Over the past two decades, the University of Macau (UM) has developed various innovative translation systems, such as the PCT, a Chinese/Portuguese translation system; the Um2T, an online interactive Chinese/Portuguese machine translation system, and the next-generation online Chinese-Portuguese translation platform, which is expected to be launched onto the market by the end of this year, the government-funded university said in a statement last week.
These innovative translation systems reflect the university’s effort to help build Macau into a service platform for business cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, the statement pointed out.
With the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), business and cultural interaction between China and Portuguese-speaking countries has become more frequent, which has in turn created a growing demand for high-quality machine translation systems, the statement said.
This undated handout photo provided by the University of Macau (UM) last week shows the plaque of the National Language Processing & Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation Laboratory on the UM Hengqin campus.
