D7.3.3: User manual (Ver.3)
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1. ETE ANAE EEE 14 FIGURE Tt MODIFYING THE LEXICAL SELECTION Aea EAER 14 FIGURE 122 LISTOF LEXICAL ALTERNATIVES AFTER LEXICAL REPLACEMENT 15 PIGURE 3 2 THE FREEPOSTEDITING PAGE cisscadentcvicensieat aces aena a EEEE EE EEE AA EEEE AEE EEEE NAA AEE EEA A E 15 FIGURE 14 THE FREE POST EDITING TEXT FIELD OE E E ess 16 FIGURE 15 MODIFYING THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION coos tetasdewidunlersuasaacwezasnbeis E Aa EEEE OTEA Vaa ON 16 FIGURE 16 BUTTONS FOR USER ADAPTATION ADMINISTRATION 18 FIGURE 17 WINDOW FOR REVIEWING AND COMMITTING LEXICAL CHANGES ssesesecseseoecsesecscseoecseseoecseoecscseoecscoeoecseoecseseoecseseoseseoeoo 19 FIGURE CONFIRMING USER ADAPTATION DECISION sess iaer RECE E E AE 19 FIGURE 19 WINDOW FOR REVIEWING AND COMMITTING FREE POST EDITING CHANGES eseessssssecsecssoscoecssossossoscssoseossoecesoseoesoseeeessoe 20 FIGURE 20 ALERT WINDOW BEFORE USER ADAPTATION IS RESET eaa a a a e a a E E aaa e 21 FIGURE 21 ALERT WINDOW IF A FILE HAS NOT BEEN SELECTED DURING UPLOAD ssssssecseseoecscsececseoecseseoecseoecscseoecscseosescsecseseoecseeeo 22 Page 3 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 Table 1 List of labels amp buttons Choose language Select2. Adaptation you disable your user adaptation resources for the translation process without deleting them You can re enable the user adaptation resources by pressing the same button which is relabelled to Enable User Adaptation Page 21 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 8 Troubleshooting If you try to perform an unauthorised operation or an unexpected error occurs during the translation process then an alert window pops up informing you about the type of error For instance if you press the Upload file button without having selected a file then the corresponding alert window pops up that informs you of the missing file Figure 21 If the button ok is pressed then the alert window disappears and the system returns to its normal state If the error is fatal then there is always the alternative to restart the system by re entering the PRESEMT website Figure 21 Alert window if a file has not been selected during upload Error No file has been selected 8 1 How to restart the system If you are logged in as a specific user log out and log in again In general it is strongly recommended to log out from the system before leaving the web page If logging out and logging in does not help or if you are not logged in as a specific user re enter the PRESEMT website in your web browser Page 22 of 22
3. Adds committed changes to system snapshot of user adaptation resources Disables user adaptation resources for the translation process without deleting them Re activates user adaptation resources for the translation process Opens two new text fields with source language text and translation for free text editing Login for user specific accounts allows User Adaptation and Upload of text file Logout for user specific accounts Empties text fields allows entering new source language text Deletes all user adaptation decisions and returns to original translation system Changes made the post editing mode are listed and can be selected for feed ing them into user adaptation resources Deletes all committed changes that are not saved in the snapshot Invokes the translation process Enters the contents of the selected file into the source language text field Page 4 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 1 Major functionalities of PRESEMT system The PRESEMT system offers three major functionalities Translation Post editing User adaptation Thus in addition to the core translation functionality there are two post processing functionalities Post editing and user adaptation The post editing functionalities allow you to modify the system trans lations User adaptation allows you to feed back your post editing decisions into the system to modify the system behaviour User adaptation is user specific which mea
4. Select edit action Sentences Source sentence Source text Source token Target token Translation Words Choose source and target language Check boxes of sentence pairs that you want to commit to user adaptation Select how lexical selection is fed into user adaptation Tab for reviewing and committing free post editing decisions Source sentences of the translations that have been post edited Source sentences of the translations that can be freely post edited Possibly inflected source word stemming from lexical selection Possibly inflected target word stemming from lexical selection All system translations that have been post edited either lexically or freely Tab for reviewing and committing lexical selection decisions Back Browse Cancel Commit Changes Copy Translation Create User Adapta tion Snapshot Disable User Adapta tion Enable User Adapta tion Free Post Editing Login Logout Reset Reset User Adapta tion Review amp Commit Changes Rollback User Adap tation Translate Upload file Return from free post editing screen to translation screen with source language text and system translation Opens a window for searching a file on your desktop label is in language of op erating system Close Review Changes window without committing any changes Selected changes are converted into user adaptation resources Opens a window with the translations in line based format for easy copying
5. a phrase by selecting an alter native word translation provided by the system or by entering a new word translation b Functionality 2 Free post editing With this functionality you can perform any changes whatsoever on the translation Can make lexical changes with Functionality 2 Yes Note however that you cannot view the drop down menu of lexical alternatives which is available only with Functionality 1 Does user adaptation take into account the lexical changes make with Functionality 2 No User adaptation only receives the changes made in the lexical selection as input for modifying your bilingual lexicon Lexical changes made in the free post editing field are ignored Thus if you intend to feed back your lexical choices into the system the lexical selection field Functionality 1 is the appropri ate place to do so Keep in mind that only changes made in the lexical selec field used user adaptation mode to mod ify your bilingual lexicon Page 13 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 6 1 Functionality 1 Selection of lexical alternatives Lexical alternatives can be selected in the target language text field Move the cursor over the words of the translated text The words are highlighted and a drop down menu opens listing alternative transla tions Figure 10 You can select either one of the lexical alternatives or word which is a place holder that allows
6. into Figure 4 Choosing the language pair Choose Language From Czech German Use the drop down menu to select the source language Use the drop down menu to select the target language 5 2 Entering source language text Enter the source language text by typing it directly or copying it into the source language text field which becomes yellow when you move the cursor over it Figure 5 Figure 5 Entering source language text in text field 0 Choose Language This is a test From Czech To German Type or copy text into the yellow field Choose a file to be translated Upload File Translate Free Post Editing Reset Copy Translation Page 9 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 5 3 Uploading a source language text file If you are logged in as a specific user you can also upload a text file from your desktop Here you first press Browse then you select the file from the contents of your computer The file can be located a folder of the user s local file system When the file to be translated is selected then you press the Up load File button to upload the file to the server hosting the PRESEMT application The content of the file also appears in the source language text field Figure 6 The file should contain only plain text and not any markup such as xml or html It should also not exceed 100 Kbyte Figure 6 Up
7. HOME PAGE OF THE PRESEMIT TRANSLATION SERVICE cssccssscsscenscccssccescensccessceesceescceesccesceseceesceesceseccesceesceeseseesceesees 6 FIGURE 2 LOGGING INTO THE USER ACCOUN T 7 FIGURE 3 USER SPECIFIC FUNCTIONALITIES 2 EE E 8 FIGURE A CHOOSING THE LANGUAGE PAIR 9 FIGURE 5 ENTERING SOURCE LANGUAGE TEXT IN TEXT FIELD eessssseeesecesecoseccseecseecseecsecosecosecosecosecosecosecosecoseeosecoseeosecoseeoeeeseeeseeeseeese 9 FIGURE 6 UPLOADING A FILE ONTO THE SOURCE LANGUAGE TEXT FIELD cccccsssccsscecccssccssccccsscessceccceccesscecccsccessceccseccesscessoescesscess 10 FIGURE 7 STARTING THE TRANSLATION PROCESS AND MESSAGE WHILE RUNNING THE TRANSLATION 5 11 FIGURE 8 TRANSLATION RESULT IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE TEXT FIELD ssccosscocscecsccssccesccesccessceesccesccessceesceescsecsceesceesceescceesceesees 11 Page 2 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 FIGURE CORY TRANSLATION EA AEA AONE auton badanboessdewaouccwounecsnowane 12 FIGURETO SELECTING LEXICAL ALTERNATIVES
8. TION ccessecstecsesdsdewsscessvasencccaceasdacentusdsccesnatsrecevadscacevacesecevedsdeucnedsndeswusecauevacssacivssseceses 13 6 1 FUNCTIONALITY 1 SELECTION OF ALTERNATIVES scssessesseasccssvecsvecicdessateusseedbessessodensneuscisdancodsWecauseaveeastesxecssetss 14 6 2 FUNCTIONALITY 2 FRE POST EDITING 15 7 AD AR OWN E EA 17 7 1 REVIEW AND COMMIT CHANGES EAEE EEEE Taa 18 7 1 1 REVIEW CNG COMMIL IEXICA CHANGES prerii ie e E EN EENE 18 7 1 2 REVIEW COMIMIE FEE posted INE CHANGES 20 7 2 CREATE USER ADAPTATION SNAPSHOT cxscancancseabessaasacesssteateucntoanecenieavancnencuaswasieveracsaanostecuanenaeauencieeicarencenaleieascocses 20 7 3 ROLLBACK USER ADAPTATION seccescecsnssstececcssecerncen secasedeetaseantadeteonvatencoatndenccdvaceui 21 7 4 T ADAPTATION 21 7 5 DISABLE AND ENABLE USER ADAPTATION ronori der RERO i E Soar Eiri iiei 21 8 G 22 8 1 HOWTO RESTART TAES Y TEM pirori 22 Tables TAP WIG CON 4 Figures FIGURE 1
9. a PSS SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME D7 3 3 User manual Ver 3 Deliverable title D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 Contents 1 MAJOR FUNCTIONALITIES OF THE PRESEMT 5 5 2 TECHNICAL PRERE OUISITE EE E TE E E EEEE 5 3 ACCESSING THE PRESEMT SYSTEM ececvecstecssccstecescscccscsczccssccecdessesecsccccsusenuscsdestecneesiecacseesdcesedsasuseseeuseoecesasusessostecss 6 4 USER ACCOUNTS rrna E O E E NE T OE 7 4 1 a E E E S 7 4 2 EEE E EE E E E 8 5 TRANSLATING WITH PRESEMT seesceccecceccccccecceccecccccceccecccccccccecccccecccccceccecccccceccecceecseccceccecceccceccecceccceceecceccecseesceccee 9 5 1 SELECTING SOURCE AND TARGET LANGUAGE ssseeseesesseessecseeseeseeceecsecsenssecsecseesesseecseeseeseroseceeceesseroseceeeseeserossecseeesssense 9 5 2 Be RING SOURCE TANCUACE TNT S 9 5 3 UPLOADING A SOURCE LANGUAGE TEXT FILE sivaczcasscnansdaavsasceaswssestuacncbscssendoataaunctesiewabnetedcsescousesasateacesaseaensoosiabaveseadsos 10 5 4 TRAN IA TING oteccreavece cae veadeeteatnccices E causes testeeseeaeetaoeacasenenetencieelaesencces 11 5 5 ENTERING FOR THER TRANSLA NONS 11 5 6 COPY TRAINS sirena E E E E E deat 12 6 POST EDITING THE TRANSLA
10. age text field Target language text field Translate button Free Post Editing button Reset button and Copy Translation button Text fields for Username amp Password and the Login button oS eS Link to user manual and the PRESEMT homepage Page 6 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 4 User accounts You can use the PRESEMT system with or without being logged in as a specific user In other words it is not necessary to login with Username and Password If you are not logged in as a specific user you can use the translation and post editing functionalities but not the user adaptation functionalities 4 1 Login If you have a user account and login with your Username and Password you get a personalised version of the PRESEMT system that offers not only translation and post editing but also user adaptation which means that you can store your post editing decisions and feed them back into your personal version of the PRESEMT system In order to login as a specific user enter your Username and Password and then press Login Figure 2 Figure 2 Logging into the user account Choose Language From Czech To German Translate Free Post Editing Reset Copy Translation Username test Password eeceesee 2 Enter Password Login 3 Press the Login button Page 7 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 After logging into a user account buttons for User Adaptation and for Uploading Fi
11. changed to the compound Artenschutz Figure 15 Figure 15 Modifying the original translation 00 Choose Language Source Text Translation From i To English x German Der Artenschutz ist wichtig The protection of species is important Choose a file to be translated Upload File Back Translate Free Post Editing Reset Copy Translation Modified translation Press Back to return to translation page with the original system translation If you press the Back button you return to the translation page and the original source language input and system translation Page 16 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 7 User adaptation User adaptation is only available if you are logged in as a user and offers various modes listed below Review amp Commit Changes Select which post editing decisions are fed back into the system The selected post editing decisions are turned into user specific system resources once you have committed them The committed lexical selections are entered into a user specific dictionary The committed free post editing selections are entered into a component that determines the sen tence structure of the translations Create User Adaptation Snapshot Test your user adaptation decisions in a simple commit and review cycle Committed Changes are temporarily added to the system resources and can be tested in new system translations If they are pr
12. de cisions for next translation Cancel Commit Changes After pressing the Commit Changes button you are asked to confirm your decision Figure 18 Confirming user adaptation decision Cancel your user adaptation deci sion Are you sure Confirm your user adaptation decision Abbrechen All user adaptation decisions that alter system states need to be confirmed Page 19 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 7 1 2 Review commit free post editing changes When pressing the button Review amp Commit Changes a Review Changes window opens Figure 19 where under the sentences tab the sentence pairs that have been changed the free post editing mode are displayed You can switch back to the display of the lexical changes by clicking the words tab Select the sentence pairs that you want to submit to user adaptation by checking the Select box Note that in this list both the lexical changes and the changes made in the free post editing phase are shown If you then press Commit Changes both the lexical changes and selected sentence pairs are committed The sentence pairs are added to the user specific components that determine sentence structure and they are applied to the next system translation Figure 19 Window for reviewing and committing free post editing changes Review Changes 1 Click the Please review the following changes and choo
13. ernatives is deactivated if the bilingual dictionary used for the translation has publication restrictions in its licensing Page 14 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 If you click the modified word again you see that the list has retained any changes performed in a pre viously selected alternative The original translation is also listed among the lexical alternatives so that you can revise your decision and go back to the original translation Figure 12 Figure 12 List of lexical alternatives after lexical replacement 0 Choose Language guag This is a test Ubersetzungstest Test From English 4 German Klausurarbeit Lexical replacement r Choose a file to be translated C EN source ttt Browse Upload File Pr fen Testversuch testen Pr f Translate Free Post Editing Original translation Probe Reset Copy Translation berpr fung Versuch User Test has logged In lt Logout Once you have finished selecting lexical alternatives you can proceed to free post editing Make sure that you have made all the lexical changes that you want because it is not possible to return to the se lection of lexical alternatives once you have proceeded to free post editing 6 2 Functionality 2 Free post editing Press the Free Post Editing button Two new text fields are dis played The left hand side te
14. les appear These user specific functionalities are marked with green rectangles in Figure 3 Figure 3 User specific functionalities 0 Choose Language From Czech 4 German Choose to be translated Browse Upload File Translate Free Post Editing Reset Copy Translation User Test has logged In Only available if logged in as user Only available if Choose User Adaptation modes logged in as user Review amp Commit Changes Create User Adaptation Snapshot Rollback User Adaptation Reset User Adaptation Disable User Adaptation Presemt User Manual PDF You can also visit PRESEMT homepage Wy presemt eu 4 2 Logout To end your personal session press Logout All committed changes are saved in your user account and are available when you log in again The post editing changes that have not been committed in user ad aptation are lost when logging out Page 8 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 5 Translating with PRESEMT You can translate with the PRESEMT system with or without being logged in For translating follow the steps below 51 Selecting source and target language Use the drop down menu labelled Choose language to select the source and target languages Figure 4 The source language is the language of the text that you want to be translated The target language is the language you want the text to be translated
15. loading a file onto the source language text field i Choose Language This is a test 4 The contents of the To sla file appear From English Choose a file to be translated C EN source tt 1 Press the Browse button Upload File Translate Reset Copy Translation User Test has logged In 2 Select the file on your computer 3 Press the Upload File button Logout Page 10 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 5 4 Translating Press the Translate button to invoke the translation process As soon as the translation process has started a message is displayed in the target language text field on the right of the yellow text field to signal that the translation process is active see the message in Figure 7 Figure 7 Starting the translation process and message while running the translation process 0 Choose Language This is a test Your input is being processed Please wait for the result From English To German Choose a file to be translated CAEN source tet Browse Upload File 1 Press the Translate button Free Post Editing Reset Copy Translation User Test has logged In Logout 2 Message while the transla tion process is active Once the translation process is finished the translated text is displayed in the target language text field Figu
16. ns that each user creates their own additional system re sources without altering the original system components Thus the user adaptation decisions of differ ent users do not interfere with the original system which stays available to all users at all times Since user adaptation is user specific it is necessary to have a user account However the general translation and post editing functionalities can be used without being logged in as a specific user 2 Technical prerequisites The PRESEMT machine translation MT system is available as a web service In order to access the PRE SEMT web service you need a standard computer with an internet connection and a web browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome Page 5 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 3 Accessing PRESEMT system The translation service be accessed either through the PRESEMT website http www presemt eu or directly by visiting the following link http presemt cslab ece ntua gr 8080 presemt_interface_demo The PRESEMT home page opens Figure 1 Figure 1 Home page of the PRESEMT translation service W Choose Language From Czech v To German 7 Translate Free Post Editing Reset Copy Translation Username Password Presemt User Manual PDF You can also visit PRESEMT homepage www presemt eu 1 Drop down menus for selecting source and target language gt Source langu
17. oven useful you can save them by creating a Snapshot of the user adaptation resources A Snap shot is a frozen state of the user adaptation resources that you can go back to if you want to dis card further committed changes Rollback User Adaptation If you want to discard committed changes use the Rollback functionality The Rollback functionality undoes the committed changes that are not saved in a Snapshot Thus Rollback resets the user ad aptation resources to a given Snapshot formerly created by you or to the original system re sources if no Snapshot has been saved Reset User Adaptation Undo all user adaptation decisions Disable User Adaptation Deactivate temporarily your user adaptation components for the translation process without delet ing them You can later re activate your user adaptation resources by pressing the same button which then is relabelled to Enable User Adaptation The interface buttons allowing you to administer your user adaptation resources are shown in Figure 16 Page 17 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 Figure 16 Buttons for user adaptation administration Choose User Adaptation modes Review amp Commit Changes Create User Adaptation snapshot Rollback User Adaptation Reset User Adaptation Disable User Adaptation 71 Review and Commit Changes 7 1 1 Review and commit lexical changes When pressing the button Review amp Commit Changes a Review Changes
18. re 8 Figure 8 Translation result in the target language text field 0 Choose Language From English German Choose a file to be translated C EN source ttt Browse Upload File Translate Free Post Editing Reset Copy Translation User Test has logged In Logout This is a test Dies istein Test Translation in the tar get language text field 5 5 Entering further translations Press the Reset button for clearing the screen and going back to the initial translation page The source language text field is emptied and a new text can be entered for translation Page 11 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 5 6 Copy translations If you want to copy and paste translations press the Copy Translation button A window with the Trans lated text opens Here it is possible to copy the translated sentences without the source language text in line based format Figure 9 Copy translation Translated text Dies ist ein Test Press Copy Translation A window contain ing the translated text opens Page 12 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 6 Post editing the translation PRESEMT offers a post editing interface that allows you to modify the system translation Two post editing functionalities are available a Functionality 1 Selection of lexical alternatives With this functionality you can change the translation of a word or
19. se the changes to be saved sentences tab to dis words sentences play free post editing Source Sentence Translation Select The protection of species is important Der Artenschutz ist wichtig a 2 Check box to select the freely post edited sen tence pair 3 Press Commit Changes to sub mit the changes to user adaptation Cancel Commit Changes 7 2 Create User Adaptation Snapshot If you press Create User Adaptation Snapshot all committed changes are added to a snapshot of the user adaptation resources The snapshot is a system state of your personal version of PRESEMT that you can return to with Rollback User Adaptation if you wan to discard subsequent committed changes Page 20 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 7 3 Rollback User Adaptation If you press Rollback User Adaptation all committed changes that have not been added to the snapshot are deleted 7 4 Reset User Adaptation If you press Reset User Adaptation your version of the system is reset to the original system resources and all your user adaptation resources such as the snapshot and the committed changes are deleted Before the user adaptation resources are deleted an alert window issues a warning Figure 20 Figure 20 Alert window before user adaptation is reset Are you sure that you want to reset User Adaptation Every change will be lost 7 5 Disable and Enable User Adaptation If you press Disable User
20. window opens Figure 17 that under the words tab displays the post editing decisions that you have made in the selection of lexical alternatives If you click the drop down menu under Select edit action you get three options Do nothing Replace always Consider translation Do nothing The list of translations for the source word is not altered even if you have selected a lexical alternative or added a new word Replace always The selected translation becomes the only translation for the source word all other translations of the source word are de activated in the future translations Consider translation The target word translation is added to the list of the already existing translations of the word This option makes sense only if you have added a new word to the list of lexical alterna tives If you commit the changes they are activated in the next system translation Page 18 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 Figure 17 Window for reviewing and committing lexical changes Review Changes Please review the following changes and choose the changes to be saved sentences source token Target token Select edit action Green indi cates that test Ubersetzungstest Do nothing the tab i Do nothing words is open Replace always Consider translation 1 Drop down menu for selecting user adapta tion action 2 Press Commit Changes to activate user adaptation
21. xt field Source Text displays the source language text and the right hand side text field Trans Keep in mind that once you lation displays the target language text Figure 13 have started free post editing you cannot go back to the se Source and target language texts are aligned sentence wise lection of lexical alternatives which means that there is exactly one sentence pair on each line Figure 13 The Free post editing page 0 Choose Language Source Text Translation From English To German The protection of species is important Der Schutz von Arten ist wichtig Choose a file to be translated Back Upload File Translate Free Post Editing Reset Copy Translation Page 15 of 22 PRESEMT D7 3 3 User manual ver 3 Click in target language text field to modify the translation Figure 14 Figure 14 The Free post editing text field Choose Language Source Text Translation rom i To From English al Der Schutz von Arten ist wichtig The protection of species is important Choose a file to be translated Upload File Back Translate Free Post Editing Reset Copy Translation Text field for modifying system translation In the example at hand the complex nominal expression protection of species is translated literally by the system as Schutz von Arten In the free post editing text field the translation of the complex nom inal expression is
22. you to enter a new word word is the last element in the drop down list Use the scroll bar to view all list elements Figure 10 Selecting lexical alternatives 0 Choose Language This is a test Diesist Test From English To German List of lexical pipo Choose a file to be translated alternatives C EN source tt austesten Upload File Austesten Translate Free Post Editing fragen Belastungsprobe Reset Copy Translation Select add word if you tt t Pr ftest User Test has logged In E E SE en aaa tiated word i After selecting a lexical alternative the placeholder add you can click on the new selection in order to open a text field that allows you to modify it Thus you can modify lexical alternatives by add ing e g the correct endings you can replace the placeholder word with the new word in its correct form see Figure 11 Figure 11 Modifying the lexical selection 00 Choose Language This is a test From English 4 German Choose a file to be translated C EN source tt Upload File Translate Free Post Editing Reset Copy Translation User Test has logged In The lexical selection can be modified thus new word can be entered or a lexical alternative can be modified to have the appropriate ending The selection of lexical alt
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