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milos.jakubicek@sketchengine.co.uk Focusing on Tighter Integration of CAT Tools and Corpora Milo Jakubek Translating and the Computer 38 London, November 17, 2016 Milo Jakubek (Lexical Computing) CAT Tools and Corpora Nov 17,

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Focusing on Tighter Integration

f CAT Tools and Corpora

Miloš Jakubíček

milos.jakubicek@sketchengine.co.uk

Translating and the Computer 38 London, November 17, 2016

Miloš Jakubíček (Lexical Computing) CAT Tools and Corpora Nov 17, 2016 1 / 12

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Background

Sketch Engine

online service, since 2003
large collections of texts (text corpora)
built-in tools for creating user corpora
effjcient search & advanced analysis
as of 2016:
corpora for 85 languages
annotation tools (PoS tagging, lemmatization) for ca 30 of them
10,000s of users:
lexicographers
linguists
teachers and students
copywriters, terminologists and translators

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CAT tools landscape as of 2016

many advanced tools on the market
main focus on:
wide support of document formats, import/export options
project management and accounting
translation memory management
text formatting
…not so much on the language itself
in fact CAT tools are decade(s) behind the development in natural language

processing

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CAT tools and NLP

Why?

because they are not accurate enough?
because they are not available?
because the community is not aware of them?
because they are hard to use?

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CAT tools and NLP

accuracy: not perfect, but good enough to actually help
availability: big issue (including IP issues)
awareness: I don’t know!
user-friendliness: big issue

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NLP and translation

NLP is doing much more for machine translation than for human translation!

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NLP and translation

most NLP tools are more useful in a semi-automatic setting than a fully-automated
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community focus on MT + post-editing rather than exploiting NLP resources and

tools that MT is built on to help translators directly

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NLP offers

data
huge amounts, both monolingual and bilingual
used to some extent
tools
tokenizers/segmenters
part-of-speech taggers, morphological analyzers
parsers (of any kind)
language modelling and prediction tools
…

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Challenges

technical interoperation: solvable
legal issues: hopefully solvable too
workfmow adaptation and integration: a real challenge

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Workfmow adaptation and integration

urgent need for seamless integration of state-of-the-art NLP tools that will be:
transparent to the user
fit the workfmow
bringing measurable savings

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Sketch Engine integration with CAT tools

Sketch Engine & CAT tools: a typical example of all the aforementioned issues
just released: Sketch Engine plugin for SDL Trados Studio
Sketch Engine workshop: Friday, 2pm–5pm, Education Room
free 3-month trial for all participants

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Conclusions

NLP tools and resources can do A LOT for human translators
if integrated well into the translator environment

⇒ this is what needs to be worked on

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