Machine Translation for Open Source

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Machine Translation for Open Source

• Laurie Gerber
• Language Technology Consulting
• gerbl_at_pacbell.net

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The Long Term Vision
C-3PO - Fluent in over 6 million forms of
communication!
Star Trek Universal Translator
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The Current Technology

• MT is ready to use!
• Many applications
• Unite computing power and human judgment

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Broadcast monitoring
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Web Monitoring
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Cross-Language Search
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DOCEX
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Chat
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Improving Utility of Automated Translation

• Invest in customization
• Preserve, digitize, and share dictionaries, term
  lists, and previously translated texts to improve
  translations
• Help industry to solve your problems
• Articulate goals and requirements and let
  developers compete
• Give feedback!!!
• Invest in defining and refining use cases
• usability requirements, and performance
  thresholds
• capitalize on strengths computing power and
  human judgment
• Invest in RD on USG-specific needs
• non-commercial languages
• data types other than news

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To Learn More

• Association for Machine Translation in the
  Americas Conference Hawaii, October 21-25,
• http//www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2008.html