SDL International, (London Stock Exchange: 'SDL'), the world’s leading provider of multilingual solutions offering scalable translation technology and services, today announced a new release of the company’s leading automatic translation solution for corporations, the Enterprise Translation Server 2003™.

 Enterprise Translation Server has long provided the fastest automatic translation available on the market. With this release, SDL has substantially improved the output quality of the system by expanding the scope of its dictionaries. The parsing, transfer, and generation rules on which the translations are based have also been improved.

Keith Mills, SDL’s Chief Technology Officer, said: “Enterprise Translation Server is powered by the fastest real-time translation engine on the market. Our aggressive development of the engine has resulted in significant improvements in the quality of its output across all supported language directions. The core dictionaries have been increased by an average of 28% from the previous release in terms of the number of words and phrases entered. All of our customers will now enjoy greater accuracy in their automatic translations.”

Installations include government departments such as the Department of Trade and Industry in London, the Swiss Army, the City of Los Angeles and corporations such as Nestle and the Belga News Agency. Several of these implementations are closely coupled with Autonomy’s engine for the management of unstructured information.

Enterprise Translation Server 2003™ also includes installation protocols and queries to dynamically generate three new translation clients – for the translation of files, text and URLs. For example, results of document translations can be returned direct to the user and displayed in a browser or in the body of an email.