Machine Translation for Microblogs

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Sponsored by: FCT (CMUP-EPB/TIC/0026/2013)
Start: January 2015
End: December 2015

INESC-ID Team

PI: Isabel Trancoso

UNBABEL TEAM

Carnegie Mellon University Team

Summary

The MT4M project develops machine translation systems for content in microblogs, such as Twitter. This domain is characterized by creative use of language, dialectal lexemes, and informal register, which challenge traditional systems. Our earlier work towards this goal explored the fact that parallel data may be found in microblogs, in order to build a normalization model. In our recent work deals with the lexical sparsity that characterizes this domain by proposing character-based word representation models that explore orthographic properties of the language. The advantages of the model go far beyond the machine translation task, generalizing to several other NLP tasks.

Publications

Luís Marujo, José Portêlo, Wang Ling, David Martins de Matos, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Anatole Gershman, Jaime Carbonell, Isabel Trancoso, Bhiksha Raj, Privacy-Preserving Multi-Document Summarization, In ACM SIGIR Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 2015

Wang Ling, Chris Dyer, Alan Black, Isabel Trancoso, Paraphrasing 4 Microblog Normalization, In 2013 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, ACL, Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2013