European Commission Machine Translation

European Commission Machine Translation (or ECMT)

Up until 2010 the Commission used the European Commission Machine Translation (ECMT) system ― a rule-based system based on the Systran-technology, which was discontinued as a result of the General Court's ruling of 16 December 2010.

In June 2010, DGT officially launched its MT@EC project, using the open-source statistical machine translation toolkit "Moses" to build its MT language pairs.

When fully operational, MT@EC will cover all EU languages and at least the same user needs as ECMT. The first operational version will be released on 1 July 2013.

The service is available to DGT staff.

A prototype with a reduced set of language pairs was made available on 2 July 2012 to a number of colleagues in 16 other DGs. As from 18 February 2013 this prototype, offering a total of 20 language pairs, has been extended to all colleagues in those DGs.