This document describes CATaLog, a translation tool that provides: - Incremental machine translation, automatic post-editing, and translation memory capabilities to enhance translations over time. - Color-coded matching of source segments to translated segments to reduce cognitive load on translators. - Online project management, translation, and review capabilities without requiring local installation.

1. CATaLog: Innovations in the
Translation Workflow
Santanu Pal (ESR2)
Universität des Saarlandes
TOOL:
http://santanu.appling.uni-saarland.de/

2. § Wide range of logs for Translation process research (TPR)
§ Incremental advantage day by day use
§ Incrementally Enhances internal translation engines
§ Incremental MT
§ Incremental APE
§ Incremental TM
§ Color coded TM
§ Reduced cognitive load of Translators
§ Attractive GUI as per User requirement
Innovations
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3. § Easy translation review
§ Online available. No local installation required
§ Easy project management, translation job management, user
management
§ On-the-fly guide/suggestion
§ Autocomplete suggestion (future work)
Innovations
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4. § Translations generated from three different engines: MT, TM and APE
§ File translation
§ User chooses the SL-TL pair and upload a text input file in SL
§ System assigns a unique Job ID to the user
§ CAT tool
§ Similar to the File Translation. Differs a little in terms of features and
functionalities.
§ User can upload their own TM in a specific file format (a tab separated
text file).
§ Users have full freedom to use MT translations generated by their own
MT system or third party MT engines (up to two alternatives currently
supported)
CATaLog: Translation Workflow
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5. Hi Santanu,
I am using a laptop with 8 GB RAM and Windows 8.
Regarding the tool, I can compare it to Trados Studio. So far, I would rather prefer Trados Studio just because I think
that I am not slower with it than with CATaLog. If there are matches in Trados, then there is usually less to
change than with CATaLog. On the other hand, it proposes much less translations than Trados. But as I wrote in the
evaluation, I can imagine that your tool will be much more efficient with a larger database of sentences.
Anyway, in Trados you have not this unique colour system which I really liked. It goes much faster to know
which parts of the proposal match and which don't. I would also like to note that I found T3 options often really
helpful.
Compared to another online software I use sometimes, I prefer your tool, because your tool is very clearly
arranged and working faster and, apart from this morning, the login always happened very fast and without
problems. Also, CATaLog directly shows the original sentence of the proposed match without the need to
open another window, which is facilitating the comparison between the new sentence and the original of the
proposal very much.
Kind regards
Katrin
Feedback (Experiment with
Pangeanic)

6. Job Interface: Figure 1
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Click
here

7. Job Interface: Figure 2
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8. Translation options: Figure 3
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9. T2 Translation option: Figure 4
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TM
match
Source
colored
w.r.t.
TM
Colored
Translation
suggestion
with
respect
to
source
and
TM
Red
=
Unmatched
(U)
Green
=
Matched
(M)
Orange
=
U/M

10. § After ‘SAVE’, The correction will be shown as 1st Translation suggestion
“Final Translation” where you can re-edit over your corrections.
Review/correct your previous
Translation: Figure 5
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Click
on
the
text
and
do
corrections

11. Translation time: Figure 6
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12. Editing Summery report
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13. Job Download
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14. <Segment ID="1">
<Source>India and Japan prime ministers meet in Tokyo</Source>
<Human_Translation>Indien und Japan Premierminister treffen sich in Tokio </Human_Translation>
<Engine_Translation>
<APE>Indien und Japan Premierminister in Tokio </APE>
</Engine_Translation>
<Log>
<EDIT_Logs>No. of Corrections="2" | No. of deletion="0" | No. of insertion="2" | No. of
substitution="0" | No. of shift="0" | TER="25.0" ||| @Inserted: "treffen", "sich"@</EDIT_Logs>
<EDIT_TIME>2</EDIT_TIME>
<Key_Strokes>Indien und Japan Premierminister in Tokio ter trefin Tokio F _IS@37@37 |||
Indien und Japan Premierminister treffin Tokio F _IS@38@38 ||| Indien und Japan Premierminister treffein Tokio E
_IS@39@39 ||| Indien und Japan Premierminister treffenin Tokio N _IS@40@40 ||| Indien und Japan Premierminister treffen in
Tokio _IS@41@41 ||| Indien und Japan Premierminister treffen sin Tokio S _IS@42@42 ||| Indien und Japan Premierminister
treffen siin Tokio I _IS@43@43 ||| Indien und Japan Premierminister treffen sicin Tokio C _IS@44@44 ||| Indien und Japan
Premierminister treffen sichin Tokio H _IS@45@45 ||| Indien und Japan Premierminister treffen sich in Tokio _IS@46@46 |||
</Key_Strokes>
<ST_MT_AL>0-0 1-1 2-2 3-3 4-5 6-4 7-5</ST_MT_AL>
<SEL_ENGINE>PE</SEL_ENGINE>
<MT_APE_AL>0-1 1-1 2-2 3-4 4-4</MT_APE_AL>
<MTM_TRANS_AL>0-0 1-1 2-2 3-3 3-4 3-5 4-6 5-7</MTM_TRANS_AL>
</Logs>
</Segment>
XML Formatted Logs
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15. Thank you for your attention!
Comments/Questions?