1. Google Translate & TectoMT Martin Majli

2. Plan

What is Google Translate?

3. What is TectoMT? 4. Why combine? 5. Results 6. TODO 7. Google Translate

Google service

8. 34 languages 9. AJAX API 10. http://translate.google.com/ 11. Google Translate API

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=it's lunchtime!&langpair=en%7Ccs

12. {"responseData": {"translatedText":"pestvka na obd, je to!"}, "responseDetails": null, "responseStatus": 200} 13. TectoMT

a highly modular extendable NLP software system

14. composed of numerous (mostly previously existing) NLP tools integrated into a uniform infrastructure 15. aimed at (not limited to) developing MT system 16. http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/tectomt/ 17. Why combine? 18. Why combine? (cont.)

Google

Great amount of text

19. Computing power - 450k servers (2006) TectoMT

Linguistic approach

20. Hypothesis: translation choices are conditioned rather by governing/dependent words than by linear predecessors/followers 21. Translation 22. Examples

This time the fall in stocks on Wall Street is responsible for the drop.

GT: Tato doba je pokles zsob na Wall Street je zodpovdn za pokles.

23. GT+TMT: Tato doba je pokles zsob na wall street, je zodpovdn za pokles. 24. Examples (cont.)

Stocks fall in Asia

GT: Zsoby pd v Asii

25. GT+TMT: Zsoba pd v asie. 26. Examples (cont.)

The stock exchange in Taiwan dropped by 3.6 percent according to the local index.

GT: Burze, na Tchaj-wanu klesla o 3,6 procent v zvislosti na mstn rejstk.

27. Burze tchaj - wan klesl o 3, 6 procent na mstn rejstk. 28. Examples (cont.)

Despite the fact that it is a part of China, Hong Kong determines its currency policy separately, that is, without being dependent on the Chinese Central Bank.

GT: Navzdory skutenosti, e je soust ny, Hong Kong uruje jej mny politice samostatn, tedy bez zvislosti na nsk centrln bance.

29. GT+TMT: Navzdory skutenosti, e je soust ny, hong kong uruje jej mny politice samostatn, tedy bez na zvislosti nsk centrln bance. 30. Errors

Name entity

Kevin Rudd => Kevin Rudd => kevin rudd

31. Numbers! 32. Results BLEU NIST Google Translate 0.1543 5.2542 GT + Parahrasing 0.0953 4.4241 33. TODO

Somehow improve :)

Analyse english sentence

34. Translate subtrees 35. Merge subtrees 36. Analyze + Parahrase czech sentence 37. Questions? ? 38. Thank you!