Lingea: Integration of Language Tools into Workflows
Lingea, Brno, Czechia, Josef Jon, Isidora Katanić, Lingea, Brno, Czechia, Efraim Berkovič, Lingea, Brno, Czechia, Marek Švanda, Lingea, Brno, Czechia · 2024
Lingea s.r.o. is a longstanding language service provider and language technology developer from Brno, Czech Republic. This paper details practical applications of Lingea’s technologies across critical sectors—healthcare, global commerce, and law enforcement. It highlights key features such as state-of-the-art machine translation, enhanced search tools, predictive writing assistance, and specialized translation databases that support over 30 languages. A distinctive competitive advantage of our company are the hand-made, in-house dictionaries and other language resources spanning over 50 languages, created in the course of 25 years of the company’s existence by a team of linguists and language professionals. Use cases presented include real-time translation in emergency medical services, a phrase translation management platform for global enterprises, and the ARIEN project for monitoring illegal drug trafficking. Each demonstrates how Lingea’s tools ensure accurate communication, reduce operational delays and allow an efficient localization of services and products, significantly contributing to the effectiveness of multilingual interactions in various professional environments. Keywords: NLP · MT · NMT · Machine translation · Language technology · Language service provider.