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RESOURCE REVIEW By Françoise Herrmann
PatentTranslate
P
The New Espacenet Tools
for Patents Translation
Originally, the Espacenet interface (now called classic Espacenet) was
available in the three official languages of the hosting European Patent
Office (EPO) site: English, French, and German. The new Espacenet
interface is now accessible in all the national languages of the patent
offices connected to the database. In other words, the patent offices of
the 38 states that are members of the European Patent Organization.
An Arab-Pat1
interface in Arabic also exists, as well as accessibility to
LatiPat2 and the Eurasian Patent Organization3
. For translators, this means
availability of parallel official translations of the Espacenet interface in
their source or target languages, depending on the direction of translation.
Here are some details on selected features of the new Espacenet interface,
highlighted for their relevance to translation work.
www.ata-chronicle.online
atentTranslate is the
EPO's translation
engine, powered by
Google's neural network
technology and the EPO's
corpus of 120 million
patent documents. The new
Espacenet has increased
the number of languages
translated: from translations
from/into the three official
EPO languages (English,
French, and German) to
translations from/into
approximately 32 European
and Asian languages,
depending on the source
patent. PatentTranslate also
includes user evaluation
and commenting forms
for improving engine
performance. PatentTranslate
has a hovering function that
brings up the source in a
textbox next to the target for
convenient verifications of
the translations online.
PatentTranslate is very
useful when existing
translations are available. In
this case, the engine works
like a super translation
memory. Serious limitations
exist, however, thus
requiring particularly careful
examination of the output
translations. This is crucial
because when PatentTranslate
is generating translations, the
engine is always proceeding
without the understanding
necessary to avoid nonsense,
especially subtle nonsense.
The New Espacenet
Split-Screen Display
A sweeping transformative
change from the classic
version to new Espacenet
interface appears in the
split-screen display of
information, comprised
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