Cooperation for Arabic Language Resources and Tools - The MEDAR Project

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. Cooper...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Bente Maegaard, Mohamed Attia, Khalid Choukri, Olivier Hamon, Steven Krauwer, Mustafa Yaseen
• Keywords: Cooperation Roadmap, Cooperation Stream, Education, LREC 2010, Technical Stream