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Machine Translation at the EPO

Discover the journey and progress of the European Machine Translation Project, from collaborations with Google to expanding language releases. Benefits include enhanced access to patent information in multiple languages, supporting users globally. Feedback on machine translation usage is welcome.

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Machine Translation at the EPO

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  1. Machine Translation at the EPO R. Flammer, PD 5.4 12 September 2012

  2. European Machine Translation Project • "so far so good...." • September 2010.......... President's mandate to start • November 2010 .......... first MoU with Google • March 2011.................. Implementing Agreement signed • October 2011................first delivery to Google ("batch I") • February 2012............. first release to the world (E/F/D/SE/IT/ES/PT) • June/July 2012.............second delivery to Google ("batch II") • October 2012................second release (Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian and Polish ) • MoUs with China, Japan, Russia and Brazil signed

  3. MT • "least resourced countries" • December 2011.............agreements signed to clearly determinate who does what and when ("shared burden") • every country should know what to deliver and when • next releases 1. 2013  English - Turkish, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Estonian, Romanian, Icelandic, Croatian, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Albanian, Macedonian, Serbian, Russian 2. I/2014  Focus on corpora for translation pairs from and into French and German as well as English - Brazilian 3. II/2014  Focus on improvements where necessary and general updates

  4. Why do we do it? • Support European users: • understanding EPO / EPO member state patents • Support all patent information users: • understanding patents of world's leading offices

  5. 7 new languages - Espacenet & Pub. Server

  6. Give us Feedback!

  7. MT Usage - Volumes

  8. Many thanks for your attention R. Flammer, PD 5.4 30 November 2012

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