Programme

Thursday, 20th January 2011

• 08:30Reception 
• 09:00Opening 
• 09:45Invited talk - Aarne RantaMolto: multilingual on-line translation.
  [Talk slides]
  Chair: Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz
• 11:00Coffee 
•  SessionTechniques and formalisms for free/open-source machine translation
  Chair: Antonio Toral
• 11:30 Toward Synchronous Extensible Dependency Grammar
  [Talk slides]
  Michael Gasser
• 12:00 Taking on new challenges in multi-word unit processing for Machine Translation
  [Talk slides]
  Johanna Monti, Anabela Barreiro, Annibale Elia, Federica Marano, Antonella Napoli
• 12:30 Bootstrapping A Statistical Speech Translator From A Rule-Based One
  [Talk slides]
  Manny Rayner, Paula Estrella, Pierrette Bouillon
• 13:00Lunch 
  
•  SessionTools for free/open-source machine translation
  Chair: Francis M. Tyers
• 15:00 Maca: a configurable tool to integrate Polish morphological data
  [Talk slides]
  Adam Radziszewski, Tomasz Sniatowski
• 15:30 Automatic acquisition of Named Entities for Rule-Based Machine Translation
  [Talk slides]
  Antonio Toral, Andy Way
• 16:00 Apertium Advanced Web Interface: A first step towards interactivity and language tools convergence
  [Talk slides]
  Arnaud Vié, Luis Villarejo, Jimmy O'Regan, Mireia Farrús
• 20:00Dinner(not included with the registration fee)

Friday, 21th January 2011

• 09:15Invited talk - Lluís PadróFreeLing: open-source natural language processing for research and development.
  [Talk slides]
  Chair: Felipe Sánchez-Martínez
• 10:30Coffee 
•  SessionFree/open-source linguistic data and language pairs
  Chair: Gema Ramírez-Sánchez
• 11:00 Rule-based machine translation between Bulgarian and Macedonian
  [Talk slides]
  Tihomir Rangelov
• 11:30 A Widely Used Machine Translation Service and its Migration to a Free/Open-Source Solution: the case of Softcatalà
  [Talk slides]
  Xavier Ivars-Ribes, Victor M. Sanchez-Cartagena
• 12:00 Shallow-transfer rule-based machine translation for Czech to Polish
  [Talk slides]
  Joanna Ruth, Jimmy O'Regan
• 12:30 An Italian to Catalan RBMT system reusing data from existing language pairs
  [Talk slides]
  Antonio Toral, Mireia Ginestí-Rosell, Francis Tyers
• 13:00Lunch 
  
• 15:00 Open Discussion: Challenges and future of rule-based machine translation
  Chair: Felipe Sánchez-Martínez
• 16:00Closing 
• 16:15Meeting:Extraordinary meeting of the Apertium project