how machine translation is about empowering users and how users can be empowered using DIY SMT technology to build their own statistical machine translation solutions

1. - User empowerment -DIY SMT Don't be afraid to provide the tools to those who need them Manuel Herranz – PangeaMT - Pangeanic www.pangea.com.mt

2. Userempowerment USERS 80% like 19% notlike 1% done before http://t.co/HDTboxQ

3. Userempowerment USERS 80% like 19% notlike 1% done before http://t.co/HDTboxQ Meaning of USER becomingcloselyrelatedto COMMUNITY, POWER, FEEDBACK, ACCOUNTABILITY

4. Humankindconstantsearchfor TOOLS better more otherthings http://t.co/HDTboxQ

5. Humankindconstantsearchfor TOOLS better more otherthings http://t.co/HDTboxQ Aninstrumentformaking material changesonotherobjects […]. Tools are theprimarymeansbyhumanbeings control and manipulatetheirphysicalenvironment – EncyclopediaBritannica.

6. History of theworldlargelya fightto control resources tools[technology] MT: Anothertranslatorout of business...... ?

7. History of theworldlargelya fightto control resources tools[technology] In 20th-21stcenturyalso a fightto control and manipulate INFORMATION [data] ACCESS [data]

11. OPEN“Wecannotsolvetheproblemusingthesametools and theway of thinkingthatcreatedit” A. Einstein

13. Insufficientlygood output

14. Onlyinternalproduction

15. EU Post-Editing Award

17. 00's of enginetrials and languagecombinations

18. Open-Source to commercial

20. Empower Users

21. Glossary

22. Automated re-training

23. Transfer architecture and know-how to users

25. Potential MT userswanted to beanotherPangeanic= buildtheirown systems

26. Somecan, somecan’t

27. Otherwantturnkeydevelopments

28. OtherspreferSaaS

30. PangeaMT 2009 2010 Predictions Tech. notthe realm of afew providers 2011 2012 2013 User empowerment 000's of customized MT systems 2014 2015 YEAR 2016 2016 2017 2018

31. PangeaMT 2009 2010 2017 2018

33. Translator engagement challenge

34. Need for data has been addressed – still more work to be done.

36. Supra-engines??

37. World-knowledge?? …...suggestions....??? 2018

39. PangeaMT provides infrastructure

40. Cloud Training: so users concentrate in production, not in technical bits & updates

41. Pressurefordataavailabilitycoming fromusers will benefit efforts for standardization2018

42. 18 Thankyou ! MANY QUESTIONS PLEASE!! mherranz@pangea.com.mt