Features

Get the correct sense: sprawk knows that one word can have many different meanings, and that some concepts can be communicated with different words depending on dialect and context.
Context-aware: sprawk knows that context is really important. Our unique database structure allows for context words and topics to be associated with your terminology entries. This helps you, your team and external translators and editors to consistently choose the best terms for your document.
Consistent style with guides: Select from our pre-defined list of common organisational and publishing guidelines. Create and customise guidelines to meet your organisation’s particular needs. Share the style guide with the relevant external partners.
Right-to-left language support: Translate languages written right-to-left like Arabic and Hebrew. The editing interface also automatically adjusts font size, making detailed characters like Chinese easier to read.
Multi-alphabet support: sprawk is aware of different alphabet and writing systems, even for the same language.
Word choice: sprawk includes a tool to compare different words or phrases, including information such as how often they appear on average, common expressions and different meanings that they can take.
Detailed "paper-trail": A detailed history of all work completed is recorded.
Full document translation: We can translate entire documents for you, simply assist in finding the best way to phrase a sentence, or name something in another language.

Organise the terms: Create glossaries by theme, audience, work group or product.
Collect terms automatically: Automatically collect key phrases from your organisation’s documents and web site, and then use our simple web-based tools to build a customised enterprise terminology with definitions, usage and examples.
Ensure correct usage throughout the organization: Our tools check and report problem usages on your organisation's web site, uploaded documents and translation projects helping you keep your communication clear and consistent.
Share with external partners: Share glossaries with external partners and translators, or make them visible to the entire internet.
Advanced search tools: You can upload your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. They will be indexed and searchable, so that you can reuse phrases or entire paragraphs easily. Improves consistency of communication and saves your team doing work twice. External translators can also be given access.

Single location: We provide a single location for your organisation’s linguistic data, that can be shared and edited by the entire team.
Take control of your translations: Neither professional human translations nor machine translation software gives you all the control and security you need for your organisation. With Transmachina’s sprawk you get to take control of your translations, guiding the translation process to use the terms, structures and styles that best suit each document you translate. Unlike other software translation systems, we understand that you are the best person to make decisions about how the final translation will appear.
Perform translations in your own language: Our products are all fully localised so that you get to perform your translations in your own language. Not only are the menus, buttons and prompts in your language, but dictionary definitions are also available. This means that when you are using the software in a translation, the subtleties of different meaning choices will be explained in your mother tongue.

Find problems before your customers: Our tool identifies spelling mistakes, inconsistent language usage as well as broken links and incorrect HTML which may annoy customers and reduce your search engine rating.
Search your site: By indexing your entire site, you can easily search for word usages in your entire site, such as for old products or names of staff members that need to be removed.
Be consistent: Sprawk includes your existing web pages and documents in its repository, making it easier for translators to make future translations consistent.
Automatic language detection: Sprawk automatically recognises the language of each piece of text. It even supports pages and documents that mix different languages.
Multiple formats: Sprawk can not only index web and text files on your site, but also PDF, Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents linked from your pages.

Language detection: sprawk’s huge linguistic database is able to detect incorrect or uncommon spellings and make recommendations in almost any language. The interface lets you set the language (if you know it), otherwise it can automatically detect it.
Spelling and grammar correction: The interface can query sprawk’s grammatical rule-set, automatically detecting incorrect expressions, as well as more subtle problems such as incorrect gender and even incorrect tense.
Style correction: sprawk can even scan for poor style - such as abnormal use of hyphens, capitalisation and US versus UK spellings. You can choose to follow an established style guide or pick and choose which rules you will follow on your website or project.
Word choice: sprawk includes a tool to compare different words or phrases, including information such as how often they appear on average, as well as common expressions and different meanings that they can take. You can query this data and integrate it into your own applications.
Learn automatically: You can teach sprawk about the type of language that you’ll be using, by uploading documents for analysis and providing URLs to your own or related websites. The analysis module will determine word frequencies, common phrases and styles. This can be used to create new correction rules, or to highlight special terminology that needs to be hard-coded in the translation module.
Dictionary definitions: sprawk’s database extends the Princeton University WordNet database, with over 115,000 dictionary definitions in English. We have linked in the correct words in over 20 languages, and are also translating the definitions into French and German.
Word-by-word translation: The interface allows you to request a translation for a word or short phrase. The system will return a list of choices ordered by most likely with extra information such as context and frequency.
Paragraph translation: The sprawk engine can take a paragraph of text, automatically detect the original language and then translate it to the desired language based on your customised preferences and terminology.
Monitor and improve: All requests passing through the sprawk interface are logged for quality control. As an account administrator, you can log into the site, review activity, update rules and settings, and alter the interface behaviour.