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PROMT (from PROject MT — the project of machine translation) is a Russian company focused upon the development of machine translation systems. At the moment PROMT translators exist for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian languages. PROMT is headquartered in Saint Petersburg, Russia and also has offices in Moscow, Russia, San Francisco, the USA and Hamburg, Germany. Except the system of machine translation PROMT also delivers its own solutions on the basis of the Translation memory technology. ==History== The company was founded in St.-Petersburg in 1991 by the former employees of laboratory of engineering linguistics of Herzen University. Svetlana Sokolova is the head of the company from its first day. On October 6, 1998 PROMT launches the first Russian web service Translate.ru, intended for translation of the text or a web pages. It also has an English version Online-Translator http://www.online-translator.com. In 1997 PROMT together with the French company Softissimo develops a number of products for the western market called Reverso. In 2008 the company controlling stake has been redeemed by Renova Group. The sum of transaction is not disclosed, but according to Renova, the total amount of the world market of a translation service for the companies valued in 2007 at $9–10 billion, PROMT sales are 2% from this sum, that is $180–200 million. Hence by evaluations of one of observers of the market, who wanted to remain unnamed, cost of the packet acquired by "Renova" is no more than $20–40 million.〔http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/printEn.shtml?2008/06/25/306445〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PROMT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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