Claus Povlsen

Anonymization of Court Orders

We describe an anonymization tool that was commissioned by and specified together with Schultz, a publishing company specialized in Danish law related publications. Unavailability of training data and the need to guarantee compliance with pre-existing anonymization guidelines forced us to implement a tool using manually crafted rules. We used Bracmat, a programming language that is specialized in transforming tree data structures, to meet the requirement to pass the XML structure of the input document unscathed through the whole workflow. The tool attains a reassuringly good recall, makes almost no chunk errors and reduces the found entity designators to a nearly correct set of entities that the input text refers to, minimizing the time needed for manual check and post-editing.

Observatory for Language Resources and Machine Translation in Europe – LT_Observatory

The European Digital Single Market, one of the main goals of Europe 2020, is still fragmented due to language barriers. Language technologies (LT), like Machine Translation (MT) solutions, are key elements for solving this fragmentation. Nevertheless, it is necessary to compile, benchmark the quality and facilitate the access to Language Resources to build successful MT solutions. With these aims, the LT_Observatory project has been developed (2014–2016). The project was funded by the European Commission through the H2020 programme. This article describes the main outputs: An on-line catalogue of language resources in existing pools and other national resources based on pre-identified user needs. Methodologies for improving the quality and usability of language resources. National and regional language strategies, policies and funding sources to support language technologies. An EcoGuide that aims to adapt the findings of the LT_Observatory project for various stakeholder groups providing practical information for operational usability of LRs and tools for MT application, funding opportunities, and recommendations geared at European, national and regional policy and decision makers.