Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages: METIS-II

Vincent Vandeghinste; Peter Dirix; Ineke Schuurmann; Stella Markantonatou; Sokratis Sofianopoulos; Marina Vassilou; Olga Yannoutsou; Toni Badia; Maite Melero; Gemma Boleda; Michael Carl; Paul Schmidt

Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages: METIS-II

Vincent Vandeghinste, Peter Dirix, Ineke Schuurmann, Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Marina Vassilou, Olga Yannoutsou, Toni Badia, Maite Melero, Gemma Boleda, Michael Carl, Paul Schmidt

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Abstrakt

In this paper we describe the METIS-II system and its evaluation on each of the language pairs: Dutch, German, Greek, and Spanish to English. The METIS-II system envisaged developing a data-driven approach in which no parallel corpus is required, and in which no full parser or extensive rule sets are needed. We describe evalution on a development test set and on a test set coming from Europarl, and compare our results with SYSTRAN. We also provide some further analysis, researching the impact of the number and source of the reference translations and analysing the results according to test text type. The results are expectably lower for the METIS system, but not at an unatainable distance from a mature system like SYSTRAN.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	The LREC 2008 Proceedings : The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
Redaktører	Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias
Antal sider	8
Udgivelsessted	Paris
Forlag	European Language Resources Association
Publikationsdato	2008
Sider	449-456
ISBN (Trykt)	2951740840
Status	Udgivet - 2008
Udgivet eksternt	Ja
Begivenhed	The 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC 2008 - Marrakech, Marokko Varighed: 28 maj 2008 → 30 maj 2008 Konferencens nummer: 6 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Konference

Konference	The 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC 2008
Nummer	6
Land	Marokko
By	Marrakech
Periode	28/05/2008 → 30/05/2008
Internetadresse	http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Adgang til dokumentet

http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/116_paper.pdfLicens: CC BY-NC

Citationsformater

Vandeghinste, V., Dirix, P., Schuurmann, I., Markantonatou, S., Sofianopoulos, S., Vassilou, M., Yannoutsou, O., Badia, T., Melero, M., Boleda, G., Carl, M., & Schmidt, P. (2008). Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages: METIS-II. I N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, J. Odijk, S. Piperidis, & D. Tapias (red.), The LREC 2008 Proceedings: The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) (s. 449-456). European Language Resources Association. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/116_paper.pdf

Vandeghinste, Vincent ; Dirix, Peter ; Schuurmann, Ineke ; Markantonatou, Stella ; Sofianopoulos, Sokratis ; Vassilou, Marina ; Yannoutsou, Olga ; Badia, Toni ; Melero, Maite ; Boleda, Gemma ; Carl, Michael ; Schmidt, Paul. / Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages : METIS-II. The LREC 2008 Proceedings: The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08). red. / Nicoletta Calzolari ; Khalid Choukri ; Bente Maegaard ; Joseph Mariani ; Jan Odijk ; Stelios Piperidis ; Daniel Tapias. Paris : European Language Resources Association, 2008. s. 449-456

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Vandeghinste, V, Dirix, P, Schuurmann, I, Markantonatou, S, Sofianopoulos, S, Vassilou, M, Yannoutsou, O, Badia, T, Melero, M, Boleda, G, Carl, M & Schmidt, P 2008, Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages: METIS-II. i N Calzolari, K Choukri, B Maegaard, J Mariani, J Odijk, S Piperidis & D Tapias (red), The LREC 2008 Proceedings: The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08). European Language Resources Association, Paris, s. 449-456, The 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC 2008, Marrakech, Marokko, 28/05/2008. <http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/116_paper.pdf>

Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages : METIS-II. / Vandeghinste, Vincent; Dirix, Peter; Schuurmann, Ineke; Markantonatou, Stella; Sofianopoulos, Sokratis; Vassilou, Marina; Yannoutsou, Olga; Badia, Toni; Melero, Maite; Boleda, Gemma; Carl, Michael; Schmidt, Paul.

The LREC 2008 Proceedings: The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08). red. / Nicoletta Calzolari; Khalid Choukri; Bente Maegaard; Joseph Mariani; Jan Odijk; Stelios Piperidis; Daniel Tapias. Paris : European Language Resources Association, 2008. s. 449-456.

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review

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