Stronger Together: Sharing translation resources in Wales

Workshop “Stronger Together: Sharing translation resources in Wales”

When: 16 July 2021 9am – 12pm

Where: The workshop will be hosted on Teams

In its strategy for the Welsh language, Welsh 2050: A Million Welsh Speakers, the Welsh Government describes the need for a “modern translation profession that maximizes the use of technology and linguistic resources”. This technology consists primarily of translation memory and machine translation, which has the potential to save money and significantly raise the productivity of human translators.

There has already been some discussion and experimentation to share translation resources in order to promote translation technology in Wales, and this year a project at Bangor University goes a step further. With Welsh Government funding, the intention is to establish a long-term system for collecting data from public agencies in Wales, in the form of parallel translation memories and other relevant texts, for redistribution and sharing with other translators and relevant agencies.

The data collected will also be used to create pure machine translation systems, and language models for developing other technologies such as speech to text transcription. By March 2022 we hope to publish the first machine translation system specifically for the health domain health in Wales.

The aim of the first workshop is to share information on the project, and invite public bodies and agencies to collaborate with us by sharing their translation memories and other relevant data, receiving the memories of other organizations in return, and contributing to the development of domain-specific machine translation. There will be an opportunity during the workshop to discuss matters such as data confidentiality, copyright and licensing issues, and learn more about the technology. There will also be an opportunity to discuss ideas and ask questions on the technology and the project.

The workshop will be delivered through the Welsh medium

To view the workshop agenda click here and to register online click here.

To view the presentations or recordings click here