We describe an approach for filtering phrase tables in a Statistical Machine Translation system, which relies on a statistical independence measure called Noise, first introduced in (Moore, 2004). While previous work by (Johnson et al., 2007) also addressed the question of phrase table filtering, it relied on a simpler independence measure, the p-value, which is theoretically less satisfying th...

SOL (Suda On Line) is a collaborative internet-based project involving dozens of researchers to transform the Suda, a 10th-century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia, into a searchable electronic text in English translation. The text will include SGML tags to delimit content such as personal names, places, and treatises and will also contain bibliographic and other references, many of whic...

French researchers are required to frequently translate into French the description of their work published in English. At the same time, the need for French people to access articles in English, or to international researchers to access theses or papers in French, is incorrectly resolved via the use of generic translation tools. We propose the demonstration of an end-to-end tool integrated in ...

Here we present Guampa, a new software package for online collaborative translation. This system grows out of our discussions with Guarani-language activists and educators in Paraguay, and attempts to address problems faced by machine translation researchers and by members of any community speaking an under-represented language. Guampa enables volunteers and students to work together to transla...

This article discusses the collaborative nature of news translation, specifically in case community radio South Africa. It starts with a short overview Africa, emphasising participatory and interactive thereof. The following section provides journalistic translation highlighting multi-source multiple-author realities this form translation. These characteristics are linked to literature on argum...

This paper analyses the conceptual, social and ethical dimensions of online collaborative translation particularly one its major subtypes, crowdsourcing. Since is still a rather young field research there are conceptual uncertainties, surrounding selection meta- or top-level concept for recent forms (such as crowdsourcing), unsolicited self-managed (like Wikipedia translation), various fan tran...

This paper presents a preliminary report on the impact of crowdsourcing post-editing through the so-called “Collaborative Translation Framework” (CTF) developed by the Machine Translation team at Microsoft Research. We first provide a high-level overview of CTF and explain the basic functionalities available from CTF. Next, we provide the motivation and design of our crowdsourcing post-editing ...