Targoman is a bilingual translation service.
Targoman English-Persian translator is a pioneer in statistical translation in Iran. It was developed by the “Human Language Technology & Machine Learning” laboratory at Amirkabir university, with the support of ICT Research Institute, and is regarded as one of the major tools for developing Persian scripts and language. Targoman offers a variety of applications such as text processing, search engines and digital libraries. It can also be employed independently.
Currently, Targoman is applied to Parsijoo Search Engine for translation purposes and is capable of providing English-to-Persian and Persian-to- English textual translation based on a corpus of 38 million lexicons in the domains of news and fiction.
One major advantage of Targoman is the high quality of translated result compared to the existing Persian translators. Based on the evaluation results using BLUE standard, the quality achieved by Targoman in both Persian-to-English translation and vice versa is far superior to those of competing translators on Google, Bing and so on. Targoman is undergoing a further upgrade and will be expected to provide services such as speech translation as well as displaying related images in the near future. The quality and domain coverage is also gradually improving.
Within this scope, following peculiarities can be taken into account:
- Highest quality of translation compared to counterpart systems
- Exclusive bilingual local English-to-Persian translator
- Ease of upgrade
- High-speed translations
- Inclusion of a rich corpus of Persian words
- Possibility of suggestions for improved translation results by end users
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