The Language Search Engine


Language Search Engines (LSE) work similarly to Internet Search Engines. Rather than searching the internet, however, an LSE searches TM's (Translation Memories) to find useful segments of previously translated documents.

The Lingotek Language Search Engine is unique in the world in it's capability to conduct meaning based searches against millions of previously translated segments to find the most complete and accurate resources that closely match the actual meaning of the source document. Unlike any other tool, the Lingotek LSE finds sentence fragments, phrases, whole sentences, even complete paragraphs where terms are used in the same context, and with the same meanings as the source document.

Where other tools perform character searches seeking only exact sentence matches or rely on outdated fuzzy matching technologies, they often discard, or simply can't find the data most helpful to the translators. The Lingotek Language Search Engine leverages cutting edge, Google-like, meaning based search algorithms that instantly find, and prioritize all the data that will be most useful to the translators.

While industry leading TM tools often get bogged down, or even crash when dealing with large TM files, the Lingotek Language Search Engine operates much like Google and other Internet Search Engines, and operates faster and more accurately as the amount of searchable content increases. Thus, the translation process increases in both accuracy and speed as it is continually used.

The Lingotek LSE also supports 99% of all the worlds languages and offers targeted glossaries, selected searches, spell checkers and other features that make the translation process as quick and easy as possible for a qualified linguist.

Results of Use


It is not uncommon for users of the Lingotek Language Search Engine to realize improvements upwards of 300% in document translation speed, with a corresponding improvement in accuracy and consistency.

Translators rated at a Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) level 2 have seen accuracy output reaching DLPT Level 3 or better based on the resources provided by the Lingotek Language Search Engine.



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