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Locknote: A Summary of Key Takeaways

Dion Wiggins

• Bob Hayward is the CEO of Search365 with years of presentation experience in his talk, he spoke in detail about the business challenges which Financial Services face today such as new technologies such as Blockchain, cyber attacks and skills.

• Bob also expanded into Data Challenges for Financial Services

• Which led into why Text Analytics is important

• And how AI for text, speech images and vision is crucial for the Industry moving forward.

• Showcasing use-cases for Text Analysis and also covering how Entity Recognition and fuzzy matching comes into play.

M2 – Bob Hayward - Text Analytics: Opportunities for Financial Services Firms

AI, MT and Language Processing Symposium

Bob HaywardChief Customer OfficerSearch365

• Alphie is the Localization technology Manager for Iflix, which is one of our top clients which submits hundreds of subtitles through Language Studio each week.

• Alphie explores in detail about Iflix’s journey with Omniscien Technologies and how it has improved their business

• Alphie explores the challenges that subtitling content has and how Omniscien Technologies have helped Iflix deal and resolve these challenges.

• Alphie shows how MT has reduced costs and improved productivity

• Alphie’s talk is very interesting especially for those interested in how movies and TV series get translated in modern times

M3 - Alphie Larrieu - iflix's Localization Journey - The Marriage of Human and Machine


Alphie LarrieuTechnology Manager –Localizationiflix

• Laura is the manger for Language Technology Solutions at Lexis Nexis Univentio B.V is one of Omniscien Technologies first customers and Laura here talks about their journey with us

• Laura explores what is a patent and what their customers do with the patents

• Interesting analysis of how they use MT to help their customers with specified text search for patent offices in different countries

• What technologies they use for MT

• The challenges they face, how they deal with certain types of data (such as technical\tagged data) and how they measure quality

M4 – Laura Rossi - Practical Challenges in Large Scale Patent Machine Translation


Laura RossieManager LanguageTechnology SolutionsLexisNexis Univentio

Jason WhittakerSupport EngineerOmniscien Technologies

• Jason Whittaker, is our Technical Support Engineer here at Omniscien Technologies and gives you a look into Language Studio and some of the screens, tools and documentation you can access inside the portal

• He walks you through the different types of custom engines available through Language Studio and the different technologies we use and how they differ

• Jason also explores the different modes of translations such as through the portal or a CAT tool and how to briefly read a translation debug log.

• How to manipulate translations at runtime are show and also shows you how to run quality metrics against your engine

M5 - Jason Whittaker – Introduction to Language Studio


• Renato is the CEO and co-founder of Nimdzi and gives a great presentation on the Ethical implications on MT which will be a valuable insight to all LSPs out there and more.

• Renato ponders the question, are LSPs obliged to disclose to their clients that they use MT.

• Renato asks what are LSP clients goals? At the end of the day what is their end goal and MT can deliver all these.

M6 - Renato Beninatto - The Ethical Implications of Machine Translation


Renato BeninattoChief Executive OfficerNimdzi

• Jure is the Solutions Engineer at Kilgray. Kilgray and Omniscien Technologies are close partners in the NLP Industry and here Jure gives an interesting walk through their CAT tool, memoQ

• A must watch presentation show the interesting world of Augmented Reality (AR) and what AR is

• Jure expands into AR and how it will impact the Translation Industry and memoQ in the near future

• Jure also shows you around memoQ and how easy it is to connect and translate into Language Studio through the system

M7 - Jure Dernovsek - Moving Towards Augmented Translation - A Case Study


Jure DernovšekSolutions EngineermemoQ

• Lye King is the IBM Watson Data & AI Sales Leader for IBM Watson and for those interested in Chatbots this is a very interesting insight.

• Lye King (LK) walks us through the journey of IBM Watson and how it has to come to the stage where they are now.

• An overview of how IBM Watson works and the key considerations for effective chatbots

• A look into these technologies and how they can improve your revenue.

T1 Lye King Tho - Driving Customer Engagements with Multilingual Chatbots - Moving from Customer

Interactions to Customer Engagements


Lye King ThoWatson Data & AI LeaderIBM Watson & Cloud Platform

• Conor is the CEO for Andover and gives an interesting presentation on MT and how it works with post-editing.

• The presentation explores how MT is shaping the areas of eCommerce, Subtitling, eLearning, ERP and Gaming

• Conor looks at these areas and the Productivity gains MT brings them

• He also delves into the opinions of MT among the Industry and the importance of quality metrics.

T2 - Conor Bracken - New Frontiers in MT and Post-Editing


Conor BrackenChief Executive OfficerAndovar

• Chris is the Chief Commercial Officer for Retail Global and discuss how to take a product via the Digital market.

• Chris’ presentation is a very interesting and engaging watch for anyone who wishes to break the Chinese market or is involved in the eCommerce industry

• Chris with his expert business knowledge of China shows the challenges and pitfalls of operating a business inside China and how to read the market place

• Chris offers valuable insights into the target audience and market research

T3 - Chris Morley - Taking a Product to China via Digital


Chris MorleyChief Commercial OfficerRetail Global

• Recap of Specialization in Machine Translation

• Specialization Case Studies in:

• Patents• AI Chat Bots• Travel• Gaming• Intelligent and Defence• E-Commerce• Media and Subtitling

T4 – Dion Wiggins – Understanding the Benefits of Specialized Machine Translation and Language

Processing Solutions


Dion WigginsChief Technology OfficerCo-FounderOmniscien Technologies

• Bruno is the CEO of KeenCorp which measures employee engagement in multiple languages, so it’s a fascinating listen for anyone interested in where AI is now taking us.

• Bruno delves into the challenges KeenCorp were faced with telling the context by language and it’s positive and negative connotations

• It’s a fascinating listen and is out to answer the questions, how do you tell a company and its employees emotional state and how do you measure that?

• KeenCorp uses technology to find those answers by analyzing data and the presentation explores the areas where Omniscien Technologies help in extracting those answers for languages that are very much different to others.

T5 - Bruno Jakic - Measuring Employee Engagement via AI and Psycholinguistic Analysis


Bruno JakicCo-FounderKeenCorp

• Dion is the CTO and co-founder of Omniscien Technologies and here he is with Bob, CEO of Search 365. This is an unmissable watch from Dion and Bob who present a maverick presentation unrehearsed

• A presentation that asks what is AI? Should we fear it? Will it take our jobs? Will there be terminators sent from the future to kill us all?

• The pros and cons of AI are explored and how AI can shape our now and our future.

• The impact that AI will have on our lives.

• An overview and impact review of the Facebook data gathering controversy and where this could lead us

T6 - Bob Hayward & Dion Wiggins - Maverick Presentation: The Rise of the Machines


• Serge is the CEO of Logrus Global LLC and an elected GALA board member and covers the Translation API Cases and Classes (TAPICC) initiative.

• Serge describes in details what TAPICC is and why it is needed

• He goes through the features and benefits of TAPICC and what they have done so far.

• The presentation then moves into the current status and workshop results which make fascinating listening.

T7 - Serge Gladkoff - Stop Reinventing the Wheel! The TAPICC Pre-Standardization Initiative for Translation APIs


Serge GladkoffPresidentLogrus Global LLC

• Jaap is the CEO of The Language Data Network (TAUS) and founder of some of the largest translation companies in the 1980s and 1990s so his presentation has the knowledge of someone who has worked in the industry for decades.

• Jaap shows a fascinating overview of how the translation sector has changed since the 80s and how it will continue to change is 20 years from now.

• Also gives an interesting overview of the translation sector and how it is similar to other industries

• Jaap also shows us how technology can create jobs for the Translation sector instead of removing jobs

• With a core focus of the presentation focusing on where the translation sector is now and the current pipeline

W1 - Jaap van der Meer - Nunc Est Tempus: Now Is the Time to Redesign Your Translation Business


Jaap van der MeerChief Executive OfficerTAUS

• Abby is the Senior Product Marketing Manager at NICE Nexidia and here she talks about how Analytics plays an important role in the Natural Language Processing Industry and how you can transform your business with Analytics

• Abby talks about business challenges the Industry faces and dealing with unstructured data and using Customer Engagement Analytics to deal with these challenges

• Delves into Speech Analytics and the impact on AHT (Average Handling Time) and FCR (First Call Resolution)

• Interesting talk on the customer’s journey and why we should note their experiences and patterns.

W2 – Abby Monaco - Voice and Customer Journey Analytics


Abby MonacoSenior Product Marketing Manager

• Dr Anthong Scriffignano & Warwick Matthews from Dun & Bradsheet gave a really interesting presentation on resolution of complex business identity in a Multilingual context.

• Their talk focused on the world we live in now with more technology

• An interesting insight into the linguistic challenges we have in Business

• They expanded into the risks we face and how we respond to these risks

• And finally, they discuss where the future lies with current trends and developments.

W3 - Dr. Anthony Scriffignano & Warwick Matthews -Keynote: Confounding Characteristics and Resolution of

Complex Business Identity in a Multilingual Context


Dr. Anthony ScriffignanoSenior Vice President & Chief Data ScientistDun & Bradstreet

Warwick MatthewsSenior Director of Identity Data EngineeringDun & Bradstreet

W4 – Dion Wiggins – Big Data and Domain Adaptation of Machine Translation



• Philipp is the Chief Scientist at Omniscien Technologies and Professor of Computer Science at John Hopkins University and with Philipp being a leader in the field of Machine Translation, this presentation is

unmissable.

• Philipp looks through the different technologies of how Machine Translation has evolved.

• Gives an honest overview of the Hype vs Reality with the Technologies.

• Talks on what Deep Learning is and how it works and learns from data

• How Neural Machine Works and how the output is produced.

• The benefits and challenges with NMT

• The future of NMT, new methods to synthesize data and domain adaptation.

W5- Philipp Koehn - Research in Translation - What is Exciting and Shows Promise Ahead?


Philipp KoehnChief ScientistOmniscien Technologies

Professor of Computer ScienceJohns Hopkins University

• Our panel including Bob Hayward, Laura Rossi, Philip Koehn, and Dion Wiggins among others got back to you on some of your questions.

W6 – Dion Wiggins – Expert Panel – ASK US ANYTHING



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