1. Using Translation Memory to Speed up Translation Process
Marija Brkić,
Department of Informatics - University of Rijeka
Sanja Seljan,
Department of Information Sciences
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences- University of Zagreb
Božena Bašić Mikulić,
Primary school “Turnić”

2. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Outline
Motivation
Translation memories
Experimental study
Description
Results
Evaluation
Conclusion
Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić

3. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Motivation
languages differ culturally, stylistically, syntactically and lexically
consistency
data sharing
insufficient number of translators
short deadlines
Globalization
EU accession negotiations
Information exchange
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4. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Outline
Motivation
Translation memories
Experimental study
Description
Results
Evaluation
Conclusion
Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić

5. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Translation memories
Approaches
Sentence-based approach
Character-string-in-bitext-based approach
Advantages
Disadvantages
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6. Sentence-based approach
Translation Units (Tus)
Sentences
Titles
Subtitles
List entries
High precision, low recall search
Fuzzy matching
Noise
Silence
Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić

7. Character-string-in-bitext-based approach
Character strings of any length
Several consecutive identical sentences
Unreliably small matches
Noise
No support for fuzzy matching
Silence
Recycling internal repetitions through terminology databases
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8. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Advantages
Consistency
Internal and external repetitions
Shared projects
Speed
Globalization
Cost reduction
Preservation of original page layout
Statistics
Scheduling localization projects
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9. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Disadvantages
Initial decrease in productivity
Beneficiary effects felt only on repetitive texts
TM needs to be of considerable size
Is alignment worthwhile and preconditions met?
Database maintenance
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Disadvantages (cont.)
File format support
The quality of translation
Lack of language knowledge
Context insensitivity
Additional costs
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11. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Outline
Motivation
Translation memories
Experimental study
Description
Results
Evaluation
Conclusion
Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić

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Experimental study
Feature: the speed of the translation process
Tool: ATRIL – Déjà vu
Parameters:
Measure
Evaluation procedure
Score
Metric
Languages
Text type
System used
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13. Experimental study (cont.)
Experimental study (cont.)
Text selection phase
Preparation phase
Translation phase
Revision phase
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14. Experimental study (cont.)
Experimental study (cont.)
Figure 1: Matches found by DVX after the third source text was inserted
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15. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Problems
morphology
word order
capitalization
punctuation
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16. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Outline
Motivation
Translation memories
Experimental study
Description
Results
Evaluation
Conclusion
Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić

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Evaluation
Automatic
Manual
Post-editing
1-4 scale
Chart 1: Effectiveness of TM
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Evaluation (cont.)
Chart 2: Total time for traditional translation and TM
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Evaluation (cont.)
Chart 3: Time spent in translation process for traditional translation and TM
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20. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Outline
Motivation
Translation memories
Experimental study
Description
Results
Evaluation
Conclusion
Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić

21. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Conclusion
TMs speed up the translation process
Database maintenance time-consuming only in the beginning
Fast, consistent and professional-quality translations
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22. Marija Brkić, Sanja Seljan, Božena Bašić Mikulić
Thank you on your attention!
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