Proceedings of the
First International
Workshop on
Free/Open-Source
Rule-Based Machine
Translation
2-3 November 2009
Universitat
d’Alacant
Edited by
Juan Antonio
Pérez-Ortiz
Felipe Sánchez-Martinez
Francis M.Tyers
Table of Contents
Matxin: developing sustainable machine translation
for a less-resourced language
Kepa Sarasola ............................................................................................. 1
Anusaaraka: An accessor cum machine
translator
Amba Kulkarni............................................................................................. 1
Platforms
for free/open-source rule-based machine translation
The
Apertium machine translation platform : Five years on
Mikel L. Forcada,
Francis M. Tyers and Gema Ramírez-Sánchez ................. 3
Matxin:
Moving towards language independence
Aingeru Mayor and Francis M.
Tyers ......................................................... 11
OpenLogos
MT and the SAL representation language
Bernard Scott and
Anabela Barreiro ......................................................... 19
Free/open-source
linguistic data and language pairs
Shallow-transfer
rule-based machine translation for Swedish to Danish
Francis M. Tyers
and Jacob Nordfalk ........................................................ 27
Reuse
of free resources in machine translation
between Nynorsk and Bokmål
Kevin Unhammer and Trond
Trosterud .................................................... 35
Development
of a morphological
analyser for Bengali
Abu Zaher Md.
Faridee and Francis M. Tyers ............................................. 43
Technical
issues in
free/open-source machine translation
An open-source highly scalable web service architecture for the
Apertium
Victor M. Sánchez-Cartagena
and Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz ..................... 51
Apertium goes SOA: an efficient and scalable
service based on the
Apertium rule-based
Pasquale Minervini ....................................................................................... 59
A trigram part-of-speech
tagger for the Apertium free/open-source machine translation
Joint efforts to further develop and
incorporate Apertium into the document
manage-
ment flow at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Luis Villarejo Muñoz, Sergio Ortiz Rojas and Mireia Ginestí Rosell ....... 75