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Digital Services Infrastructures Generic Services

Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, on behalf of ELRC & CEF

ELRC & CEF eTranslation

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ELRC Support

• ELRC Services– Available to all data holders/ contributors in CEF countries

• CEF eTranslation Generic Services (Building blocks & Related Projects)– How to crack the language barrier? For Public services ?– Key part of the solution: CEF eTranslation and other Building blocks

• providing mature language tools and services in a secure platform• making public online services multi-‐lingual and facilitating cross-‐border information exchange and other operation

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ELRC Helpdesk

lr-coordination.eu/helpdesk

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• More NLPs (transliteration, named entity recognition…)

• Generic services• Projects (ELRC,

market research)

CEF.AT

eTranslation platform at a glance

• Launched July 2017 (webservice for snippets), Nov. 2017 (web page for documents)

• Cloud based• Neural engines

eTranslation

MT@EC• Launched June

2013• Legalese• Statistical

(Moses)

• Generic services

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It also includesODRBRIS eHealth EESSICitizens need to solve disputes online across borders

Citizens and business partners need legal certainty when doing business cross-border

Citizens need to have online access to their patient summary when abroad

Citizens need to get to enjoy their social security seamlessly and online when abroad

eProcurement

Open Data

e-Justice

Creating a #DigitalSingleMarketsectorial platforms/websites (CEF DSIs)

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DIGITAL SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURES (DSIs)


eJustice Portal

Justice, home affairs and citizens' rights

ODR Open Data

Science and Technology Business

BRIS

CEF Digital Services at a glance

Employment and Social Rights

EESSI

IDENTIFYwith eID

SIGNwith eSignature

INVOICEwith eInvoicing

EXCHANGEwith eDelivery

TRANSLATEwith eTranslation

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Sectorial Building Blockmust reuse

# be based on market-driven open standards and technical specifications

# be reusable by other DSIseID

eSignature

eDelivery

eTranslation

eInvoicing

Europeana

Safer Internet

Open Data

ODR

eHealth

eProcurement

EESSI

eJustice Portal

BRIS

CyberSecurity

# cross-border use

# deliver services by digital means

# contribute to EU policies

# have sufficient maturity

# plan to become sustainableGrants (Generic Services)

# be reusable in different domains/sectors

CEF PRINCIPLES

Core Service Platforms

guide

Sector-specific projects funded by

CEF

Building Block projects funded by CEF

A Building Block is a package of technical specifications, services or sample software that can be reused in different policy domains/ by different

DSIs


What are the fundamental characteristics of a CEF DSI?

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eTranslation building block

• a central machine translation service run by Directorate-‐General for Translation (DGT) • it provide machine translation services for public administrations and public online services

in various domains/sectors• it is available via a web-‐user interface and an API

eTranslation service is intended for the following types of users:• Service providers: European and national public administrations interested in integrating

machine translation in their digital services to guarantee their services are supported in all the official languages of the EU

• Translators in EU institutions and in national public administrations, to facilitate their day-‐to-‐day work

• Non-‐translating staff in EU institutions and in national public administrations to deal with documents in languages they do not master and facilitate cross-‐border information exchange

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To learn more about CEF's Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs)

CORE SERVICE PLATFORMS

https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/ https://ec.europa.eu/inea/en/connecting-europe-facility/cef-telecom/apply-funding

Services provided by theEUROPEAN COMMISSION

Funding available to theMEMBER STATES

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MEMBER STATEREGIONCITY

Internet

https://www.europeandataportal.eu

CORE SERVICE PLATFORM

GRANTS

Open Data DSI

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MEMBER STATEREGIONCITY

Internet

eIDbuilding block

Open Data reuses eID and eTranslation

REUSE OF BUILDING BLOCKS


GRANTS

eTranslationbuilding block

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ItalyBelgiumGermany

Internet

https://e-justice.europa.eu


GRANTS

eJustice DSI

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

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ItalyBelgiumGermany

Internet

REUSE OF BUILDING BLOCKS


GRANTS

eJustice reuses eID, eTranslation, eSignature and eDelivery

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

eIDbuilding block

eDeliverybuilding block

AccessPoint eTranslation

building blockeSignaturebuilding block

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CEF DSIs connected to/committed to reuseMT@EC/eTranslation

CEF DSI Description/URL/use

EDPEuropean Data Portal: the pan-European Open Data Portal facilitating access to open datasets https://www.europeandataportal.eu/à metadata translation

ODRThe Online Dispute Resolution platform for resolution of online contractual disputes between consumers and traders https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/à free-text message exchange

e-JusticeA portal which is a single point of access to law, enabling EU judicial cooperationhttps://e-justice.europa.eu/à translate documents pending human translation

EESSI* Platform for Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information between 32 countries (EU+EFTA)à free-text message exchange

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examples of online services connected to MT@ECeTranslation

Service Description/URL/use

IMIInternal Market Information System – an intranet for more than 7000 public administrations in the EU Member States http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/imi-net/index_en.htmà free-text message exchange

SOLVITAn on-line problem solving network concerning misapplication of Internal Market law by public authorities http://ec.europa.eu/solvit/à free-text message exchange

nLex �A common gateway to National Law http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/à translation of queries

CircaBCCommunication and Information Resource Centre for Administrations, Businesses and Citizens (collaborative spaces) https://circabc.europa.eu/à translation of documents

TED Tender Electronic Daily http://simap.europa.eu/enotices/changeLanguage.do?language=en à translation of tender notices

VISIT: https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/Reuse+-+nonCEF

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• Most of the projects aim at exploiting the building blocks and/or contribute data to eTranslation

• List of projects:– https://ec.europa.eu/inea/en/connecting-‐europe-‐facility/cef-‐telecom/cef-‐telecom-‐projects

• Some examples of such projects

EU Funded projects under CEF Telecoms

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2016 funded actions

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• Provision of Web-‐Scale Parallel Corpora for Official European Languages

• IADAATPA

• eTranslation TermBank

• CEF Automated Translation for the EU Council Presidency

• European Language Resource Infrastructure (ELRI)

• Cross-‐border eProcurement notifications


eTranslation API use in cross-‐border projects funded by CEF

– eTranslation will power a cross-‐border e-‐Procurement platform interconnecting 4 eProcurement platforms in Slovakia, Slovenia, Germany and Croatia

VISIT: https://ec.europa.eu/inea/en/connecting-europe-facility/cef-telecom/cef-telecom-projects

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• Provision of Web-‐Scale Parallel Corpora for Official European Languages– "The billion word corpus"

– University of Edinburgh– University of Alicante– TAUS B.V. – Prompsit Language Engineering, S.L

Web Corpus

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• Large Terminology database for several languages

• Min 150 terminological resources in all official languages + Icelandic and Norwegian

• three sector-‐specific domains (health, business legislation, customer protection) • for three sector-‐specific Digital Service Infrastructures (eHealth, e-‐Justice, Online Dispute

Resolution).

• Latvia, Denmark, Estonia, Slovenia, Austria– Tilde – University of Copenhagen,– Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, – Institute of the Estonian Language– "Jozef Stefan" Institute,– TermNet,– The Institute for Language and Folklore,– AB Terminologicentrum TNC – The Institute of Lithuanian Language

eTranslation TermBank

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• 2016-‐EU-‐IA-‐0121• CEF Automated Translation for the EU Council Presidencies• Involving the Institute for Bulgarian Language, university of Vienna, and led by Tilde

Presidency Translator

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• The action will incorporate a series of state-‐of-‐the-‐art domain-‐adapted Machine Translation engines based on statistical and neural networks which will be deployed and tested by the IADAATPA Public Administrations early adopters in Spain, the Republic of Ireland and Latvia.

IADAATPA (Intelligent, Automatic Domain Adapted Automated Translation for Public Administrations)

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• EVERIS SPAIN• Pangeanic• Xcelerator Machine Translations Ltd,• Tilde• Prompsit Language Engineering, S.L.,• Segittur• Dublin City University,• SESIAD (Secretary of State for Information Society and Digital Agenda)

Partners

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• ELRC-‐SHARE Repository is a centralised platform (based on META-‐SHARE package)

• The objective of the ELRI project is:– “to deploy a network that enables accessible, secure and reliable

sharing of Language Resources by different stakeholders at EUlevel and promotes its uptake and growth. The focus will be thelanguage resources which are produced by translation centers andpublic institutions in Europe, aiming to render these data availablefor the DGT and thus, for all related DSIs requiring data tocustomize and improve the CEF Automatic Translation (AT) to theirservice.”

ELRI …. European Language Resource Infrastructure

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• The project targets– “the deployment of a centralized Language Resource sharinginfrastructure for all the Translation Centres providingtranslations and derived materials such as translation memoriesto the respective national administrations.”• Establishment of local LR relay stations for the different participating countries

• Each node will be connected to a centralized sharing centre

• Partners: Lisbon, Madrid, Dublin and Paris

ERLI versus ELRC-‐SHARE Repository

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• Fundacion centro de tecnologias de interaccion visual y comunicaciones VICOMTECH (Spain)

• Administrative Modernization Agency (Portugal)• Linkare TI (Portugal)• ELDA (France)• Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)• Secretaria de Estado para la Sociedad de la Informacion y Agenda Digital (Spain)

• Dublin City University School of Computing (Ireland)• Extension in the future

Partners

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Thank you for your attention

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Language processing services

• If you encounter any legal and/or technical issues with your language

resources, ELRC and our broad network of experts can help!

• ELRC consortium provides language processing services and assistance

directly on-‐site to data contributors

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Data conversion


Tag removal Re-‐formatting Data extraction

If your data isn’tconverted to theproper formats, wecan help convert it

Does your data contain unneeded tags? We can assistin removing them!

Need to re-formatDOCX to XML, orPDF to WORD? Letus do it for you!

If your data istrapped in archivesand databases, wecan help extract it

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Anonymisation


Cleaning Alignment Metadata validation

If your data ismessy (i.e., lots ofnoise), we willclean it up

Translations aren’taligned? We’ll do it for you with ourtools!

Metadata is crucial! We can validate and organize metadatafor your team

Does your data contain PersonalData? We can help "identify" suchelements and fully anonymise

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Phone Email Skype On-‐site

Pick up thephone and callthe ELRC helpdesk

Send us off anemail brieflyexplaining yourtechnical/legal issue

Skype us! We areonline and ready to help with anyquestions

Our team of expertswill travel directly to assist you at yourown offices

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On-‐site assistance |2

Data contributor

No issues with data Upload to ELRC-‐SHARE

Data requiresprocessing on-‐site ELRC processes

the data at your premises

Processed dataRequest on-‐site

assistance

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ELRC website

lr-coordination.eu/request-onsite-assistance

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CEF DSIs using*/planning to use

MT@EC/eTranslation

Europeana The digital European Library, common, multilingual access point to digital resources of European heritage.

European Data Portal*

The pan-European Open Data Portal for accessing open data infrastructures distributed over a EU and MS data repositories.

EESSI The Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information, a platform between 32 countries (EU+EFTA).

ODR* Resolution of online contractual disputes between consumers and traders, linking all national Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

e-Justice* A portal which is a single point of access to law, enabling EU judicial cooperation.

Safer Internet Services to make Internet a trusted environment for children.

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Online services connecting to the MT@EC

IMIInternal Market Information System – an intranet for more than 7000 public administrations in the EU Member StatesFree-text message exchange

SOLVITAn on-line problem solving network concerning misapplication of Internal Market law by public authoritiesFree-text message exchange

nLex A common gateway to National Law Translate results of queries

CircaBCCommunication and Information Resource Centre for Administrations, Businesses and Citizens (collaborative spaces)Translate documents

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CORE SERVICE PLATFORMServices offered by the European Commission


What does CEF Digital finance?

Funding for theEUROPEAN COMMISSION

Funding for theMEMBER STATES

eJustice Portal

EU Open Data Portal

BUILDING BLOCKS

GRANTSProjects in the Member States

SECTORIAL

…

eInvoicing eSignature

eDelivery eID

eTranslation

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Strong Authentication

Multiple Languages

Sign and validate eSignaturesSend documents securely

e-justice.europa.eu

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

Germany Italy Greece

eID

eSignature

eTranslation

eDelivery

eN eN

eN

eN

Trusted Lists

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Strong Authentication

Multiple Languages

Sign and validate eSignaturesSend documents securely

e-justice.europa.eu

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

AccessPoint

Germany Italy Greece

eID

eSignature

eTranslation

eDelivery

eN eN

eN

eN

Trusted Lists

Internal Dimension

ExternalDimension

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• Open to DSIs and public administrations – Contact CEF-‐[email protected] with your request and use case– We will provide the technical documentation on how to connect

• SOAP request or RESTful interface

– Contact us for credentials– Adapt your service to multilingual use!

How to Connect to eTranslation

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