DCU MT GROUP RELEASES FREE/OPEN-SOURCE EBMT SYSTEM MARCLATOR The Centre for Next Generations (CNGL) Machine Translation group, led by Prof. Andy Way at Dublin City University (DCU), announces the release of Marclator (Marker-based Translator), a free/open-source system for Example Based Machine Translation (EBMT). This release coincides with the 4th MT Marathon, a week-long event being hosted January 25th-30th by the CNGL and the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) at DCU in conjunction with the EuroMatrix+ project, where over 100 participants from 20 countries will have a chance to test and program open-source MT tools and systems.
The Marclator EBMT system release includes a fully functional marker-based chunker/tagger (based on Greens marker hypothesis) with markers for some languages and a chunk aligner, as well as a proof-of-concept naïve (monotone) recombination module or decoder. This free/open-source release results from collaboration with Prof. Mikel L. Forcada of Universitat dAlacant 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 Marclator release is seen as a first-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, IWSLT-09, etc.). As a follow-on to the Marclator release, Prof. Way and Prof. Forcada will continue to collaborate toward a free/open-source release of a baseline MaTrEx system, combining Marclator with the Moses SMT decoder. This OpenMaTrEx release is anticipated for Spring 2010. Resources: http://www.cngl.ie http://nclt.dcu.ie/mt http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mforcada/fosmt.html http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mforcada/marclator.html http://www.euromatrixplus.net/ http://www.mtmarathon2010.info/web/Welcome.html For more information please contact: [email protected] 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 _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
