Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages: METIS-II
Vincent Vandeghinste, Peter Dirix, Ineke Schuurman, Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Marina Vassiliou, Olga Yannoutsou, Toni Badia, Maite Melero, Gemma Boleda, Michael Carl, Paul Schmidt
Abstract
In this paper we describe the METIS-II system and its evaluation on each of the language pairs: Dutch, German, Greek, and Spanish to English. The METIS-II system envisaged developing a data-driven approach in which no parallel corpus is required, and in which no full parser or extensive rule sets are needed. We describe evalution on a development test set and on a test set coming from Europarl, and compare our results with SYSTRAN. We also provide some further analysis, researching the impact of the number and source of the reference translations and analysing the results according to test text type. The results are expectably lower for the METIS system, but not at an unatainable distance from a mature system like SYSTRAN.- Anthology ID:
- L08-1566
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2008
- Address:
- Marrakech, Morocco
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- LREC
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- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/116_paper.pdf
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- Cite (ACL):
- Vincent Vandeghinste, Peter Dirix, Ineke Schuurman, Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Marina Vassiliou, Olga Yannoutsou, Toni Badia, Maite Melero, Gemma Boleda, Michael Carl, and Paul Schmidt. 2008. Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages: METIS-II. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages: METIS-II (Vandeghinste et al., LREC 2008)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/116_paper.pdf