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Summer internship program. Call open till May 25, 2013


  MateCat invites MA/MS and PhD students interested in carrying out research projects on NLP  to consider the 2013 summer internship program available at FBK-irst (Trento, Italy). This a valuable occasion to work directly with a strong research group in Human Language Technology on one of various language technology topics proposed, some of them related to [...]

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MateCat at MT Summit 2013


Tutorial: MateCat: an open source CAT Tool for MT post-editing Organizers: Marcello Federico, FBK Trento, Marco Trombetti, Translated srl. Where: Machine Translation Summit XIV, Nice, France When:  3 September 2013 This tutorial will introduce MateCat, an enterprise-level computer assisted translation tool, designed to enable researchers and developers to efficiently run real-life post-editing experiments and to measure the [...]

feb

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Spreading the word about MateCat


During the first year, the MateCat project was presented to a group of selected industry players representing key translation buyers in Santa Clara, California, and at the most important international and national conferences on Machine Translation. The goal of the meetings was to showcase the development status of the project and to identify areas where [...]

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Self-tuning machine translation increases productivity for 7 out of 8 translators


The MateCat technology run the first field test involving professional translators working with the MateCat tool to measure the impact of self-tuning machine translation (MT) on user productivity. Results of the field test showed that self-tuning MT has indeed a positive effect on user productivity both in terms of time to edit (the average translation [...]

feb

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Testing MateCat in a real-world scenario


Starting mid-February, Translated, the language service provider responsible for the development of the CAT tool component, will be integrating the MateCat technology in its workflow aiming at deploying the MateCat tool on 5% of its translation projects by the end of March 2013. Over the past few months, the MateCat consortium worked hard to develop [...]

feb

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MateCat rated ‘Excellent’ by the European Commission


November 2012 marked the end of the first year of the MateCat project. The MateCat team received encouraging reviews and comments from the European Commission which stated that “the project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations”. The reviewers were positively impressed by our work and [...]

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MateCat at Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag 2013


Ulrich Germann, from the University of Edinburgh, will show MateCat in a demo at Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag 2013, on 24 January 2013 in Berlin. This event is organized by the Network of Excellence forging the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance (META-NET),  the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the German Society for Computational Linguistics and [...]

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Trentino School of Management: first impression on the MateCat Tool


On December 21st, 2012 Marcello Federico, FBK, held a laboratory with the MateCat Tool at the Master in “Language and Law” of the TSM, Trentino School of Management, based in Trento, Italy. This cross-disciplinary master offers specific and professionalizing training in the field of linguistics and legal translation and intends to train linguists – legal [...]

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MateCat at COLING 2012


Holger Schwenk will present the paper Continuous Space Translation Models for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation at the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), December 13, Bombay, Poster Session 3, 10.15-11.45h IST. The COLING conference, is organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), at IIT Bombay (Mumbai, India), from 8-15 December 2012, under [...]

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MateCat at IWSLT 2012


Holger Schwenk will present the paper Incremental Adaptation Using Translation Information and Post-Editing Analysis, written with Fréderic Blain and Jean Senellart at the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), December 7 Hong Kong,  Poster Session II, 16.00-17.30h HKT. The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on spoken [...]

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MateCat at AMTA 2012: Testing Machine Translation Performance


How to measure the quality of MT engines by testing them through the system developed by the MateCat project. Marcello Federico, Alessandro Cattelan and Marco Trombetti, members of the MateCat Project, will talk about this during the Tenth Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), San Diego CA, 28 October-1 [...]

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Taus Conference 2012


How to use technology to help users communicate better. That is the theme of the Taus User Conference 2012, a non-sponsored event which focuses on translation automation, localization, business innovation and industry collaboration, held in Seattle (October 15-16, 2012). Marco Trombetti, CEO of Translated and member of the MateCat Project, is one of the speakers [...]

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Holger Schwenk today at the Chambre Nationale des Entreprises de Traduction


Today Holger Schwenk, director of the Computer Science Insitute in Le Mans, gives a talk on the principles of Statistical Machine Ttranslation at the CNET (Chambre Nationale des Entreprises de Traduction, France). This will be also an occasion to briefly present the MateCat CAT tool. Please click here to see the programme.