1. Translating and the Computer 39
The SCATE prototype
Translating and the Computer 39
17 November 2017
Sven Coppers (EDM, Univ. of Hasselt) Tom Vanallemeersch (CCL, Univ. of Leuven)

2. In a nutshell Smart Computer-Aided Translation Environment
4-year project ( )
6 teams
Funded by Flemish government (IWT SBO )

3. Aims Better integration of MT and TM
Multilingual terminology extraction
Parallel corpora
Comparable corpora
Better integration of speech recognition with MT
Confidence estimation of MT output
Improvement of CAT tool interfaces

4. Integration of MT and TM
Input:
Swedish legislation has transposed EU Directives on collective redundancies and business transfers
Match:
These laws incorporate the provisions of the EU Directives on collective redundancies and transfers of undertakings .
Die wetten omvatten de bepalingen van de EU-richtlijnen inzake collectief ontslag en overgang van ondernemingen .
“Dictionary”:
Swedish legislation – Zweedse wetgeving has transposed – heeft omgezet
has – heeft business – handel
transposed – omgezet business – zaken
business transfers – handelstransfers …
Word alignment

5. Integration of MT and TM
(Possible) output:
Swedish legislation has transposed EU Directives on collective redundancies and business transfers
Zweedse wetgeving heeft EU-richtlijnen inzake collectief ontslag en handelstransfers omgezet

6. Multilingual terminology extraction
Extraction from parallel corpora Combination of statistics and linguistic patterns

7. Interface design Preparatory steps: Surveys
Contextual inquiry: observation of translators during work
Translators in different types of organisations

8. Interface design Focus:
Deep integration: suggestions from MT + TM, term base
Intelligibility: explain origin and relation of suggestions
Efficiency: interactive prediction using suggestions
Proximity: avoid visual focus shifts

9. Demo of SCATE interface

10. Demo of SCATE interface
Interface – TM

11. Demo of SCATE interface
Interface – Hybrid TM + MT

12. Demo of SCATE interface
Interface – Alternatives

13. Demo of SCATE interface

14. Conclusions Prototype demonstrating current state of project
Focus on intelligibility and efficient use of suggestions

15. Ongoing work
Better integration of speech recognition with MT Confidence estimation of MT output Term extraction of comparable corpora Collaboration: multiple translators for one document

16. scate.edm.uhasselt.be/demo
Try it for yourself!
scate.edm.uhasselt.be/demo