SDL Machine Translation Edge Provider (former SDL ETS)

Introduction

"SDL Machine Translation Edge (former ETS) is a machine translation solution for enterprise businesses which aim at protecting their intellectual property or sensitive, proprietary information. SDL MT Edge can be deployed behind an organization's secure firewall and then accessed via a web browser from any approved computer with a valid user account.

Machine Translation Edge enables organizations to securely translate multilingual content into their languages of interest at high speed and in a cost-effective way. The MT Edge scalable architecture and multi-server deployment option allows for quick and efficient translation of large volumes of content, while its optimized footprint and single-server deployment option is well-suited for a desktop environment with a low translation volume requirement. MT Edge can be accessed either via an intuitive  Web GUI for an interactive experience or via a rich REST API for easy integration with other applications and workflows. MT Edge uses state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and supports a large number of languages." (text taken from the official SDL MT Edge documentation)

SDL MT Edge is available for both Studio 2017 and Studio 2019 versions.

What SDL Machine Translation Edge provider can do

SDL MT Edge can:

• Facilitate security and privacy control by implementing multi-user roles and preventing exposure of corporate assets to public MT (Machine Translation).
• Ensure cost-effectiveness at scale. ETS translates large volumes of content quickly, when needed, without maintenance overhead.
• Be used intuitively via its browser-based GUI. ETS also benefits from workflow integration and automation via REST API.
• Accelerate information gathering and mining across multilingual content for: sentiment analysis, intellectual property research, information discovery, forensic analysis, market intelligence, contract analysis, e-mail surveillance." (description taken from the official SDL MT Edge documentation)

How SDL MT Edge provider works

• After the plugin was installed it can be accessed in Studio from Project Settings -> Language Pairs-> Translation Memory and Automated Translation -> Click on Use button to expand the options:

• A new window will appear where user needs to insert the Host, Port and SDL Credentials/API Key information. 
• Window can be closed using the "Cancel" button or "X" from the window.
• The second tab "Language Pair Mappings" is available when user connects to an Machine Translation Edge server of version 8.1 or higher.
• Options to "Set as Default Host and Port" and "Save credentials" are available.
• To save the settings, user needs to press the "OK" button.

* If the "Set as Default Host and Port" and "Save credentials" are checked, the Host, Port and Credentials/Api Key information is saved  when user clicks on "Ok" button. The configuration information is automatically populated in the following cases:

• When user uses "Settings" button to open provider's window.
• When user removes and adds back the provider.
• When user creates a new project and add the SDL MT Edge provider to it.

*The Language Pair Mappings tab will be shown only after user enters the information from General window (the information is important to load the available language pairs).

After all the settings are finished and SDL MT Edge provider is added, user can start the translation process.

• Studio 2017 translation

• Studio 2019 translation

TellMe feature

TellMe feature is available with Studio 2019 and can be used to find more information about SDL Machine Translation Edge provider. It offers links to the following directions:

• SDL official machine translation documentation.
• SDL MT Edge AppStore from where application can be downloaded .
• SDL Enterprise translation server documentation.
• Official SDL MT Edge documentation.
• Machine Translation Edge available language pairs.
• SDL Community AppStore forum.

! Important: When trying to connect using User authentication: "User name" and "Password", after writing both fields values, user should press the Enter key in order to be able to connect to MT Edge server and to see the "Language Pair Mappings" tab (the flow was decided to work this way in order to avoid too much requests which were done to the MTEdge server when entering the credentials).