710594Lexica Software – guided Translation Editing SystemClosedGRD Proof of ConceptInnovate UKLexica is an application for software-guided interactive text editing and preparation for automated translation. It aims is to identify and eliminate textual elements in source texts which pose difficulties for machine translation, leading to unintelligible results in the target language, without the author requiring knowledge of the target language. Hitherto, translators are employed to QA texts after machine translation at cost. Lexica aims to bring these costs down by reducing the need for QA in the first place. The Lexica software system and methodology will produce texts which are machinetranslation friendly by helping the writer to eliminate potential obstacles for quality machine translation. Lexica will identify linguistic hotspots which can lead to mis-translations such as lexical (e.g. words with more than one meaning), morphological (e.g. same verb endings for different person/ tense/ number in some languages), grammatical, or a mix of these. As Lexica finds a hotspot, appropriate guidance messages are displayed indicating to the writer alternative strategies where these are available in the original and target languages. With the exponential growth in content owing to the Internet and the need to find new language markets by SME’s the need for a low cost but reliable translation software tool which will cope with any language combination required in the future and usable by non experts has never been so strong.