mknals programming (under construction)

01 Introduction

In this site you will find several tools/info/programs mainly related to the translation world.

02 OpenTM2

2022 -> IMPORTANT NOTE: IBM has decided to discontinue OpenTM

Some tools are related to IBM's OpenTM2. OpenTM2, so, it has to be installed in the same machine. These tools have been tested in the OpenTM2 version used by IBM's vendors.

• FXPMerger. Previously known as WIFusiona. Allows to merge two OpenTM2 consecutive shipments with just one click, creating all the counting reports and other needed admin stuff.

• ZZ-PaT. ZZ-Pat is client-server system order to:

  • Create a translation package (a zip file) with the translation folders AND all the other files/information needed in the translator process, i.e. (Reference material, tracking information or word counting reports).
  • Provide an OpenTM2 to OpenTM2 folder transport mechanism. This allows to copy an OpenTM2 folder in the Project Manager OpenTM2 workbench into the Translator OpenTM2 workbench. Once the translator ends his/her work, ZZ-Pat will also provide the mechanism to return the fully translated folder into the Project Manager OpenTM2.
  • The system also allows to handle the calculating information and purchase order generation.

• EXP2Bitext. From EXP OpenTM2 memory to Bitext files. Small utility that extracts source and target info from a EXP OpenTM2 memory.

Some of these programs call OpenTM2 documented interfaces. Is not the intend of any of these tools to breach any legal rule related to OpenTM2.

03 Text & Bytes pages

Some pages again mainly related with information related to the translation world:

• MTEVal (Machine Translation Evaluation) in OpenTM2 - This post is an attempt to provide and score (BLEU) a MT (machine translation) used in a OpenTM2 folder.

• Diving into OpenNMT - Is OpenNMT much better than Moses? - This post is an attempt to compare a Statistical Machine Transation (SMT)/Moses against a Neuronal Machine Translation (NMT)/OpenNMT using the multi-BLEU score.

• Two OpenNMT C# REST API Clients - In this post you can find my approach for query a OpenNMT API Rest server using an C# aspx web client page (OpenNMTWebClient) and a C# console client program (OpenNMTConsoleClient).

• CSharpWebClient for Straker APIs Demo - In this post you can review an ASP.NET C# VS2017 Community Edition site in order to test de Straker Translations API to call them for actual translation and translation automatization.

• Create a very secure ftp server (vsftp) on an IBM Cloud virtual server - In this post we will create an ubuntu virtual server in IBM Cloud, add an ftp server (vsftp) and a firewall for a 30 eur/month.

• T4T Solution: WMT21 Similar Language Task for the Spanish-Catalan and Spanish-Portuguese Language Pair - I will explain the tech paper we presented the T4T for the Shared Task: Similar Language Translation for the WMT21 (EMNLP 2021 6th Conference on MT that was hold Nov 2021). This task is related to the translation between similar language pairs.

• NEW ->Language detection in an XLIFF using a SAX parser and IBM Watson Translator - The purpose of this application is to identify the most probable language of a target sentence in an xliff, and then create an excel output file with the confidence of each sentence. The confidence value is issued by the IBM Watson Translator offered on IBM Cloud.

04 Other links

• OpenTM2 home page
• OpenNMT home page
• IBM Cloud home page