Company Overview SYSTRAN Applications Customization for Quality Translations

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1 Company Overview SYSTRAN Applications Customization for Quality Translations Prepared for Lirics Industrial Advisory Group June 20 & 21, 2005, Barcelona

2 Agenda Company Overview SYSTRAN WebServer SYSTRAN Linguistics Platform Customization for Quality Translations Q&A 2

3 Fast Facts Founded in 1968 in La Jolla, CA Two operating companies: SYSTRAN SA, Paris France (parent company) SYSTRAN Software, Inc. (original company) ran:fp on Parent company is publicly traded on EURONEX (ran:fp( bloomberg.com) Approximately 60 employees worldwide 25M pages translated daily (systransoft.com, Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Altavista Babelfish,Worldlingo etc.) +40 language combinations 3

4 Market Segments Area of focus: Language Translation Technologies Real-world applications Content Management On-demand Website Localization, Multilingual Customer Support, Search Intra-Company Communications Corporate Intranets, , Chat Integration in Workflow Environment 4

5 Activities Software Publishing Home & Small Businesses Corporations (F500), Portals Public Administrations Professional Services Machine Translation Systems Development and Customization Corporations Public Administrations (US Government Agencies, European Commission) Co-funded Projects (French Government) 5

6 Why Use Machine Translation? Gisting Quick understanding of foreign content Web content Documents Publishing Documents require high-quality translation Technical support documents elearning 6

7 v5 Desktop Products SYSTRAN Professional Premium SYSTRAN Professional Standard SYSTRAN Personal SYSTRAN Office Translator SYSTRAN WebTranslator Used by businesses to individual consumers Available by download or packaged CD-ROM 7

8 Online Services Hosted on SYSTRAN Servers SYSTRANLinks On-demand translation of websites SYSTRANBox Translation interface for content provider for URLs and text SYSTRANet Interface for customizable translation for URLs, text and uploaded files 8

9 SYSTRANLinks 9

10 SYSTRANBox 10

11 SYSTRANet 11

12 Client-Server Applications Local Hosting SYSTRAN Enterprise (intranet environment) Web-based based interface Application Packs MS Office plugins + linguistic tools SYSTRAN WebServer Enterprise features + Scalable, open and robust Multiple OS (Windows, Solaris, Linux) Open API for integration SYSTRAN Linguistics Platform Enterprise solution for managing localization projects 12

13 SYSTRAN WebServer Architecture Integration Open Scalable Platforms Linux Solaris Windows Other 13

14 SYSTRAN WebServer Application Packs User Tools One-stop access to translation Seamless translations with plugins for Microsoft Office Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Internet Explorer Expert Tools Translation Project Manager Dictionary Manager 14

15 SYSTRAN Linguistics Platform Enterprise solution for managing localization projects Centralized architecture for multiple users Manage linguistic resources Version control QA Comprised of two components SYSTRAN Review Manager (SRM) SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM) 15

16 SLP - SYSTRAN Review Manager Productivity tool used to review, assess and maintain linguistic resources in combination with SYSTRAN WebServer Allows users to segment a corpus and fluidly evaluate translations, and identify the typology of errors All maintenance tasks leverage examples from the review corpus Process for reliable and efficient QA 16

17 SYSTRAN Review Manager Interface 17

18 SYSTRAN Review Manager Architecture 1. Administration Web 2. Review browser Context Improvements Dictionary Manager Raw corpus (HTML & TXT files) Review Manager Web-based interface User Dictionaries Database Translation SYSTRAN Web Server 1. Segmented corpus a. Unique sentences (TUs) b. Metrics 2. Translated corpus a. Extracted terminology b. Metrics 3. User reviews a. Quality ratings b. Reports 18

19 SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager Interface - Server 19

20 SLP - SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager Industrial-strength strength tool that enables users to build and manage multilingual User Dictionaries, consists of: Client Windows-based interface IntuitiveCoding technology Designed for use on dictionary subsets Server Manages the complete dictionary: lookup, subset extraction Multi-user user application Maintains dictionary history and versioning 20

21 SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager Interface - Client 21

22 SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager Architecture Web browser 1. Compilation 2. Translation SYSTRAN Web Server Dictionary Manager Server component XML repository Windows client 3. Context 4. Improvements Review Manager 22

23 40 Language Pairs English Simplified Chinese English Traditional Chinese English Dutch English French English German English Greek English Italian English Japanese English Korean English Portuguese English Russian English Spanish French Dutch French German French Greek French Italian French Portuguese French Spanish 23

24 SYSTRAN v5 v5 translation engine powered by XML Interoperability all SYSTRAN dictionaries are in XML native format Extensibility ability to add linguistic markup in the content New filtering DOC translation PDF translation Integrated Translation Memory Import and export of TMX files Integrated Spell-Checking Translate texts with common spelling errors Improved customization capabilities Expert coding rules Normalization dictionaries Terminology extraction Translation review tool for post-translation translation analysis and integration with SYSTRAN Translation Memory 24

25 Professional Services Machine Translation Systems Development - new language pairs or enhancements to existing languages Customers Consulting Linguistic Customization Systems Integration Maintenance Cisco Systems Sun Microsystems Chemical Abstracts Ford Motor Company Saint-Gobain European Commission US Government Training 25

26 Customers Corporations Wal-Mart, DaimlerChrysler, PricewaterhouseCoopers Customization Cisco Systems, Ford Motor Company Technology Licensing to Portals AltaVista, Yahoo!, Google, AOL, Lycos, Apple Development US Intelligence Community, European Commission OEM Integration SEIKO, Electronic Arts 26