The MeLLANGE Project

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The MeLLANGE Project

• Multilingual eLearning in LANGuage Engineering
• Dr. Natalie Kübler
• Nkubler_at_eila.jussieu.fr

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Leonardo Da Vinci Programme

• The Leonardo da Vinci programme aims to implement
  a European Community vocational training policy
  by contributing "...to the promotion of a Europe
  of knowledge by developing a European area of
  cooperation in the field of education and
  vocational training ..." and by supporting
  "...Member States' policies on lifelong learning
  and the building up of the knowledge and skills
  and competences likely to foster active
  citizenship and employability." (Art. 1.3 of the
  Council decision establishing the Leonardo da
  Vinci programme).

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University Paris 7

• Research in Terminology, Languages for Specific
  Purposes, Corpus Linguistics
• Masters programmes
• Language Industry and Specialized Translation
  (ILTS)
• Multilingual and Computerized Technical Writing
  (RTMI)
• www.eila.jussieu.fr/enseignement/lea/dess/

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General Objectives

• Devise a methodology for the collaborative
  creation of corpus-based eLearning teaching
  contents in translation, language resource
  management and technology
• Design a European Masters of Arts at the European
  level

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Existing data corpora

• Reuse and adaptation of existing data for the
  teaching of intercultural language resource
  management, such as multilingual parallel
  corpora, and learner translators corpora.
• gt Creation of corpus-based raw teaching material

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On-line courses

• Creation of on-line interactive and collaborative
  teaching contents new skills and competences
  covering a wide range of possibilities
• gt Necessary for universities and professionals
  to joins forces to respond to market needs both
  in initial and continuous education

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eLearning Technology

• Innovative use of existing eLearning technologies
  and tools to put raw teaching material and
  courses on-line.
• The project will use the commercial platform of
  one of the industrial partners, working on new
  specifications customized to multicultural
  content management.

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Partners

• Promoter
• Intercultural Studies and Applied Languages
  Department,
• University Paris 7 Denis Diderot
• France

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Partners (2)

• Translation and Interpretation Institute,
  University of Vienna, Austria
• Institute for Applied Linguistics, Translation
  and Interpreting, University of Saarland, Germany
• Department of Translation and Philology,
  University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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Partners (3)

• Advanced Schools of Modern Languages for
  Interpreters, and Translators, University of
  Bologna, Italy
• Centre for Translation Studies, University of
  Leeds, Great Britain
• Translation and Interpreting School, University
  of Geneva, Switzerland

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Industrial partners

• Praetorius France, Gif-sur Yvette, France
• Onlineformapro, Vesoul, France
• Olomouc Training Center, Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Institute for Translation and Interpreting,
  Milton Keynes, Great Britain

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Experts

• LISA Mike Anobile
• Experts from language associations

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Target Groups

• Students in initial vocational training gt ensure
  their education is consistent with emerging needs
  in the labour market
• Translation trainers and trainers of various
  curricula for language professional gtremedy the
  lack of materials
• Practising translators and language professionals

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Target sectors

• Industrytranslation market, language industry
  also industry in general gt necessity of
  multilingual language resource amangement
• Educationtranslation departments, institution
  focussing on educating language professionals,
  Central and Eastern Europe countries

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Results

• Website
• Resource Adapation and Development
• Standardised tool for translation comments
• Collaborative translation classes
• Learning modules
• Course testing
• Adapted Curricula
• Updates and confirmed analysis of user needs

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Resource adaptation and development

• Repurposing of existing comparable and parallel
  corpora
• eCoLoRe project will contribute with translation
  memories
• Compiling a tranlsation learners corpus
• TLC analysed to produce an error typology
• Standardised tool for making translation commentds

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Corpus?

• A collection of pieces of language that are
  selected and ordered according to explicit
  linguistic criteria in order to be used as a
  sample of the language (J. Sinclair 1981)
• Computerized data
• gt Extract linguistic information for term bases,
  translation, etc

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Concordance

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  in explosive
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  provide to indic
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  recognized 2, as the
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  interpreted as and
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  over a two-wee
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  outstanding
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  events
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  also preceded the

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Learning modules

• Translation - Collaborative translation classes -
  Terminology
• Technology
• Localisation
• Translation memory
• Machine translation
• Terminology management
• Workflow management

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Course testing

• Two course testing small set of pilot courses
• Tested in universities selected companies
• Evaluating if the contents are adapted to real
  market needs
• Keeping the contact with industrial development

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User needs profiles

• Translator profile according to various market
  needs
• Surveys questionnaire
• Industrial partners will play a crucial role in
  questionnaire designing and disseminating
• Rapidly changing field

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Evaluation

• For the whole duration of the project, the
  evaluation will be done with a group of experts
  and external players in industry, to ensure that
  the development constantly matches industry needs.

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Current state

• Collecting existing corpora
• Compiling translation learners corpus
• Designing error typology
• Evaluating elearning models
• Designing the survey that will be sent to
  industry
• Website completing information, periodical
  newsflashes

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Next event

• Workshop in April in Leeds
• Joint workshop eCoLoRe MeLLANGE
• gt Report publication