Workshop on Multilingual Data Value Chains in the Digital Single Market, 16 January 2015
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The document discusses the adoption of the Moses MT toolkit in the translation industry, emphasizing the significance of multilinguality and machine translation as essential tools for growth. It highlights a rapid transformation in the industry, transitioning from a luxury-oriented service to a more tech-driven and accessible model catering to billions of users. The text outlines various adoption models and the impact of Moses-based solutions on market dynamics, including a notable price influence and expanded offerings for low-resource languages.
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Workshop on Multilingual Data Value Chains in the Digital Single Market, 16 January 2015
- 1. Industrial adoption of the Moses MT toolkit Workshop on multilingual data value chains in the Digital Single Market January 16, Brussels
- 2. TAUS is a Think Tank for the Translation Industry So what do we think? Ø We need to celebrate multilinguality Ø Machine translation is a force multiplier Ø Translation industry has been very slow in adopting technology, but … Ø … is now rapidly becoming a high-tech industry
- 3. MT is the New Lingua Franca Linguis3c diversity is the new reality Nicholas Ostler Lane Greene
- 4. Crossing the Chasm From Wild West stories and anecdotes to common sense and real benefits!
- 5. 21st Century Convergence Luxury Publisher-‐driven transla3on industry From 10,000 customers who buy transla3on as a ‘luxury’ product to 6 billion users who consider transla3on ‘free’. Mobile Real-‐8me Personalized Datafied Embedded New payment models Good enough Con8nuous + 1,000 languages Transla3on ShiMs Gears Innova3on Invaders
- 6. ü Market size: $250 Million, growing 16.9% per year ü Reconvergence of TM & MT ü Post-‐edi8ng takes over as the primary transla8on produc8on process ü Technology becomes a commodity ü Holy grail shiVs to Data ü MT is a ‘force mul8plier’ bringing huge opportuni8es to both enterprises and language service providers. “Perfect Storm Conditions for MT”
- 7. This slide may not be used or copied without permission from TAUS Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Moses out-of- the-box Moses with open source/free add-ons Commercialized Moses Hybrid MT Download and build Moses yourself Pre-built installation to make getting started easier Web-hosted or self-hosted with UI Moses combined with other MT technologies Moses Business Adoption Models +M4Loc
- 8. This slide may not be used or copied without permission from TAUS Moses MT Market Report Impact much larger than size Ø Moses-based solutions: $60 Million or ≈ 25% Ø Moses contributed to downward pressure on prices in the MT market Ø Moses allowed for a wide range of MT solutions to become available in the market § With different features § With different pricing models § For low resource languages (e.g. Lithuanian – Tilde) Ø Hundreds of ‘anonymous’ users
- 9. This slide may not be used or copied without permission from TAUS