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EuroMatrix: statistical and hybrid machine translation between all European Languages

Start date:2006-09-01

End date:2009-02-28

Project Acronym:EUROMATRIX

Project status:Completed

Coordinator

Organization name:UNIVERSITAET DES SAARLANDES
Contact person Address
Name:USZKOREIT, HANS 

SAARBRUECKEN
DEUTSCHLAND

Region:SAARLAND Saarland Stadtverband Saarbrücken
Tel:+49-681-3025282
Fax:+49-681-3025338
E-mail:Contact
URL:http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Organization Type:Education

Description


Objective: EUROMATRIX aims at a major push in machine translation technology applying the most advanced MT technologies systematically to all pairs of EU languages. Special attention will be paid to the languages of the new and near-term prospective member states. As part of this application development, EUROMATRIX will design and investigate novel combinations of statistical techniques and linguistic knowledge sources as well as hybrid MT architectures.

In contrast to research funded by DARPA and ARDA with focus on non-European languages, EUROMATRIX will address urgent European economic and social needs by concentrating on European languages and on high-quality translation to be employed for the publication of technical, social, legal and political documents.

EUROMATRIX will enrich the statistical MT approach with novel learning paradigms and experiment with new combinations of methods and resources from statistical MT, rule-based MT, shallow language processing and computational lexicography/morphology.

EUROMATRIX has the following concrete objectives: Translation systems for all pairs of EU languages, with a special focus on the languages of new and near-term prospective member states; Efficient inclusion of linguistic knowledge into statistical machine translation; The development and testing of hybrid architectures for the integration of rule-based and statistical approaches; Organization, analysis and interpretation of a competitive annual international evaluation of machine translation with a strong focus on European economic and social needs; The provision of open source machine translation technology including research tools, software and data; A systematically compiled and constantly updated detailed survey of the state of MT technology for all EU language pairs based on the developed systematic translation between all EU languages, the comparative MT evaluations and an inventory of available and needed tools, components, lingware and data.

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Project Details


Start date:2006-09-01

End date:2009-02-28

Duration:30 months

Project Reference:034291

Project cost:2472264 EURO

Project Funding:2066388 EURO

Programme Acronym: FP6-IST

Programme type:Sixth Framework Programme

Subprogramme Area:Multimodal interfaces

Contract type:Specific Targeted Research Project

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Subject index:Information Processing, Information Systems, Telecommunications

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Other participants

Organization name:THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Contact person Address
Name:  OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE

EDINBURGH
UNITED KINGDOM

Region:SCOTLAND BORDERS-CENTRAL-FIFE-LOTHIAN-TAYSIDE Lothian
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URL:http://www.ed.ac.uk Organization Type:Education
 
Organization name:UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE
Contact person Address
Name:  OVOCNY TRH 5
116 36
PRAHA 1
CESKA REPUBLIKA

Region:CESKA REPUBLIKA PRAHA
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URL: Organization Type:Education
 
Organization name:MORPHOLOGIC SZAMITASTECHNIKAI KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG
Contact person Address
Name:  ORBANHEGYI UT 5.
1126
BUDAPEST
MAGYARORSZAG

Region:KOZEP-MAGYARORSZAG Budapest
Tel:
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URL: Organization Type:Industry
 
Organization name:CENTER FOR THE EVALUATION OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Contact person Address
Name:  VIA SOMMARIVE, 18
38050
POVO (TRENTO)
ITALIA

Region:NORD EST TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE Trento
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URL: Organization Type:Research
 
Organization name:GROUP TECHNOLOGIES AG
Contact person Address
Name:  HOSPITALSTRASSE 6
99817
EISENACH
DEUTSCHLAND

Region:THÜRINGEN Thuringen Wartburgkreis
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Record control number:80463




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