Hi Alon, 15/10/10
I am really sorry not to be able to come because
of university and project duties. Have a good
AMTA!
Just a remark: the correct terminology is inverse to that used in this post.
An MT engine is the basic mechanism of an MT
system, or by extension the collection of engines
of its different components. By itself, it does
not translate. Moses is basically an engine.
Moses with its development tools might rather be
called a "framework".
The term "engine" can be traced to the "expert
systems" made of "rules" applied by an "engine".
The engine of Prolog, for example, is an
algorithm to perform refutation by
unification-based resolution.
An MT system is an engine (or a framework) fueled
with appropriate LINGUISTIC COMPONENTS (corpora,
language models, translation tables..., or
"lingware" prepared by experts, like paradigms,
automata, grammars, dictionaries, heuristics...
whatever). An MT system performs some kind of
(pre)translation.
Best,
Xan
At 18:44 -0400 14/10/10, Alon Lavie wrote:
More and more companies are experimenting with open-source MT
to develop their own customized MT engines.
Should you be doing the same?
Want to find out just what it takes?
Come to the AMTA-2010 Conference in Denver
and attend the tutorial on open-source MT given by Philipp Koehn,
developer of Moses, the most popular open-source MT system.
The Ninth Biennial Conference of the Association
for Machine Translation in the Americas will be
held at the Westin Tabor Center in Denver
Colorado, from Sunday, October 31 through
Thursday, November 4, 2010.
The full conference program is available at:
<http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/>http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/
Advance registration for AMTA-2010 ends on Monday, October 18!
On-site registration opens in Denver on Sunday, October 31.
On 10/12/2010 11:48 PM, Alon Lavie wrote:
As a translator, will I eventually be forced to post-edit MT output?
Want to find out how other translators cope with this task?
Come to the AMTA-2010 Conference in Denver
and attend the free post-editing showcase
in which half a dozen translators will demonstrate how they do it.
The Ninth Biennial Conference of the
Association for Machine Translation in the
Americas will be held at the Westin Tabor
Center in Denver Colorado, from Sunday, October
31 through Thursday, November 4, 2010.
The full conference program is available at:
<http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/>http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/
Advanced registration for AMTA-2010 ends on October 18!
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