Free/Open Source Shallow-Transfer Based Machine Translation for Spanish and Aragonese

Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés, Jim O’Regan, Francis Tyers


Abstract
This article describes the development of a bidirectional shallow-transfer based machine translation system for Spanish and Aragonese, based on the Apertium platform, reusing the resources provided by other translators built for the platform. The system, and the morphological analyser built for it, are both the first resources of their kind for Aragonese. The morphological analyser has coverage of over 80\%, and is being reused to create a spelling checker for Aragonese. The translator is bidirectional: the Word Error Rate for Spanish to Aragonese is 16.83%, while Aragonese to Spanish is 11.61%.
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L12-1153
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2153–2157
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/326_Paper.pdf
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Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés, Jim O’Regan, and Francis Tyers. 2012. Free/Open Source Shallow-Transfer Based Machine Translation for Spanish and Aragonese. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2153–2157, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Free/Open Source Shallow-Transfer Based Machine Translation for Spanish and Aragonese (Cortés et al., LREC 2012)
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