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Business Needs and Practices Pierre-Yves Foucou CTO - SYSTRAN. RASMAT 2004 – Uppsala. Market leading Machine Translation (MT) technology developer – more than 500 person years of R&D Sells desktop translation software products
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Business Needs and Practices Pierre-Yves Foucou CTO - SYSTRAN RASMAT 2004 – Uppsala
Market leading Machine Translation (MT) technology developer – more than 500 person years of R&D Sells desktop translation software products Offers more scalable and open translation solutions for large corporations Founded in 1968 in San Diego, CA Located in Paris, France - San Diego, CA - Luxembourg Fast Facts
Company founded, US Air Force contracts SYSTRAN to develop a Russian into English system NASA uses SYSTRAN’s MT in the joint US-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Mission European Commission hires SYSTRAN to develop several language pairs SYSTRAN introduces Windows desktop product AltaVista and SYSTRAN launch Babelfish 2002 OracleMobile.com selects SYSTRAN for wireless portal History
Technology Licensing to Portals Google, AOL, AltaVista/Yahoo, Lycos, Apple, ... Corporations Ford Motor Company, PMI, PwC, Michelin Governments and Public Administrations US Intelligence Community, European Commission OEM Integration Logitech, Electronic Arts Channel for Desktop Products eDistributor (Digital River), VARs, Resellers Customers
Process that utilizes computer software to translate text from one natural language into another Accounts for grammatical structure of each language and uses rules and assumptions to transfer these from the source language (original text) into the target language (translated text) What is Machine Translation?
Gisting Multilingual information scanning Produces rough draft translation For example: Web browsing Publishing Documentation requires high-quality translation For example: technical support documents OEM, knowledge base applications Needs
Easy to install, use, ... Translate Documents DOC, RTF, PPT, XLS, TXT, HTML, XML Email Outlook Web content Chat Desktop Products
XML, extended control on MT process, automatic coding TM Introducing Swedish<>English Desktop Products – version 5
http://rm.systransoft.com (cf AMTA 2003) Quality Assessment
Per language pair Per document Per sentence Review Manager (SLP) Quality Assessment
Core engine, core dictionaries User specific resource tools GUI and APIs Additional language pairs More integration : CMS, CRM, ... Maintenance or development
Builds and manages knowledge assets Proven savings in overall budgets ROI – Reuse of texts already translated, terminology management Benefits of MT
Educate users and manage their expectations Use rapid prototyping for a phased implementation Set goals and metrics for final results Narrow the gap between human translators and MT Learning Points in Applying MT in Real Business Context
36 language pairs, with more in development Scalable, robust and open architecture Accumulation of million entry knowledge-bases Ability to customize linguistic resources Over 7 million translations per day Proven track record The SYSTRAN Advantage