Tony O’Dowd (KantanMT). KantanMT enables its community to generate meaningful business intelligence that helps them identify the scope of their customised machine translation projects. More importantly, it helps them schedule and scale those projects to achieve maximum translation productivity and a positive ROI.

2. Tony O’Dowd
Founder & Chief Architect
tonyod@kantanmt.com
Predictive Analysis in
Machine Translation
is Business Intelligence

3. What we aim to cover today?
 What is KantanMT.com?
 Types of Quality Estimation
 Comparative Quality Estimations
 Predictive Quality Estimations
 Benefits to Industry
 Product Scope Determination
 Tiered Pricing Capabilities
 Conclusions

4. What is KantanMT.com?
 Statistical MT Platform
 Cloud-based
 Highly scalable
 Inexpensive to operate
 Fusion of TM & MT & rules
 High speed, high quality
translations
 Our Vision
 To put Machine Translation
 Customisation
 Improvement
 Deployment
 into your hands
Active KantanMT Engines
7,783
Training Words Uploaded
143,078,042,293
Member Words Translated
4,259,399,846
www.kantanMT.com

5. Types of MT Quality Estimation
 Comparative MT Quality Estimation
 Uses a reference translation to calculate:-
 Word recall & precision
 Text Similarities
 Word Order correlations
 Linguistic similarities

6.  F-Measure Score
 Recall & Precision calculation
 Closely linked to the relevancy of word selection
for MT systems
Types of MT Quality Estimation
KantanBuildAnalytics™

7.  BLEU Score
 Improvement upon F-Measure
 Takes word-order into consideration
 Linked to a sense of translation ‘fluency’
Types of MT Quality Estimation
KantanBuildAnalytics™

8. Types of MT Quality Estimation
 TER Score
 A method to help in predict the post-editing effort
 TER is quick to use and correlates highly with actual post-
editing effort
KantanBuildAnalytics™

9. Types of MT Quality Estimation
 Useful for
 Engine Development
 Baseline measurements
 Determination of ‘possible’ engine
quality and relevancy
 Reference set of comparative
translations required
 Does not work on unseen translations
 Of limited use in determining
 PE effort
 Resources
 Costs
Kantan BuildAnalytics™

10. Kantan TotalRecall – Advanced TM
% of TM hits in this job
KantanMT – automated translations
% of automated translations for this job
Range of QE Scores
QE range defined to match existing fuzzy match ranges used by
L10N industry
Quality Estimation Scores
Segment level QE scores – akin to fuzzy match scores
Word Counts – Project Stats
Can be used to develop Project TimeLine and Tiered Pricing
Model for Post-Editing Projects
Placeholder & Tag Counts
Used by PM for complexity sur-charges
Types of MT Quality Estimation
KantanAnalytics™

11. Types of MT Quality Estimation
 KantanAnalytics™
 No Reference set reqd.
 Predictive, not comparative
 Benefits
 Tiered Pricing Model
 Prioritise PE activity
 Schedule
 Resources
 Cost
 Seamlessly integrated into all
CAT tools
KantanAnalytics™ - a predictive quality
estimation technology

12. Tony O’Dowd
Founder & Chief Architect
tonyod@kantanmt.com