The Apertium machine translation platformfive years on

  1. Forcada, Mikel L.
  2. Ramírez Sánchez, Gema
  3. Tyers, Francis M.
Book:
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Ruled-Bases Machine Translation: 2-3 november 2009, Universidad d'Alacant
  1. Pérez-Ortiz, Juan Antonio (coord.)
  2. Sánchez-Martínez, Felipe (coord.)
  3. Tyers, Francisc M. (coord.)

Publisher: Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'Alacant

ISBN: 978-84-613-6188-5

Year of publication: 2009

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

This paper describes Apertium: a free/open-source machine translation platform (engine, toolbox and data), its history, its philosophy of design, its technology, the community of developers, the research and business based on it, and its prospects and challenges, now that it is five years old.