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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | The LREC 2008 Proceedings : The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) |
Editors | Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias |
Number of pages | 8 |
Place of Publication | Paris |
Publisher | European Language Resources Association |
Publication date | 2008 |
Pages | 449-456 |
ISBN (Print) | 2951740840 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | The 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC 2008 - Marrakech, Morocco Duration: 28 May 2008 → 30 May 2008 Conference number: 6 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ |
Conference
Conference | The 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC 2008 |
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Number | 6 |
Country/Territory | Morocco |
City | Marrakech |
Period | 28/05/2008 → 30/05/2008 |
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Keywords
- METIS-II