2. project management - alexandre helle & manuel herranz (pangeanic)

IntroductionTranslation project tools

Professional translation work�ow

Project ManagementFrom industrial perspective

A. Helle M. Herranz

Pangeanic - BI-Europe

EXPERT Summer School, 2014

A. Helle, M. Herranz Project Management

http://www.pangeanic.com/



Outline

1 Introduction

2 Translation project toolsTranslation project toolsProject management softwareTranslation softwareQuality Check software

3 Professional translation work�owTranslation project management without MTTranslation project management with MT




Project Management System

Translation Companies need a Project Management System,just like any other companyEuropean Standard EN15038 establishes a quality system

Came into force 1 /08/ 2006 replacing 30 previous nationalstandardsIt certi�es the process and the service as well as other aspectslike QA / QC and traceability

It establishes procedures for

Human Resources ManagementTechnical Resources ManagementManaging Relations with ClientsVendor ManagementProcess Management (Service, ie the translation procedure)Process Veri�cation, check, QC/QACustomer Satisfaction (metrics)Non-Conformities, Auditing, etc




Typical interaction at a translation company




Typical order work�ow at a translation company




Typical translation job project management at a translationcompany




Cost of translation




Massive amounts of data - Is language business manageable?




TM and TMX

Translation Memories (TM)

database that stores �segments� that have previously beentranslated, in order to aid human translatorsused by:

Computer Assisted Translations tools (CAT tools)Word processing programsTerminology management systemsMultilingual dictionariesMachine Translation systems

Many companies producing multilingual documentation areusing translation memory systems

In a survey of language professionals in 2006, 82.5% out of874 replies con�rmed the use of a TM

TMX

XML speci�cation for the exchange of TM data between CATand localization tools with little or no loss of critical data




Translation project toolsProject management softwareTranslation softwareQuality Check software

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1 Introduction







Translation project tools

Project management software

Translation software

Quality Check software

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1 Introduction







Project management software

There are several software programs designed to aid all theabove and above all, ease admin tasks, traceability and qualitymetrics

XTRF (Poland)Across (Germany)Plunet (Germany)





Project management software (2)





Project management software - Internal sta�





Project management software - External sta�





Project management software - Customers





Project management software - Quote





Project management software - Project





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1 Introduction







Memory-based systems (CAT tools)

Main tool of the language professionals

Use of TMs

Shows us similar (hight percent match) translations stored inthe TM for each segment of translation

100% matches: identical segments in the TMFuzzy matches: there are no 100% matches, but there aresimilar segments. Generally, matches below 70% are not useful

Mean productivity: 2000-3000 words/day

E.g.:

Private software: SDL Trados, MemoQ, MemSourceOpensource software: OmegaT





Memory-based systems (CAT tools) (2)

Advantages:

More productivity in professional translationVery re�ned and extendedFriendly GUIEases the Quality Check (QC)Possible to integrate MT

Disadvantages:

Translation not adaptableIf there isn't any TM available, there is few productivityimprovement





Machine Translation systems (MT)

Statistic-based systems

Rule-based systems

Hybrid systems

Advantages:

Translation adaptableMore productivity in non-professional translations

Disadvantages:

Needed a lot of data to create a engineMT itself isn't useful for professional translation, only for�gisting�





CAT tools + MT

First done in the 90s between Trados and Systran

With this approximation, the CAT tool shows similartranslations from TM and translation from MT, and the userchooses what want to postedit. E.g.:

translate segments with matches above 75% with TMtranslate segments with matches below 75% with MT

Very used approximation

but there are professional translators reluctant to use MTpostedit is faster than translate from zeroit makes possible to sell cheaper translations

Mean productivity: 5000 words/day





CAT tools + MT (2)

Advantages:

Future of the translationEnable faster translationsFast postedition if the MT output is good

Disadvantages:

If the MT output is bad, it's faster to translate from scratch





CAT tools + MT (3)





CAT tools + MT (4)

Video: Pangeanic's machine translation demo in SDL Studio -German


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjRUEAawIPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjRUEAawIPw




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1 Introduction







Quality Check software

Software to ensure quality of the translation

MisspellingsTag mismatchesNumeric mismatchesTerminology inconsistencies...

E.g.: Xbench, QA Distiller





Quality Check software (2)




Translation project management without MTTranslation project management with MT

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1 Introduction







Translation project management without MT





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1 Introduction







Translation project management with MT





Translate the original �le





Translate the original �le (2)

Translate the original �le

Advantages:

Directly

Disadvantages:

Di�cult postedition (can't use CAT tools)Di�cult QC (not possible with XBench or QA Distiller)





Translate the bilingual �le







Advantages:

Fast if we don't have TM

Disadvantages:

Slow if we have TM





O�ine MT translation





O�ine MT translation(2)

O�ine translation

How it works:

During pre-analysis, export unknown segment (segmentsunder XX percent match) into bilingual �leTranslate bilingual �le with MTImport MT translated bilingual �le into the TMSelect a penalty for MT

We can choose TM or MTAdvantages:

Fast posteditionO�ine

Disadvantages:

A few steps more to do preparing the project





Online MT translation





Online MT translation(2)

O�ine translation

How it works:

Install and con�gure a plugin for MT in the CAT tool thatenables online translationSelect a penalty for MT

We can choose TM or MTAdvantages:

Fast posteditionA few steps less to do preparing the project

Disadvantages:

Latency depends of Internet





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