Exploiting Parallel Treebanks for Hybrid Machine Translation

Typically, only few written texts are available for languages that do not have a writing tradition, such as e.g. Quechua. Even fewer of them have been translated into other languages. In order to be able to build machine translation systems for such languages, one must employ techniques that transcend the purely statistical approach, so-called hybrid MT systems.

The Institute of Computational Linguistics develops a hybrid MT system for the language pairs Spanish-Quechua and Spanish-German and, within the same project, devises a parallel treebank for these three languages.

Exploiting Parallel Treebanks for Hybrid Machine Translation

Project head:

• Martin Volk

Researchers:

• Anne Göhring
• Annette Rios

The project is supportet by the Swiss National Science Foundation and is running from 2011 to 2014.

More information:

• Exploiting Parallel Treebanks for Hybrid Machine Translation