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Machine translation: Enabling multilingual communication in
e-government
Rihards KalniņšELRC/Tilde
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The language of Europe is translation.Umberto Eco
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Translation for e-Commerce
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42% of Europeans never purchase products or services in a language other than their own
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Machine translation has the power to engage consumers across Europe
– and the world.
tilde.com/mt
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Translation for-government
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e-government goals• Increase citizen
participation in e-government
• Reach marginalizedgroups of citizens
• Expand access to e-services
• Engage communities of citizens
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Machine translation has the power to engage citizens across Europe –
and the world.
tilde.com/mt
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Canadian Translation Bureau
National Research Council
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• Initiative of the Roadmap for Linguistic Duality of the Government of Canada
• Available for all government desktops. Integration of translation functionality in government content management platforms.
• Allows for quick translation of short texts and helps with second language comprehension.
• Reduces the costs of human translation of unprotected internal administrative documents, such as memos and presentations.
• Promotes greater use of both official languages in the workplace.
Canada’s MT service (French-English)
Set for launch in April, 2016
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MT for Latvian e-Gov
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36% of the Latvian population speaksRussian at home.
Challenge: Enable residents to use e-services in their native language.
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The Latvian language hasless than 2 million native speakers.
Challenge: Empower access to information for all residents and
visitors.
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Solution: Comprehensive, large-scale machine translation service for the public sector, fully integrated into
government platforms
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• Novel methods of corpora collection
• Balanced various types of texts and language models to get the optimal results
• Over 100 million sentences of training data (in multiple languages)
• Addition of public sector specific terminology
Building a MT service for the public sector
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HUGO.LVLATVIATRANSLATES WITH
• MT service for the Latvian public sector• Securely translates texts, documents, websites• Adapted for the Latvian language and public sector
texts• Integrated into e-services and government websites• Languages
• Latvian-English• English-Latvian• Latvian-Russian
Developed bytilde.com/mt
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Hugo.lv enablesmultilingual communication in thepublic sector and empowers access
to information and e-services.
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• 1 680 Presidency events
• 25 300 participants• 800+ journalists from
40 countries• 197 EU policy meetings
2015 Presidency of the Council of the EU
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• Analyzed specific EU Presidency terminology, added these terms to the system
• “Taught” MT to use the right terms in the right inflectional forms – a challenge for SMT and morphologically rich languages
Adapting Hugo.lv for EU Presidency texts
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EU Presidency Translator• Desktop application providing
translation of texts, documents, websites
• Mobile app for journalists, delegates, and Presidency visitors
• Translation kiosk at the official headquarters of the EU Presidency
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Mobile MT kiosk for the EU Presidency headquarters at the
Latvian National Library –translation as a utility
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“There will be no digital single market without multilingualism, as few people feel comfortable operating in their second or third language. ”
Robert MadelinChief Innovation Officer, European Commission
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Four elements are necessary for the take-up of an inclusive Digital Single Market:
1. Focus on digital skills2. Special attention to gender and age
balance 3. Local involvement and local
outreach actions4. Increased considerations for
language diversity
Robert MadelinChief Innovation Officer, European Commission
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