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MACHINE
TRANSLATION
SHOWCASE
Google Translator Toolkit
14:20 – 14:40
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Patcharin Areewong
Google

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Machine Translation
Patcharin Areewong
Language Specialist • Singapore

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Agenda
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• Introduction
• Google translate
• Google translator toolkit
• Demo

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Translation is the key to universal access
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“Organize the world's information and make it
universally accessible and useful.”
kiana
привет
hallo
hello こんにちは
你好
hola ‫ﻡمﺭرﺡحﺏبﺍا‬
!लो
bonjour
jambo
napaykullayki
olá mhoroi

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A translator’s story…
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Translator
2,000 words per day
250 days per year
500,000 words per year

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The Google story…
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Google
1,000,000,000 new pages indexed
per year*
400 words per page
400,000,000,000 words per year
400B/0.5M=800,000
translators
and that’s for only
1 additional language!
* actually, it’s several billion pages but let’s round it down to 1 billion

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So much content! So little resource!
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Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and
useful.
8% of world population speaks Arabic. Only 1% of the web is in Arabic.
>50% of Google searches come from outside the United States.
Localized search in more than 55 countries, 35 languages.
Google UI available in 117 languages across 157 international domains.
>99% of what people write, say, or generate never leaves the language in
which it was created.
http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com/Resources/FactsandFigures/tabid/1213/Default.aspx
Madar research, 2007

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Machine translation is better than nothing
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• Handle overwhelming volume
• Provide Immediate turn-around
• No access to human translator
• Users are one click away from inaccessible
content
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Drive demand for human translation
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Variable Value
Customer demand 1 vs. 10
Revenue per customer €10 vs. €100
MT experiment can measure customer demand, profitability.
If the content is proved valuable, it’s worth the human
translation price
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
– Nelson Mandela

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Expand translation industry
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Human translation expensive for content with uncertain value
• If 10 readers, expensive to pay $10,000 for translation
• If 100,000 readers, $10,000 translation worth the price
Monitor adoption, feedback
• Human-translate inscrutable content: offensive, misleading
• Human-translate high-traffic content: worth the price
Bottom line:
- Quick experiments
- Low cost

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Target users: amateurs and advanced translators
Languages: 100,000+ pairs
MT languages: 88 (includes variants)
UI languages: 36
File types: AdWords, HTML, TXT, PO, Android
App, Chrome Extension, RTF,
subtitles, Word, ODT
General features: WYSIWYG editor, sharing, chat, spell
check, publish to Google Docs
Advanced features: translation memory, glossary, Google
dictionary, label, concordance,
scoping, split/merge, repetition

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Google: open translation ecosystem
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How can you be big without being evil? We don’t trap
end users. So if you don’t like Google, if for whatever
reason we do a bad job for you, we make it easy for you
data to move to our competitor.
liberation! – Eric Schmidt
Google translation follows “data liberation” principle
• Support open standards, APIs
Data stored in Translator Toolkit is your data – not Google’s
• Cloud storage for access, scale
• Documents, glossaries, and TMs for your eyes only unless you share
• You control addition, deletion of your translations

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Demo Time!
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Try it today at
http://translate.google.com/toolkit

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Questions?
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