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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Readers on this list may be interested to hear that the 2014 release of the DGT-Translation Memory is now available for download.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>DGT-TM is an extraction of the translation memory of the European Institutions for all official EU languages, produced by the European Commission’s <i>Directorate General for Translation</i> (DGT) and distributed by the <i>Joint Research Centre</i> (JRC). Translation memories are sentences and their manually produced translations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>The new release is called <b>DGT-TM-2014</b>. It follows the previous releases, DGT-TM (2007), DGT-TM-2011, DGT-TM-2012 and DGT-TM-2013. DGT-TM-2014 adds over eleven million translation units to the previous 73 million translation units, resulting in almost <b>85 million translation units in total</b> (almost <b>1.4 billion words</b>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>New features of DGT-TM-2014 are:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='color:#002060'>Croatian</span></b><span style='color:#002060'> (HR) data is made available for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>Significantly more data for languages with previously less coverage (e.g. <b>Bulgarian, Irish, Maltese, Romanian</b>);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>Mostly about 500K new translation units per language.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>Most documents of this release were translated in 2013, but it also contains previously unpublished documents from older years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>More data for language pairs involving <b>Maltese</b> are available on request.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Languages:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>  All <b>276 language pairs</b> involving the following 24 languages: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>                 Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>                 German, Greek, Finnish, French, Irish, Hungarian, Italian, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>                 Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>                 Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#632523'>            <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>URL:          </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-technologies/dgt-translation-memory">https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-technologies/dgt-translation-memory</a>  </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#632523'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Creator:   </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>European Commission - Directorate General for Translation (</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#632523'><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/index_en.htm"><span style='color:#00007F'>DGT</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#632523'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>WHAT IS DGT-TM<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>The ‘<a href="http://europa.eu/abc/eurojargon/index_en.htm" target="_new"><span style='color:#002060;text-decoration:none'>Acquis Communautaire</span></a>’ is the entire body of European legislation, comprising all the treaties, regulations and directives adopted by the European Union (EU). Since each new country joining the EU is required to accept the whole Acquis Communautaire, this body of legislation has been translated into 23 official languages. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'>For the 24<sup>th</sup> official EU language, <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>Irish</span></strong>, the Acquis has not been translated on a regular basis; which is why DGT-TM includes less data in Irish. The Acquis Communautaire was split into sentences and aligned automatically at sentence level, resulting in the DGT translation memory, DGT-TM. The text data is accompanied by software that allows to extract all sentences and their translations for any of the 276 possible language pair combinations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>MOTIVATION FOR THIS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>The public data release is in line with the general effort of the European Commission to support multilingualism, language diversity and the re-use of Commission information. It follows the release of a number of further multilingual data sets:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>the <b>JRC-Acquis</b> parallel corpus in 2006 (over 1 billion words in 22 languages), <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>the <b>DGT-TM</b> Translation Memory in 2007, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>the multilingual named entity resource <b>JRC-Names</b> in 2011, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>the multilingual multi-label classification tool (and accompanying text data) <b>JRC EuroVoc Indexer (JEX)</b> (22 languages) in 2012, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>the ECDC-TM Translation Memory in 2012 (domain: Public Health)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>the <b>DGT-Acquis</b> parallel corpus in 2012,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>the EAC-TM Translation Memory in 2013 (domain: Education and Culture),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>and further smaller multilingual resources. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>See <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-technologies">https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-technologies</a> for more information on these resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>WHAT DGT-TM CAN BE USED FOR<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>                <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>DGT-TM can be fed into translation memory software to support human translators in their work. As it is a large parallel corpus in electronic form, it can furthermore be used by specialists in computational linguistics to train statistical machine translation software, to generate multilingual dictionaries, to train and test multilingual information extraction software, and more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>MORE INFORMATION ON DGT-TM <o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>At <a href="http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html">http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html</a> , you find detailed <a href="http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html" target="_blank">publications on the JRC’s multilingual language technology activity</a>. For details specifically on DGT-TM, you can read:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'>      Steinberger Ralf, Andreas Eisele, Szymon Klocek, Spyridon Pilos <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'>      & Patrick Schlüter (2012). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'>      <a href="http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Documents/2012_LREC_DGT-TM_Final.pdf" target="_blank" title="Reference publication for the DGT-Translation Memory DGT-TM"><b><span style='color:#3399CC;text-decoration:none'>DGT-TM: A freely Available Translation Memory in 22 Languages</span></b></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'>      Proceedings of the 8<sup>th</sup> international conference on Language <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'>      Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2012), Istanbul, 21-27 May 2012. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>      </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#632523'><a href="http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Documents/2012_LREC_DGT-TM_Final.pdf"><span style='color:#00007F'>http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Documents/2012_LREC_DGT-TM_Final.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>The following recent article compares all freely available Language Technology resources distributed by the JRC and provides comparative background information:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'>     Steinberger Ralf, Mohamed Ebrahim, Alexandros Poulis, Manuel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'>     Carrasco-Benitez, Patrick Schlüter, Marek Przybyszewski & Signe Gilbro (2014). <br>     </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#3399CC;text-decoration:none'><a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-014-9277-0" target="_blank" title="LRE Journal article: An overview of the European Union's highly multilingual parallel corpora"><span style='color:#3399CC;text-decoration:none'>An overview of the European Union's highly multilingual parallel corpora</span></a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'>. <br>     Language Resources and Evaluation Journal (LRE). <br>     DOI: 10.1007/s10579-014-9277-0. <br>     (</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><span style='color:#3399CC;text-decoration:none'><a href="http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Documents/2014_08_LRE-Journal_JRC-Linguistic-Resources_Manuscript.pdf"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#3399CC;text-decoration:none'>Read manuscript</span></a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000066'>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>WHAT NEXT?<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>The release of the very large new parallel corpus DCEP (</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#3399CC;text-decoration:none'><a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/943_Paper.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#3399CC;text-decoration:none'>Digital Corpus of the European Parliament</span></b></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>) is pending.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'><a href="http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/RS.html">Ralf Steinberger </a> <br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)<br>21027 Ispra (VA), Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>URL – Applications: <a href="http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html"><span style='color:gray'>http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>URL – Resources: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:gray'><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-technologies"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-technologies</span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>URL – Publications: <span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:gray'><a href="http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html"><span style='color:gray'>http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html</span></a> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>