TAUS Machine Translation Showcase, MateCat, Translated, 2014
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- 1. TAUSMACHINETRANSLATIONSHOWCASE Vancouver,Canada MateCat: More Matches than Any Other CAT Tool. Wednesday, 29 October 2014 Marco Trombetti & Alessandro Cattelan, Translated, Ltd. TheresearchwithintheprojectMosesCoreleadingtotheseresultshasreceivedfundingfromtheEuropeanUnion7thFrameworkProgramme,grantagreementno288487
2. MorematchesthananyotherCATTool. Localiza(onWorldVancouverOct2014 [email protected] [email protected] 3. TheTeam 4. Howworks 5. T-Rank,zeroadmin. Toassignworktotranslatorswehavecreatedarankingtechnologythattellsus,foranygivendocument,who thebesttranslatoris.State-of-the-artAItechnologythatusestheresultsof300,000translaEonswedelivered sofartomatchagainstourdatabaseofover100,000translators(1/3ofalltranslatorsonEarth). 6. MyMemory,extracEngtranslaEonsfromtheweb. WehavecreatedtheworldslargesttranslaEonmemory*.Manybillionsofwordsextractedfromtheweb,UN andEuropeanCommission.6Muniquevisitorspermonthandthousandsoftranslatorsusingit.Themost usedresourcebythepros. *AtranslaEonmemoryisadatabaseofprofessionallytranslatedsentences. 7. Companyoverview Revenueexceeding$10Million [rvnju:]income,especiallywhenofanorganizaEonandofasubstanEalnature. Y2YGrowthrate:30%[grret]Theamountofincreasethataspecicvariablehasgainedwithinaspecicperiod. NoVCs,NoDebt [indipendentJ]Ourvaluesareagilityandfrugality. 100,000+naSvelanguagetranslators ['neiEvlri.gwid3]thelanguagethatapersonhasspokenfromearliestchildhood 40,000+saSsedcustomers [stsfad]happybecausesomethinghappenedinthewaytheyexpected 8. 40,000+saEsedclients TRANSLATEDiscurrentlytheonlyvendorforAdWords translaEonandoneofthefewpartnersforYouTubepaid capEonstranslaEons,AndroidappsonGooglePlayStoreand GoogleTranslate. 9. Wearehappywithourresults, but wewanttothinkaliXlebigger. 10. TranslaEonMarket $37billioninoutsourcedtranslaEon Largeindustryandgrowing(6,2%CAGR14).98.7%ofprofessional servicesand1.3%oftranslaEonsooware. 30,000translaEoncompanies(LSPs) Fragmented:only100companiesabove$10M. MedianLSP$500K/y 3-5employees,20freelancersforonlyfewlanguages. LSP=LanguageServiceProvider|DataSource:CommonSenseAdvisory&TAUS 11. Market-LSPsTypes* UsingIn-HouseTranslators Theoldestand/orindustryspecializedonesthatmostlyusein-housetranslators.They outsourcepeaksandnon-supportedlanguagestootherLSPs(10%)andFreelancers (10%). UsingFreelanceTranslators ThelargemajorityofLSPtoday.Theyoutsourceabigchunkoftheirbusinesstofreelancers (80%)andasmalleramount(20%)tootherLSPs. OutsourcingtootherLSPs MostofthelargeLSP,historicallycalledMLV,arepuresales-drivencompanies.Theyare ooentheresultofmergingmanyLSPsunderonebrand.Theyprimarilyoutsourcetoother LSPs. *All%inthisslideareesSmatedwhilewaiSngfornewCSAStudyRelease 12. LSP-LSPOutsourcing >$5BTAM 13. TheLSPPains Cantaordtosaynotoacustomer ThecompeEEonisbig,yousaynoonce,youriskyourcustomer.TodaywhenanLSPhasa requestthatshecannotmanage,shepicksthephoneandcallsotherLSPsunEloneis available. Outsourcing=NoMargin Requestscomefastanddeliverytermsareooenlessthan48hours.Wheninrush,LSPsare willingtoremovetheirmarginstondanoutsourcerquickly. PeaksvsQuality MedianLSPshavefewtranslatorsperlang.AsmallincreaseindemandmaketheLSPKO. Findinganoutsourcerthathasexperienceintheeldand/orwiththatspeciccustomeris dicult.ForeveryjoboutsourcedthereisanLSPprayinginachurchforquality. 14. Ourplan? 15. WelcometoMatecat! AFreeTranslaEonToolforLSPs Acompletelyfreeandweb-basedtranslaEonsooware(CATtool)thathandles100 languagesandallthe55leformatsusedintheindustry.DisrupEngthecurrentstatus quo:Oeringforfreewhatbeforewaschargedthousandofdollars. Outsourcingmadeeasy 1-Clickoutsourcetothebesttranslatorwithinthetool.WeleverageTranslatedsT-Rank and100,000translatorsrecruitedsofartoshort-cuttheindustry,makingadirectlink betweentheLSPneedandthetranslatorskills. Reusemadeeasy Makingstate-of-the-artwebcrawlingandstaEsEcalmachinetranslaEonavailabletoevery translator.Nooneintheworldshouldtranslatesomethingthathasalreadybeen translatedbysomeoneelse.Fasterturnaroundsandmoremarginsforall.