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Directorate-General for Translation

EUROPEAN

COMMISSION

Translation tools

Computer assisted translation and workflow

Andreas TaesHead of Sector 

Operational Support, Informatics

Brussels, 25th of March 2011

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The Needs of the Translator 

§ Administrative support

§ Reference documents in electronic

form

§ Pertinent terminology

§ Re-use of translated sentences

§ Efficiency

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External translation

INPre

processingWork

Postprocessing OUT

 Archive

O  r  i  g  i  n a l  s     P   r  o

  d   u  c   t  s

POETRY Suivi

DGTVista

Translator’s Desktop

The workflow

TRèFLe

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DGT - Computer systems

§ Administrative

• Poetry, Suivi: transmission & follow-up

§ Document management

• Translator’s Desktop• Document server: DGT-Vista

• Electronic documentation:− (Celex) Eur-Lex , Multidoc 

− Other EU institutions− Other International institutions

§ Linguistic

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EUR-Lex

§

Repository of the EU law§ Multilingual search

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The Linguistic Systems

§Terminology• IATE

§ Metasearch

• Web Extractor 

• Quest§ Machine Translation

• MT@EC (Project)

§ Translation Memories

• Euramis

• Translator’s Workbench (SDL Trados)

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IATE(Interactive Terminology for Europe)

§ Terminology database of all the EU institutions

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Quest

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MT@EC Project

§ Open Source : MOZES

§ Re-use TM content

§

Showcase for EN -> 10 languagesalmost ready

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§ EURopean Advanced MultilingualInformation System

• Linguistic Resources Database

• Interface to other tools• In-house development

• Interinstitutional

Euramis

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§Central translation memory

§ Central alignment

§ Interface with

• CELEX/EUR-Lex (titles and full text)• SG-Vista

Euramis

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Source Target

Attributes

Translation memory

TU(Translation Unit )

Translation memory

Translation Unit

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Retrieval Save toCentralmemory

 Alignment

PC

Workflow

Doc server 

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Workflow automation (1)

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Translator’s Workbench

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Workflow automation (2)

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Select files...

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Create TM and import files

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On-line Concordance

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Alignment

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Standard workflow

Pre-processing

Ÿ  Automatic:Euramis Retrieval + Celex

Ÿ Interactive:

Search in DGT Vista,

Euramis Alignment, ...

Preprocessing

Server 

New document

Interactive workwith TWB or Word

Cleanup

+ Export

 Automatic

Euramis

SaveResult

Server TWB

Post-Alignment

+ Correction

Manual

Euramis

Save

Word

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Manual pre-processing

§ Screen list of incoming documents

§ Retrieval and analyse

• Available data = sufficient?§ Request raw alignments and

inform users

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Organisational aspects

§ Important changes in workflow

organisation

• Growing use

• Feeding central memory

• Sharing of resources

• Secretaries’ job evolves to

“Translation Assistants”

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TM on line

§ http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html

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Thank you!