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Rapid development of machine translation for low density languages. New Ideas Use machine learning to learn translation rules from native speakers who are not trained in linguistics or computer science.
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Rapid development of machine translation for low density languages • New Ideas • Use machine learning to learn translation rules from native speakers who are not trained in linguistics or computer science. • Multi-Engine translation architecture can flexibly take advantage of whatever resources are available. • Seeded version spaces for learning MT in data-poor situations. Interface for data elicitation • Impact • Rapid and low-cost development of machine translation for languages with scarce resources. • OMNIVOROUS MT (from scarce parallel corpora or indigenous informants). • Responsive to rapidly changing intelligence needs. Schedule September 01: Seeded Version Space learning– concept prototype (SVS). January 02: Example-Based Machine Translation (EMBT). July 02: Multi-Engine: EBMT, statistical MT, and SVS-ready evaluation of data-poor conditions. Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute: L. Levin, J. Carbonell, A. Lavie, R. Brown, J. Lafferty