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METIS-II: low resource machine translation

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METIS-II was an EU-FET MT project running from October 2004 to September 2007, which aimed at translating free text input without resorting to parallel corpora. The idea was to use “basic” linguistic tools and representations and to link them with patterns and statistics from the monolingual target-language corpus. The METIS-II project has four partners, translating from their “home” languages Greek, Dutch, German, and Spanish into English. The paper outlines the basic ideas of the project, their implementation, the resources used, and the results obtained. It also gives examples of how METIS-II has continued beyond its lifetime and the original scope of the project. On the basis of the results and experiences obtained, we believe that the approach is promising and offers the potential for development in various directions.

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  1. Institut für Angewandte Informationsforschung, Martin-Luther Str. 14, 66121, Saarbrucken, Germany

    Michael Carl

  2. GLiCom (Fundaci Barcelona Media-UPF), Avinguda Diagonal, 177, Barcelona, 08002, Spain

    Maite Melero & Toni Badia

  3. KU Leuven-Centrum voor Computerlinguïstiek, Blijde Inkomststraat 13, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Vincent Vandeghinste, Peter Dirix & Ineke Schuurman

  4. Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Artemidos 6 & Epidavrou, 15125, Athens, Greece

    Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Marina Vassiliou & Olga Yannoutsou

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Carl, M., Melero, M., Badia, T. et al. METIS-II: low resource machine translation. Machine Translation 22, 67–99 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10590-008-9048-z

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