PortageLive - delivering machine translation technology via virtualization.

We describe and report initial results on us- ing virtual machines as a vehicle to deploy machine translation technology to the market- place. Virtual machines can bridge the gap be- tween the computing infrastructure typically used in research environments and commod- ity PCs typical of office environments. A key component is the compact representation of the underlying databases and models in tightly packed tries, which allows us to run state-of- the art translation technology on regular office PCs.