In this paper, we describe the adaptation process
of Apertium, a free/open-source rule-based machine translation
platform which is operating in a number of different real-life
contexts, to the linguistic needs of the Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC), a private elearning
university based in Barcelona where linguistic and cultural
diversity is a crucial factor. This paper describes the main
features of the Apertium platform and the practical developments
required ...
In this paper, we describe the adaptation process
of Apertium, a free/open-source rule-based machine translation
platform which is operating in a number of different real-life
contexts, to the linguistic needs of the Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC), a private elearning
university based in Barcelona where linguistic and cultural
diversity is a crucial factor. This paper describes the main
features of the Apertium platform and the practical developments
required to fully adapt it to UOC’s linguistic needs. The settting
up of a translation service at UOC based on Apertium shows
the growing interest of large institutions with translation needs
for open-source solutions in which their investment is oriented
toward adding value to the available features to offer the best
possible adapted service to their user community.
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