no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Jonathan David Mutal, Pierrette Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach, Veronika Haberkorn
In Switzerland, two thirds of the population speak Swiss German, a primarily spoken language with no standardised written form.
no code implementations • EAMT 2020 • Jonathan Mutal, Johanna Gerlach, Pierrette Bouillon, Hervé Spechbach
In diagnostic interviews, elliptical utterances allow doctors to question patients in a more efficient and economical way.
no code implementations • EAMT 2020 • Paula Estrella, Emiliano Cuenca, Laura Bruno, Jonathan Mutal, Sabrina Girletti, Lise Volkart, Pierrette Bouillon
We believe that machine translation (MT) must be introduced to translation students as part of their training, in preparation for their professional life.
no code implementations • RANLP 2021 • Magali Norré, Vincent Vandeghinste, Pierrette Bouillon, Thomas François
We present an adaptation of the Text-to-Picto system, initially designed for Dutch, and extended to English and Spanish.
no code implementations • EAMT 2022 • Lise Volkart, Pierrette Bouillon
The past few years have seen the multiplication of studies on post-editese, following the massive adoption of post-editing in professional translation workflows.
no code implementations • EAMT 2022 • Pierrette Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach, Jonathan Mutal, Marianne Starlander
We present the PASSAGE project, which aims at automatic Standard German subtitling of Swiss German TV content.
no code implementations • ACL (NLP4PosImpact) 2021 • Pierrette Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach, Jonathan Mutal, Nikos Tsourakis, Hervé Spechbach
In this overview article we describe an application designed to enable communication between health practitioners and patients who do not share a common language, in situations where professional interpreters are not available.
no code implementations • AMTA 2022 • Jonathan Mutal, Pierrette Bouillon, Magali Norré, Johanna Gerlach, Lucia Ormaechea Grijalba
The use of images has been shown to positively affect patient comprehension in medical settings, in particular to deliver specific medical instructions.
no code implementations • RANLP 2019 • Jonathan Mutal, Lise Volkart, Pierrette Bouillon, Sabrina Girletti, Paula Estrella
In this study, we compare the output quality of two MT systems, a statistical (SMT) and a neural (NMT) engine, customised for Swiss Post{'}s Language Service using the same training data.
no code implementations • 7 Oct 2015 • Manny Rayner, Alejandro Armando, Pierrette Bouillon, Sarah Ebling, Johanna Gerlach, Sonia Halimi, Irene Strasly, Nikos Tsourakis
We present a new platform, "Regulus Lite", which supports rapid development and web deployment of several types of phrasal speech translation systems using a minimal formalism.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Violeta Seretan, Pierrette Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach
The user-generated content represents an increasing share of the information available today.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Silvia Rodr{\'\i}guez V{\'a}zquez, Pierrette Bouillon, Anton Bolfing
At present, inappropriate text alternatives for images in the Web continue to pose web accessibility barriers for people with special needs.
no code implementations • JEPTALNRECITAL 2013 • Johanna Gerlach, Victoria Porro, Pierrette Bouillon, Sabine Lehmann
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach
We describe an experiment carried out using a French version of CALL-SLT, a web-enabled CALL game in which students at each turn are prompted to give a semi-free spoken response which the system then either accepts or rejects.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Pierrette Bouillon, Elisabetta Jezek, Chiara Melloni, Aur{\'e}lie Picton
The goal of this paper is to provide an annotation scheme for compounds based on generative lexicon theory (GL, Pustejovsky, 1995; Bassac and Bouillon, 2001).