Publication

Asistent -- a machine translation system for Slovene, Serbian and Croatian

Arcan, Mihael
; 
Popovic, Maja
; 
Buitelaar, Paul
Thumbnail Image
Files
Thumbnail Image
asistent_jtdh.pdf
Adobe PDF, 764.66 KB
Thumbnail Image
JTDH-2016_Arcan-et-al_Asistent–A-Machine-Translation-System.pdf
Adobe PDF, 1.04 MB
Repository DOI
Publication Date
2016-09-29
Keywords
Asistent, Machine translation, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian
Type
Conference Paper
Downloads
Show all metadata
Citation
Arcan, Mihael, Popovic, Maja, & Buitelaar, Paul. (2016). Asistent -- a machine translation system for Slovene, Serbian and Croatian. Paper presented at the 10th Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 29 September - 01 October.
Abstract
The META-NET research on language technologies in 2012 showed a weak support on tools for crossing the language barrier for many European languages, including the south Slavic languages. Therefore, we describe a statistical machine translation system, called Asistent, which enables automatic translations between English, Slovene, Croatian and Serbian. In addition to make this system publicly accessible, we focus on parallel data preparation as well as on using multiple pivot languages for translation quality improvement of the targeted Slavic languages. A comparison of translations generated by the Asistent translation system shows a significant improvement of translation quality over Google Translate.
Funder
Science Foundation Ireland
Horizon 2020
Publisher
University of Ljubljana
Publisher DOI
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland
cbn
Collections
Data Science Institute (Conference Papers)