Publications

2016

Rehm, Georg. “Cracker – Cracking The Language Barrier: Coordination, Evaluation And Resources For European Mt Research. Selected Results 2015/2016”. In Proceedings Of The 19Th Annual Conference Of The European Association For Machine Translation (Eamt 2016), Riga, Latvia, 2016.

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Burchardt, Aljoscha, Kim Harris, Georg Rehm, and Hans Uszkoreit. “Towards A Systematic And Human-Informed Paradigm For High-Quality Machine Translation”. In Proceedings Of The Lrec 2016 Workshop Translation Evaluation: From Fragmented Tools And Data Sets To An Integrated Ecosystem, Georg Rehm, Burchardt, Aljoscha, Bojar, Ondrej, Dugast, Christian, Federico, Marcello, van Genabith, Josef, Haddow, Barry, et al.35-42. Georg Rehm, Burchardt, Aljoscha, Bojar, Ondrej, Dugast, Christian, Federico, Marcello, van Genabith, Josef, Haddow, Barry, et al., 35-42, Portorož, Slovenia, 2016. http://www.cracking-the-language-barrier.eu/wp-content/uploads/Burchardt-et-al.pdf.
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Since the advent of modern statistical machine translation (SMT), much progress in system perfor- mance has been achieved that went hand-in-hand with ever more sophisticated mathematical models and methods. Numerous small improvements have been reported whose lasting effects are hard to judge, especially when they are combined with other newly proposed modifications of the basic models. Often the measured enhancements are hardly visible with the naked eye and two performance advances of the same measured magnitude are difficult to compare in their qualitative effects. We sense a strong need for a paradigm in MT research and development (R&D), that pays more attention to the subject matter, i. e., translation, and that analytically concentrates on the many different challenges for quality translation. The approach we propose utilizes the knowledge and experience of professional translators throughout the entire R&D cycle. It focuses on empirically confirmed quality barriers with the help of standardised error metrics that are supported by a system of interoperable methods and tools and are shared by research and translation business.
Rehm, Georg, Jan Hajic, Josef van Genabith, and Andrejs Vasiļjevs. “Fostering The Next Generation Of European Language Technology: Recent Developments – Emerging Initiatives – Challenges And Opportunities”. In Proceedings Of The 10Th Language Resources And Evaluation Conference (Lrec 2016), Nicoletta Calzolari, Choukri, Khalid, Declerck, Thierry, Grobelnik, Marko, Maegaard, Bente, Mariani, Joseph, Moreno, Asuncion, Odijk, Jan, and Piperidis, Stelios1586-1592. Nicoletta Calzolari, Choukri, Khalid, Declerck, Thierry, Grobelnik, Marko, Maegaard, Bente, Mariani, Joseph, Moreno, Asuncion, Odijk, Jan, and Piperidis, Stelios, 1586-1592, Portorož, Slovenia: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2016. http://georg-re.hm/pdf/LREC-2016-META-NET.pdf.
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Rehm, Georg, Aljoscha Burchardt, Ondrej Bojar, Christian Dugast, Marcello Federico, Josef van Genabith, Barry Haddow, et al., eds. Proceedings Of The Lrec 2016 Workshop Translation Evaluation: From Fragmented Tools And Data Sets To An Integrated Ecosystem, Portorož, Slovenia, 2016. http://www.cracking-the-language-barrier.eu/mt-eval-workshop-2016.
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Harris, Kim, Aljoscha Burchardt, Georg Rehm, and Lucia Specia. “Technology Landscape For Quality Evaluation: Combining The Needs Of Research And Industry”. In Proceedings Of The Lrec 2016 Workshop Translation Evaluation: From Fragmented Tools And Data Sets To An Integrated Ecosystem, Georg Rehm, Burchardt, Aljoscha, Bojar, Ondrej, Dugast, Christian, Federico, Marcello, van Genabith, Josef, Haddow, Barry, et al.50-54. Georg Rehm, Burchardt, Aljoscha, Bojar, Ondrej, Dugast, Christian, Federico, Marcello, van Genabith, Josef, Haddow, Barry, et al., 50-54, Portorož, Slovenia, 2016.
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Translation quality evaluation (QE) has gained significant uptake in recent years, in particular in light of increased demand for automated translation workflows and machine translation. Despite the need for innovative and forward-looking quality evaluation solutions, the technology landscape remains highly fragmented and the two major consituencies in need of collaborative and ground-breaking technology are still very divided. This paper will demonstrate that closer cooperation between users of QE technology in research and industry to create a holistic but highly adaptable environment for all aspects of the translation improvement process, most signficantly quality evaluation, can lead the way to novel and ground-breaking achievements in accelerated improvement in machine translation results.
Rehm, Georg. “Cracking The Language Barrier For A Multilingual Europe”. In Language Use In Public Administration. Contributions To The Annual Conference 2015 Of Efnil In Helsinki, Gerhard Stickel and Nuolijärvi, PirkkoGerhard Stickel and Nuolijärvi, Pirkko, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern etc.: Peter Lang, 2016.
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(ed.), Georg Rehm. “Language As A Data Type And Key Challenge For Big Data. Strategic Research And Innovation Agenda For The Multilingual Digital Single Market. Enabling The Multilingual Digital Single Market Through Technologies For Translating, Analysing, Processing And Curating Natural Language Content”, 2016. http://cracker-project.eu/sria/.
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2015

Shah, Kashif, Raymond W. M. Ng, Fethi Bougares, and Lucia Specia. “Investigating Continuous Space Language Models For Machine Translation Quality Estimation”. In Proceedings Of The 2015 Conference On Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing, 1073-1078, Lisbon, Portugal: The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015. http://aclweb.org/anthology/D15-1125.

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Shah, Kashif, Varvara Logacheva, Gustavo Paetzold, Frédéric Blain, Daniel Beck, Fethi Bougares, and Lucia Specia. “Shef-Nn: Translation Quality Estimation With Neural Networks.”. In Proceedings Of The Tenth Workshop On Statistical Machine Translation, 342-347, Lisbon, Portugal: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W15-3041.
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Rehm, Georg, ed. “Strategic Agenda For The Multilingual Digital Single Market - Technologies For Overcoming Language Barriers Towards A Truly Integrated European Online Market”, 2015. http://cracker-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/mdsm-sria-draft.pdf.
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Rehm, Georg. “Cracker: Cracking The Language Barrier”. In Proceedings Of The 18Th Annual Conference Of The European Association For Machine Translation (Eamt 2015), Ilknur Durgar El-Kahlout, Özkan, Mehmed, Sánchez-Martínez, Felipe, Ramírez-Sánchez, Gema, Hollowoodand, Fred, and Way, Andy223. Ilknur Durgar El-Kahlout, Özkan, Mehmed, Sánchez-Martínez, Felipe, Ramírez-Sánchez, Gema, Hollowoodand, Fred, and Way, Andy, 223, Antalya, Turkey, 2015.
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