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METIS
Project full title: STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION USING MONOLINGUAL CORPORA: from concept to
implementation
Project acronym: METIS-IIInstrument: STREP
2004-2007
Brussels, 24 January 2007
Stella Markantonatou
METIS
A brief introduction
METIS-II aims at constructing free text translations by
relying on hybrid techniques employing basic resources retrieving the basic stock for translations
from large monolingual corpora of the target language only
METIS: The aims
METIS is promising for translation pairs where, at least the source language member belongs to the languages endowed with basic computational resources only.
METIS: The promises
Part. role
Part. no
Participant name Part. short name
Part. country
CO 1 Institute for Language and Speech Processing
ILSP GREECE
CR 2 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KUL BELGIUM
CR 3 Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Informationsforschung e.V.
GFAI GERMANY
CR 4 Fundacio Universitat Pompeu Fabra
FUPF SPAIN
METIS: The people
The first prototype runs for the four language pairs Dutch English German English Modern Greek English Spanish English
METIS: The language pairs
METIS: The results
METIS output compares well with SYSTRAN output for some language pairs
Results show that METIS is scalable and upgradeable with respect to quality and size
METIS
as a successful project
Why was METIS successful?1 2 3 4 5 6
METIS has been a positive experience and a successful FET project because the ingredients bid together well
Good idea
1 2 3 4 5 6
Why was METIS successful?
METIS has been a positive experience and a successful FET project because the ingredients bid together well
Good idea
Reasonably good planning
1 2 3 4 5 6
Why was METIS successful?
METIS has been a positive experience and a successful FET project because the ingredients bid together well
Why was METIS successful?
Good idea
Reasonably good planning
Clear and just arrangements
1 2 3 4 5 6
METIS has been a positive experience and a successful FET project because the ingredients bid together well
Why was METIS successful?
Good idea
Reasonably good planning
Clear and just arrangements
Capable people
1 2 3 4 5 6
METIS has been a positive experience and a successful FET project because the ingredients bid together well
Why was METIS successful?
Good idea
Reasonably good planning
Clear and just arrangements
Capable people
Capable sites
1 2 3 4 5 6
METIS has been a positive experience and a successful FET project because the ingredients bid together well
Good idea
Reasonably good planning
Clear and just arrangements
Capable people
Capable sites
Enthusiasm and group
feeling
1 2 3 4 5 6
Why was METIS successful?
METIS has been a positive experience and a successful FET project because the ingredients bid together well
The Idea
intellectually inspiring addressing a real problem mid-term results and applications
lexica, chunkers, lemmatizers long-term results and applications
MT system, improved resources
Good idea
Work planning
Clearly defined phases/steps in the right temporal order --- difficult in a FET
Clear responsibilities for each partner BUT…. initiatives may be vital at project implementation time
Partners do complementary work lemmatizer, chunker, overall architecture design ONE partner responsible for ONE type of work resource creation, algorithm development,
integration, evaluation ALL capable partners have responsibilities
MEETING DEADLINES AND MILESTONES IS NOT JUST A FORMALITY
Reasonably good planning
Finances
Clear and sincere discussion at project planning time about workload and finances
People should feel that they are paid for their work
Partners should feel that finances have been distributed evenly
Responsible behavior of the coordinating site and of the partners at project implementation time
Clear and just arrangements
IPR
Relevant agreements should be made
People should not feel insecure about their work
Ensure Information flow
Clear and just arrangements
The partners
Capable in the scientific area Able to communicate well with each other
(perhaps, it is good to know that in advance) Entertain a keen interest in each other’s work
and consider it work for the PROJECT
Capable people
The coordinator
should …
have clear ideas about the project ensure seamless communication be constantly alert and follow all discussions in the
consortium not panic: a project lasts for several years and the idea
lasts even longer support initiatives is ready/able to mobilize workforce in order to make
sure that quality standards and deadlines are met is ready/able to do some of the work if necessary
In a sense, the coordinator impersonates the project…
Capable people
Capable sites
healthy institutions recover from crisis easier experienced sites communicate their
knowledge to their members and to the consortium
good administrative background makes life much easier
Capable sites
Enthusiasm
well, there are not exactly recipes about that but, still, it is good to have Institutions strongly committed to the
project idea PhD students working for the project Senior scientists specialized in the
domain
Enthusiasm
PEOPLE SHOULD FEEL THAT THEY WORK FOR THEIR OWN PROJECT
AND METIS IS LIKE THAT
ON BEHALF OF THE METIS CONSORTIUM
THANK YOU