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Requirements for ITS2.0 support in Computer

Assisted Translation Tools

John Moran, Christian Saam, Anuar Serikov, Pablo Porto and Dave Lewis

CNGL

Trinity College Dublin

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Overview

• Meta-Data and CAT Tools

• Use Cases: ITS2.0 and CAT tools

• Prototype: OmegaT

• Prototype: Web-client CAT

• Richer CAT meta-data

• Summary

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ITS 2.0 Draft Data

Categories

ITS1.0

• Translate

• Localization Note

• Terminology

• Directionality

• Ruby

• Lang info

• Element within text

I18n

• Locale Filter

• External Resource

• Preserve Space

• Allowed Characters

• Storage Size

• ID Value

Language Technology

• Domain

• MT confidence

• Text Analysis

Provenance & QA

• Quality Issue

• Quality Rating

• Provenance

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Meta-Data and CAT Tools

• Meta-Data can provide useful information to

translators if presented carefully

• Translation, Post-editing and Review tasks

can add meta-data

• Integration with tool chain requires standard

meta-data specification

• ITS2.0 provide new standards for several CAT

use cases

• What further CAT meta-data can be leveraged

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Meta-Data and CAT Tools

• Much ITS and ITS2.0 metadata is already

implicitly supported in OmegaT and other CAT

tools.

Some examples from OmegaT…

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Localization note in HTML (ITS)

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Localization note in HTML (OmegaT)

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RTL and LTR mixed in a segment (ITS)

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RTL and LTR mixed in a segment (OmegaT)

Shift + Ctrl + O

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Protected text (ITS)

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Protected text (OmegaT)

Protected text spans are not included for word counts.

One of a number of features sponsored by Welocalize in OmegaT 3.0

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ITS2.0 Confidence Scores

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ITS2.0 Confidence Scores (webcat)

http://mobile-webcat.appspot.com

Pablo Porto

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ITS2.0 Confidence Scores (OmegaT)

Anuar Serikov

ITS2.0 extensions in OmegaT

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ITS2.0 Confidence Scores (OmegaT)

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Tabular segment display option

Colours –easy to see segment status but

Inflexible in some regards,

Precedence

e.g. Mark segments with Notes has

precedence over Mark (Un)Translated

Segments.

Sooner or later you run out of easily

distinguishable colours.

Graphics contain more information.

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Walking before running…OmegaT current

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Walking before running…OmegaT dev

Anuar

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Walking before running…OmegaT dev

Anuar

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Planned…

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An idea… target terminology

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An idea… target terminology

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its:allowedCharactersRule

Tabular display should make it easier to show infringements of…

its:storageSizeRule

But other options are available. E.g. Validate Tags under Tools menu,

regular expressions, scripts plugin.

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Instrumentation in iOmegaT based on TransLog but in

a CAT tool

Via ITS2.0 provRef attribute to implement reference to external provenance

descriptions

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Instrumentation

Similar to logging but we wanted to distinguish

it from application logging (e.g. for debugging)

If you have a technology that purports to improve translator speed it

helps to be able to measure that in the field

E.g. Machine Translation, predictive typing

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Instrumentation

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Instrumentation

Example : Dell MT versus HT (Human Translation) Typical large translation project with 20 translators in 10 languages

Languages: Simplified Chinese, Chinese Taiwan, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese (40 days in total)

Quality checks for all languages

Example : Dell MT versus HT (Human Translation) Typical large translation project with 20 translators in 10 languages

Languages: Simplified Chinese, Chinese Taiwan, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese (40 days in total)

Quality checks for all languages

Example : Dell MT versus HT (Human Translation)

carried out in Welocalize

Typical large translation project with 20 translators in 10 languages

Languages: Simplified Chinese, Chinese Taiwan, French, Italian, German,

Spanish, Czech, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese (40 days in

total)

Quality checks for all languages

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HT Words/Hr

MT Words/Hr

Example : Dell MT versus HT (Human Translation)

Typical large translation project with 20 translators in 10 languages

Languages: Simplified Chinese, Chinese Taiwan, French, Italian,

German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian

Portuguese (40 days in total)

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MT Words/Hr

Example : Dell MT versus HT (Human Translation)

Typical large translation project with 20 translators in 10 languages

Languages: Simplified Chinese, Chinese Taiwan, French, Italian,

German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian

Portuguese (40 days in total)

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MT versus Human Translation (base case)

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MT Words/Hr

Example : Dell MT versus HT (Human Translation)

Typical large translation project with 20 translators in 10 languages

Languages: Simplified Chinese, Chinese Taiwan, French, Italian,

German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian

Portuguese (40 days in total)

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MT Words/Hr

Example : Dell MT versus HT (Human Translation)

Typical large translation project with 20 translators in 10 languages

Languages: Simplified Chinese, Chinese Taiwan, French, Italian,

German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian

Portuguese (40 days in total)

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MT Words/Hr

MT versus MT

Goal, MT impact on translation speed on ongoing basis

More information at try-and-see-mt.org

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OmegaT

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HT Words/Hr

MT Words/Hr

Example : Dell MT versus HT (Human Translation)

Typical large translation project with 20 translators in 10 languages

Languages: Simplified Chinese, Chinese Taiwan, French, Italian,

German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian

Portuguese (40 days in total)

Quality checks for all languages

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HT Words/Hr

MT Words/Hr

Example : Dell MT versus HT (Human Translation)

Typical large translation project with 20 translators in 10 languages

Languages: Simplified Chinese, Chinese Taiwan, French, Italian,

German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian

Portuguese (40 days in total)

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HT Words/Hr

MT Words/Hr

OmegaT (recent/upcoming developments)

Team translation using SVN / Git (incl. notes feature and lemmatized glossary)

OmegaT support in GlobalSight

LSP adoption (e.g. Velior)

SDLXLIFF support

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Summary

• Translation/Post-editing provenance

and Instrumentation becoming more

important downstream

• Open source gaining industry traction

• ITS goes mainly from content to

translator. Can provenance and NLP,

help facilitate terminology creation?