DTS: a delivery system for translation and translation-related services

Globalisation is bringing translation and multilingual information processing to areas where it was previously unknown, relatively unimportant, or technically just not feasible. Today, Natural Language Understanding techniques are important for reaching global audiences, and are therefore becoming an indispensable component inside many systems and workflows. The main subjects of discussion continue to be the linguistic approaches used by such tools and applications. Equally important, however, are new types of software that support linguistic systems and that provide the information infrastructure to offer linguistic services to the user. NLU technology often means large and memory-intensive applications, unsuitable for installation and use on smaller computers and mobile clients. DTS is a delivery system ideally suited to providing multilingual and translation services to users within a distributed environment, in networks and on thin clients like mobile phones, PDAs and notebooks. With its modular and scalable architecture and automatic load balancing it provides a flexible basis for delivering linguistic capabilities and other services over the Internet or on an Intranet. Internet translation portals, SMS services, or networked multilingual information systems need a distribution architecture like that provided by DTS.