Multilingual Value Chain Solution for the Digital Single Market

Federated Active Linguistic data CuratiON

EU FP7 Project

The FALCON project combines the power of open data on the web with data-driven language technologies to construct the Localization Web.

Partners:

Wholesalers

Digital Single Market

Decoupage.ie

Wholesalers

ecommerce SaaS

ePayment Service

Customer

• Digital Single Market works well downstream– English as lingua franca– Export-focused Medium-SME wholesalers and service providers– MNCs with establish multilingual offering

• Language Barrier firmly in place upstream• Challenge to Customer Engagement Ecosystem

– Must become systematically multilingual– Must serve micro-domains that allow SMEs to add value

WholesalersWholesalers

Customer Engagement Ecosystem

Niche Value Add

Social Media

Online Communities

Search & SEO

Content Analytics

Trade Guilds/Associations

Events Knowledge &training resources

Translation

Translation workflowThe company has also reduced its production capacity by ceasing manufacture of chest freezers and freestanding microwave ovens

Extraction & Segmentation

production capacity

capacité de production

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✔ Annotation with Existing Terms

chest freezer

microwave oven

réfrigérateur

four à micro-onde

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D'autre part, la société a réduit sa capacité de production en arrêtant la production de réfrigérateur et de fours micro-onde pose-libre

Machine Translate with Term Translations

MT Vendor?

D'autre part, la société a réduit sa capacité de production en arrêtant la production de congélateurs coffres et de fours micro-ondes pose-libre

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congélateurs coffres

fours micro-ondes

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Postedit and capture terms in context

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• Protect & pool niche knowledge

• Interlink corpora and lexical-conceptual resources

• Measuring ROI at each point in value chain

• Manage ownership, rights and rewards

• Privacy by Design for Social Media data resources

• Open data for NLP shared task

Integrated Content/Data Value Chain

Public Data

Content publisher

Support Service Provider

LanguageTechnology Provider

• Better in-context postediting:

– XTM-Easyling

• Feeding term suggestions from posteditor to Terminology Management

– XTM-Interverbum

• Dynamic Retraining

– XTM-DCU

• Bilingual Dictionary SMT improvements

– XTM-DCU

• NER, terminology enforcements, forced decoding

– XTM-Interverbum-DCU

• Postediting prioritisation and term flagging

– TCD-DCU-XTM

• Publishing interlinks of parallel text, lexically rich term bases

– TCD: DG-T TM, EurVoc, Snomed-CT, LEMON, BabelNet

FALCON Innovation

Terminology Management

Website in context translation

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