Proceedings of the
Second International
Workshop on
Free/Open-Source
Rule-Based Machine
Translation
20-21 January 2011
Universitat Oberta
de Catalunya
Edited by
Felipe Sánchez-Martinez
Juan Antonio
Pérez-Ortiz
Table of Contents
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
Apertium advanced web
interface: a first step toward interactivity and language tools convergence
Arnaud Vié, Luis Villarejo
Muńoz, Mireia Farrús Cabeceran, and Jimmy O’Regan………………………………………………………………….
45
Free/open-source linguistic data and language pairs
Rule-based
machine translation between Bulgarian and Macedonian
Tihomir Rangelov ........................................................................................ 53
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……………………...
77