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KCSL Announces Major Upgrade of Web-Based NoBabel Translator

Expanded SaaS service now includes fully automated alignment of legacy translations

TORONTO, Canada, April 28, 2008 – KCSL Inc. announced today a major upgrade of its NoBabel� Web-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform of translation tools. The upgrade includes the addition of fully automated, high-quality alignment to the palette of NoBabel services as well as simplification of the Enhancer project workflow.

NoBabel Enhancer has been improved and extended with more functionality. Account creation and payment have been simplified. After the uploading of a translation memory file and a related, new source document for leveraging, the Enhancer optimally combines rules-based and statistical machine translation to perform sub-segment analysis and reconstruction to generate new, additional translation units (TUs). Users pay only for the additional TUs.

NoBabel AutoAligner quickly creates high-quality translation memory where none previously existed. Alignment of legacy documents is no longer a time-consuming, boring, manual process! The automatic and accurate AutoAligner is orders of magnitude faster than human alignment, and avoids the human fatigue factor that can result in misalignment when using traditional alignment technology.

Valuable Addition to the Arsenal of Translation Memory Tools

Jost Zetzsche, a translation industry veteran and author of the widely read The Tool Kit newsletter and numerous other publications, in summing up the value of the NoBabel AutoAligner, wrote that, "The cool thing about AutoAligner is that nothing I said in the previous paragraphs about alignment is true for this tool. It is not manual, it is not tedious, it does not look at sentences like the other tools, and it does not work on a file-by-file basis. Oh, and it also isn't perfect, just pretty darn close to it. ... I thoroughly went through the first 4000 translation units of the English > German TM and I found 3 (!) errors. I had only a cursory glance at the
English > Chinese TM and found no error. ... Folks, this is quite something – in fact, it's unheard of!"

New Level Playing Field

�Automated alignment levels the playing field in the vendor space by making creation of quality TMs fast and inexpensive,� said KCSL CEO Ilia Kaufman. �Now one vendor cannot hold TM ransom to keep another vendor from bidding on projects because everyone can create quality TM from legacy materials quickly and easily with NoBabel AutoAligner.�

NoBabel Availability

User registration is available immediately at www.nobabel.com. Registrants create individual log in information that provides access to a personal, secure section on the NoBabel site where all services are available. Payment for services is convenient and secure via PayPal.

For a limited time, new registrants will receive a starting account balance of $100 in NoBabel user credit. When this is depleted, they may then purchase additional credit online.

About KCSL Inc.

For more than 25 years, KCSL Inc. has created commercially successful and innovative solutions including international spell and grammar checkers, electronic references, multilingual search engines, and translation tools. KCSL has been instrumental in increasing productivity and improving the quality of written communication. Over 200 million people use KCSL products daily. KCSL is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For more information, visit www.kcsl.ca.

Media Contact

KCSL Inc.
Meier Deutsch
Vice President, Sales and Alliances
Phone: 416-222-6112 Ext. 239
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