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NLP PLATFORMFOR EU-LINGUALDIGITAL SINGLE MARKET

Alexander Rylov

LTi Summit 2013

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Market fragmentation

By domains By languages

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WHY SHOULD LT VENDORS

SHARE THEIR RESOURCES?

● Many of LT vendors have their own LT

● LTs are focused on particular domain/language(s)

● Resources are critical for enabling such technologies

● If case of share vendors may loose competitive advantage

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Technologies ability and restrictions

● Language specific = language centric = limited by language

● Difficulties - Controlled links ● Anaphora● Long distance links● Ellipsis

● Ontology, dictionaries, statistic = trained on limited set of data = covers only limited variety of meaning representations = sometimes good to achieve 40% of recall (NER US DoD track)

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WHAT IS

BIGDATA… ● Multilingual● Covers more than 1 domain● 85 – 90% is in unstructured

text documents● Language expression of the

same meaning vary by uncountable number of ways

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A FUNDAMENTAL NATURAL LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGYREQUIRED SCALABLE BY DOMAINS AND LANGUAGES

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ABBYY Compreno as proposal

● Interlingua approach:● semantic model is based on universal

language independent representation both for lexis and grammar

● Working Languages:● Russian, English: at the stage of

terminological and collocation expansion● German: full prototype (lexis, syntax) is

completed; at the stage of main lexis expansion (from core to periphery)

● French: full prototype is completed (tested on controlled MT task) ;

● Chinese: lexical system prototype is completed (challenged task never carried out before);

● It is proved that Compreno is a scalable technology to use for any language

Universal Semantic Hierarchy

Statistic and

machine learning

Syntactic and

semantic analysis

Complete syntactic and semantic analysis

The bank was located at the bank of the river; it was closed.

The complete analysis helps overcome linguistic problems in the text, if any..

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Compreno current achievements

Russian syntax analysis 2011 Precision Recall F

Compreno 0.95 0.98 0.97

System 2 0.93 0.98 0.96

System 3 0.90 0.98 0.94

System 4 0.89 0.95 0.92

System 5 0.86 0.98 0.92

System 6 0.86 0.86 0.86

System 7 0.79 0.98 0.87

Fact Extraction 2013 Compreno System 1 Compreno System 2 Compreno System 3

Precision 0.95 0.95 0.96 0.98 0.92 0.92Recall 0.93 0.70 0.84 0.44 0.92 0.74

F-measure 0.94 0.81 0.90 0.61 0.92 0.82ABBYY advantage 14% 32% 10%

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Applications

● BigData analytics – analysis of facts, extraction of objects

● Intelligence, eDiscovery (any kind)● Search by meaning rather than by

concepts● Dialogues systems by natural language● Translation

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Few facts about Compreno

● 18 years of development● About 350 people involved● More than 2000 man-years

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Barriers for wide implementation

● At least 3 years per language● At least 30 linguists per language● At least 12M € per language

● Then support and improvement

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EU project idea

● Describe ALL EU languages● Describe Major domains: healthcare,

law, government, major industries

● ABBYY commitment:● Methodology, management, instruments

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EU BENEFITS – CREATE SINGLE DIGITAL LT MARKET

● Operate not with language but with universal model of it – interlingual approach● Describe one domain in one

language – apply in all other languages

● A platform for LT vendors to create solutions and products easy scalable by languages and domains