ESTeam was pleased to host the EU PLuTO meeting in the very picturesque town of Chania in Crete. On 29th and 30th September PLuTO consortium members from Dublin City University, CrossLang, and ESTeam met to review the first 18 months of the project and to plan the next steps and deliverables.
We kicked off with a review from the PLuTO project coordinator John Tinsley. He particularly demoed a plug-in that makes patent translations available in web browsers upon a simple mouse-click. Joeri van de Walle from CrossLang then illustrated interesting facts about the quality of the machine translation results: the focus on the patent domain guarantees that PLuTO creates better results than other translation systems. Lambros Kranias from ESTeam proudly presented his research on the encouragingly high number of TM subsegment recycling rate. My presentation on potential strategies on commercialization and productization concluded the first day.
On the second day we’ve split into smaller groups and had several productive workshops spread all across the sunny conference site.