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Title Rapid Deployment of a New METIS Language Pair: Catalan-English
Authors Toni Badia, Maite Melero and Oriol Valentín
Abstract We show here the viability of a rapid deployment of a new language pair within the METIS architecture. In order to do it, we have benefited from the approach of our existing Spanish-English system, which is particularly generation intensive. Contrarily to other SMT or EBMT systems, the METIS architecture allows us to forgo parallel texts, which for many language pairs, such as Catalan-English are hard to obtain. In this experiment, we have successfully built a Catalan-English prototype by simply plugging a POS tagger for Catalan and a bilingual Catalan-English dictionary to the English generation part of the system already developed for other language pairs.
Language Multiple languages
Topics Machine Translation, SpeechToSpeech Translation, Tools, systems, applications
Full paper Rapid Deployment of a New METIS Language Pair: Catalan-English
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Bibtex @InProceedings{BADIA08.198,
  author = {Toni Badia, Maite Melero and Oriol Valentín},
  title = {Rapid Deployment of a New METIS Language Pair: Catalan-English},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)},
  year = {2008},
  month = {may},
  date = {28-30},
  address = {Marrakech, Morocco},
  editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  isbn = {2-9517408-4-0},
  note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/},
  language = {english}
  }

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