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Bringing machine translation for european languages to the user
Start date:2009-03-01
End date:2012-02-29
Project Acronym:EUROMATRIXPLUS
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER KUENSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH | |
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D-67663 TRIPPSTADTER STRASSE 122 KAISERSLAUTERN DEUTSCHLAND Region:RHEINLAND-PFALZ RHEINHESSEN-PFALZ Kaiserslautern, Kreisfreie Stadt |
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Description
Objective:
Europe faces a growing economic and societal challenge due to its vast diversity of languages, and machine translation (MT) technology holds promise as a means to address this challenge.
EuroMatrix Plus will
- continue the rapid advance of MT technology, creating example systems for every official EU language, and providing other MT developers with our infrastructure for building statistical translation models,
- continue and broaden the controlled systematic investigation of different approaches and techniques to accelerate the scientific evolution of novel methods, including both selection and crossfertilization. The aim is to arrive at scientifically well understood novel combinations of methods that are proven superior to the state of the art,
- contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the European MT research scene and infrastructure through open evaluations and living community supported surveys of resources, tools, systems and their respective capabilities,
- focus on bringing MT to the users, in addition to focusing on scientific advances.
Because our statistical models are derived from example translations, we can build and exploit a synergistic relationship in which users suggest improvements to the system by post-editing its output, and the system improves itself by learning from user feedback.
EuroMatrix Plus focuses on two types of users: professional translators and translation agencies working for private corporations, administrations, and other organisations, and lay users who create content on a volunteer basis by translating foreign materials into their own languages. We will investigate how these users can benefit from state of the art in MT, and conversely, how MT can benefit from user corrections, and create an openly accessible sample application that enables users to automatically translate news stories and web pages from any EU language into any other, and whose corrections will be exploited for improving MT technology.
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Project Details
Start date:2009-03-01
End date:2012-02-29
Duration:36 months
Project Reference:231720
Project cost:5328705 EURO
Project Funding:3800000 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-ICT
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics (ICT-2007.2.2)
Contract type:Collaborative project (generic)
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Subject index:Electronics, Microelectronics, Information Processing, Information Systems, Telecommunications
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Via S. Croce 77 38100 TRENTO ITALIA Region:NORD EST TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE Trento |
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OVOCNYTRH 5 11636 PRAHA 1 CESKA REPUBLIKA Region:CESKA REPUBLIKA PRAHA |
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Glasnevin DUBLIN ÉIRE/IRELAND Region:ÉIRE/IRELAND Dublin |
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