Automatic Acquisition of Machine Translation Resources in the Abu-MaTran Project

  1. Antonio Toral
  2. Tommi Pirinen
  3. Andy Way
  4. Raphäel Rubino
  5. Gema Ramírez-Sánchez
  6. Sergio Ortiz-Rojas
  7. Víctor Sánchez-Cartagena
  8. Jorge Fernández-Tordera
  9. Mikel Forcada
  10. Miquel Esplà-Gomis
  11. Nikola Ljubesic
  12. Filip Klubicka
  13. Prokopis Prokopidis
  14. Vassilis Papavassiliou
Journal:
Procesamiento del lenguaje natural

ISSN: 1135-5948

Year of publication: 2015

Issue: 55

Pages: 185-188

Type: Article

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Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the research and development activities carried out to alleviate the language resources' bottleneck in machine translation within the Abu-MaTran project. We have developed a range of tools for the acquisition of the main resources required by the two most popular approaches to machine translation, i.e. statistical (corpora) and rule-based models (dictionaries and rules). All these tools have been released under open-source licenses and have been developed with the aim of being useful for industrial exploitation.

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