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Multilingual Tools

Alain REICHLING

Deputy Head of Unit

Multilingualism and Terminology CoordinationISPRA, September 2005

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TM (Translation Memories)

MT (Machine Translation)

TT (Terminological Tools)

And a few others, plus

TW (Technological Watch)

And of course … inTerinsTiTuTional …!

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Front-end: TWB (Translator's Workbench)

Back-end: Euramis

Model: recycling and sharing

To be avoided: local memories!!!

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Much more than just translation memories

EURopean Advanced Multilingual Information Services

Service IntegratorService Integrator

Automatic preprocessingDocument alignmentMachine translationOn-line concordanceCelex titles and documents automatically alignedetc.

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(875 584 pages in 2003)

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Integrated with Euramis, Intracomm, Word

ECMT

28 language pairs (including prototypes)

EN => DE, EL, ES, FR, IT, NL, PT

FR => DE, EL, EN, ES, IT, NL, PT   

DE, EL, ES, IT, NL, PT, DA, SV => EN/FR

New languages – IDA studies

New strategy?

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Translators:

from English and French

computer-aided translation tool

post-editing

Administrators:

into English and French

browsing tool

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Commission: 80% 40% DGT• FR-ES EN-ES EN-FR FR-EN FR-PT EN-PT FR-IT

60% other DGs

• FR-EN EN-FR DE-EN EN-ES EN-DE EL-FR EN-IT

Other EU Institutions: 10%

Member States: 10%

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We cannot stop the world

DGT’s eyes and ears

Together with other EU Institutions (and UN agencies)

Procedures

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More on DGT Multilingual Tools?http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/translation/bookshelf/tools_and_workflow_en.pdf

T h a n k Y o u !