Pangeanic presentation at Japan Translation Federation, detailing history of MT, productivity gains with MT at LSPs, data from Autodesk and CSA, description of PangeaMT system

1. Manuel Herranz
#manuelhrrnz #pangeanic pangeanic E: mherranz@pangea.com.mt

2. Rule-based systems, linguistic knowledge trying to find
relations between unrelated language pairs: about 50 years…
Trying to find relations/rules between distant languages in
grammar.
Alpac report, 1966 First academic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALPAC papers on SMT
Many applications linked to patents,
espionage, intelligence. IBM licenses.

3. Accumulation of bilingual databases (data)
First Computer-Assisted Tools (Translation Memory-based)
• Availability of massive amounts
of data.
Initial versions of Commercial • Explosion of content (web)
and Open Source Moses • Need for faster and faster
translation
• Shorter time-to-market:
Price / Quality / Time

4. Traditional Translation Workflow
TM
Find exact matches or % Human Post-editing / Revision
Translation
Next Generation MT-based
TM
Find exact matches or % Post-editing / Revision
PANGEAMT
Translation

5. Source:
Common Sense Advisory 2010
Source:
Common Sense Advisory 2006

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Translation MT+PE
Automotive 400 wph 900 wph
Marketing 250 wph 450 wph
Software 350 wph 1,000 wph
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10. Unrest is continuing in Cairo as protesters set up their demand for Egypt’s
military rulers to resign

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 Language
Knowledge
Linguistic
Information
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Data
Output Translation

14. 発売 時 には、 同社は 次の バージョンを 提供する 予定 です 。
Translation & Cleaning
available When , the company the following : plans to offer :
Nipponization module
(Cond clause), (Predicate)
(Subject) (VBPt) (to)
(ADV) (ADJ) (Punct) (DET) (NNSing) (VBPt3) (to) (VBinf) (DET) (NN)
When available, the company plans to offer the following:

15. <tu srclang="en-GB">
<tuv xml:lang="EN-GB">
<seg>A system for recovering the methane that is emitted from the manure so that
it does not leak into the atmosphere.</seg>
</tuv>
<tuv xml:lang="FR-FR">
<seg>Système permettant de r€ pérer le méthane qui se dégage de l'engrais naturel
d'origine animale de sorte qu'il ne se dissipe pas dans l'atmosphère.</seg>
</tuv>
<tu creationdate="20090817T114430Z" creationid="APIACCESS"
changedate="20110617T141159Z" changeid=“pat">
<tuv xml:lang="EN-US">
<seg>Overall heigtht –<bpt i="1">{f43 </bpt> <ept i="1">}</ept>25&quot;; width –
<bpt i="2">{f43 </bpt> <ept i="2">}</ept>20.1&quot;.</seg>
</tuv>
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<bpt i="2">{f43 </bpt> <ept i="2">}</ept><bpt i="3">{f2 </bpt>20,1&quot;.<ept
i="3">}</ept></seg>
</tuv>
</tu>
<tuv xml:lang=“EN-US">
<seg>On 22nd May we decided not to join the group.</seg>
<tuv xml:lang=“DE-DE">
<seg>Am 22. </seg>

16. <tu srclang="en-GB">
<tuv xml:lang="EN-GB">
<seg>The President of the United States visited Costa Rica.</seg>
</tuv>
<tuv xml:lang=“ES-ES">
<seg>El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, el señor Obama y su esposa la señora
Michelle, visitaron Costa Rica el pasado sábado.</seg>
</tuv>
<tuv xml:lang=“JP">
<seg>同書は「通訳・翻訳キャリアガイド」の2011-2012年度版。
英字新聞のジャパンタイムズ社が強みとするジャーナリスティックな視点で、通訳や翻訳という仕事が持つ魅力ややりがい、
プロに要求されるスキルおよび意識の持ち方などを紹介。また通訳者・翻訳者になるための道すじから、実際の仕事の現
場にいたるまで、今日の通訳・翻訳業界の実像を包括的に紹介。</seg>
<tuv xml:lang=“EN-US">
<seg>It is a journalistic point of view and strengths of the English-
language newspaper Japan Times. It includes a description of the exciting and
rewarding work of translation and interpretation, as well as the introduction of
consciousness and how to acquire the required professional skills. The road to
becoming a translator and interpreter also down to the actual work site, a
comprehensive guide to interpreting the reality of today'stranslation industry.
</seg>

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20. Myth: MT will never be as good
as humans
uhmmm, it is going to get really good...
2nd stage
PE material and more data make engines even
more predictable. More specialist engines
1st stage
We are creating usable engines, first PE
experiences 2009-2015 or 2020
3rd stage
Beyond 2030... no predictions
“We cannot solve the problem using the
same tools and the way of thinking that
created it” A. Einstein