ACCURAT one of organisers of the Fifth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

The 5th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora was held on 2012-05-26 as the LREC2012 post-conference full day workshop, in Istanbul, Turkey. ACCURAT project was one of the organising projects while ACCURAT partners -- Marko Tadić and Andrejs Vasiļjevs -- were the members of the workshop Ogranising Committee, while Marko Tadić was one of the editors of the Proceedings. The whole workshop was video recorded so the presentations can be watched on-line:

Philipp Petrenz, Bonnie Webber: Robust Cross-Lingual Genre Classification through Comparable Corpora

Qian Yu, François Yvon, Aurélien Max: Revisiting sentence alignment algorithms for alignment visualization and evaluation

Inguna Skadiņa: Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of Machine Translation

Andrejs Vasiļjevs: LetsMT! – Platform to Drive Development and Application of Statistical Machine Translation

Núria Bel, Vassilis Papavasiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Antonio Toral, Victoria Arranz: Mining and Exploiting Domain-Specific Corpora in the PANACEA Platform

Adam Kilgarriff, George Tambouratzis: The PRESEMT Project

Béatrice Daille: Building Bilingual Terminologies from Comparable Corpora: The TTC TermSuite

Aimée Lahaussois, Séverine Guillaume: A viewing and processing tool for the analysis of a comparable corpus of Kiranti mythology

Nancy Ide: MultiMASC: An Open Linguistic Infrastructure for Language Research

Poster Booster Session and Poster Booster Session 2 including:

Elena Irimia: Experimenting with Extracting Lexical Dictionaries from Comparable Corpora for: English-Romanian language pair

Iustina Ilisei, Diana Inkpen, Gloria Corpas, Ruslan Mitkov: Romanian Translational Corpora: Building Comparable Corpora for Translation Studies

Angelina Ivanova: Evaluation of a Bilingual Dictionary Extracted from Wikipedia

Quoc Hung-Ngo, Werner Winiwarter: A Visualizing Annotation Tool for Semi-Automatical Building a Bilingual Corpus

Lene Offersgaard, Dorte Haltrup Hansen: SMT systems for less-resourced languages based on domain-specific data

Magdalena Plamada, Martin Volk: Towards a Wikipedia-extracted Alpine Corpus

Sanja Štajner, Ruslan Mitkov: Using Comparable Corpora to Track Diachronic and Synchronic Changes in Lexical Density and Lexical Richness

Dan Ştefănescu: Mining for Term Translations in Comparable Corpora

George Tambouratzis, Michalis Troullinos, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Marina Vassiliou: Accurate phrase alignment in a bilingual corpus for EBMT systems

Kateřina Veselovská, Ngãy Giang Linh, Michal Novák: Using Czech-English Parallel Corpora in Automatic Identification of It

Manuela Yapomo, Gloria Corpas, Ruslan Mitkov: CLIR - and Ontology-Based Approach for Bilingual Extraction of Comparable Documents

Amir Hazem, Emmanuel Morin: ICA for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora

Hiroyuki Kaji, Takashi Tsunakawa, Yoshihoro Komatsubara: Improving Compositional Translation with Comparable Corpora

Nikola Ljubešić, Špela Vintar, Darja Fišer: Multi-word term extraction from comparable corpora by combining contextual and constituent clues

Robert Remus, Mathias Bank: Textual Characteristics of Different-sized Corpora

Closing of the workshop

ACCURAT and LetsMT! projects organized a joint workshop Customized Machine Translation: Platform, Tools and Application: LetsMT! cloud platform and ACCURAT tools

The ACCURAT project jointly with LetsMT! project organized a workshop Customized Machine Translation: Platform, Tools and Application: LetsMT! cloud platform and ACCURAT tools as an accompanying event to the GALA2012 conference. It was held in Monte Carlo, 2012-03-25. The whole workshop was targeted for localisation and language technology professional users where we presented the latest development of ACCURAT tools and their application in the localisation scenario. Presenters were partners from both projects while the invited speaker was Achim Ruopp from Digital Silk Road. You can read more on the workshop web page. The whole workshop was video recorded so the presentations can be watched on-line:

Andrejs Vasiļjevs (Tilde): The Quest for Better MT

Achim Ruopp (Digital Silk Road): Modern Ubiquitous Machine Translation – Threat or Opportunity?

Indra Sāmīte (Tilde): LetsMT! and ACCURAT at Your Service

Marko Tadić (Univ. of Zagreb, FFZG): ACCURAT Toolkit = More Data

Raivis Skadiņš (Tilde): LetsMT! Do-it-Yourself Demo

Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec): Creating Lexicon Entries for Narrow Domains from Comparable Corpora

Mateja Verlič (Zemanta): Using SMT in the Blogging Environment

Andrejs Vasiļjevs (Tilde): Real World Evaluation of SMT in Localization

Panel discussion: Customized MT: Truth or Myth?

ACCURAT project presented at the 2nd Slavic Corpora Conference, SlaviCorp2011

The ACCURAT project was presented by two papers at the Second Conference on Slavic Corpora (SlaviCorp2011) that was held from 2011-09-12 to 2011-09-14 in Dubrovnik, Croatia

The presentation by Željko Agić, Daša Berović, Danijela Merkler and Marko Tadić Development and Applications of the Croatian 1984 Corpus for the MULTEXT-East Resources was given by Željko Agić.

The second presentation by Nikola Ljubešić and Tomaž Erjavec hrWaC and slWac: Web Corpora for Croatian and Slovene was given by Nikola Ljubešić.

ACCURAT project presented at the FLaReNet Forum 2011

In Venice, Italy, on 2011-05-26 and 2011-05-27 the FLaReNet Forum 2011 was organized by the FLaReNet project. The Forum was organised in six main sessions with up to five panelists and a couple of discussants from the audience.

The ACCURAT project was presented by Andrejs Vasiļjevs as a panelist within the Session S4 "Innovation needs data", with the presentation How to Get More Data for Under-resources Languages and Domains.

ACCURAT at the W3C Workshop: Content on the Multilingual Web

In Pisa, Italy, on 2011-04-04 and 2011-04-05 the W3C Workshop: Content on the Multilingual Web was organized. The ACCURAT project was presented on 2011-04-05 by Andrejs Vasiļjevs with the presentation Bridging technological gap between smaller and larger languages. The whole presentation can be seen at Videolectures pages.

ACCURAT project presented at the Seventh International Conference Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages (FASSBL7)

The ACCURAT project was presented by three papers at the Seventh International Conference Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages (FASSBL7) that was held from 2010-10-04 to 2010-10-06 in Dubrovnik, Croatia

The presentation by Radu Ion, Dan Tufiş, Tiberiu Boroş, Alexandru Ceauşu and Dan Ştefănescu On-line Compilation of Comparable Corpora and their Evaluation was given by Radu Ion.

The second presentation by Kristina Vučković, Željko Agić and Marko Tadić Sentence Classification and Clause Detection for Croatian was given by Željko Agić.

The third presentation by Krešimir Šojat, Željko Agić and Marko Tadić Verb Valency Frame Extraction Using Morphological and Syntactic Features of Croatian was given by Krešimir Šojat.

ACCURAT project presented at the Workshop on Methods for the automatic acquisition of Language Resources and their evaluation methods

The ACCURAT project was presented by a lecture at the Workshop on on Methods for the automatic acquisition of Language Resources and their evaluation methods that was held on 2010-05-23 as one of satellite workshops at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2010) in Malta

The lecture ACCURAT: Metrics for the evaluation of comparability of multilingual corpora was given by Andrejs Vasiljevs.

ACCURAT project presented at the 3rd Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC)

The ACCURAT project was presented by two lectures at the 3rd Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) that was held on 2010-05-22 as one of satellite workshops at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2010) in Malta

The first lecture Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation was given by Inguna Skadiņa.

The second lecture Improving Machine Translation Performance Using Comparable Corpora was given by Andreas Eisele.

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