Centre for Computational Linguistics: Projects

METIS: Statistical Machine Translation using Monolingual Corpora

Time Span: 2002 - 2003
Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme
F. Van Eynde, I. Schuurman and P. Dirix
Other participants: The Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Greece (coordinator), Centrum voor Nederlandse Taal en Spraak (U.Antwerpen) (subcontractor)
official website: METIS

Have a look at the website of METIS-II, the continuation of this successful assessment project !!

The main objective of METIS is to assess the possibility of developing a Statistical Machine Translation system which relies on annotated monolingual corpora and returns reasonable translations of free text.

This main goal can be broken up into the following sub-goals:

• Specify the exact requirements in terms of translation accurracy in order to design and evaluate the system according to a coherent plan
• Develop the algorithms which form the core of the system and are language independent
• Develop/adapt the necessary bilingual resources and offer some general methodological instructions for this task
• Evaluate the performance of the system with a view to its further development and integration to real-world applications

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