Centre for Computational Linguistics: Projects

METIS-II: Statistical Machine Translation using Monolingual Corpora

Time Span: 2004 - 2007
Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme
F. Van Eynde, I. Schuurman, V. Vandeghinste and P. Dirix
Other participants: The Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Greece (coordinator), Institut der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Informationsforschung e.V. an der Universität des Saarlandes (IAI), Germany, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
official website: METIS-II

METIS-II is the successor of the successful project METIS. The main objective is developing a Statistical Machine Translation system which relies on annotated monolingual corpora and returns reasonable translations of free text.

This main goal can be broken up into the following sub-goals:

• Specify the exact requirements in terms of translation accurracy in order to design and evaluate the system according to a coherent plan
• Develop the algorithms which form the core of the system and are language independent
• Develop/adapt the necessary bilingual resources and offer some general methodological instructions for this task
• Evaluate the performance of the system with a view to its further development and integration to real-world applications

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