The Integration of Moses into Localization Industry
Tomáš Hudík, Achim Ruopp · 2011
A majority of the localization industry is still unable to benefit from SMT, since it does not know how to integrate SMT system into its production workflow. This paper describes a workflow on how to integrate the open source SMT system Moses into computer-aided translation (CAT) tools. It introduces a software package which is able to export XLIFF data into a special InlineText format that is further processed and is sent as plain text to Moses as input. Then, the translated text is inserted back to the original file. This transformation is needed, otherwise the use of MT in the localization industry would hardly be advantageous, since formatting information would have to be manually added by localization professionals. A few attempts to bridge the localization industry and Moses were already done in the past, however, the method described here represents a new approach. 1 Credits This work was done with the support of Moravia Worldwide and in cooperation with Digital Silk Road and the Let’sMT! consortium.