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