Reverso is a company specialized in AI-based language tools,
translation aids, and
language services. These include online translation based on NMT (Neural Machine Translation), contextual dictionaries,
online bilingual concordance
A parallel text is a text placed alongside its translation or translations. Parallel text alignment is the identification of the corresponding sentences in both halves of the parallel text. The Loeb Classical Library and the Clay Sanskrit Libr ...
s, grammar and spell checking and conjugation tools.
History
Reverso has been active since 1998, with the aim of providing online translation and linguistic tools to corporate and mass markets.
In 2013 it released Reverso Context, a bilingual
dictionary
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies ...
tool based on
big data
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and
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence.
Machine ...
algorithms.
In 2016 Reverso acquired Fleex, a service for learning English via subtitled movies. Based on content from Netflix, Fleex has expanded to also include video content from
YouTube
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,
TED Talk
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s, and custom video files.
In 2018 it released a new
mobile app
A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications which are designed to run on d ...
, which combines translations and learning activities.
In February 2018 it was reported that some translations on the Reverso translation web site returned antisemitic results, such as "Much nicer" returning "
Dachau was much nicer than
Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
". These results prompted the
International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism
The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism—or Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme (LICRA) in French—was established in 1927, and is opposed to intolerance, xenophobia and exclusion.
In 1927, French journ ...
to threaten Reverso with legal action. Reverso answered on Twitter that the controversial content would be removed.
Services
Reverso's suite of online linguistic services has over 96 million users, and comprises various types of language web apps and tools for translation and language learning.
Its tools support many languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian and Russian.
Since its founding Reverso has provided
machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT (not to be confused with computer-aided translation, machine-aided human translation or interactive translation), is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates t ...
tools for automated translation of texts in various languages, including
neural machine translation
Neural machine translation (NMT) is an approach to machine translation that uses an artificial neural network to predict the likelihood of a sequence of words, typically modeling entire sentences in a single integrated model.
Properties
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.
Reverso Context is an online and mobile application combining
big data
Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...
from large multilingual corpora to allow users to search for translations in context.
These texts are sourced mainly from films, books, and governmental documents, allowing users to see idiomatic usages of translations as well as synonyms and voice output. The Reverso Context app also provides language-learning features such as flashcards based on words in example sentences.
Reverso has also released browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox to incorporate features of Reverso Context into web browsing.
ExtensionReverso Translate in Context – Chrome extensionReverso Translate in Context – Firefox add-on
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Reverso's website also provides collaborative bilingual dictionaries between various pairs of languages, which use crowd sourcing
Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digita ...
to allow users to submit new entries and provide feedback. It also has tools for conjugation of verbs in various languages, spell checking tools, and written multilingual grammar guides for language learners.
Reverso Documents service translates documents and websites while preserving their layout.[Reverso Localize developed out of the EU-funded Flavius initiative, a joint project of six European language technology companies coordinated by Reverso. See ]
See also
* Linguee
Linguee is an online bilingual concordance that provides an online dictionary for a number of language pairs, including many bilingual sentence pairs. As a translation aid, Linguee differs from machine translation services like Babel Fish and is ...
, another collection of online bilingual concordances
* Translation memory A translation memory (TM) is a database that stores "segments", which can be sentences, paragraphs or sentence-like units (headings, titles or elements in a list) that have previously been translated, in order to aid human translators. The translati ...
* Parallel text
A parallel text is a text placed alongside its translation or translations. Parallel text alignment is the identification of the corresponding sentences in both halves of the parallel text. The Loeb Classical Library and the Clay Sanskrit Libr ...
References
External links
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