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| Title: | A Widely Used Machine Translation Service and its Migration to a Free/Open-Source Solution : the Case of Softcatalà |
| Authors: | Ivars-Ribes, Xavier Sánchez-Cartagena, Víctor M. |
| Other: | International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation (2nd : 2011 : Barcelona) |
| Keywords: | Softcatalà Apertium |
| Issue Date: | 20-Jan-2011 |
| Publisher: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
| Type: | Conference lecture |
| Citation: | Ivars-Ribes, Xavier; Sánchez-Cartagena, Víctor M. (2011, January). "A Widely Used Machine Translation Service and its Migration to a Free/Open-Source Solution: the Case of Softcatalà". Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation (2011: Barcelona). <http://hdl.handle.net/10609/5648> |
| Abstract: | Softcatalà is a non-profit association
created more than 10 years ago to fight
the marginalisation of the Catalan language
in information and communication
technologies. It has led the localisation
of many applications and the
creation of a website which allows its
users to translate texts between Spanish
and Catalan using an external closed-source
translation engine. Recently,
the closed-source translation back-end
has been replaced by a free/open-source
solution completely managed by Softcatalà: the Apertium machine translation
platform and the ScaleMT web service
framework. Thanks to the openness
of the new solution, it is possible
to take advantage of the huge amount of
users of the Softcatalà translation service
to improve it, using a series of
methods presented in this paper. In addition,
a study of the translations requested
by the users has been carried
out, and it shows that the translation
back-end change has not affected the
usage patterns. |
| Language: | eng |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10609/5648 |
| ISBN: | 978-84-693-9517-2 |
| Appears in Collections: | Second International Workshop on Free/Open-SourceRule-Based Machine Translation, 2011
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