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Technical component

Machine Translation System

Domain-specific Machine Translation

The Machine Translation system ensures accurate and contextually appropriate translations by fine-tuning general-purpose machine translation models with domain-specific scientific data.

There are currently 3 translation models supporting the following language pairs: French to English, Spanish to English, Portuguese to English.

Functionalities

FR-EN CTranslate2 model

French to English Translation model fine-tuned on scientific parallel data from all four pilots.

ES-EN CTranslate2 model

Spanish to English Translation model fine-tuned on scientific parallel data from all four pilots.

PT-EN CTranslate2 model

Portuguese to English Translation model fine-tuned on scientific parallel data from all four pilots.

Roadmap

Jan 2023: TRL 6 - Model demonstration in a relevant environment
Jun 2024: TRL 7 - Service prototype demonstration in a space environment
Dec 2025: TRL 9 - Actual system "flight proven" through successful mission operations

For

Research Communities

Provided by

Contacts

Sokratis Sofianopoulos

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Domain-Specific Machine Translation for SciLake

10 January 2024
Sokratis Sofianopoulos and Dimitris Roussis from Athena RC present their cutting-edge Machine Translation system, which will be integrated into the Scientific Lake Service.