Example-Based Machine Translation 20 August 2004

Back Row L-R: Mr Xiao Wang, International Office, Jianmin Yao (HIT), Mary Hearne, postgrad, Yang Muyung (HIT) From L-R: Charles McCorkell, Dean of the faculty Engineering and Computing, Prof Tiejun Zhao HIT, project leader, Dr Any Way project leader, Nano Gough, DCU,postgrad

In January 2004, Dr Andy Way of the School of Computing received a grant for a 2-year project aimed at developing an Example-Based Machine Translation (MT) system for Chinese-English that will learn from previously submitted translations. This research is funded by SFI and the Royal Irish Academy. This work is being undertaken with colleagues from the MT Lab at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China, led by Prof. Tiejun Zhao.

Dr Way and two postgraduate students, Nano Gough and Mary Hearne, visited China for 3 weeks in March this year for the inaugural project meeting, and the Chinese partners are currently visiting DCU on a follow-up meeting. Work is progressing according to schedule, and both groups look forward to continuing this research project in 2005.