Project description Language-based interactionThe FAUST project will develop machine translation (MT) systems which respond rapidly and intelligently to user feedback. Show the project objective Hide the project objective The FAUST project will develop machine translation (MT) systems which respond rapidly and intelligently to user feedback. Current web-based MT systems provide high-volume translation without real-time. Most systems provide no opportunity for users to offer opinions or corrections for translation results. Other systems ask users for feedback on translation, however the user does not see any benefit to providing feedback: the translation does not change in response to the feedback. Our goal is to develop high-volume translation systems capable of adapting to user feedback in real-time.We will build on the current leading commercial statistical MT systems developed by Language Weaver and deployed by Softissimo Inc at Reverso.net. Our research will be based on translation in five bidirectional language pairs in these EU official languages: Czech-English, French-English, Romanian-English, Spanish-English, and Spanish-Catalan. We will also study translation from Arabic and Chinese into English. The systems we develop will be used directly by users at the Reverso.net website. We will develop novel feedback collection mechanisms which encourage users to interact with the systems and to provide feedback. In this way we will collect the data, in the form of user judgements of translation quality and feedback for translation correction, which will guide our research.Our objectives are to :Enhance the high-volume, Reverso.net translation website with an experimental and evaluation infrastructure that will enable the study of instantaneous user feedback in MT.Deploy novel web-oriented, feedback collection mechanisms that reduce noise in feedback provided by users and increase the utility of the web contributions.Automatically acquire novel data collections to study translation as informed by user feedback.Develop mechanisms for instantaneously incorporating user feedback into the machine translation engines that are used in production environments, such as those that power the Reverso.net website.Create novel automatic metrics of translation quality which reflect preferences learned from user feedback.Develop new translation models driven by user feedback data and integrate natural language generation directly into MT to improve translation fluency and reduce negative feedback from users. Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2009.2.2 - Language-based interaction Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2009-4 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator Contact William BYRNE Mr. Coordinator THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Address Trinity lane the old schools CB2 1TN Cambridge United Kingdom See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Keith Cann (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 650 109,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERZITA KARLOVA Czechia EU contribution € 550 000,00 Address Ovocny trh 560/5 116 36 Praha 1 See on map Region Česko Praha Hlavní město Praha Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Milena Stiborová (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA Spain EU contribution € 550 091,00 Address Calle jordi girona 31 08034 Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Valentí Guasch (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window SOFTISSIMO France EU contribution € 549 800,00 Address Rue soyer 5 92200 Neuilly-sur-seine See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Benoit LE NY (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window LANGUAGE WEAVER SRL Romania EU contribution € 151 746,00 Address Senina strada 400249 Cluj napoca See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Adrian Gocan (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window LANGUAGE WEAVER INC. CORP. United States EU contribution € 398 254,00 Address Admiralty way 4640 suite 90292 Marina del rey See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Don Kim (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window INSTITUCIO CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANCATS FUNDACIO PRIVADA Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Passeig lluis companys 23 08010 Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Àngel Pina Pérez (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window
