Publications

There follows a non-comprehensive list of publications involving Apertium, ordered by date. Please feel free to add your paper about Apertium.

2011

• Jacob Nordfalk kaj Hèctor Alòs i Font "Apertium kaj Esperanto - Enkonduko al peregula maŝintradukado al kaj el Esperanto per malfermkoda platformo". Teleskopo (2011) 3: 1-81.

• Martha Dís Brandt, Hrafn Loftsson, Hlynur Sigurþórsson, and Francis M.Tyers: "Apertium-IceNLP: a rule-based Icelandic to English machine translation system. EAMT 2011: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 30-31 May 2011, Leuven, Belgium; eds. Mikel L.Forcada, Heidi Depraetere, Vincent Vandeghinste; pp.217-224.

• Xavier Ivars-Ribes & Victor M.Sánchez-Cartagena: A widely used machine translation service and its migration to a free/open-source solution: the case of Softcatalà. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, Barcelona, Spain, January 20-21, 2011, ed. F.Sánchez-Martínez and J.A.Pérez-Ortiz; pp.61-68.

• Pim Otte & Francis M.Tyers: Rapid rule-based machine translation between Dutch and Afrikaans. EAMT 2011: proceedings of the 15th conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 30-31 May 2011, Leuven, Belgium; eds. Mikel L.Forcada, Heidi Depraetere, Vincent Vandeghinste; pp.153-160.

• Joanna Ruth & Jimmy O’Regan: Shallow-transfer rule-based machine translation from Czech to Polish. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, Barcelona, Spain, January 20-21, 2011, ed. F.Sánchez-Martínez and J.A.Pérez-Ortiz; pp.69-76.

• Antonio Toral & Andy Way: Automatic acquisition of named entities for rule-based machine translation. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, Barcelona, Spain, January 20-21, 2011, ed. F.Sánchez-Martínez and J.A.Pérez-Ortiz; pp.37-43.

• Antonio Toral, Mireia Ginestí-Rosell, & Francis Tyers: An Italian to Catalan RBMT system reusing data from existing language pairs. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, Barcelona, Spain, January 20-21, 2011, ed. F.Sánchez-Martínez and J.A.Pérez-Ortiz; pp.77-81.

2010

• Linda Wiechetek, Francis M. Tyers and Thomas Omma (2010) "Shooting at flies in the dark: Rule-based lexical selection for a minority language pair". Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence vol. 6233/2010, pp. 418--429

• Francis M. Tyers (2010) "Rule-based Breton to French machine translation". 'Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT10', pp. 174--181

• Sergio Penkale, Rejwanul Haque, Sandipan Dandapat, Pratyush Banerjee, Ankit K. Srivastava, Jinhua Du, Pavel Pecina, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Mikel L. Forcada, Andy Way, "MaTrEx: the DCU MT system for WMT 2010", in Proceedings of WMT 2010: The ACL 2010 Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR (to be presented)

• Aline Villavicencio, Carlos Ramisch, André Machado, Maria José ́Finatto, Helena de Medeiros Caseli (2010) "Identificação de Expressões Multipalavra em Domínios Específicos". Linguamatica 2(1) pp. 15--34

• Sánchez-Cartagena, V. M. and Pérez-Ortiz, J. A. (2010) "ScaleMT: a free/open-source framework for building scalable machine translation web services". The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 93, pp. 97--106.

• Tyers, F. M. and Sánchez-Martínez, F. and Ortiz-Rojas, S. and Forcada, M. L. (2010) "Free/open-source resources in the Apertium platform for machine translation research and development". The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 93, pp. 67--76

• François Masselot, Petra Ribiczey, & Gema Ramírez-Sánchez (2010) "Using the Apertium Spanish-Brazilian Portuguese machine translation system for localization". EAMT 2010: Proceedings of the 14th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 27-28 May 2010, Saint-Raphaël, France. Proceedings ed.Viggo Hansen and François Yvon; 8pp. [PDF, 577KB]; presentation: 23 slides [PDF, 569KB]

• Septina Dian Larasati and Vladislav Kuboň (2010) "A Study of Indonesian-to-Malaysian MT System". MALINDO 2010: Proceedings of the 4th International MALINDO Workshop. Jakarta, Indonesia, 2 August 2010.

2009

• Sánchez-Cartagena, V. M. and Pérez-Ortiz, J. A. (2009) "An open-source highly scalable web service architecture for the Apertium machine translation engine". First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, Alicante, Spain, pp. 51--58.

• Ginestí-Rosell, M. and Ramírez-Sánchez, G. and Ortiz-Rojas, S. and Tyers, F. M. and Forcada, M. L. (2009) "Development of a free Basque to Spanish machine translation system". Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural No. 43. pp. 187--195

• Tyers, F. M. (2009) "Rule-based augmentation of training data in Breton–French statistical machine translation". Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT09.

• Tyers, F. M. and Wiechetek, L. and Trosterud, T. (2009) "Developing prototypes for machine translation between two Sámi languages". Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT09.

• (bibtex) Sánchez-Martínez, F. and Forcada, M.L. (2009). "Inferring shallow-transfer machine translation rules from small parallel corpora". In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. volume 34, p. 605-635.

• Sánchez-Martínez, F. and Forcada, M.L. and Way, A. (2009) "Hybrid rule-based ‒ example-based MT: Feeding Apertium with sub-sentential translation units". In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, p. 11-18, Dublin, Ireland.

• Sheikh, Z.M.A.W. and Sánchez-Martínez, F. (2009) "A trigram part-of-speech tagger for the Apertium free/open-source machine translation platform". In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, p. 67-74, Alacant, Spain.

• Tyers, Francis M. and Donnelly, Kevin (2009) "apertium-cy - a collaboratively-developed free RBMT system for Welsh to English". The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 91, pp. 57-66.

• Unhammer, Kevin; Trosterud, Trond. "Reuse of free resources in machine translation between Nynorsk and Bokmål". In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation / Edited by Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Francis M. Tyers. Alicante : Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, 2009, pp. 35-42

2008

• Homola, Petr and Kuboň, Vladislav (2008). "Improving Machine Translation Between Closely Related Romance Languages". Proceedings of the European Association of Machine Translation, Hamburg.

• (bibtex) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada (2008). "Using target-language information to train part-of-speech taggers for machine translation". In Machine Translation, volume 22, numbers 1-2, p. 29-66.

• (bibtex) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez (2008). "Using unsupervised corpus-based methods to build rule-based machine translation systems". PhD thesis, Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Infomàtics, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain.

• Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Mikel L. Forcada (2008). "Automatic induction of bilingual resources from aligned parallel corpora: application to shallow-transfer machine translation". In Machine Translation, volume 20, numbers 4, p. 227-245.

• Carme Armentano Oller and Mikel L. Forcada (2002) “Reutilización de datos lingüísticos para la creación de un sistema de traducción automática para un nuevo par de lenguas”. Procesamiento del lenguaje natural. N. 41 (sept. 2008). ISSN 1135-5948, pp. 243-250

2007

• (bibtex) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L. Forcada (2007) "Automatic induction of shallow-transfer rules for open-source machine translation", in Proceedings of TMI, The Eleventh Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2007) (Skövde, Sweden, 7-9/09/2007) , p. 181--190
• (bibtex) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Carme Armentano-Oller, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada (2007) "Training part-of-speech taggers to build machine translation systems for less-resourced language pairs", Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, (XXIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural ,Sevilla, Spain, 10-12/09/2007; accepted) 39, 257--264
• (bibtex) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada (2007) "Integrating corpus-based and rule-based approaches in an open-source machine translation system". in Proceedings of METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation, a workshop at CLIN 17 - Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands ((Leuven, Belgium, 11/01/2007)) , p. 73--8
• (bibtex) Carme Armentano-Oller, Antonio M. Corbí-Bellot, Mikel L. Forcada, Mireia Ginestí-Rosell, Marco A. Montava, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez (2007) "Apertium, una plataforma de código abierto para el desarrollo de sistemas de traducción automática", in Proceedings of FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Systems) International Conference ((7-9/03/2007, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain)) , p. 5--20

2006

• Carme Armentano-Oller, Mikel L. Forcada (2006) "Open-source machine translation between small languages: Catalan and Aranese Occitan", in Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages (5th SALTMIL workshop on Minority Languages) (organized in conjunction with LREC 2006 (22-28.05.2006)) , p. 51-54
• (bibtex) Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada (2006) "Opentrad Apertium open-source machine translation system: an opportunity for business and research", in Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 28 Conference ((London, november 16--17, 2006))
• (bibtex) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada (2006) "Speeding up target-language driven part-of-speech tagger training for machine translation". in Lecture notes in Computer Science vol. 4293: MICAI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence.5th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Apizaco, Mexico, November 13-17, 2006. Proceedings. ((c) Springer-Verlag 2006) , p. 844-854
• (bibtex) Carme Armentano-Oller, Rafael C. Carrasco, Antonio M. Corbí-Bellot, Mikel L. Forcada, Mireia Ginestí-Rosell, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Miriam A. Scalco (2006) "Open-source Portuguese-Spanish machine translation", in In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3960 (Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Computational Processing of Written and Spoken Portuguese, PROPOR 2006), May 13-17, 2006, ME - RJ / Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ((c) Springer-Verlag 2006) , p. 50-59
• Forcada, Mikel L. (2006) "Open-source machine translation: an opportunity for minor languages" in Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages (5th SALTMIL workshop on Minority Languages) (organised in conjunction with LREC 2006 (22-28.05.2006))

2005

• (bibtex) Carme Armentano-Oller, Antonio M. Corbí-Bellot, Mikel L. Forcada, Mireia Ginestí-Rosell, Boyan Bonev, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez (2005) "An open-source shallow-transfer machine translation toolbox: consequences of its release and availability", in Proceedings of OSMaTran: Open-Source Machine Translation, A workshop at Machine Translation Summit X (Phuket, Thailand, September 12--16, 2005),
• (bibtex) Antonio M. Corbí-Bellot, Mikel L. Forcada, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Gema Sánchez-Ramírez, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Iñaki Alegria, Aingeru Mayor, Kepa Sarasola (2005) "An open-source shallow-transfer machine translation engine for the romance languages of Spain", in Proceedings of the European Associtation for Machine Translation, 10th Annual Conference (Budapest, Hungary, 30-31.05.2005), p. 79--86
• Ortiz-Rojas, S., Forcada, M. L., and Ramírez-Sánchez, G. (2005) "Construccion y minimización eficiente de transductores de letras a partir de diccionarios con paradigmas". Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 35, 51–57.