>> IDM
The inter-agency Interactive Digital Media Programme Office (IDMPO) was created in Aug 06 as one of National Research Foundation (NRF)’s 3 strategic programmes to support Singapore’s long-term vision of growing into a global IDM capital. The goal of the Programme is to help grow Singapore into a vibrant global media capital.
The IDM R&D Programme Office (IDMPO) is an inter-agency outfit hosted by the Media Development Authority (MDA), to coordinate efforts between agencies such as Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), Economic Development Board (EDB), Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, Ministry of Education (MOE), Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI).
Its long-term vision is to grow Singapore into a vibrant global IDM capital, establish Singapore as a preferred test-bed, and in the process, achieve breakthroughs for the next generation media.
Part of the terms used in the Singapore Dictionary Project were collected as part of a translation technology project funded by the Interactive Digital Media Programme Office .
>> TPOT
TPOT is an integrated online translation platform that helps translators improve their productivity. It frees translators from the mundane aspects of their work to focus on what they do best – ensuring that the translation accurately reflects the meaning of the source text.
TPOT lets users access a range of translation tools and a growing repository of dictionaries and translation memories, Users can choose to share their own dictionaries and translation memories with, thereby pooling resources and minimising duplication of work.
Amateur translators are welcome to use TPOT for free. TPOT contains not just all of the terms available in the Singapore Dictionary but also additional specialised dictionaries and Translation Memories (full-sentence translations that can be recalled through "fuzzy matching").
TPOT is a full-fledged translation productivity tool for translators designed and managed by GistXL Technology.
>> Gistxl Technology
GistXL develops, customizes and manages software and services that allow governments, corporations and individuals to overcome language barriers and reap the full advantages of globalization.
- Its award-winning machine translation technologies and applications allow real-time translation of languages over the Internet, intranet and mobile networks.
- Its translation tools help translation providers and translation users increase productivity through leveraging on natural language processing, workflow and internettechnologies.
- Its cross-language data-mining applications help users "scan over the horizon" and acquire useful information for timely response regardless of language.
- Its assistive technologies help language learners and the visually impaired acquire and use language through transforming text data into usable formats, through audio-enablement, romanisation, translation, part-of-speech tagging, etc.
GistXL is headquartered in Singapore and has development sites in Singapore and the People's Republic of China. It is a National Infocomm Award prize winner and its core development team has more than three decades of experience in the field of language technology. Its clients include major multinational corporations and government agencies.