Statistical Machine Translation at the University of Edinburgh

The dream of automatically translating documents from foreign languages into English (or between any two languages) is one of the oldest persuits of artificial intelligence research. Now, armed with vast amounts of example translations and powerful computers, we can witness significant progress toward achieving that dream. Statistical analysis of bilingual parallel corpora allow for the automatic construction of machine translation systems. Already, for language pairs such as Chinese-English or Arabic-English, statistical systems are the best machine translation systems currently available.

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  • AGILE/GALE: DARPA challenge to translate Arabic-English, Chinese-English. Text to text translation, speech to text translation, distillation. (press)
  • EuroMatrix: Text to text translation between EU languages with focus on problems associated with translating into languages other than English. As part of the project we will create 380 MT systems, which is all pairs of the 20 official EU languages (demo)
  • Demeter: EPSRC project looking at large-scale discriminative training.

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