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10 Reasons why you should attend the EXPERT Business Showcase…

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EXPERT (EXPloiting Empirical appRoaches to Translation) is a Marie Curie funded Initial Training Network project that aims to train young researchers, namely Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and Experienced Researchers, to promote the research, development and use of hybrid language translation technologies.

On Monday 9th May 2016 the EXPERT project will hold its final event in the form of a Business Showcase, bringing together leading lights of the translation arena from both Academia and Industry.

The event will be hosted at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome. If you would like to attend this free event please contact Iain Mansell via iain.mansell@wlv.ac.uk.

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TMAdvanced: A tool to retrive semantically similar matches from a Translation Memory using paraphrases

The advanced translation memory tool developed by Rohit Gupta is now available on Github at https://github.com/rohitguptacs/TMAdvanced

Current Translation Memory (TM) systems work at the surface level and lack semantic knowledge while matching. This tool implements an approach to incorporating semantic knowledge in the form of paraphrasing in matching and retrieval. Most of the TMs use Levenshtein edit- distance or some variation of it. This tool implements an efficient approach to incorporating paraphrasing with edit-distance. The approach is based on greedy approximation and dynamic programming. We have obtained significant improvement in both retrieval and translation of retrieved segments. More details about the approach and evaluations given in the following publications:

Approach: Rohit Gupta and Constantin Orasan. 2014. Incorporating Paraphrasing in Translation Memory Matching and Retrieval. In Proceedings of the European Association of Machine Translation (EAMT-2014).

Human Evaluations: Rohit Gupta, Constantin Orasan, Marcos Zampieri, Mihaela Vela and Josef van Genabith. 2015. Can Transfer Memories afford not to use paraphrasing? In Proceeding of EAMT-2015, Antalya Turkey.

The tool was developed part of the EXPERT project.