The Apertium project (http://www.apertium.org) is a project which works on open-source machine translation and language technology. We try and focus our efforts on lesser-resourced and marginalised languages, but also work with larger languages. The project, including language data, translation engine and auxiliary tools, is being developed in several universities and companies around the world, with the principal part of the development on the engine being done by the Transducens research group of the Universitat d'Alacant (Alacant, Spain) and Prompsit Language Engineering. There are currently 17 published language pairs within the project (including a number of "firsts" — for example Spanish—Occitan and Basque—Spanish among others), and several more in development.

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