Project publications

Papers

Tiedemann, Jörg; Ljubešić, Nikola. Efficient Discrimination Between Closely Related Languages. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2012), Mumbai, India, 8-15 December 2012 (accepted for publication).

Vasiļjevs, Andrejs; Skadiņš, Raivis & Tiedemann, Jörg. LetsMT!: a cloud-based platform for do-it-yourself machine translation. Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2012), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 10 July 2012, System Demonstrations; pp. 43-48. (PDF)

LetsMT!: do-it-yourself machine translation factory on the cloud. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Trento, Italy, May 28-30 2012, ed. Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico, Lucia Specia, Andy Way; p. 100 (PDF)

Offersgaard, Lene & Haltrup Hansen, Dorte. SMT systems for less-resourced languages based on domain-specific data. The 5th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora: “Language Resources for Machine Translation in Less-Resourced Languages and Domains” (BUCC 2012), LREC 2012 Workshop, 26 May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey; pp. 75-80. (PDF)

Vasiļjevs, Andrejs. LetsMT! – platform to drive development and application of statistical machine translation. The 5th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora: “Language Resources for Machine Translation in Less-Resourced Languages and Domains” (BUCC 2012), LREC 2012 Workshop, 26 May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey; pp. 20-23. (PDF)

Tiedemann, Jörg; Haltrup Hansen, Dorte; Offersgaard, Lene; Olsen, Sussi & Zumpe, Matthias. A distributed resource repository for cloud-based machine translation. The Eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), 21-27 May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey; pp. 2207-2213. (PDF)

Vasiļjevs, Andrejs; Gornostay, Tatiana; Skadiņa, Inguna; Deksne, Daiga; Skadiņš, Raivis & Pinnis, Mārcis. Recent advances in the development and sharing of language resources and tools for Latvian [abstract]. Crosslingual Language Technology in service of an integrated multilingual Europe, 4-5 May 2012, University of Hamburg, Germany; pp. 24-25.

Vasiļjevs, Andrejs; Skadiņš, Raivis & Tiedemann, Jörg. LetsMT!: cloud-based platform for building user tailored machine translation engines. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit XIII), 19-23 September 2011, Xiamen, China; pp. 507-511. (PDF)

Vasiļjevs, Andrejs; Skadiņš, Raivis & Skadiņa, Inguna. Towards application of user-tailored machine translation in localization. Proceedings of the Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop ”Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators” (JEC ’11), Luxembourg, 14 October 2011; pp. 23-31.

LetsMT! Platform for online sharing of training data and building user tailored MT. Proceedings of the 15th conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT2011), 30-31 May 2011, Leuven, Belgium; eds. Mikel L.Forcada, Heidi Depraetere, Vincent Vandeghinste; p. 337. (PDF)

Skadiņš, Raivis; Puriņš, Maris; Skadiņa Inguna & Vasiļjevs, Andrejs. Evaluation of SMT in localization to under-resourced inflected language. Proceedings of the 15th conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT2011), 30-31 May 2011, Leuven, Belgium; eds. Mikel L. Forcada, Heidi Depraetere, Vincent Vandeghinste; pp. 35-40. (PDF)

Tiedemann, Jörg. Bitext Alignment. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2011. (some chapters present solutions to LetsMT! tasks), book URL.

Tiedemann, Jörg; Weijnitz, Per (2010) Let’s MT! — A Platform for Sharing SMT Training Data, In: Proceedings of the Third Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2010), Linköping, 2010-10-27 – 2010-10-29, pp 49-50 (PDF)

Vasiļjevs, Andrejs; Gornostay, Tatiana; Skadins, Raivis (2010) Let’s MT! — Platform for Online Sharing of Training Data and Building User Tailored Machine Translation, In: The Baltic Perspective, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference Baltic HLT 2010, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 219, Riga, Latvia, October 7–8 (doi: DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-641-6-133) (PDF).

Presentations and Demonstrations

Marko Tadić, LetsMT! – Platform for Online Sharing of Training Data and Building User Tailored Machine Translation, ICT-PSP awareness week, Zagreb, 2011-03-14 (slides, in Croatian)

Lene Offersgaard, LetsMT! – Online collaborative platform for data sharing and MT building, Workshop on the Practical Impact of Machine Translation, Copenhagen, 2010-11-23 (slides)

Tiedemann, Jörg; Weijnitz, Per (2010) Let’s MT! — A Platform for Sharing SMT Training Data, In: The Third Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2010), Linköping, 2010-10-27 – 2010-10-29 (slides)

Andrejs Vasiļjevs presented the challenges and opportunities of LetsMT! project and LetsMT! platform for MT. The presentation was held at Baltic HLT Conference that took place in Riga from 2010-10-07 to 2010-10-08. (slides).

Indra Sāmīte, Baltic Director from Tilde presented experience of challenges and opportunities of working on MT for small languages and under resourced domains with a focus on Baltic Languages. The presentation was held at TAUS User Conference that took place in Portland (OR), USA from 2010-10-03 to 2010-10-06. (slides and slides of 3 min presentation). The long presentation is also available as video lecture at our Video Lectures page.

Vasiļjevs, Andrejs, LetsMT! – Towards cloud‐based service for MT generation, In: Translingual Europe 2010, International Conference on Advance Translation Technology for Multilingual Europe, Berlin, 2010-07-15 (slides). It is also available as video lecture at our Video Lectures page

Vasiļjevs, Andrejs, Bridging technological gap between smaller and larger languages, Multilingual Web Workshop, Pisa, 2010-04-05 (slides).