Let MT simplify and speed up your Alignment for TM creation (2020)

Abstract: Large quantities of multilingual legal documents are waiting to be regularly aligned and used for future translations. For reasons of time, effort and cost, manual alignment is not an option. Automatically aligned segments are suitable for concordance search but are unreliable for fuzzy search and pretranslation. MT-based alignment could be the key to improving the results.

## what data and for what purpose? the systematic collection of legislation (sr) 1 of the swiss federal administration (bund) is currently automatically aligned and provided as a tm 2 four times a year. it consists of over 5000 ms word documents in german, french and italian, each with over two million segments or almost 20 million words 3 . the final version of ## star's translation technology from 2020, the bund will use star's translation technology as its general translation solution with the translation memory tool transit as the core system. an alignment tool is integrated into transit as standard. the mt interface makes it easy to use machine translations from different mt systems. ## interactive alignment in transit in alignment projects, the document pairs are imported in the respective languages and segmented independently of each other. the segment alignment then does not match, for example, if two sentences in one document correspond to just one sentence in the other document, if a sentence has no equivalent in the other text, or if the sentence order is different. as usual with alignment tools, formal (e.g. sentence length, numbers, formatting) and lexical parameters (e.g. dictionary entries or unchanged words, such as company names) are used to calculate the segment alignment. ## conclusion the perfect interaction between the alignment tool and the mt interface in transit means that machine translation can be directly integrated into the calculation of the segment alignment. this additional information can be used to improve the alignment, making both the 7 to find out how "virtual join" works for the source language, see: https://www.stargroup.net/en/downloads/transit-termstar.html 8 transit ignores a segment if the target is empty.