The Project DBR-MAT

An Intelligent MAT System for Structurally Different Languages

Aim:

Investigation and pilot implementation of a MAT system combining a knowledge-based approach with statistical methods for NLP

Background

The DBR-MAT project dwells upon the ideas and the demo implementation of DB-MAT.

Funded by:

Volkswagen Foundation May 1996 - 1998

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Project Leader:

Walther v.Hahn, University of Hamburg

International Project Partners:

• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, contact person Galia Angelova
• University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science Department, contact person Florentina Hristea

Scientists:

Results:

DB-MAT results are communicated by research papers and tested in a pilot implementation with an extendable architecture. A list of all technical reports delivered to the Volkswagen Foundation is available as well.

Publications:

• Galja Angelova, Kalina Boncheva: "Task-Dependent Aspects of Knowledge Acquisition: a Case Study in a Technical Domain". Accepted at ICCS-97, Seattle, Washington, August 1997. To appear in Lecture Notes in AT.
• Galja Angelova, Kalina Boncheva: "Constructing Domain Knowledge Bases for Flexible Explanation Generation". Submitted to RANLP-97. To appaer in the proceedings.
• Walther v.Hahn: Computermodelle der Sprache und des Sprechens, In: V. Braitenberg und I. Hosp (Hrsg.): Simulation. Hamburg 1995. p. 80 - 99
• Walther v.Hahn: Machine Translation. In: Proceedings of the EU Awareness Day Bukarest Bucharest 1996.
• Walther v.Hahn: Die Verbindung lexikalischer und terminologischer Definition. Lösungen in einem Übersetzungs-Unter-stüt-zungs-system. In: In: Knobloch, C. und B. Schaeder (Hrsg), Nomination - fachsprachlich und gemeinsprachlich. Opladen 1996. p. 187 - 214
• Walther v.Hahn und Galja Angelova: Combining Terminology, Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation in Machine Aided Translation. In: Christian Galinski & Klaus-Dirk Schmitz (eds.) TKE'96, Terminology and Knowledge Engineering. Frankfurt1996. p. 304 - 314

System Presentations

• - August 1996: ICCS-96 in Sydney, Australia.
• - August 1996: COLING-96 in Copenhagen
• - August 1996. TKE-96 in Vienna.
• - September 1996: AIMSA-96, Tsigov Park, Bulgaria
• - September 1996, CS Department Bucharest
• - December 1996: Slawisches Seminar Universität Hamburg
• - March1997: Wolverhampton, UK
• - May 1997: Workshop ãKnowledge HierarchiesÒ in Copenhagen
• - May 1997: within v.Hahn's lecture in Aalborg. Danmark
• - June 1997: EAMT Workshop in Copenhagen
• - Summer Term 1997, University of Sofia within Dr. Angelova's NLP lecture.

Technical reports:

The following technical reports are either available here as postscript files or could be obtained on request from Walther v.Hahn:

• Galja Angelova, Kalina Boncheva: Generation of Explanations in DBR-MAT. State of the Art and Future Development (BG-1-97)
• Galja Angelova: Term Translation Checker: Feasibility Study and Design of a Term Checker Module in DBR-MAT (BG-2-97)
• Walther v.Hahn: Technical Language and its Translation (HH-1-97)