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
Related Articles
Machine Translation for the Scientific Domain
SciLake's partners from Athena RC present advancements in Machine Translation at the 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation.
Domain-Specific Machine Translation for SciLake
Sokratis Sofianopoulos and Dimitris Roussis from Athena RC present their cutting-edge Machine Translation system, which will be integrated into the Scientific Lake Service.