A  European  collabora.on  between  research  and  the  publishing  industry  

TISP  Workshop  ICT  2015  Lisbon,  Oct  22nd  2015  

Flanders  digital  research  &    entrepeneurship  hub  

Collabora.on  between  5  universi.es  

But  with  strong  link  to  industry  

Mul.media  Lab  Research  Group  

Electronics  and  Informa.on  Systems  department  

University  of  Ghent  

About  Mul.medialab  

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

Consor.um  

Mul?lingual  enrichment  through  Machine  Transla?on    

Seman?c  enrichment  using  Linked  Data    

•  Machine  transla?on  •  Patented  technology  •  Domain  focused  transla?on  •  Training  data  required  

Mul.lingual  enrichment  

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  

•  Ease  of  use  •  Standard  formats  •  Well  documented  

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  

       

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  

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  

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?  

Ques.ons?      

Thank  you  for  your  aOen.on!  

Frank  Salliau  Project  Manager  iMinds  MMLab    Email  frank.salliau@ugent.be    (Erra?c)  Twider  @fsalliau