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MyMemory
Creating the world’s largest Translation Memory
Marco TrombettiTranslatedASLIB, LondonNovember 2009http://mymemory.translated.net
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Language Service ProviderHuman Translation in 80 languages, 9000 customers, 100K translations delivered.
Translated
Core TechnologyA fully automated translation workflow. Customers can access 35,000 translators through a Web Service.
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Translation Memories fail!
Prob(10-word-sentence) is too small
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Why is MT not focused towards helping HT?
Human Translation
99%
Machine Translation
1%
Source: Allied Business Intelligence
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My wish-list for the perfect TM Platform
Billions of segments, but still FAST
MyMemory
Fully integrated statistical MT
Web 2.0, Wiki-like contributions
One-click upload/download of TM
Adaptive matching, a priori probability
Propagate changes in real-time
Open standard and CAT support
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Free, Collaborative
Web Translation Memory
The Solution
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Barriers to contribution
Privacy and IP
Time vs Value
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Yes! 100 words per second for 1,5 years
5 Billion words
Will people contribute?
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Sources
Web Translators Customers
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LSP & ClientsMore control
Free contribution from professionals & the crowd
Quick reference and QA
TranslatorsQuick and relevant reference
Improved organisation and usability
Free memories
Benefits
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Technology Challenges
Scalable Real Time Indexing
Adaptive Ranking
Cost-Effective Scalability
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Generating the interest
Pre-Populate
Make it free
Make it easy to contribute
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Protecting IP
Private memories
Hide proper nouns
One-click to report abuse
Robots.txt
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Quality
Feedback from the crowd
QA correlation
Automatic QA
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No.Professional translators produce
Tens of billions of words per year
Is 5 Billion words is enough?
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More data & technologyMore data extraction from the web
Real time SMT training
Every CAT tool connected
QA crowd platformFast and cost-effective MT evaluation
Parallel corpus evaluation and clean-up
Next Steps