Abstract
In order to develop its full potential, global communication needs linguistic support systems such as Machine Translation (MT). In the past decade, free online MT tools have become available to the general public, and the quality of their output is increasing. However, the use of such tools may entail various legal implications, especially as far as processing of personal data is concerned. This is even more evident if we take into account that their business model is largely based on providing translation in exchange for data, which can subsequently be used to improve the translation model, but also for commercial purposes. The purpose of this paper is to examine how free online MT tools fit in the European data protection framework, harmonised by the EU Data Protection Directive. The perspectives of both the user and the MT service provider are taken into account.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1706
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4458–4462
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1706
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Pawel Kamocki and Jim O’Regan. 2016. Privacy Issues in Online Machine Translation Services - European Perspective. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 4458–4462, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Privacy Issues in Online Machine Translation Services - European Perspective (Kamocki & O’Regan, LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/L16-1706.pdf