Language Resources Factory: case study on the acquisition of Translation Memories

Poch, Marc; Toral, Antonio; Bel Rafecas, Núria

Language Resources Factory: case study on the acquisition of Translation Memories

Citation

Poch M, Toral A, Bel N. Language Resources Factory: case study on the acquisition of Translation Memories. In: EACL 2012: Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; 2012 April 23-27; Avignon France. Stroudsburg (USA): Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL); 2012. p. 1-5.

Abstract

This paper demonstrates a novel distributed architecture to facilitate the acquisition of Language Resources. We build a factory that automates the stages involved in the acquisition, production, updating and maintenance of these resources. The factory is designed as a platform where functionalities are deployed as web services, which can be combined in complex acquisition chains using workflows. We show a case study, which acquires a Translation Memory for a given pair of languages and a domain using web services for crawling, sentence alignment and conversion to TMX.