Cooperation for Arabic Language Resources and Tools – The MEDAR Project

TY - GEN

T1 - Cooperation for Arabic Language Resources and Tools – The MEDAR Project

AU - Maegaard, Bente

AU - Attia, Mohamed

AU - Choukri, Khalid

AU - Hamon, Olivier

AU - Krauwer, Steven

AU - Yaseen, Mustafa

N1 - Conference code: 7

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - The paper describes some of the work carried out within the European funded project MEDAR. The project has three streams of activity: the technical stream, the cooperation stream and the dissemination stream. MEDAR has first updated the existing surveys and BLARK for Arabic, and then the technical stream focused on machine translation. The consortium identified a number of freely available MT systems and then customized two versions of the famous MOSES package. The Consortium addressed the needs to package MOSES for English to Arabic (while the main MT stream is on Arabic to English). For performance assessment purposes, the partners produced test data that allowed carrying out an evaluation campaign with 5 different systems (including from outside the consortium) and two online ones. Both the MT baselines and the collected data will be made available via ELRA catalogue. The cooperation stream focuses mostly on the cooperation roadmap for Human Language Technologies for Arabic. Cooperation Roadmap for the region directed towards the Arabic HLT in general. It is the purpose of the roadmap to outline areas and priorities for collaboration, in terms of collaboration between EU countries and Arabic speaking countries, as well as cooperation in general: between countries, between universities, and last but not least between universities and industry.

AB - The paper describes some of the work carried out within the European funded project MEDAR. The project has three streams of activity: the technical stream, the cooperation stream and the dissemination stream. MEDAR has first updated the existing surveys and BLARK for Arabic, and then the technical stream focused on machine translation. The consortium identified a number of freely available MT systems and then customized two versions of the famous MOSES package. The Consortium addressed the needs to package MOSES for English to Arabic (while the main MT stream is on Arabic to English). For performance assessment purposes, the partners produced test data that allowed carrying out an evaluation campaign with 5 different systems (including from outside the consortium) and two online ones. Both the MT baselines and the collected data will be made available via ELRA catalogue. The cooperation stream focuses mostly on the cooperation roadmap for Human Language Technologies for Arabic. Cooperation Roadmap for the region directed towards the Arabic HLT in general. It is the purpose of the roadmap to outline areas and priorities for collaboration, in terms of collaboration between EU countries and Arabic speaking countries, as well as cooperation in general: between countries, between universities, and last but not least between universities and industry.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - sprogressourcer, sprogværktøjer, arabisk

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 2863

EP - 2867

BT - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta

A2 - Choukri, Khalid

A2 - Maegaard, Bente

A2 - Mariani, Joseph

A2 - Odijk, Jan

A2 - Piperidis, Stelios

A2 - Rosner, Mike

A2 - Tapias, Daniel

PB - European Language Resources Association

CY - Valletta, Malta

T2 - The 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2010

Y2 - 19 May 2010 through 21 May 2010

ER -