MOLTO, Multilingual Online Translation -------------------------------------- MOLTO (www.molto-project.eu/) is a European research project involving the University of Gothenburg (UGOT), the University of Helsinki (UHEL), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the University of Zurich (UZH) and the companies Ontotext AD (Bulgaria) and Be Informed (Netherlands).
MOLTO's goal is to develop a set of tools for translating texts between multiple languages in real time with high quality. Languages are separate modules in the tool and can be varied; prototypes covering a majority of the EU's 23 official languages will be built. As its main technique, MOLTO uses domain-specific semantic grammars and ontology-based interlinguas. These components are implemented in GF (Grammatical Framework), which is a grammar formalism where multiple languages are related by a common abstract syntax. GF has been applied in several small-to-medium size domains, typically targeting up to ten languages, but MOLTO will scale this up in terms of productivity and applicability. A part of the scale-up is to increase the size of domains and the number of languages. A more substantial part is to make the technology accessible for domain experts without GF expertise and minimise the effort needed for building a translator. Ideally, this can be done by just extending a lexicon and writing a set of example sentences. The most research-intensive parts of MOLTO are the two-way interoperability between ontology standards (OWL) and GF grammars, and the extension of rule-based translation by statistical methods. The OWL-GF interoperability will enable multilingual natural-language-based interaction with machine-readable knowledge. The statistical methods will add robustness to the system when desired. New methods will be developed for combining GF grammars with statistical translation, to the benefit of both. MOLTO technology will be released as open-source libraries which can be plugged-in to standard translation tools and web pages and thereby fit into standard workflows. MOLTO will be demonstrated in web-based demos and applied in three case studies: mathematical exercises in 15 languages, patent data in at least 3 languages, and museum object descriptions in 15 languages. MOLTO Public Day ---------------- You are kindly invited to attend the MOLTO Public Day that will take place on Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at Zentrum für Weiterbildung der Universität Zürich Schaffhauserstrasse 228 CH-8057 Zürich Telephone +41 44 635 22 55 www.zwb.ch Room G06a The MOLTO Public Day (www.molto-project.eu/meeting/4th-project-meeting) will showcase the recent work and ongoing research being carried out by the partners. The program will consist of introductory presentations aimed at a general audience with demonstrations of the tools in progress. 8:45 - 9:10 Registration 9:10 - 9:15 Opening Norbert E. Fuchs (UZH) 9:15 - 9:45 Two Years of MOLTO Aarne Ranta (UGOT) 9:45 - 10:15 Invited talk: Possessives in English Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford) 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break with demos 10:45 - 11:15 MOLTO Tools for Translators Lauri Carlson, Inari Listenmaa (UHEL) 11:15 - 11:45 Multilingual Knowledge Retrieval in Natural Language Borislav Popov, Milen Chechev (Ontotext) 11:45 - 12:15 Statistical and Robust Translation in MOLTO Cristina España, Meritxell Gonzalez, Lluís Màrquez (UPC), Ramona Enache (UGOT) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:30 Invited talk: Towards Universal Parsing Keith Hall (Google Zurich) 14:30 - 14:45 GF Grammar Editing in the Cloud Thomas Hallgren (UGOT) 14:45 - 15:00 Writing GF grammars in Eclipse John Camilleri (UGOT) 15:00 - 15:15 Commanding Sage using Natural Language Jordi Saludes (UPC) 15:15 - 15:30 Demo boasters 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break with demos 16:00 - 16:15 MOLTO for Museums Online Dana Dannélls (UGOT) 16:15 - 16:30 A Business Case for MOLTO Joris van Aart (Be Informed) 16:30 - 16:45 Multilingual AceWiki Kaarel Kaljurand (UZH) 16:45 - 17:00 Closing Remarks Aarne Ranta, Keith Hall, Stephen Pulman To attend the MOLTO Public Day you must register by email to [email protected] not later than Friday, 17 February 2012, providing the following information: Name: Association: Will attend lunch: yes/no Food preference: meat/fish/vegetarian Please note that attending the MOLTO Public Day is free of charge. Best regards. Norbert E. Fuchs Department of Informatics & Institute of Computational Linguistics University of Zurich _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
