MemoQ North American Summit May 2020

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INTENTO
MACHINE
TRANSLATION
INSIGHTS
Konstantin Savenkov
CEO Intento
© Intento, Inc. / May 2020

2. © Intento, Inc. / May 2020
ABOUT US
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We are freshmen - 3 years in the industry
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Tools to procure, utilise and maintain the best-fit AI. Mostly
Machine Translation.
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Several large enterprise clients (retail, travel, tech)
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40-70 languages each
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Injecting MT into TMS, Customer Support, Website Translation,
Communication, Software Development, Documentation and more
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Procurement (evaluation) → deployment → improvement.

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WORKING WITH MT
SAME AS WITH SOFTWARE BUT DIFFERENT
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PROCURE
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DEPLOY
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MAINTAIN
train, evaluate and select
integrate with software and workflows
improve and update

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PROCURING MT
WHAT MAKES DIFFERENT MT DIFFERENT
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Linguistic quality
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Customizability
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Tag support
FOR A GIVEN MT SYSTEM,
ALL THREE DEPEND ON
A LANGUAGE PAIR
AND DIRECTION

5. Intento
GENERIC STOCK MODELS
Alibaba Amazon Baidu DeepL eBay Google
GTCom IBM Kakao Microsoft Mirai ModernMT
Niutrans Naver Omniscien PROMT Rozetta SAP
SDL Sogou Systran Tencent Tilde Yandex
5© Intento, Inc. / May 2020
VERTICAL STOCK MODELS
CUSTOM TERMINOLOGY SUPPORT
AUTO DOMAIN ADAPTATION MANUAL DOMAIN ADAPTATION
Youdao
Alibaba Baidu
Cloud
Translate
Microsoft Omniscien PROMT
SAP Systran
Amazon Baidu Google IBM Microsoft Rozetta SDL Systran Yandex
Globalese Google IBM
Kantan Microsoft ModernMT
Omniscien SDL Systran
Alibaba Baidu
Cloud
Translate
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Omniscien PangeaMT Prompsit PROMT
SDL Systran Tilde Yandex
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WAYS TO IMPROVE MT

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PROCURING MT
THINGS TO LOOK AFTER
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Hard segments (for all MT)
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Weak spots (for raw MT)
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Typical segments (for PEMT)
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One big model vs one model per
TM
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Real-world ROI, not proxy
metrics
weak spots
hard
segments
typical
MTAGREEMENT
SENTENCE DIFFICULTY

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DEPLOYING MT
GETTING TO THE ROI
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Receiving performance feedback
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Optimizing MT vs
Optimizing workflows
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Business side: make sure better MT yields
better ROI

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MAINTAINING MT
FOLLOW THE MOVING TARGET
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Several update cycles:
- quick changes (glossaries or per-sentence training)
- regular re-training
- re-evaluation
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Monitoring the technology updates
- terminology changes
- fluency vs fidelity trade-offs

9. THANKS!
ks@inten.to
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Konstantin Savenkov, CEO
ks@inten.to
2150 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley CA 94705
INTENTO
https://inten.to