1. TAUS USER CONFERENCE 2010
LANGUAGE BUSINESS INNOVATION
4 – 6 OCTOBER / PORTLAND (OR), USA
TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER / 15.25
MOVING ON WITH MT: BUILDING OPEN-SOURCE
MT WITH YOUR VENDOR AND SERVING IT
Salomé López-Lavado, Sony
Elia Yuste, PangeaMT

2. Agenda
 Toward a customized PangeaMT Solution for
Sony Professional Solutions Europe (PSE)
 Going beyond MT engines
 Solution’s benefits and latest features
 PangeaMT4SonyE in action
 Future work
 Q&A
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3. Toward a customized PangeaMT solution
for Sony PSE
 Customized engines to benefit from client-specific
data and domain-specific data (TAUS)
 Client understands concept and potential usefulness of TAUS
TDA for own MT development and for the GILT community
( data donor)
 Main challenge: Heavily formatted, marked-up content
 Typical Moses-only SMT implementation wouldn’t be enough!
 Necessary to develop peripheral Modules to overcome this
limitation
 Inliner – to tackle inline formatting
 TMX and XLIFF filters – to go ahead of SMT operating in plain text
only
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4. Route to PangeaMT4SonyE solution
Multi-genre within
Automatic evaluation same domain;
metrics (PangeaMT gradual development
team). Now get the & intake; separate &
user/client involved in Target domains combinatory engine
“experimenting & and MT goals approach
measuring”
Measuring Training /
results Building / Testing
Inliner and
TMX/XLIFF I/O
Service through user- filters – system’s
protected web panel Implementation
most innovative
and MT output delivery assets of
facilitates ease-of-use customized
and interactivity implementation
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5. Going beyond the MT engine:
Solution delivery options
 Cygwin (1.7.5-1):  Password-protected web
PangeaMT engine, panel
models, Moses and
 Interface is scalable
instructions
(more users, language
 Zipped pack (300-500 Mb); pairs and engines 
installed (1 Gb HD)
make a case for MT
 Pre-tested functionality in across corporation)
MS-Windows versions (XP,
Vista and 7)  Hosted in-house or by
 Command line-based Pangeanic
translation request  Easy tracking of MT
requests
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6. Going beyond the MT engine:
Solution delivery options
 Cygwin (1.7.5-1):  Password-protected web
PangeaMT engine, panel
models, Moses and
 Interface is scalable
instructions
(more users, language
 Zipped pack (300-500 Mb); pairs and engines 
installed (1 Gb HD)
make a case for MT
 Pre-tested functionality in across corporation)
MS-Windows versions (XP,
Vista and 7)  Hosted in-house or by
 Command line-based Pangeanic
translation request  Easy tracking of MT
requests
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7. Solution’s Benefits
 Proposed workflow based primarily on MT + Post-
Editing (PE)
 Post-edited MT output then stored for retraining purposes
(SMT paradigm)
 A TM-only-based workflow is outdated and entails undesired
lock-in effect
 Gradual intake of XLIFF-based flow
 Interoperability
 Unaltered <source> and the <target> available:
 Through the “state” attribute, possible to revert a <trans-unit> to a
non terminal state (“needs-translation”, or “needs-review-
translation”)
 Possible to support translation quality assurance/control activities
(e.g. by sending out XLIFF to reviewers)
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8. Latest Advancement
 Inliner gets interactive!
 The Tag-Optimal or Trans-Optimal? feature in
web interface
 Particularly useful in Sony Europe tag-rich content
 Still in beta version, first comparative tests based on
inputting same file and select the two options
consecutively show adequate performance of Tag-
Optimal option:
 It restores inlines remarkably well while hardly sacrificing
translation quality
 Need to perform very few PE operations/segment
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9. PangeaMT4Sony in action
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13. Envisaged work
 Gradual customized development expansion
 An extensive, monitored usage will allow for
measuring results systematically and carry
out client-specific studies (& improvements):
 Productivity
 Over a period of time - after engine retraining, related to
better Quality
 Genre- (rather than domain-)specific error typology – in
connection with MTPE
 Determine ROI and cost-efectiveness (yearly,
cross-annually, per languages, across corp depts)
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14. Thank you !
Salome.Lopez-Lavado@eu.sony.com
eyuste@pangea.com.MT
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