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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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe LREC 2008 Proceedings : The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
EditorsNicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias
Number of pages8
Place of PublicationParis
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association
Publication date2008
Pages449-456
ISBN (Print)2951740840
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
EventThe 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC 2008 - Marrakech, Morocco
Duration: 28 May 200830 May 2008
Conference number: 6
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Conference

ConferenceThe 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC 2008
Number6
Country/TerritoryMorocco
CityMarrakech
Period28/05/200830/05/2008
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Keywords

  • METIS-II

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