LREC06. SALTMIL workshop. Proceedings of the SALTMIL 2006 workshop

"Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages"

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Speakers' presentations

• Welcome: Briony Williams (University of Wales, Bangor, UK)
• Stephen Krauwer (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) "ENABLER, BLARK, what's next?"
• Delyth Prys (University of Wales, Bangor, UK) "The BLARK matrix and its relation to the language resources situation for the Celtic languages"
• Lori Levin (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) "Omnivorous MT: Using whatever resources are available"
• Mikel Forcada (University of Alacant, Spain) "Open source machine translation: an opportunity for minor languages"
• Anna Sĺgvall Hein (University of Uppsala, Sweden) "Approaching new languages in machine translation"
• Daniel Yacob (Director, Ge'ez Frontier Foundation) "Unicode Development for Under-Resourced Languages"
• Maja Popovic and Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) "Statistical Machine Translation with and without a bilingual training corpus"

Posters

• Dafydd Jones and Andreas Eisele, "Phrase-based statistical machine translation between Welsh and English".
• Carme Armentano-Oller and Mikel Forcada, "Open-source machine translation between small languages: Catalan and Aranese Occitan".
• Kevin Scannell, "Machine translation for closely related language pairs".
• Sara Morrissey and Andy Way, "Lost in Translation: The Problems of Using Mainstream MT Evaluation Metrics for Sign Language Translation".
• John Wogan, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Áine Ní Bhriain, Eric Zoerner, Harald Berthelsen, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide and Christer Gobl, "Developing a Spoken Corpus and a Synthesiser for Irish".
• Svetla Koeva, Svetlozara Lesseva and Maria Todorova, "Bulgarian sense tagged corpus".
• Jorge González, Antonio L. Lagarda, José R. Navarro, Laura Eliodoro, Adriŕ Giménez, Francisco Casacuberta, Joan M. de Val and Ferran Fabregat, "SisHiTra: A Spanish-to-Catalan hybrid machine translation system".
• Adriŕ de Gispert and José B. Marińo, "Catalan-English Statistical Machine Translation without Parallel Corpus: Bridging through Spanish".
• Arantza Casillas, Arantza Díaz de Illarraza, Jon Igartua and Kepa Sarasola, "A Spanish-Basque weather forecast corpus for probabilistic speech translation".
• Saba Amsalu and Sisay Fissaha Adafre, "Machine Translation for Amharic: Where we are".
• Mirjam Sepesy Maučec and Zdravko Kačič, "Statistical machine translation using the IJS-ELAN Corpus".
• Pavel Zheltov, "An Attribute-Sample Database System for describing Chuvash affixes".
• Bostjan Dvorák, Petr Homola, Vladislav Kubon, "Exploiting Similarity in the MT into a Minority Language".
• Tod Allman, "A Natural Language Generator for Minority Languages".
• Arantza Casillas, Arantza Díaz de Illarraza, Jon Igartua and Kepa Sarasola, "A Spanish-Basque compiled corpus and its structure".
• Oliver Streiter, Mathias Stuflesser and Qiu Lan Weng, "Models of Cooperation for the Development of NLP Resources: A Comparison of BLARK and XNLRDF".