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1. TAUS OPEN SOURCE MACHINE TRANSLATION SHOWCASE
Bologna Translation Service:
Making education accessible
across Europe
14:40-15:00
Monday 4 June
Luc Meertens
CrossLang

2. BOLOGNA TRANSLATION SERVICE:
MAKING EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE ACROSS EUROPE
TAUS Open Source Machine Translation Showcase
Luc Meertens
Making Education Accessible Across Europe

3. Overview
1. Introduction
2. Bologna Translation Service Overview
3. MT in Bologna Translation
4. Progress to date
5. Conclusion and Future work
Making Education Accessible Across Europe

4. Part one:
INTRODUCTION
Making Education Accessible Across Europe

5. Context
• Translate study programmes in English
– for attracting foreign students
– for profiling the university in the European Higher
Education Area
• BUT
– traditional translation is (too) expensive
– human resources are limited
• RESULT
– course materials and degree programmes only available in
local language
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6. Part two:
BOLOGNA TRANSLATION SERVICE
OVERVIEW
Making Education Accessible Across Europe

7. Bologna Translation Service (BTS)
FACTS
Duration 24 months
Start and finish date 01/03/2011 - 31/02/2013
EU funding and programme €1,580,000 – ICT PSP,
Grant Agreement n° 270915
EU project officer Aleksandra Wesolowska
Website www.bologna-translation.eu
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8. BTS Consortium
CrossLang (Project Coordinator)
•Process and business automation
•Localisation industry knowledge
Convertus
•MT expertise (Convertus Syllabus Translator)
Applied Language Solutions
•Technology-driven language service provider
Koç University
•Machine Translation expertise
•Statistical language modelling
Eleka Ingeniaritza Lingusitikoa
•Machine Translation expertise
•Language engineering in general
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9. Key Features and objectives
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10. BTS - Project Language Directions
* Additional language directions upon request.
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11. Part three:
MACHINE TRANSLATION IN BTS
Making Education Accessible Across Europe

12. Machine Translation (MT) Components
Rule-
Based MT
Statiscital
MT
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13. MT engines
DE-EN
FR-EN
NL-EN
EN-ZH
ES-EN
PT-EN
FI- EN
TK-EN
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14. Data Collection
• Data Sources
– Freely available already aligned corpora
– User group provided data
– Freely available, web-crawled data
• Target
– 500,000 sentence pairs in-domain data per language pair
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15. Part four:
PROGRESS TO DATE
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16. Progress to date – technology
• BTS portal Release 1
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17. Progress to date
• BTS portal Release 1
• Baseline MT systems for all language pairs
• Advanced MT systems for DE, FR, ES
• POC automated post-editing for DE
Engine Scores BLEU METEOR TER * Baseline systems
German—English 43.4 35.0 48.4
French—English 51.1 42.9 32.9
Spanish—English 37.9 37.2 45.3
Portuguese—English* 29.9 33.5 52.0
Turkish—English* 18.9 26.2 68.6
Finnish—English* 15.6 20.5 74.8
Dutch—English* 16.9 23.7 65.0
English—Chinese* 20.9 25.9 65.3
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18. BTS User Group Members
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19. Part five:
CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
Making Education Accessible Across Europe

20. May 2012 – Feb 2013
1. EU annual review recommendations
2. Elaboration of BTS Portal
3. Refinement of translation quality
4. Expansion of User Group
5. Exploitation plan
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21. BTS User Group
HTTP://WWW.BOLOGNA-TRANSLATION/USER/REGISTER
Contact:
Heidi Depraetere
+32 498 90 65 91
coordinator@bologna-translation.eu
www.bologna-translation.eu
Making Education Accessible Across Europe