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Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
machine	O
translation	O
(	O
MT	O
)	O
technology	O
and	O
brand	O
of	O
RWS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
was	O
formerly	O
a	O
standalone	O
company	O
that	O
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
SDL	O
in	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
Los	O
Angeles	O
,	O
California	O
–	O
based	O
company	O
founded	O
in	O
2002	O
as	O
a	O
spin-out	O
company	O
from	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Southern	O
California	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
was	O
founded	O
to	O
commercialise	O
a	O
statistical	O
approach	O
to	O
automatic	O
language	O
translation	O
and	O
natural	O
language	O
processing	O
known	O
as	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
(	O
SMT	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
’s	O
statistical	O
approach	O
to	O
machine	O
translation	O
was	O
cutting-edge	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
significant	O
improvement	O
over	O
previous	O
approaches	O
such	O
as	O
Rule-Based	O
MT	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
grew	O
a	O
steadily	O
over	O
an	O
8	O
year	O
period	O
,	O
with	O
staff	O
numbers	O
totalling	O
96	O
across	O
offices	O
in	O
US	O
,	O
Europe	O
,	O
and	O
Japan	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2010	O
,	O
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
SDL	O
plc	O
for	O
$42.5	O
million	O
and	O
the	O
company	O
was	O
renamed	O
SDL	O
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
SDL	O
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
was	O
the	O
primary	O
machine	O
translation	O
technology	O
at	O
SDL	O
where	O
,	O
over	O
time	O
,	O
it	O
evolved	O
from	O
SMT	O
to	O
syntax-based	O
MT	O
,	O
to	O
Neural	B-General_Concept
Machine	I-General_Concept
Translation	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
brand	O
was	O
retired	O
in	O
2015	O
in	O
favour	O
of	O
SDL	O
BeGlobal	O
for	O
the	O
cloud-based	O
solution	O
,	O
and	O
SDL	O
Enterprise	O
Translation	O
Server	O
for	O
the	O
on-premise	O
solution	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
brand	O
was	O
revived	O
in	O
2021	O
following	O
the	O
acquisition	O
of	O
SDL	O
by	O
RWS	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
merger	O
of	O
the	O
SDL	O
MT	O
and	O
Iconic	O
Translation	O
Machines	O
teams	O
and	O
technologies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
combined	O
technologies	O
of	O
both	O
companies	O
,	O
based	O
on	O
state-of-the-art	O
Transformer-based	O
Neural	B-General_Concept
Machine	I-General_Concept
Translation	I-General_Concept
,	O
are	O
now	O
sold	O
as	O
"	O
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
"	O
for	O
cloud-based	O
MT	O
,	O
and	O
"	O
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
Edge	O
"	O
for	O
on-premise	O
MT	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
,	O
Language	B-General_Concept
Weaver	I-General_Concept
supports	O
the	O
following	O
languages	O
and	O
language	O
varieties	O
:	O
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