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Apertium is a free/open-source machine translation platform, initially aimed at related-language pairs (such as Spanish–Catalan) but which has been expanded to deal with more divergent language pairs (such as English–Catalan and even Basque→English). The platform provides:

• a language-independent machine translation engine
• tools to manage the linguistic data necessary to build a machine translation system for a given language pair and
• linguistic data for a growing number of languages and language pairs

We particularly aim at supporting low-resourced and marginalised languages, and in addition to machine translation work on a variety of other natural language processing and language technology applications: spellchecking, morphological analysis, treebanking, etc.