ASLIB London: Technology Insertion Model at NVTC
The Association for Information Management: Translating and the Computer Conference – 17 & 18 November 2011
ASLIB London: Technology Insertion Model at NVTC
An Effective Model for Insertion of Translation Technologies into US Government Translation Environments
Carol Van Ess-Dykema, U.S. Department of Defense
National Virtual Translation Center Charter (NVTC)
- Established by US Congress in response to 9-11-2001
- Provides expert, high quality translation for US intelligence, defense, federal initiatives
- Over 100 languages
- Using Technology Insertion Model:
- Design and adhere to an advanced translation architecture (NVTC’s E-Workflow Translation Technology Online Network – NEWTTON – system)
- Introduce Technology Components with Largest Impact (only most mature technologies, only few at a time)
- Prototype Language Capability End-to-End (integration of sequential processes)
- Establish Research Partnership (SDL Language Weaver, IBM Research, Army Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, National Research Council in Canada)
- Engage the Customer from the Beginning
Summary:
- Adopted NEWTTON architecture; implemented features associated with new human work roles and feedback mechanism
- Identified best suite of OCR systems for language needs
- Developed metric for TM technology assessment (plan to select one or more MT systems)
- Process in place for aligning parallel corpora and for MT as an adjunct to OCR
- Selected Arabic, Chinese, Spanish for first end-to-end system implementation
