The EACL conference is the triennial conference of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). EACL 2012 was the thirteenth EACL conference that built on the success of previous conferences in Athens (2009) and Trento (2006).

The TTC project was presented by Alexander Fraser and Marion Weller (IMS) with the presentation "Modeling Inflection and Word-Formation in SMT" (PDF).

Abstract:

The current state-of-the-art in statistical machine translation (SMT) suffers from issues of sparsity and inadequate modeling power when translating into morphologically rich languages. We model both inflection and word-formation for the task of translating into German. For inflection, we generalize over different inflected forms of a word, while also ensuring coherence of the inflected output. For word-formation, we address compounding, which is highly productive in German. For both inflection and word-formation, we address the problem of portmanteaus. We translate from English words to an underspecified German representation and then use linear-chain CRFs to predict the fully specified German representation. We show that improved modeling of inflection and word-formation leads to improvement in translation performance.

TTC presents its outcomes from the second year of the project (2011).

Significant progress has been made towards the main scientific and technological objectives of the project. TTC addressed such important issues as releases of:

• the final version of the Babouk crawler;
• comparable corpora in the 2 domains of wind energy and mobile technologies for 7 project languages as well as Danish;
• the TermSuite tool to handle comparable corpora - perform monolingual terminology extraction and bilingual alignment operations;
• rule sets for term variant recognition and alignment;
• rule sets for inflectional and word formation analysis of morphologically complex term candidates;
• domain-specific terminologies in the 2 domains of wind energy and mobile technologies for 7 project languages.

TTC paid much attention to its dissemination activities, web presence, in particular. Annual public report 2011 was published and can be found here.

The TTC project is presented by Marion Weller (IMS) at the Computational Linguistics section held at the annual meeting DGfS's Poster Session on March 8, 2012. The primary purpose of the section is to maintain the scientific exchange between theoretical linguistics and computational linguistics.

CALL for PAPERS

The second workshop on the Creation, Harmonization and Application of Terminology resources (CHAT 2012) will be held in conjunction with the conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering (TKE 2012) on June 22 in Madrid.

Organizing Committee invites academic and industrial researches as well as language workers and students interested in terminology to participate in the workshop!

CHAT 2011 - the first workshop

The Open Day’s event for FP7 R&D in Latvia was held on November 21, 2011, at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia in Riga. The event was organised by the National Contact Point of the Seventh Framework Programme and the University of Latvia. TTC was presented with the midterm project poster by Tatiana Gornostay (TILDE).