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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>Apologies for cross-postings.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> DGT-TM Translation Memory<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> Freely available<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> 22 languages<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> 231 language pairs<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> Format: TMX version 1<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> <a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html"
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html"><span
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html">http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>The European Commission’s <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Directorate General for Translation</span></i> (DGT) and the <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Joint Research Centre</span></i> (JRC) have made
available a multilingual Translation Memory (sentences and their translations,
in standard TMX format) for the 22 official European Union languages Bulgarian,
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Finnish, French,
Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,
Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>This release follows the public release - in May 2006 - of
the <a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html"
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html"><font color=navy
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html"><span
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html"><span style='color:
navy'>JRC-Acquis</span></span></font></a> multilingual parallel corpus with
sentence alignment for 231 language pairs and a total size of over 1 Billion
words.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>The data releases of DGT and JRC are in line with the
general effort of the European Commission to support multilingualism, language
diversity and the re-use of Commission information. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>The Translation Memory contains most, but not all of the <b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Acquis Communautaire</span></i></b>,
which is the entire body of European legislation, including all the treaties,
regulations and directives adopted by the European Union (EU) and the rulings
of the European Court of Justice. Since each new country joining the EU is required
to accept the whole <em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Acquis
Communautaire</span></font></i></em>, this body of legislation is translated
into 22 official EU languages. For the 23rd official EU language, Irish, the
Acquis is not translated on a regular basis.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>A <em><b><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>translation memory</span></font></i></b></em> is a collection
of small text segments and their translation. These segments can be sentences
or sentence parts. Translation memories are used to support translators by
ensuring that pieces of text that have already been translated do not need to
be translated again. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>Both translation memories and parallel texts are an
important linguistic resource that <strong><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>can be used for a variety of purposes</span></font></b></strong>,
including:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>training automatic systems for Statistical Machine
Translation (SMT); <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>producing monolingual or multilingual lexical and semantic
resources such as dictionaries and ontologies; <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>training and testing multilingual information extraction
software; <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>checking translation consistency automatically; <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>testing and benchmarking alignment software (for sentences,
words, etc.). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>For usage conditions, details regarding the difference
between <a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html"><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>DGT-TM</span></font></a> and the <a
href="http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html"><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>JRC-Acquis</span></font></a>, size information, downloading
instructions, etc. go to <a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html"
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html"><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html</span></font></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color="#666699" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#666699;font-weight:bold'>Achim Blatt<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#666699" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#666699'>Directorate General for Translation (DGT)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#666699" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#666699'>Unit DGT.R.3 Informatics (<a
href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/"
title="blocked::http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/"><font color="#666699"
title="blocked::http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/"><span
title="blocked::http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/"><span style='color:#666699'>http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/</span></span></font></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#666699" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#666699'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><b><font size=1
color="#666699" face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#666699;
font-weight:bold'>Ralf Steinberger</span></font></b><font size=1 color="#666699"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#666699'> <br>
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)<br>
IPSC - SeS - Language Technology (<a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/"
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://www.jrc.it/langtech"><font
color="#666699" title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/"><span
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/"><span
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://www.jrc.it/langtech"><span
style='color:#666699'><span
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://langtech.jrc.it/"><span
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://langtech.jrc.it/"><span
title="blocked::http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://www.jrc.it/langtech">http://langtech.jrc.it</span></span></span></font></span></span></a></span>) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><font size=1 color="#666699"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#666699'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#666699" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#666699'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
8.0pt'>The <b><u><span style='font-weight:bold'>JRC’s Language Technology
group</span></u></b> specialises in the development of highly multilingual text
analysis tools and in cross-lingual applications. Many applications are accessible
online, e.g.:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
8.0pt'>· <a
href="http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/"
title="blocked::http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/
http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/"><font
color=purple title="blocked::http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/"><span
title="blocked::http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/"><span style='color:purple'>NewsExplorer</span></span></font></a>:
multilingual news aggregation and analysis (19 languages); allows to navigate
the news over time and across languages; trend analysis; collects information
about people from the news; social network detection.</span></font><font
size=1 color=black><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
8.0pt'>· <a
href="http://press.jrc.it/"
title="blocked::http://press.jrc.it/
http://press.jrc.it/"><font
color=purple title="blocked::http://press.jrc.it/"><span
title="blocked::http://press.jrc.it/"><span style='color:purple'>NewsBrief</span></span></font></a>:
breaking news detection and display of the very latest thematic news from
around the world; email alerting (22+ languages).</span></font><font size=1
color=navy><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
8.0pt'>· <a
href="http://medusa.jrc.it/"
title="blocked::http://medusa.jrc.it/
http://medusa.jrc.it/"><font
color=purple title="blocked::http://medusa.jrc.it/"><span
title="blocked::http://medusa.jrc.it/"><span style='color:purple'>MedISys</span></span></font></a>
Medical Information System: latest health-related news from around the world
according to themes and diseases (22+ languages).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
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