help to implement and guide you through the overall process to ensure that you get the most value from our systems and that they are integrated seamlessly with your existing tools and software.

We have found it essential to develop quality relationships with channel partners around the World to ensure all our end user clients, wherever they are located, have access to local Asia Online expertise. Asia Online is aggressively expanding our global channel partner network so we can have representation wherever you are. You can select an authorized channel partner yourself or contact Asia Online directly to find the partner most suited to your needs.

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Asia Online has been fortunate to attract two world famous linguistic explorers to host the mailing list and share their thoughts and insights with us.

Dr. Goover is a renowned world explorer and Dr. Weagle is a former linguistic professor. Now retired from the translation industry, both graduated from Dunnowotusayin University in the outbacks of Australia and are exploring the world in search of new linguistic knowledge and facts. Each month they will be discussing their latest exploits and globe trotting, providing subscribers with global and industry insights from a linguistic perspective.

With the latest in camera technology from Hello Kitty, Dr. Goover will also be snapping translation examples from the real world - some of which have gone horribly wrong. While sometimes funny, such linguistic blunders can not only cause embarasement, they can cost money, market share and credability.

Dr. Weagle has less of a sense of humor and will look at more serious linguistic issues that are more tightly aligned with improving machine translation systems across many different language pairs. Dr. Weagle will provide guidance and help your organization to learn more about the translation process and what it takes to build a solid, high quality translation engine.

Asia Online team members and partners will also be joining the mailing list and will provide freqent industry analysis and industry insights. But we all recognize the importance if sharing and our team has been instructed to be on the hunt for great industry news and articles from outside as well. Each month, we will link to a number of third party articles and offer our insights and thoughts.

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