Hi,
Since we announced our plan for a project of expanding the EMILLE multilingual parallel corpora and an alignment competition last Monday (7th June), so far we have received emails showing interests and suport from people including:
Dekai Wu
HKUST, Homg Kong
Chris Callison-Burch
University of Edinburgh, UK
Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Chris Brew
The Ohio State University, US
Deryle Lonsdale
Brigham Young University, US
Xiaoyi Ma
LDC, University of Pennsylvania, US
Philip Resnik
University of Maryland, US
Antonio Rios
Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Peru
Min Zhang, Xingapore
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Niladri Chatterjee
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Adam Przepiorkowski
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
We would like to thank them for their support to our project proposal. If anyone is interested in taking part in the competition, please let us know (refer to our original anouncement attached below).
With best regards
Dr. Scott Piao
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Dept. of Linguistics and MEL
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
United Kingdom
Email: s.piao@lancaster.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1524 593025
Fax: +44 (0)1524 843085
-----Original Message-----
From: Piao, Songlin
Sent: Mon 07/06/2004 11:11
To: corpora@hd.uib.no
Cc:
Subject: corpus alignment competition
Hi,
We are planning a project in Lancaster, UK, aiming to expand and align the EMILLE multilingual parallel corpora. If funded the project will result in a parallel corpus of eleven languages (Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Panjabi, Polish, Somali, Urdu and Vietnamese). When we have expanded the corpus, we want to hold an alignment competition on this data. Because the languages involved include a wide range of typologically different/distant languages, the corpus should present a tough challenge to current alignment algorithms, and hence provide an excellent opportunity to test the ability of current alignment algorithms/tools on a wide range of languages.
At this stage we are asking for expressions of interest in taking part in the competition. We need these expressions of interest at this stage because we intend to include a small amount of money in the project budget for each competing team so that they can hire native speakers etc. to help tune their algorithms in advance of the competition proper. If you are interested in taking part in this alignment competition, please let us know by contacting Dr. Scott Piao (s.piao@lancaster.ac.uk) in the first instance.
Thank you,
Paul Baker, Tony McEnery & Scott Piao
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Dept. of Linguistics and MEL
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
United Kingdom
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