CEF AT and its Role for the Multilingual

CEF. AT and its Role for the Multilingual Digital Single Market Spyridon Pilos Head of Language applications sector Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) Metaforum Lisbon 5. 7. 2016

Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) • Common financing instrument of trans-European networks for 2014 -2020 • Projects of common interest in transport, telecommunications and energy • CEF Telecom: competitiveness + interconnection and interoperability of networks + promote access to such networks => support Digital Single Market • CEF Telecom = CEF Digital + Broadband • CEF Digital = Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI), i. e. trans-European digital services based upon mature technical and organisational solutions • DSIs = sector specific + core building blocks 2

CEF and… Automated Translation

The vision … Wouldn’t it be great if I could start using a public service in any Member State from any place and obtain the information in my mother tongue? 4

Starting point MT@EC • • A European Commission product • First released : 26 June 2013 • Languages: all directions between 24 EU languages currently 76 direct language pairs • Technology: SMT (Moses) with linguistic interventions • Data: EU translation memories (Euramis) • [end 2015: 950 M segments in 24 languages • growing by 2. 6 M /month] • Used by: - European institutions and bodies • • (Parliament, Council, Commission, ECB, EIB, Court of auditors, Court of Justice etc. ) § - Public administrations in EU countries - Public online services § http: //ec. europa. eu/dgs/translationresources/machine_translation 5

What is CEF. AT? • Builds on existing MT service (MT@EC) but not be limited to it (i. e. more MT technologies) • Emphasis on secure, quality, customisable MT for DSIs but not be limited to them • A multilingualism enabler - not only MT 6

Customisation for online services connecting to the CEF. AT platform (non-exhaustive list) Service Description Europeana The digital European Library, common, multilingual access point to digital resources of European heritage. ODP* The pan-European Open Data Portal for accessing open data infrastructures distributed over a EU and MS data repositories. EESSI The Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information, a platform between 32 countries (EU+EFTA). ODR* The Online Dispute Resolution platform for resolution of online contractual disputes between consumers and traders, linking all national Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) entities. A portal which is a single point of access to law, enabling EU judicial cooperation. e-justice* Safer. Internet Services to make Internet a trusted environment for children. * already connected to MT@EC 7

CEF. AT platform Inhouse DGT/EC e. Translation Stakeholder t managemen 8

CEF funding CEF AT in 2014 WP (4 MEUR) a) In-house development & deployment of the core MT platform (from MT@EC) • • domain adaptation pilots for "priority" CEF DSIs preparing the "MT engines factory" b) Requirements study: what are the linguistic needs of CEF DSIs? c) European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC): setting up LR networking between 30 Member States of CEF, country workshops, raising awareness, promoting best practices

CEF. AT platform 2014 funding ELRC User ts requiremen 10

CEF funding CEF AT in 2015 WP (8 MEUR) a) Call for tender SMART 2015/1091 closed on 23/5/2016 – contracts to be signed by end 2016 • LOT 1: Language Technologies evaluation for CEF DSI use cases • LOT 2: Language resources coordination, repository, deepening collaboration with MS's • LOT 3: purchasing "deficient" Language resources b) Cloud infrastructure: using EU framework contract c) In-house development: continue

2015 funding CEF. AT platform Lots 2, 3 Lot 1 tion c e p s o r Market p s Workshop Trials 12

CEF funding CEF AT in 2016 WP (9. 5 MEUR) a) Core platform – deployment (procurement, 3 M) • engines factory, up-scaling, operations, etc. b) Generic services (grants, 6. 5 M) Call for proposals CEF-TC-2016 -3 for collaborative projects with two action lines: 1. LR collection with/by/in Member States 2. Integration of CEF. AT into (multilingual, cross-border) digital services opens 13/9/2016 - closes 15 December 2016 Check out: Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) web site

CEF. AT platform 2016 funding 14

CEF Digital single web portal nt i o y p on r t n n o e i t ks e l a c g o sin inform ng bl i for build CEF http: //ec. europa. eu/cefdigital

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