TAUS OPEN SOURCE MACHINE TRANSLATION SHOWCASE

Bologna Translation Service: Making education accessible across Europe14:40-15:00Monday 4 June

Luc MeertensCrossLang

Making Education Accessible Across Europe

BOLOGNA TRANSLATION SERVICE: MAKING EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE ACROSS EUROPE

TAUS Open Source Machine Translation Showcase

Luc Meertens

Making Education Accessible Across Europe

Overview

1. Introduction

2. Bologna Translation Service Overview

3. MT in Bologna Translation

4. Progress to date

5. Conclusion and Future work

Making Education Accessible Across Europe

INTRODUCTIONPart one:

Making Education Accessible Across Europe

Context

• Translate study programmes in English– for attracting foreign students– for profiling the university in the European Higher

Education Area

• BUT– traditional translation is (too) expensive– human resources are limited

• RESULT– course materials and degree programmes only available in

local language

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BOLOGNA TRANSLATION SERVICE OVERVIEW

Part two:

Making Education Accessible Across Europe

Bologna Translation Service (BTS)

FACTS

Duration 24 months

Start and finish date 01/03/2011 - 31/02/2013

EU funding and programme €1,580,000 – ICT PSP,Grant Agreement n° 270915

EU project officer Aleksandra Wesolowska

Website www.bologna-translation.eu

Making Education Accessible Across Europe

BTS Consortium

CrossLang (Project Coordinator)•Process and business automation•Localisation industry knowledge

Convertus•MT expertise (Convertus Syllabus Translator)

Applied Language Solutions•Technology-driven language service provider

Koç University•Machine Translation expertise•Statistical language modelling

Eleka Ingeniaritza Lingusitikoa•Machine Translation expertise•Language engineering in general

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Key Features and objectives

Making Education Accessible Across Europe

* Additional language directions upon request.

BTS - Project Language Directions

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MACHINE TRANSLATION IN BTSPart three:

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Machine Translation (MT) Components

Statiscital MT

Rule-Based MT

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MT engines

DE-ENFR-ENNL-ENEN-ZH

ES-ENPT-ENFI- ENTK-EN

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Data Collection

• Data Sources– Freely available already aligned corpora– User group provided data– Freely available, web-crawled data

• Target– 500,000 sentence pairs in-domain data per language pair

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PROGRESS TO DATEPart four:

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Progress to date – technology

• BTS portal Release 1

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Progress to date

• BTS portal Release 1• Baseline MT systems for all language pairs • Advanced MT systems for DE, FR, ES• POC automated post-editing for DE

Engine Scores BLEU METEOR TER

German—English 43.4 35.0 48.4

French—English 51.1 42.9 32.9

Spanish—English 37.9 37.2 45.3

Portuguese—English* 29.9 33.5 52.0

Turkish—English* 18.9 26.2 68.6

Finnish—English* 15.6 20.5 74.8

Dutch—English* 16.9 23.7 65.0

English—Chinese* 20.9 25.9 65.3

* Baseline systems

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BTS User Group Members

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CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORKPart five:

Making Education Accessible Across Europe

1. EU annual review recommendations

2. Elaboration of BTS Portal

3. Refinement of translation quality

4. Expansion of User Group

5. Exploitation plan

May 2012 – Feb 2013

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BTS User Group

HTTP://WWW.BOLOGNA-TRANSLATION/USER/REGISTER

Contact:

Heidi Depraetere+32 498 90 65 91

coordinator@bologna-translation.euwww.bologna-translation.eu