Congratulations Forcada! Welcome OpenMatrEx!!
Cheers Gema On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Mikel L. Forcada <[email protected]> wrote: > DCU MT GROUP RELEASES FREE/OPEN-SOURCE EBMT SYSTEM 'OpenMaTrEx' > > The Centre for Next Generation’s (CNGL) Machine Translation group, led by > Prof. > Andy Way at Dublin City University (DCU), announces the release of > ‘OpenMaTrEx’, > a free/open-source example-based machine translation (EBMT) system based on > the > marker hypothesis. > > The OpenMaTrEx EBMT system release comprises a marker-driven chunker (based on > Green’s “marker hypothesis”), a collection of chunk aligners, and two engines: > one based on the simple proof-of-concept monotone recombinator (released last > January as 'Marclator') and a Moses-based decoder. OpenMaTrEx is a > free/open-source version of the basic components of MaTrEx, the data-driven > machine translation system designed by the Machine Translation group at the > School of Computing of Dublin City University. > > This free/open-source release results from collaboration with Prof. Mikel L. > Forcada of Universitat d’Alacant in Spain who is currently a visiting > researcher > within the CNGL MT group at DCU through an ETS Walton Award from Science > Foundation Ireland (SFI). > > Through SFI funding of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation and > additional funding from EU FP7 research projects currently coming on stream, > DCU > now boasts one of the largest academic research groups focused on MT > worldwide. > The OpenMaTrEx release is an important step in a strategy of participation in > the free/open-source community in parallel with a programme of commercial > engagement with companies interested in adopting, tuning and deploying machine > translation technology. > > Over the past number of years, Prof Andy Way has led the MT group at DCU in > pursuing corpus-based approaches to MT, which have culminated in the MaTrEx > system, a modular, maintainable and efficient data-driven machine translation > system which combines example-based machine translation (EBMT) and statistical > machine translation (SMT) and which consistently ranks as one of the > top-performing MT systems in open machine translation evaluations (e.g. > WMT-09, > WMT-10, IWSLT-09, etc.). > > Resources: > CNGL: http://www.cngl.ie > DCU MT Group: http://nclt.dcu.ie/mt > Free/open-source MT systems: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mforcada/fosmt.html > OpenMaTrEx: http://www.openmatrex.org/ > Marclator: http://www.openmatrex.org/marclator/ > Moses: http://www.statmt.org/moses/ > > Mikel L. Forcada <[email protected]> > Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics > Universitat d\\\'Alacant, E-03071 Alacant (Spain) > Tel.: +34 96 590 9776 Fax: +34 96 590 9326 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
