Mirai Translate - TAUS Tokyo 2015

© 2015 Mirai Translate, Inc. All rights reserved.

Mirai Translate, Inc.

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“Impossible only means that you have still screwed up the solution.”

-Mick Etoh

© 2015 Mirai Translate, Inc. All rights reserved.2

Number of Inbound Visitors in 2014

13,413,567

JPY2,030,500,000,000 EUR15,522,200,000


Translation Total Addressable Market （２０１４）

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USD 2.1B

MT market USD 10M


Unforeseen Challenges Ahead

4 Translation Speed (1/cost)

Quality

LSP Solutions

IP

Publication

Reports

CAT

Speech Translater

Google Translate

Web

Crowd Sourcing Solutions

ＳＯＨＯＳＯＨＯ

MT+Post Editing Solutions

MT Real Time Solutions

Unforeseen New Market Frontier

性能向上による新領域


72% of Japanese don’t speak English.5


Vision To realize a society in which everyone can interact freely across language barriers with the use of machine translation technology, and thereby

contribute to invigoration and innovation in businesses.

Mirai Translate, Inc.


Mirai Translate as Joint Venture

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Mobile Platform Leader ASR & MT Solution Provider Multilingual Enterprise MT developer

NLP and MT technology leader Multilingual SMT technology leader

Technology Transfer


Our Competence• Multiple Translation Engines from Systran and NICT

• MT Training Tools from Systran • NLP Tools Named Entity Extraction, Pre-Ordering,…

• NL Data Assets Corpus from Systran and NTT DOCOMO+ JPN Ontology Dictionary

• Strong Technical Team Experiences in AWS, Data Mining, MT toward our own original MT systems.


Siri

9Big-Data, Big-Server, and Fat-Pipe Solution


“Shabette-Concier” Voice agent service

• Launched Mar. 1, 2012

• Over 40 services in it

• Including chatting

• 10 million users

ShabetteVoice

= ConcierConcierge

=How may I help you?

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Touch the Concier.“Tell me how to make a pizza.”View a list of recipes of pizza.You can check a detailed recipe of pizza.“Tell me Italian restaurants nearby.”View a list of Italian restaurants.You can check detailed information of restaurants.11

© 2015 Mirai Translate, Inc. All rights reserved.Touch the Concier.Q: “What is the height of Mt. Fuji?”A: “3,766m!”Q: “When is holding schedule of the Tokyo Olympic Games?”A: “It will hold in 2020.” 12


Basic Architecture 2010

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Fuetrek VoiceRecognition

DOCOMO TaskRecognition

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Voicetext text contents

Service Providers’ DB

contents

text

Text to speech

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Fat-Pipe

Big-Servers


Mirai Architecture 2015

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Fuetrek VoiceRecognition

Mirai MT Engines

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Voicetext text contents

Client Dictionary Corpus DB

contents

text

Text to speech

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We are Cloud Natives

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システム構成部品

who believe our cloud solution is scalable and safer!


Bilingual User Dictionaries

SYSnitionTRAN 7 HYBRID ENGINE

SYSTRAN Hybrid Architecture

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Source

Transl

ation

Main Dictionaries Linguistic Rules

User Entities

Rules-‐Based MT

Statistical Post-‐Edition

SBS BSTarget

Monolingual Corpus

Source Adaptation

BSMonolingual Source Corpus

Bilingual Corpus or Translation Memories

Bilingual Translation Models

Target Language Models

Source Language Models

Self-‐training

Source Normalization Dictionaries

Self-‐Training

Self-‐Training

SBS

Statistical MT

Translation Memories

Bilingual Terminology Extraction

Spell Check Homographs

Target Normalization Dictionaries

Translation Memories

Pre-Filter Formating Normalization Segmentation

Entity Recognition

Translation Memory User Dictionary Match

Post-Processing Formatting Normalization

Post-Filter

a Commercial SMT Engine


NTT Technology for JPN <-> EN

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He saw a cat a long tail

this is Keiko Tanaka . this _va0 Keiko Tanaka is . 田中恵子と申します

i used to jog every morning . i _va0 every morning jog to used . 毎朝ジョギングしたものです。

she was wearing a sweater and high heals . she _va0 sweater and high heals _va2 wearing was . セーターを着て、ハイヒールをはいていました。

with sawcatwithlong tailがをHe

Post-Positional Particles


Commerce

Patent Application

Finance

Corpus is the king,

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Not only Size(Coverage) but also Fitness.

Written Language Corpus Variation

SpokenLanguage

CorpusVariation Generic

Corpus

Travel

Public Patents

Ideal Corpus Data

but it must be decent and well-structured.


SYSTRAN Training Server ‒ Main components

• Corpus Manager • Mono/bilingual corpus • Txt, html, doc, docx, rtf, xlsx, pptx, pdf, tmx • Virtual file management (aggregation, split) • Content Management Database (TU : Translation Units)

• Training Manager • Baseline Evaluation (Quality metrics: GTM, BLEU, TER) • Hybrid Model Training (SPE : Statistical Post-Edition) • Statistical Model Training (SMT : Statistical Machine Translation)

• Dictionary creation (UD) with bilingual terminology extraction • Dictionary validation (UD) against a bilingual corpus (TMX) • Translation Memory creation (TM) with document aligner


Training Methodology

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Collect Data Run Training Evaluate Publish to Pilot/Production

• Collect training data • Define the domain • Collect bilingual corpus (translation memories, documents and translations) • Collect monolingual corpus (text, content relevant to the domain) • Collect terminology if any (bilingual dictionaries, glossaries)

• Run initial training

• Evaluate

• Perform incremental cycles


V.S.


• Collaboration Tools • Intranet Translation Portal • Web & Mobile Apps • Customer Service Portal

• Market Intelligence • Cyber-security • Forensic & eDiscovery Apps • Text Mining & Analytics

• Multilingual Web Site • Technical Translation Project • Translation Workflow Integration

Help and secure information

communication

Detect critical information within large scale foreign

data

Reduce costs and timelines for translation

projects

Business cases

Usages & Applications

Customers Translation Agencies & Corporations

Defense & Securities & Legal Organizations

Corporations & Public Organizations

LocalizationMultilingual Communication Big Data　by HPC

Our Business Targets• 3 main markets

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Multilingual MT JP, EN, CN, KR ＋ASEAN

Enterprise Solutions

Consumer Services

We are an engineering company…

MT APIs TMS


“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” - Nelson Mandela

As part of the Tomorrow television series produced by CBS for MIT's Centennial in 1961


Their dreams are coming true.

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