An Open Architecture for Transfer-based Machine Translation between Spanish and Basque
Iñaki Alegria, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, Gorka Labaka, Mikel Lersundi, Aingeru Mayor, Kepa Sarasola, Mikel L. Forcada, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Lluís Padró · 2005
We present the current status of development of an open architecture for the translation from Spanish into Basque. The machine translation architecture uses an opensource analyser for Spanish and new modules mainly based on finitestate transducers. The project is integrated in the OpenTrad initiative, a larger governmentfunded project shared among different universities and small companies, which will also include MT engines for translation among the main languages in Spain. The main objective is the construction of an open, reusable and interoperable framework. This paper describes the design ofthe engine, the formats it uses for the communication among the modules, the modules reused from other project named Matxin and the new modules we are building. 1.