1.3 Expected final results and their potential impact and use

The expected final product of MOLTO is a software toolkit made available via the MOLTO website. It will consist in a family of open-source software products:

• a grammar development tool, available as an IDE and an API, to enable the use as a plugin to web browsers, translation tools, etc, for easy construction and improvement of translation systems and the integration of ontologies with grammars
• a translator’s tool, available as an API and some interfaces in web browsers and translation tools
• a grammar library for linguistic resources
• application grammar libraries for the domains of mathematics, patents, and cultural heritage

These tools will be portable to different platforms as well as generally portable to new domains and languages. By the end of the project, MOLTO expects to have grammar resource libraries for 18 languages, whereas MOLTO use cases will target between 3 and 15 languages.

The main societal impact of MOLTO will be on contributing to a new perception for the possibilities of machine translation, moving away from the idea that domain-specific high-quality translation is expensive and cumbersome. MOLTO tools will change this view by radically lowering the effort needed to provide high-quality scoped translation for applications where the content has enough semantic structure.