Nikos Glaros


2012

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Collecting and Using Comparable Corpora for Statistical Machine Translation
Inguna Skadiņa | Ahmet Aker | Nikos Mastropavlos | Fangzhong Su | Dan Tufis | Mateja Verlic | Andrejs Vasiļjevs | Bogdan Babych | Paul Clough | Robert Gaizauskas | Nikos Glaros | Monica Lestari Paramita | Mārcis Pinnis
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

Lack of sufficient parallel data for many languages and domains is currently one of the major obstacles to further advancement of automated translation. The ACCURAT project is addressing this issue by researching methods how to improve machine translation systems by using comparable corpora. In this paper we present tools and techniques developed in the ACCURAT project that allow additional data needed for statistical machine translation to be extracted from comparable corpora. We present methods and tools for acquisition of comparable corpora from the Web and other sources, for evaluation of the comparability of collected corpora, for multi-level alignment of comparable corpora and for extraction of lexical and terminological data for machine translation. Finally, we present initial evaluation results on the utility of collected corpora in domain-adapted machine translation and real-life applications.

2009

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A Web-Enabled and Speech-Enhanced Parallel Corpus of Greek-Bulgarian Cultural Texts
Voula Giouli | Nikos Glaros | Kiril Simov | Petya Osenova
Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education (LaTeCH – SHELT&R 2009)