TAUS MT Showcase 2014, Enabling MT for the Everyone! Tony O’Dowd, KantanMT

Wednesday, 4 June

Enabling MT for the Everyone! Tony O’Dowd, KantanMT

TAUS Machine Transla?on Showcase 2014 Dublin (Ireland)

The research within the project MosesCore leading to these results has received funding from the European Union 7th Framework Programme, grant agreement no 288487

Tony O’Dowd

Founder & Chief Architect

TAUS Translation Technology Showcase MosesCore Project – Funded by

European Commission

TAUS – MT Showcase

What we aim to cover today?

� What is KantanMT.com?

�  Challenges of the L10N Industry �  Priori?sing PE effort and saving costs �  Rapidly developing produc?on-‐ready engines

�  Conclusions


What is KantanMT.com? �  Cloud-‐based SMT/Hybrid

�  Highly scalable �  Inexpensive to operate �  Quick to access, learn and deploy

�  Our Vision �  To put Machine Transla?on…

�  Customiza?on �  Improvement

�  Deployment… into your hands �  Your Benefits

�  Faster Project Turn-‐arounds �  Increased Produc?vity �  Lower Costs �  Increased Produc?on Capacity

AcJve KantanMT Engines

6,341 Training Words Uploaded

35,051,110,634 Member Words Translated

436,616,492

Fully Opera?onal 16 months


Challenge #1: �  IniJal Steps of any project are

�  Determine Scope �  How long will it take?

�  Determine Cost �  How much will it cost?

�  Determine resources �  How many Translators will I need?

�  Introducing KantanAnalyJcs™ �  Think Fuzzy-‐Match report and you’ve got it in one!

How can Project Managers ‘manage’ Post-

Editing Projects?


KantanAnaly?cs™

Kantan TotalRecall – Advanced TM % of TM hits in this job

KantanMT – automated translations % of automated translations for this job

Range of QE Scores QE range defined to match existing fuzzy match ranges used by L10N industry

Quality Estimation Scores Segment level QE scores – akin to fuzzy match scores

Word Counts – Project Stats Can be used to develop Project TimeLine and Tiered Pricing Model for Post-Editing Projects

Placeholder & Tag Counts Used by PM for complexity sur-charges


KantanAnaly?cs™ �  Benefits

�  Tiered Pricing Model �  Priori?se PE ac?vity �  Determine Schedule & resources

�  Reduced costs �  Effortless integra?on with exis?ng processes KantanAnalytics™ - a new way of

working with post-editing projects


KantanAnaly?cs™


Challenge #2: �  Easy to build 1st baseline engine

�  Aggregate Training Data – TM, Mono, Stock, Terminology

�  Use Cloud-‐based plaborm, like KantanMT.com

�  Real Challenge �  How do these plaborms go beyond the baseline

engine and achieve higher levels of produc?on quality

�  Introducing Kantan BuildAnalyJcs™ �  Data analy?cs and visualisa?on providing insights into

the customisa?on of SMT engines.

How to rapidly develop production-

ready MT engines


Kantan BuildAnaly?cs™ �  Provides insights into KantanMT engine customisaJon �  Summary �  Training Rejects Reports �  F-‐Measure Analysis �  BLEU Analysis �  TER Analysis �  GAP Analysis �  TimeLine – Version Control for

MT Engines


Kantan BuildAnaly?cs™

F-Measure Score Measures word recall & precision of KantanMT engines

Distributions Provides distribution of F-Measure scores across all reference translations

Kantan Insight™ Holistic analysis of score and advice on how to improve this for KantanMT engines

Detailed Analysis Segment level F-Measure analysis to help SMT Developers improve training material


Kantan BuildAnaly?cs™ �  Benefits

�  Rapid Customisa?on �  Highly scalable & fast �  Fully Transparent �  Reduced Costs �  Faster deployments �  Super-‐fast retraining


Kantan BuildAnaly?cs™


Conclusions

KantanAnalytics

Reduces PE costs – tiered pricing

Project Managers

KantanAnalytics

Helping to prioritize translation effort

Translators

Kantan BuildAnalytics

Rapid production-ready engine customisation

SMT Developers

Tony O’Dowd [email protected]