1. 1 MT in the NCLT Andy Way NCLT, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland away@computing.dcu.ie www.nclt.dcu.ie/mt/

2. 2 MT in the NCLT: Recent History –Marker-Based EBMT [Nano Gough, PhD 2005] –Computational Linguistics 2003 –NLE 2005; Machine Translation 2005 –AMTA 02, MT Summit 03; TMI 04, EAMT 04 … –Data-Oriented Translation [Mary Hearne, PhD 2005] –MT Summit 03, COLING 04, IJCNLP 04, EAMT 05, EAMT 06 … –Hybrid Approaches (EBMT & SMT) [Declan Groves, PhD 2007] –Machine Translation 2006 –ACL 05, EAMT 06, …

3. 3 MT in the NCLT: Recent History –Improving Online MT Systems (TransBooster) [Bart Mellebeek, PhD 2007] [Karolina Owczarzak] –MT Summit 05, AMTA 06, EAMT 05, 06 … –Automatic Translation of DVD subtitles [Steve Armstrong, MSc 2007] [Other students’ ongoing PhD work in SALIS] –Perspectives 06 –ASLIB 06 …

4. 4 Current Research Hybrid MT (MaTrEx) –Nicolas Stroppa et al. AMTA 06, OpenLab 06, IWSLT 06, NIST 06, MT Summit 07 Dependency-Based Automatic Evaluation Metrics –Karolina Owczarzak, Josef Van Genabith MT Summit 07, Workshops at NAACL 07, ACL 07 Integrating Syntax into SMT (Using Supertags) –Hany Hassan [& Khalil Sima’an] IEEE SLT 06, ACL 07 … Sign Language MT –Sara Morrissey [& RWTH Aachen] MT Summit 05, LREC 06, MT Summit 07 …

5. 5 Current Research Word and Phrase Alignment in SMT –Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa ACL 07 … Sub-Tree Alignment –John Tinsley, Ventzi Zhechev, Mary Hearne MT Summit 07 … Parameter Estimation in MT –John Tinsley, Ventzi Zhechev, Mary Hearne [& Khalil Sima’an] Constraint-Based MT –Yvette Graham, Josef Van Genabith

6. 6 Language Pairs French  English (EBMT) English  German (EBMT) Spanish  English (SMT, Hybrid) Spanish  Basque (Hybrid) Chinese  English (SMT, EBMT) Arabic  English (SMT, Hybrid) Italian  English (Hybrid) Japanese  English (EBMT, Hybrid) Dutch  English (Hybrid, SMT) Sign Language  English (Hybrid) …

7. 7 Collaboration Tilburg (Memory-based Decoding) Donostia (Basque MT) Aachen (Sign-Language MT) Amsterdam (Integrating Syntax & SMT) Edinburgh (SMT) CMU (Hybrid SMT—EBMT) Toshiba Beijing (Chinese MT) …

8. 8 Future Work MT via SMS Automatic Interpreting Enhanced hybrid models Scalability Tuning MT to text type & genre MT using Pivot languages Better quality phrases (cf. CONLL monolingual chunking shared task) …

9. 9 Current and Future Funding Irish Government Sources –Science Foundation Ireland –Enterprise Ireland –IRCSET Companies –IBM –Microsoft Under Review –EU STREP (MT for Minority Languages) UPC, FBK-IRST, Edinburgh … –SFI CSET in Next Generation Localisation TCD, UCD, UL, IBM, Microsoft, Symantec …

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