Prompsit

Prompsit Language Engineering is a Spanish technology company specializing in natural language processing (NLP) and machine translation. Founded in 2006 as a spin-off of the Transducens research group at the University of Alicante, the company is headquartered in the UMH Science Park in Elche, Spain.

The company is notable for its involvement in the development of the Apertium open-source machine translation platform and its participation in high-scale multilingual data projects for the European Union.

History

Prompsit was established to commercialize research in rule-based machine translation conducted at the University of Alicante. Its founders, including Gema Ramírez-Sánchez and professors Mikel L. Forcada and Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, were key figures in the creation of Apertium, a free software project supported by the Spanish and regional governments.

Technology and open source

Prompsit is a major contributor to the open-source NLP ecosystem. The company maintains several tools used for cleaning and preparing large-scale web-crawled data for AI training:

Apertium: Prompsit provides commercial support and development for this platform, which specializes in rule-based translation for low-resource languages and language pairs like Spanish-Catalan or English-Galician.
Bicleaner: An open-source tool developed by Prompsit to detect and remove "noisy" or low-quality sentence pairs from parallel corpora, widely used in the training of large language models.

European research projects

The company has participated in numerous European Union-funded research initiatives under the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe frameworks:

HPLT (High Performance Language Technologies) A project aimed at creating a massive multilingual dataset and large-scale language models for European languages.
iADAATPA: Prompsit was a partner in the development of this platform for secure machine translation in public administrations.

Leadership

Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, the co-founder and CEO, is a recognized expert in language engineering and serves as a regular contributor to industry panels on the ethical use of AI and data privacy. The co-founders Mikel L. Forcada and Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz are professors at the University of Alicante and have published extensively in the field of machine translation.

AlicanteApertiumArtificial intelligenceAssociation for Computational LinguisticsCEOData curationElcheEuropean UnionHorizon 2020Horizon EuropeLarge language modelList of University of Alicante peopleLow-resource languageMachine translationNatural language processingPrivate companySpainSpin-off companyUniversity of Alicante

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https://aclanthology.org/W19-6719.pdf

https://aclanthology.org/W19-6732.pdf

https://ellisalicante.org/people/japerez-en/

https://hplt-project.org/

https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/625522-33

https://prompsit.com/

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https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation

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