Prompsit Language Engineering
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Natural language processing Machine translation Artificial intelligence |
| Founded 📆 | 2006 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
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Key people | Gema Ramírez-Sánchez (CEO) |
| Products 📟 | Apertium (Contributor) Bicleaner AltLang |
| Services | Data curation Domain-specific MT |
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| 🌐 Website | prompsit |
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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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
- 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.[4]
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.[5]
- iADAATPA: Prompsit was a partner in the development of this platform for secure machine translation in public administrations.[6]
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.[7]
See also
- Apertium
- Machine translation
- List of University of Alicante people
References
- ↑ "Prompsit Language Engineering Profile". PitchBook. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
- ↑ Forcada, Mikel L. (2008). "Opentrad: bringing to the market open-source based Machine Translators" (PDF). Opentrad Consortium.
- ↑ "Installation - Apertium". Apertium Wiki. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
- ↑ Bifixer and Bicleaner: two open-source tools to clean your parallel data (PDF). Association for Computational Linguistics. 2019.
- ↑ "High Performance Language Technologies". HPLT Project. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
- ↑ Evaluation of the iADAATPA Project (PDF). Association for Computational Linguistics. 2019.
- ↑ "Juan Antonio Perez - ELLIS Alicante". ELLIS Alicante. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
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