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Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Agenda About Language Weaver R&D work Customer experience LW core mission LW architectural contribution Deliverables Roadmap Internal milestone rollup Questions & Answers
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Language Weaver at a Glance Founded The first commercial science breakthrough in high speed statistical human language translation Offices Los Angeles (HQ), Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, Paris, London, Brussels, Tokyo, & Cluj Employees 105 Management Mark Tapling, President & CEO Daniel Marcu, Founder & CTO William Wong, Founder & VP Engineering Adrian Gocan, Country Manager – Cluj Office Markets Served Digital Content / Social Media Customer Support Government Intelligence Language Weaver delivers human communication solutions through trusted automated language translation
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Language Weaver Romania Established 2008 Employees ~50 employees, 5 open positions Key Areas of Expertise Development, engineering, telemarketing/marketing, linguists 2 active contracts with the European Union are driven out of this location – FAUST and FLAVIUS Partnerships Language Weaver Srl has a partnership with Cambridge University to deliver research solutions
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) FLAVIUS Contributors LW SRL, Romania – Daniel Marcu, CTO – Ionel Condor, Engineering Manager – Bogdan Giurgiu, Project Manager – Ana Totea, Engineer – Bogdan Faraga, Engineer – Daniel Sarbe, Engineer – Matei Nicolae, Engineer
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) R&D Projects Research Projects – Improve syntax-based SMT (DARPA funded) – Small footprint systems for SMT – Domain customization techniques for SMT R&D Projects – GALE Operational Engines – Broadcast Monitoring Solutions (speech2text translation) – FAUST – FP7 EC Project
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Currently Available Language Pairs Western EuropeanMiddle Eastern & AfricanEastern European Danish to/from English Dutch to/from English French to/from English French to/from Spanish French to/from German Italian to/from English Italian to/from Spanish German to/from English German to/from Spanish Greek to/from English Norwegian to/from English Portuguese to/from English Spanish to/from English Swedish to/from English Arabic to/from English Arabic to/from French Arabic to/from Spanish Dari to/from English Hebrew to/from English Hausa to/from English Pashto to/from English Persian to/from English Somali to/from English Turkish to/from English Urdu to/from English Bulgarian to/from English Czech to/from English Hungarian to/from English Polish to/from English Romanian to/from English Russian to/from English Serbian to/from English Asian Simplified Chinese to/from English Traditional Chinese to/from English Hindi to/from English Japanese to/from English Korean to/from English Thai to/from English Bengali to/from English *Latest product release enables LW to translate to and from any language that is available with limited quality
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Our Customer Deployments QUALITY Customer Care Digital Content Legal Marketing Publications FACT INFLUENCE Governments
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Our Customer Experience QUALITY Customer Care Digital Content Legal Marketing Publications FACT INFLUENCE Governments Baselines are inadequate for FAUT (fully automated useful translation) Baselines are inadequate for FAUT (fully automated useful translation) Lacks utility of translation (usefulness) Lacks utility of translation (usefulness) Basic translation(gisting) does not convey publisher needs such as terminology Basic translation(gisting) does not convey publisher needs such as terminology
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Customer Experience QUALITY Customer Care Digital Content Legal Marketing Publications FACT INFLUENCE Governments Human post edit for preservation of publisher voice Human post edit for preservation of publisher voice Humans productivity limited to words per day Humans productivity limited to words per day High cost prevents time critical high volume publication and user generated content High cost prevents time critical high volume publication and user generated content
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Customer Experience QUALITY Customer Care Digital Content Legal Marketing Publications FACT INFLUENCE Governments Convergence of utility vs. ROI Convergence of utility vs. ROI Proven trust in actionable content over baseline engines Proven trust in actionable content over baseline engines Significant cost reduction from influence oriented communications Significant cost reduction from influence oriented communications Liberates publisher & user generated content Liberates publisher & user generated content
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Core Mission for FLAVIUS Accelerate the adoption of FAUT on a broad scale by leveraging easy customization of domain verticals for content publishers.
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Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Language Weaver’s Contribution
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Keys to a Successful Partner Integration 1.Ability to integrate with Language Weaver Machine Translation for development and testing 2.Ability to customize baseline engines with dictionaries 3.Ability to customize baseline engines with training of domain/customer specific vertical system
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Accomplishments To Date (M3) No pre-financing is expected Negotiated purchase agreement between LW SRL and Dell Computers Purchased 14 Dell servers Purchased Cisco network switch Entered into collocation agreement between LW SRL and Latisys (hosting location in Irvine, CA) All hardware delivered to Latisys LW Inc. IT staff installed and deployed to TOD (Translations on Demand) at 0 cost to LW SRL. Available languages: English to French, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, Romanian, Swedish and vice-versa
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Current Activities (M3) REST API TOD LW setup integration partner accounts Partner start development using TOD REST API: – HTTP base communication protocol Web 2.0 used by Amazon, Twitter, etc. – Supported text formats: TXT, HTML, TMX, XLIFF
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Upgrade TOD Framework (LW Milestone) Internal milestone for LW to migrate partner accounts to upgraded TOD framework in month 9 Provide new functionality outside of the FLAVIUS project but materially benefits the teams. Extends current REST API Trustscore™ enabled baseline engines Utility not quality based assessment Deployed for TripAdvisor and Dell Reporting of basic statistics REST API TODReportingTrustscore™
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Customization via Dictionary (M12) REST API enabled dictionary support Dictionary upload through API A dictionary will be specific to an account, per language pair i.e. Dell (account), Eng-Spa(LP), Servers Terminology (dictionary – 1+) REST API TOD ReportingTrustscore™ Dictionary
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Customization via Training (M21) d d Parallel Aligned Text Optional: Regression Text Optional: Test Text Evaluation Data: Fix noisy text Fix noisy text More text More text Text alignment Text alignment Text segmentation Text segmentation Product Delivery via TOD LW Training Compute Cloud REST API TOD ReportingTrustscore™ Dictionary Training
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Complete Picture REST API TOD ReportingTrustscore™ Dictionary Training
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) FLAVIUS Language Weaver Roadmap
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Internal milestones WhoWhatWhen LWTranslation Engines Up and RunningJune 30 th LWREST API to be used to access the SMTJune 30 th SFTArchitecture document should include the details of the translation API TBD Project presentationJune 30 th TBDProject websiteJune 30 th Project logoJune 30 th
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Questions & Answers
Accent Colors Accent 1 (RGB: 141,178,24) Accent 2 (RGB: 63,63,63) Accent 3 (RGB: 127,127,127) Accent 4 (RGB: 195,214,155) Accent 5 (RGB: 222,222,222) Thank you! Accelerating the way the world communicates