Architecture of a Scalable, Secure and Resilient Translation Platform for Multilingual News Media

Susie Coleman, Andrew Secker, Rachel Bawden, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch

Abstract
This paper presents an example architecture for a scalable, secure and resilient Machine Translation (MT) platform, using components available via Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is increasingly common for a single news organisation to publish and monitor news sources in multiple languages. A growth in news sources makes this increasingly challenging and time-consuming but MT can help automate some aspects of this process. Building a translation service provides a single integration point for news room tools that use translation technology allowing MT models to be integrated into a system once, rather than each time the translation technology is needed. By using a range of services provided by AWS, it is possible to architect a platform where multiple pre-existing technologies are combined to build a solution, as opposed to developing software from scratch for deployment on a single virtual machine. This increases the speed at which a platform can be developed and allows the use of well-maintained services. However, a single service also provides challenges. It is key to consider how the platform will scale when handling many users and how to ensure the platform is resilient.
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2020.iwltp-1.3
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Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Language Technology Platforms
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May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Georg Rehm, Kalina Bontcheva, Khalid Choukri, Jan Hajič, Stelios Piperidis, Andrejs Vasiļjevs
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IWLTP
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European Language Resources Association
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16–21
Language:
English
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Susie Coleman, Andrew Secker, Rachel Bawden, Barry Haddow, and Alexandra Birch. 2020. Architecture of a Scalable, Secure and Resilient Translation Platform for Multilingual News Media. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Language Technology Platforms, pages 16–21, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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