This TAUS webinar outlines the many facets of translation technology and shares big picture analysis of key opportunities and challenges going forward.

1. The Big Picture View on the
Translation Industry

2. Attendees
Hosts Attending
 Rahzeb Choudhury  Hundred and forty industry stakeholders from:
 Jaap van der Meer  Europe
 North America
 Asia

3. Agenda
Agenda
 Translation Technology Landscape report
 Evolution: Translation is becoming a utility
 Trends, Opportunities & Challenges
 Roll-out of TAUS industry-shared services

4. Translation Technology Landscape Report
Table of Contents
 Evolution of translation industry
 Types, Categories and Models of Technologies
 Trends
 Opportunities & Challenges
 Machine Translation
What we’ll talk about now
 Evolution
 Trends
 Opportunities & Challenges

5. The Evolution till Now
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6. Evolution to Come
From the TAUS Translation Technology Landscape Report (January, 2013)

7. Convergence
 Translation technology converges with search, speech, knowledge
management
 Functional convergence across departments, supply chain, as MT in
particular is increasingly embedded
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8. Paradigm Shift: From Luxury to Utility
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9. Open or Closed Translation Future
?

10. Drivers and Inhibitors
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11. Trends that Influence the Translation Sector
Trends
 Cloud
 Crowd
 Data
 Mobile
 Social
 Convergence
 Technology convergence
 Functional convergence
Counter forces
 Boutique-style translation will grow
 Personalization
 Hyper-localization

12. Optimizing the Future
Opportunities & Challenges
 Reach thousands of new customers
 Think “engineering”
 MT technology
 Measure & benchmark
 Data, data, data
 Interoperability
 Search for talents
Maturing industry
 Collaborate and share
 Translation becomes a utility

13. TAUS Overview
Think Tank (since 2005) Industry-Shared Services
 Reports, Best Practices 1. Technology: Promoting MT (since 2006)
 Research, Directories 2. Data: Sharing Translation Data (since 2008)
 Events, User Forums 3. Interoperability: Translation API (since 2011)
 Workshops 4. Metrics: Dynamic Quality Framework (since 2011)
Pushing the industry agenda and Reducing costs and driving innovation and efficiency
sharing knowledge for members

14. Four Essential TAUS Action Lines
Data MT Technology
Translation data of 200 most Central resource for education
spoken languages in the world and advancement in open-
(40,000 language pairs). source and commercial MT.
Global Translation Industry
Collaboration between translation buyers
and providers, academia and
governments
Metrics Interoperability
Provide for measuring and Coordinate translation web
benchmarking translation services to optimize
quality. connectivity.
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15. Think Tank – Publications & Events
Publications
Clarifying copyright on translation data Article
Choose your own translation future Article setting the theme for 2013
Translation Technology Landscape report Major report (70 pages)
“Agents of Change”: TAUS User Conference 2012 Videos and articles
Events planning
Translation QE Summit in Dublin, March 14-15 Hosted by Microsoft
Tokyo Executive Forums, April 10-11 Hosted by Oracle Japan
Translation Industry Leaders Forum, June 10 - 12 20 largest buyers & providers
Translation QE Summit in San Jose, October 9 Hosted by Adobe
User Conference in Portland, October 14-15 In partnership
MT Showcase events Singapore, London, Santa Clara @ Localization World
Virtual Meetings
MT Users Calls (Buyers only) Every last Thursday of the month.
DQF Call Every two months

16. Action Line: Promoting MT
Full Calendar: http://www.translationautomation.com/events/events
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17. Technology – Promoting Automation
Work done 2012
Moses Showcases EC funded events in Monaco, Beijing, Paris, Seattle
MT Users Call and FAQ Forum Monthly MT users call with dynamic knowledge base
Advancing Best Practices In MT Evaluation Report (July 2012)
Developing Talent Project Launched MT testing project for students globally
Moses Tutorial Free online tutorial (EC funded)
Focus in coming period
 MT Showcases Shift focus from open source to all MT systems
 Introduction to MT Launch virtual workshops for new MT users
 FAQ Forum Further develop the MT Knowledge Base
 Test engines with TAUS Data Continue running tests and publishing papers within the
framework of the “Developing Talent Project
Want to get (more) involved
 Join or use the Developing Talent Project to get free research and recruit talent.

18. Action line: Dynamic Quality Framework

19. Metrics – Dynamic Quality Framework (DQF)
Work done 2012
Knowledge base Launched DQF knowledgebase to all members in June.
Content profiling Mapped content categories based on UTS scoring
Launched industry-shared QE tools MT ranking, productivity, adequecy/fluency and error typology.
Industry benchmarking platform Benchmarking reporting platform.
Focus in coming period
Prepare QE Summits Speakers and break-out discussion topics
DQF calls Bi-monthly calls among enterpise members to help drive initiative forward.
Maintain knowledge base Gather feedback and make improvements
Set up training courses Partner with Localization Institute for training on DQF platform
Develop release 2 and 3 Add business rules and confidence estimation
Promote market adoption Cooperation with GALA, ATC, TAC, JTF, among others
Want to get (more) involved
 Use DQF knowledge base and DQF QE tools and benchmarking.
 Join DQF user group and bi-monthly calls
 Integrate DQF in your own tools or platform (API available end 2013)

20. Action line: Data
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21. Data – Sharing Translation Data
Work done
Increased user base Half million searches/month. 5 billion words uploaded. 25 billion words downloaded.
Matrix feature Using pivot languages, volume exploded to 55 billion words in 2200 language pairs.
Focus in coming period
Data Collector Supervised crawler and aligner to harvest data from trusted sources.
Term Extractor Retrieve term lists from TAUS Data based on reference documents.
Private Vault Consolidate, clean, share and search all TMs with a closed user group.
Matching Scores Semantic clustering to zoom in on most relevant and useful data.
Want to get (more) involved
 Download data from TAUS Data to train and customize MT engines.
 Use API to integrate TAUS Search
 Start using Private Vault

22. Interoperablity – Translation API
Work done 2012
Joined Technical Committees Contributed to TC’s at OASIS (XLIFF) and ETSI (former LISA standards).
TAUS API specifications Defined and reviewed translation services API specifications with members
Translation Technology RT, Paris Technology vendor-only meeting to discuss scope for collaboration.
Launched TAUS API Launched API and validation service.
Focus in coming period
Version 1.2 Add file formats and Translate/retrieve
Reference implementation Develop client and server libraries
Want to get (more) involved
 Use and contribute to Translation API

23. TAUS Benefits
TAUS Benefits for members
 Access to shared knowledge
 Engage with industry leaders
 Reduce costs through shared R&D
 Get business intelligence and metrics
 Get and share data to advance automation and innovation

24. Thank you. We hope you found the session helpful.
For more information, contact us at:
memberservices@translationautomation.com
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