This document discusses a European collaboration project between researchers and the publishing industry called FREME. The project aims to develop semantic and multilingual enrichment tools for publishers through machine translation and linking data. It involves a consortium of universities and industry partners. The tools will provide open-source APIs for named entity recognition, fetching extra information about entities, term recognition and translation, content translation, and publishing enriched content as digital books. The tools will be validated for use in academic/trade book publishing, financial press, video publishing, and tourism to translate touristic content.

1. A
European
collabora.on
between
research
and
the
publishing
industry
TISP
Workshop
ICT
2015
Lisbon,
Oct
22nd
2015

2. Flanders
digital
research
&
entrepeneurship
hub

3. Collabora.on
between
5
universi.es
But
with
strong
link
to
industry

4. Mul.media
Lab
Research
Group
Electronics
and
Informa.on
Systems
department
University
of
Ghent
About
Mul.medialab

5. 2
year
Innova?on
Ac?on
Feb
2015
–
Feb
2017

6. Consor.um

7. Mul?lingual
enrichment
through
Machine
Transla?on
Seman?c
enrichment
using
Linked
Data

8. • Machine
transla?on
• Patented
technology
• Domain
focused
transla?on
• Training
data
required
Mul.lingual
enrichment

9. Seman.c
enrichment
• Harness
the
power
of
the
s?ll
largely
untapped
Seman?c
Web
• Huge
amount
of
data
available
on
the
web
• But…largely
untapped
due
to
– Lack
of
skills
– Lack
of
awareness
– Lack
of
tangible
use
cases

10. • Ease
of
use
• Standard
formats
• Well
documented

11. E-­‐Services
FREME
will
provide
Open
Source
framework
of
e-­‐
services,
in
the
form
of
easy
to
use
REST
API’s
e-­‐En.ty
Named
en?ty
recogni?on
e-­‐Link
Fetch
extra
informa?on
about
specific
en?ty
e-­‐Terminology
Term
recogni?on
+
transla?on
sugges?ons
e-­‐Transla.on
Enrich
with
transla?on
e-­‐Publishing
Publish
content
as
EPUB
digital
book
with
SEO
op?miza?ons
for
content
discovery

13. Valida.on
of
FREME
in
Publishing
• Academic
&
Trade
book
publishing
-­‐
seman?c
&
mul?lingual
enrichment
• Financial
press
–
seman?c
enrichment
• Video
publishing
–
enrichment
of
metadata
• Tourism
–
transla?on
of
touris?c
content

14. e-­‐Transla.on
for
Publishers:
Applica.ons
Book
transla?on
• To
speed
up
book
transla?on
process
by
assis?ng
human
translators
• To
facilitate
interna?onal
coopera?on
by
gis?ng
book
content
in
other
languages
Metadata
transla?on
• To
add
cross-­‐language
access
to
informa?on
about
books
in
publisher,
library,
others’
catalogs

16. Business
modeling
• Besides
technological
aspects
also:
o Business
modeling
o Crea?on
of
new
job
profiles
• Sustainability
is
a
desired
outcome!
• Turn
FREME
into
a
startup
at
end
of
project?

17. Ques.ons?

18. Thank
you
for
your
aOen.on!
Frank
Salliau
Project
Manager
iMinds
MMLab
Email
frank.salliau@ugent.be
(Erra?c)
Twider
@fsalliau