Proceedings of the

Second International Workshop on

Free/Open-Source

Rule-Based Machine Translation

20-21 January 2011

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Barcelona, Spain

Edited by

Felipe Sánchez-Martinez

Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz

Table of Contents

Preface

Invited talks

MOLTO: multilingual on-line translation [abstract]

Aarne Ranta ……………………………………………………………….… 1

FreeLing: open-source natural language processing for research and development [abstract]

Lluís Padró………………………………………………………………….… 2

Techniques and formalisms for free/open source machine translation

Towards synchronous extensible dependency grammar

Michael Gasser ............................................................................................... 3

Taking on new challenges in multi-word unit processing for machine translation

Johanna Monti, Anabela Barreiro, Annibale Elia, Federica Marano, and Antonella Napoli 11

Bootstrapping a statistical speech translator from a rule-based one

Manny Rayner, Paula Estrella, and Pierrette Bouillon .............................. 21

Tools for free/open-source machine translation

Maca – a configurable tool to integrate Polish morphological data

Adam Radziszewski and Tomasz Śniatowski ........................................... 29

Automatic acquisition of named entities for rule-based machine translation

Antonio Toral and Andy Way ..................................................................... 37

Apertium advanced web interface: a first step toward interactivity and language tools convergence

Arnaud Vié, Luis Villarejo Muñoz, Mireia Farrús Cabeceran, and Jimmy O’Regan………………………………………………………………….

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Free/open-source linguistic data and language pairs

Rule-based machine translation between Bulgarian and Macedonian

Tihomir Rangelov ........................................................................................ 53

A widely used machine translation service and its migration to a free/open-source solution: the case of Softcatalà

Xavier Ivars-Ribes and Victor M. Sánchez-Cartagena................................. 61

Shallow-transfer rule-based machine translation from Czech to Polish

Joanna Ruth and Jimmy O’Regan ............................................................ 69

An Italian to Catalan RBMT system reusing data from existing language pairs Antonio Toral, Mireia Ginestí-Rosell, and Francis Tyers……………………...

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