Olanto: Can we use these Open Language Tools?

What are Olanto's Goals?

The initial goal of Olanto Foundation is to build and share a complete suite of professional CAT tools which should include at least:

a Concordancer (Bitext-based search engine);
a Statistical Machine Translation Tool;
a Terminology Database Management System;
an expression explorer within parallel corpora;
a Translation Memory Management System.

2nl wrote:
I stumbled upon:
OLANTO | Open Language Tools
http://olanto.org
Anybody using this?

Samuel Murray wrote:

Looks like something designed by programmers for programmers. Could you get it to work?

Although the CAT tools distributed by Olanto are open source, it does not mean they can be installed by anyone.

One can find complete documentation on www.olanto.org.

Some answers to the questions posed here.

"Anybody using these Open Language Tools?"

- These tools are used daily in large organization like CERN, WTO, WIPO, ...
- Students (experimenting with INALCO - Paris)

"Looks like something designed by programmers for programmers"

- The tools are designed with translators.
- But they are designed to automate tasks with the support of an IT group.

Could you get it to work?

- The installation manuals are sufficient to install the tools (although they are very technical)
- Large organizations use partners for installations and maintenance
- A new initiative for students provides a pre-installed version (in a virtual machine). (https://github.com/olanto/EDUCATION/wiki/Home_FR, Currently the documentation is only in French, everyone can contribute to translate into other languages)!