Empowering Translators with MTradumàtica: A Do-It-Yourself statistical machine translation platform

Empowering Translators with MTradumàtica: A Do-It-Yourself statistical machine translation platform Adrià Martín-Mor Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona K-1020 Campus UAB 08193 Barcelona (Catalan Republic*) adria.martin@uab.cat Pilar Sánchez-Gijón Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona K-2002 Campus UAB 08193 Barcelona (Catalan Republic*) pilar.sanchez.gijon@uab.cat Abstract1 According to Torres Hostench et al. (2016), the use of machine translation (MT) in Catalan and Spanish translation companies is low. Based on these results, the Tradumàtica research group,2 through the ProjecTA and ProjecTA-U projects,3 set to bring MT and translators closer with a two-fold strategy. On the one hand, by developing MTradumàtica, a free Moses-based web platform with graphical user interface (GUI) for statisti- cal machine translation (SMT) trainers. On the other hand, by including MT-re- lated contents in translators’ training. This paper will describe the latest devel- opments in MTradumàtica. 1 Introduction Currently, the development of MTradumàtica — developed as an experimental platform for SMT trainers (Martín-Mor, 2017)—, focuses on func- tionalities that might be needed by translators and translation companies: TMX processing, user management and integration with CAT tools. 1.1 TMX processing TMX is a well-known bilingual format among translators, who store their translations in transla- tion memories (TM). By allowing the processing of TMX files, users will be able to upload their own TMs to MTradumàtica in order to train SMT systems. 1 © 2018 The authors. This article is licensed under a Cre- ative Commons 3.0 licence, no derivative works, attribution, CC-BY-ND. 2 www.tradumatica.net. 3 Funded by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of the Spanish government (Ref: FFI2013-46041-R and FFI2016-78612-R). www.projecta.tradumatica.net. 1.2 User management In a near future, an authentication protocol will be implemented. This means that users will log in to MTradumàtica and will have exclusive ac- cess to their texts and engines. A permissions’ system will also be implemented in order to grant or protect access to specific features. 1.3 Integration with CAT tools CAT tools typically allow the integration with MT systems. OmegaT, since version 4.1.3u2, al- lows users to connect with a customised Moses engine.4 In order to simplify the process of inte- grating MTradumàtica into CAT tools, a new fea- ture protected with password will allow users to generate URLs for the desired engines. The users will only need to paste these URLs in order to get MT matches from the CAT tool. 2 Concluding remarks This paper presented the latest developments in Mtradumàtica,5 conceived primarily as an experi- mental Do-It-Yourself SMT platform for transla- tion trainers, from which also professional trans- lator might benefit. References Martín-Mor, Adrià (2017). MTradumàtica: Statistical machine translation customisation for translators. Skase, 11(1), 25–40. Torres Hostench, Olga et al. (2016). L’ús de traducció automàtica i postedició a les empreses de serveis lingüístics de l’Estat espanyol. Retrieved from https://ddd.uab.cat/record/166753. 4 http://blogs.uab.cat/tradumatica/2018/01/. 5 Source code at www.github.com/tradumatica; demo ver- sion at www.m.tradumatica.net. * This article is signed, as citizens of the Catalan Republic proclaimed by the Parliament of Catalonia, in protest against the imprisonment of political activists and members of the Catalan government and in solidarity with …

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