Malta National Language Technology Platform: A vision for enhancing Malta’s official languages using Machine Translation

Keith Cortis, Judie Attard, Donatienne Spiteri


Abstract
In this paper we introduce a vision towards establishing the Malta National Language Technology Platform; an ongoing effort that aims to provide a basis for enhancing Malta’s official languages, namely Maltese and English, using Machine Translation. This will contribute towards the current niche of Language Technology support for the Maltese low-resource language, across multiple computational linguistics fields, such as speech processing, machine translation, text analysis, and multi-modal resources. The end goals are to remove language barriers, increase accessibility, foster cross-border services, and most importantly to facilitate the preservation of the Maltese language.
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2021.mmtlrl-1.3
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Multimodal Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages (MMTLRL 2021)
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September
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2021
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Online (Virtual Mode)
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MMTLRL | RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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12–19
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Keith Cortis, Judie Attard, and Donatienne Spiteri. 2021. Malta National Language Technology Platform: A vision for enhancing Malta’s official languages using Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Multimodal Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages (MMTLRL 2021), pages 12–19, Online (Virtual Mode). INCOMA Ltd..
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