Project Management. From industrial perspective. A. Helle M. Herranz. EXPERT Summer School, Pangeanic - BI-Europe

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1 Project Management From industrial perspective A. Helle M. Herranz Pangeanic - BI-Europe EXPERT Summer School, 2014

2 Outline 1 Introduction 2 3 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT

3 Project Management System Translation Companies need a Project Management System, just like any other company European Standard EN15038 establishes a quality system Came into force 1 /08/ 2006 replacing 30 previous national standards It certies the process and the service as well as other aspects like QA / QC and traceability It establishes procedures for Human Resources Management Technical Resources Management Managing Relations with Clients Vendor Management Process Management (Service, ie the translation procedure) Process Verication, check, QC/QA Customer Satisfaction (metrics) Non-Conformities, Auditing, etc

4 Typical interaction at a translation company

5 Typical order workow at a translation company

6 Typical translation job project management at a translation company

7 Cost of translation Introduction

8 Massive amounts of data - Is language business manageable?

9 TM and TMX Introduction Translation Memories (TM) TMX database that stores segments that have previously been translated, in order to aid human translators used by: Computer Assisted Translations tools (CAT tools) Word processing programs Terminology management systems Multilingual dictionaries Machine Translation systems Many companies producing multilingual documentation are using translation memory systems In a survey of language professionals in 2006, 82.5% out of 874 replies conrmed the use of a TM XML specication for the exchange of TM data between CAT and localization tools with little or no loss of critical data

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13 There are several software programs designed to aid all the above and above all, ease admin tasks, traceability and quality metrics XTRF (Poland) Across (Germany) Plunet (Germany)

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15 - Internal sta

16 - External sta

17 - Customers

18 - Quote

19 - Project

20 Outline Introduction 1 Introduction 2 3 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT

21 Memory-based systems (CAT tools) Main tool of the language professionals Use of TMs Shows us similar (hight percent match) translations stored in the TM for each segment of translation 100% matches: identical segments in the TM Fuzzy matches: there are no 100% matches, but there are similar segments. Generally, matches below 70% are not useful Mean productivity: words/day E.g.: Private software: SDL Trados, MemoQ, MemSource Opensource software: OmegaT

22 Memory-based systems (CAT tools) (2) Advantages: More productivity in professional translation Very rened and extended Friendly GUI Eases the Quality Check (QC) Possible to integrate MT Disadvantages: Translation not adaptable If there isn't any TM available, there is few productivity improvement

23 Machine Translation systems (MT) Statistic-based systems Rule-based systems Hybrid systems Advantages: Translation adaptable More productivity in non-professional translations Disadvantages: Needed a lot of data to create a engine MT itself isn't useful for professional translation, only for gisting

24 CAT tools + MT Introduction First done in the 90s between Trados and Systran With this approximation, the CAT tool shows similar translations from TM and translation from MT, and the user chooses what want to postedit. E.g.: translate segments with matches above 75% with TM translate segments with matches below 75% with MT Very used approximation but there are professional translators reluctant to use MT postedit is faster than translate from zero it makes possible to sell cheaper translations Mean productivity: 5000 words/day

25 CAT tools + MT (2) Advantages: Future of the translation Enable faster translations Fast postedition if the MT output is good Disadvantages: If the MT output is bad, it's faster to translate from scratch

26 CAT tools + MT (3)

27 CAT tools + MT (4) Video: Pangeanic's machine translation demo in SDL Studio - German

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29 Software to ensure quality of the translation Misspellings Tag mismatches Numeric mismatches Terminology inconsistencies... E.g.: Xbench, QA Distiller

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31 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Outline 1 Introduction 2 3 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT

32 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Translation project management without MT

33 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Outline 1 Introduction 2 3 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT

34 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Translation project management with MT

35 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Translate the original le

36 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Translate the original le (2) Translate the original le Advantages: Directly Disadvantages: Dicult postedition (can't use CAT tools) Dicult QC (not possible with XBench or QA Distiller)

37 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Translate the bilingual le

38 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Translate the bilingual le Translate the bilingual le Advantages: Fast if we don't have TM Disadvantages: Slow if we have TM

39 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Oine MT translation

40 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Oine MT translation(2) Oine translation How it works: During pre-analysis, export unknown segment (segments under XX percent match) into bilingual le Translate bilingual le with MT Import MT translated bilingual le into the TM Select a penalty for MT We can choose TM or MT Advantages: Fast postedition Oine Disadvantages: A few steps more to do preparing the project

41 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Online MT translation

42 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT Online MT translation(2) Oine translation How it works: Install and congure a plugin for MT in the CAT tool that enables online translation Select a penalty for MT We can choose TM or MT Advantages: Fast postedition A few steps less to do preparing the project Disadvantages: Latency depends of Internet

43 Translation project management without MT Translation project management with MT END Questions?