Analysis and evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of machine Translation

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ACCURAT project presented at the 14th EAMT2010 annual conference

The ACCURAT project was presented by a poster at 14th annual European Association for Machine Translation conference that was organized from 2010-05-27 to 2010-05-28 in in Saint-Raphaël, France.

The poster was presented by Andreas Eisele.

 

 

 

Interested participant Marcello Federico was examining the project aims

| 2010-06-20 |

ACCURAT project presented at the Workshop on Methods for the automatic acquisition of Language Resources and their evaluation methods

The ACCURAT project was presented by a lecture at the "Workshop on on Methods for the automatic acquisition of Language Resources and their evaluation methods" that was held on 2010-05-23 as one of satellite workshops at the

The talk "ACCURAT: Metrics for the evaluation of comparability of multilingual corpora" was given by Andrejs Vasiljevs.

See the whole talk at our Video lectures pages.

| 2010-05-31 |

ACCURAT project presented at the 3rd BUCC

The 3rd "Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora" (BUCC) was held on 2010-05-22 as one of satellite workshops at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2010) in Malta. Since the workshop's primarily aim was to show the full breadth of research on comparable corpora, it seemed like a natural lieu to present the ACCURAT project. Presentations were staged by two consortium members whose papers were accepted in this workshop:

See the whole talks at our Video lectures pages.

| 2010-05-31 |

ACCURAT project participation at EC Projects Village successful

Three day presentation of the ACCURAT project took place at EC Projects Village in conjunction with LREC 2010 conference in Valletta, Malta between 2010-05-19 and 2010-05-21. The ACCURAT booth was set up and manned during all three days and its dissemination materials (poster, flyers and t-shirts) attracted a lot of attention thus raising awareness about the project in LT research community.

 

 

 

 

Inguna Skadiņa explaning the project goals

| 2010-05-27 |

ACCURAT project progress meeting held in Valletta

Joint with Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2010) in Malta an ACCURAT progress meeting was held in Valletta on 2010-05-18. Representatives from all partners were present and key issues regarding the deliverables in all WPs were discussed in four sessions starting from 9:00 until 19:00. With some minor adjustments the progress on the project is running as planned.

| 2010-05-26 |

ACCURAT project will participate in 3rd BUCC

3rd Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) will be held on 22nd of May, 2010 as one of satellite workshops at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2010) in Malta. By bringing together researchers from several disciplines the workshop aims at showing the full breadth of research on comparable corpora. Two papers by ACCURAT consortium are accepted for presentation in this workshop:

| 2010-05-12 |

ACCURAT project participates at EC Projects Village

The LREC 2010 conference has invited the EC projects to promote their activities and boost their dissemination efforts through their participation in the 7th edition of the conference, May 17-23, 2010 at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, Malta.

The EC Projects Village is being set up to promote EC-funded projects and it will be open from May 19 to 21 during the Main conference days. The EC-sponsored projects will participate in this exhibition and show their objectives, progress and activities, either through demos, or through brochures, leaflets or posters if the project is still at the early stages.

Since ACCURAT project has just started, we will participate in this last capacity showing our ideas, plans and expected results.

| 2010-05-03 |

ACCURAT presentation at Language Technology Days

ACCURAT project was presented by Andrejs Vasiljevs at Language Technology Days in Luxembourg, 22-23 March 2010. The project was presentated at Session 7: Presentation of newly started Language Resources projects where META-NET (T4ME), PANACEA and TTC projects also were presented.

| 2010-03-17 |

ACCURAT co-organizer of LREC2010 workshop

ACCURAT project is one of the organizers of the workshop "Methods for the automatic acquisition of Language Resources and their evaluation methods" that will be held as one of satellite workshops at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2010) in Malta on 23rd May 2010. More information is available at the workshop web pages here.

| 2010-03-12 |

ACCURAT project kick-off meeting

Kick-off meeting of the ACCURAT project took place in Tilde, SIA in Riga, Latvia on 2010-02-02 and 2010-02-03. After presentation of individual workpackages, the general procedures and the first steps were coordinated. Also the first deliverables were agreed upon.

 

 

Participants of the kick-off meeting in front of the Tilde building

| 2010-01-20 |

ACCURAT project started

Project ACCURAT that has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement n° 248347 started on 2010-01-01.

| 2010-01-01 |