Signing Avatar Performance Evaluation within EASIER Project

no code implementations • SLTAT (LREC) 2022 • Athanasia-Lida Dimou, Vassilis Papavassiliou, John McDonald, Theodore Goulas, Kyriaki Vasilaki, Anna Vacalopoulou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Eleni Efthimiou, Rosalee Wolfe

One major goal of the project is the direct involvement of sign language (SL) users at every stage of development of the project’s signing avatar.

SciPar: A Collection of Parallel Corpora from Scientific Abstracts

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Dimitrios Roussis, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Stelios Piperidis, Vassilis Katsouros

This paper presents SciPar, a new collection of parallel corpora created from openly available metadata of bachelor theses, master theses and doctoral dissertations hosted in institutional repositories, digital libraries of universities and national archives.

Machine Translation Sentence +1

Constructing Parallel Corpora from COVID-19 News using MediSys Metadata

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Dimitrios Roussis, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Prokopis Prokopidis, Stelios Piperidis

This paper presents a collection of parallel corpora generated by exploiting the COVID-19 related dataset of metadata created with the Europe Media Monitor (EMM) / Medical Information System (MediSys) processing chain of news articles.

Machine Translation Translation

Findings of the Covid-19 MLIA Machine Translation Task

no code implementations • 14 Nov 2022 • Francisco Casacuberta, Alexandru Ceausu, Khalid Choukri, Miltos Deligiannis, Miguel Domingo, Mercedes García-Martínez, Manuel Herranz, Guillaume Jacquet, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Stelios Piperidis, Prokopis Prokopidis, Dimitris Roussis, Marwa Hadj Salah

This work presents the results of the machine translation (MT) task from the Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval initiative, a community effort to improve the generation of MT systems focused on the current Covid-19 crisis.

Machine Translation Transfer Learning +1

The ILSP/ARC submission to the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Shared Task

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Vassilis Papavassiliou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Prokopis Prokopidis, Stelios Piperidis

We also discuss alternative methods for ranking the sentence pairs of the most appropriate clusters with the aim of generating the two datasets (of 10 and 100 million words as required in the task) that were evaluated.

Clustering Language Modelling +3

Discovering Parallel Language Resources for Training MT Engines

no code implementations • LREC 2018 • Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Stelios Piperidis

Language Identification Machine Translation

The ILSP/ARC submission to the WMT 2016 Bilingual Document Alignment Shared Task

no code implementations • WS 2016 • Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Stelios Piperidis

Language Identification Machine Translation +1

Parallel Global Voices: a Collection of Multilingual Corpora with Citizen Media Stories

no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Prokopis Prokopidis, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Stelios Piperidis

We present a new collection of multilingual corpora automatically created from the content available in the Global Voices websites, where volunteers have been posting and translating citizen media stories since 2004.

Abu-MaTran at WMT 2015 Translation Task: Morphological Segmentation and Web Crawling

no code implementations • WS 2015 • Raphael Rubino, Tommi Pirinen, Miquel Espl{\`a}-Gomis, Nikola Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Antonio Toral

Machine Translation Translation

Abu-MaTran: Automatic building of Machine Translation

no code implementations • EAMT 2016 • Antonio Toral, Tommi A. Pirinen, Andy Way, Gema Ram{\'\i}rez-S{\'a}nchez, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Raphael Rubino, Miquel Espl{\`a}, Mikel L. Forcada, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Nikola Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}

Machine Translation Transfer Learning +1

Comparing two acquisition systems for automatically building an English---Croatian parallel corpus from multilingual websites

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Miquel Espl{\`a}-Gomis, Filip Klubi{\v{c}}ka, Nikola Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis

We used both tools for crawling 21 multilingual websites from the tourism domain to build a domain-specific English―Croatian parallel corpus.

Information Retrieval Machine Translation +1

A modular open-source focused crawler for mining monolingual and bilingual corpora from the web

no code implementations • WS 2013 • Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Gregor Thurmair

Machine Translation Text Classification