Asia Online has a series of tailored solutions for different industries and business functions. Depending on your requirements, Asia Online can supply the entire solution, or work with certified partners to deliver a tailored solution for your specific needs.

Asia Online provides core technology to enable a wide variety of language-oriented solutions, ranging from large scale translation to linguistic processing, Asian language OCR and publishing.

Our technology provides productivity improvements and cost savings, and also opens new markets by enabling massive amounts of high value content to be available in multiple languages. Human translation is usually not practical for this due to cost and time constraints. But our highly structured and efficient man-machine collaboration infrastructure, can ensure high quality translations for the mass translation of research, legal documents, knowledge bases, technical support and other information to drive global business initiatives.

Asia Online works with its partners to provide a total solution to your requirements. Preparing and processing data, post editing output, refining translation engine capabilities, and improving these systems and translation output until the required level of quality is achieved. When publication quality is required, our Language Service Provider partners can work with you to ensure the highest level of quality is attained. Our technology integration partners are able to assist in linking our platform and systems seamlessly into your existing software, processes and systems.

Asia Online partners with Language Service Providers (LSPs) to give them all the tools they need to service their customers with on large-scale, bulk translation projects that require automated translation.

In addition to providing access to Asia Online’s statistical machine translation platform, with support for hundreds of language pairs , Asia Online also provides tools and services to enable LSPs to customize the platform to meet their specific customer linguistic requirements.

LSPs can create specific, high-quality translation system configurations for customers with unique translation requirements, such as those in the automotive, legal, technological or medical fields.

Asia Online has built a technology platform with series of tools, that allow for rapid development of customized translation engines focused on specific subject domains.

LSPs also benefit from Asia Online’s unique ability to learn from post editing corrections and never make the same mistake twice. Working with Asia Online’s powerful editing tools, LSP’s subject matter experts and editors, proofread early translations and make corrections where needed. The Asia Online platform then takes these corrections and learns from them as the engines are periodically updated and retrained. The result is that subsequent translations are greatly improved. This approach allows the system to learn idioms, cultural nuances, technical terms and industry jargon quickly and provides high quality automation support for future translations.

Developing and managing this kind of technology can be costly and time consuming. Asia Online provides access to the technology for LSPs via our Enterprise Translation Portal . No servers, technical management expertise or software licenses are needed. Instead efforts can be invested in post editing and building automation and rapid response leverage for future translation projects. This not only reduces capital outlay and on-going costs, but also speeds up deployment and substantially reduces the risk associated with investing in machine translation solutions.

Put simply, LSPs can get now take on the sort of large-scale translation projects that were previously impossible to accomplish with human-only translators.

Global Enterprises in any location and in any industry can take advantage of Asia Online’s statistical machine translation platform, in order to more rapidly translate large volumes of high value content at a significantly lower costs than alternative approaches. Globalization trends and the increasing use of the web to reach the global customer is driving global companies to make much more information available to support their international business initiatives.

The success of global companies who have started to make much more product related information available is beginning to be understood. The impact of making large amounts of information available, especially in knowledge intensive industries, can dramatically enhance and improve customer satisfaction in international markets. Companies like Microsoft have illustrated this clearly, by making automated translations of their knowledge bases available.

Historically, enterprises have not been able to do this easily because of the sheer volume of the information and the time and costs of using traditional localization approaches to do this. But now they can use Asia Online’s platform to translate large volumes of information across hundreds of languages pairs .

Asia Online’s technology platform is designed to support evolutionary improvement in the translation of massive amounts of information to support global customers. Initial translation engines can be put into production and they can improve and learn in real-time as human editors provide corrective feedback, which is recycled as training material. This allows enterprises to continually tune the engines to provide accurate translations of trademarked product names, marketing phrases or specialized industry terms. For example, the unique product name PowerTool is not the same as the text “power tool.” By simply proofreading an early translation and correcting product names and special terms, enterprises can constantly train the Asia Online platform for their specific and continually changing needs.

Asia Online can also work with enterprises outsourced language service providers, enabling for the first time shared platform for enterprises to collaborate with their translation partners in real-time.

Increasingly, Government Enterprises are also required to interact with increasingly diverse constituencies. In major cities around the world, we are seeing more linguistic diversity in the population. In some regions of the US, Spanish is already the dominant language. Cities like Los Angeles and New York City have large populations from Asia in addition to a growing Hispanic population.

The need in Medicine and Emergency Response is the greatest, but as more government-citizen interaction moves to the web we can expect many other areas including Immigration, Tax, Education and Law Enforcement to expand their multilingual presence on the web. This is also true for several government entities in Europe as well.

They too can take advantage of Asia Online’s statistical machine translation platform in order to more rapidly produce translated materials at a significantly lower cost than previous processes. These entities can develop different translation engines for the key domains of interest, and thus be able to keep citizens informed and engaged. Government Agencies can use Asia Online’s platform to translate large volumes of information across hundreds of languages pairs .

The Asia Online platform has the ability to deliver significantly better quality than “free” MT systems on the web. They are also designed to accept corrective feedback from the target users and learn in real-time . This could be managed and monitored for accuracy and linguistic quality by internal experts or LSP partners. The crowdsourcing capabilities of the Asia Online platform, provide yet another way, to rapidly raise the quality of the translated content. By simply proofreading and correcting early translations experts and end-users can all contribute to the continuing improvements in quality.

Asia Online can also provide the ability to install these translation systems on premise on customer servers whenever required. This is sometimes an important requirement for some government agencies.

Former Sun Microsystems’ Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office, John Gage coined the term “The network is the computer.” This phrase is the primary force behind many applications today that without the network would not be useful or may not have ever been created. It is the power in internetworking applications and their capabilities that has created significant advances in functionality, productivity, interoperability and standards.

Asia Online recognizes that translation alone is not enough. The key to truly enable applications is the network. Asia Online provides an advanced application programmer interface (API) that uses industry standard web services to communicate across the Internet or network. Developers of network games and applications that have communications between multiple parties such as SMS, television set top boxes, email and other network applications can connect directly to the API for translation in near real time.

But don’t stop at translation, by adding OCR, text-to-voice, voice-to-text and many other technologies that are available today, amazing integrated offerings can be achieved. Examples include camera phones that can take a photo of a menu, OCR the image and send the translated menu back to the phone. Or photo copiers that OCR a page, translate it and print it again – delivering paper-to-paper translation. The possibilities for network applications that integrate Asia Online’s platform are only limited by your imagination.

Historically, publishers of high value subscription content have had to limit their subscription revenue to the markets that can consume the content in its originating language. Some have endeavored to translate the most popular content to a few key languages. This greatly limits their overall revenue opportunities and potentially substantial amounts of revenue are lost this way. Asia Online can help you to liberate digital content and get to this hidden revenue.

Publishers of Financial, Legal, IT Research, Scientific and Technical information all have the potential to sell their content, to a much wider global market if they provided multilingual versions of the content. This is especially true for several European languages as well as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. It is possible to make the information available in several different ways. The lowest quality automated translations would allow information to be searched and indexed in a foreign language and then this could help global customers find specific information of interest that could be sent to human translators. For publishers who invest in developing higher quality translation systems, it is possible to support subscribers who directly consume new content that is processed through the Asia Online continuous improvement translation platform.

Publishers can take advantage of Asia Online’s statistical machine translation platform in order to more rapidly produce translated materials at a significantly lower cost than previous processes. They can tailor the quality and human feedback efforts to the specific global market opportunities. The Asia Online platform can support anything from simple glossary based customization to complete almost publication quality SMT engine creation. With several cycles of expert human corrective feedback it is possible to ensure publication quality raw output.

Asia Online can also work with enterprises outsourced language service providers, enabling for the first time shared platform for enterprises to collaborate with expert, professional translation partners in real-time.

We live in a world that is increasingly global. Over a billion people across the world are online and it is possible that as many as 2 billion people will be connected in the next few years.

Global enterprises are often dispersed with design in Europe, management in the US and manufacturing in China. Enterprises need to be able to communicate, both within the enterprise and with customers and partners in different global markets.

Much of this communication is around specific products information or human resource issues. Information and knowledge sharing is hampered by language barriers and this can slow down collaboration and progress. While many try to enforce English as the global corporate language, many still prefer, and can better comprehend important information in their local language.

Asia Online’s statistical machine translation platform can be customized around key enterprise domains to produce compelling translation quality of important day to day material. The systems can be tuned to produce excellent quality on email content and regular product communications within different divisions in an enterprise.

The Asia Online’s platforms ability to learn in real-time can be used to continually improve the quality of the translations. Each recipient of an automatically translated communication can make small corrections, that are recycled to continually improve the ongoing translations.

Asia Online can also work with outsourced language service providers, enabling for the first time, a shared platform for enterprises to collaborate with their translation partners in real-time.

The mobile phone is increasingly being viewed as a device where translation can provide very high value. As phones become more capable of running applications that previously were relegated to PCs, it will be possible to have many new mobile translation applications.

For example photos of documents, signs, menus can be sent back to a server for OCR and translation. SMS and Text messages could be translated or could enable a cross lingual chat. Applications that translate and speak out phrases could also be coming soon.

Again the robust and flexible Asia Online Translation Technology Platform can be quickly tuned to produce compelling quality for these kinds of applications. As the data resources for various kinds of communication styles are gathered and analyzed, it will be possible to train our systems to do well even in these kinds of applications.

The combination of crowdsourcing feedback and the Asia Online learning platform will enable much more rapid progress even on this front.