Apertium originated as one of the machine translation engines in the project OpenTrad, which was funded by the Spanish government, and developed by the Transducens research group at the Universitat d'Alacant.
The project has taken part in the 2009,[REF] 2010,[REF] 2011,[REF] 2012,[REF] 2013[REF] and 2014[REF] editions of Google Summer of Code and the 2010,[REF] 2011,[REF] 2012,[REF] 2013,[REF] 2014,[REF] 2015,[REF] and 2016[REF] editions of Google Code-In.