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A Quick Guide to KantanMT

Machine Translation with KantanMT

A Quick Guide

A Quick Guide to KantanMT

A Quick Guide to KantanMT

What we aim to cover today?What is Machine Translation?The relevance and importance of MTWhat is Cloud Computing?What is KantanMT?A practical demo of KantanMT in actionQuestions & Answers

A Quick Guide to KantanMT

What is Machine Translation?• Machine translation (MT) is automated

translation• Two approaches:

⁻ Rule-Based Machine Translation Technology⁻ Statistical Machine Translation Technology

• Traditionally MT has been expensive & challenging to use, complex and produced low quality translations

A Quick Guide to KantanMT

Relevance & Importance of MT• Constant pressure to increase productivity

and do more for less• Your costs are increasing and language

resources are limited• Yet your competitors are offering rates

that you can’t compete with• Using Machine Translation you can

increase your productivity and earn more profit for your business

A Quick Guide to KantanMT

What is Cloud Computing?• Abundance of disk space and computing power• An alternative to traditional ways of purchasing and

consuming software applications• Install, configure, test, run, secure, and update them• With cloud computing it means you’re not investing

in - or managing - hardware and software; that’s our responsibility at KantanMT!

• Members can plug in and scale up and down, paying only for what they need when they need it

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What is KantanMT?• The KantanMT platform is a cloud-based MT

service which addresses the challenges of⁻ Cost⁻ Complexity⁻ Security ⁻ Quality

• KantanMT provides powerful Machine Translation at your fingertips!

A Quick Guide to KantanMT

What is KantanMT?• Cost - pay for what you need, upgrades are automatic

and scaling up or down is easy

• Complexity - simply launch your browser, logon, customise the app and start using it

• Security - we encrypt and store securely

• Quality – train your engine to provide higher quality more consistent outputs

A Quick Guide to KantanMT

KantanMT - Workflow

Kantan MT

Engine

Output

Untranslated TMX files

Client Files

Machine Translated TMX files

PreviousTranslation

Memories (TMX)

Training Data

Kantan MT

Engine

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Demonstration• Three simple steps

⁻ Step 1 – Prepare⁻ Step 2 – Build⁻ Step 3 – Translate

Yes, it is as simple as that!

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Summary• Intro to Machine Translation, Cloud Computing

and KantanMT• Demo of the simple three step approach to

powerful Machine Translation using KantanMT• In future presentations

⁻ integrating MT into your standard localisation workflow

⁻ improving the Quality of Your Engines⁻ powerful post editing tools

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Questions & Answers

Thank you!

A Quick Guide to KantanMT

Additional informationFor additional information please visit:http://www.kantanmt.com

Contact me at:Kevin McCoy E-mail: kevinmcc@kantanmt.comMobile: +353 86 823 1527