News Translation and Media Monitoring
Description
This project has been to translate written and spoken news, with a focus on Arabic media. Recently, we partnered with several European partners to participate in the EU H2020 SUMMA Project.
Demos
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QAT$ˆ2$
An automatic Arabic-to-English captioning and dubbing system -
Al-Jazeera News translation (Chrome, Firefox)
A static collection of news articles and related media content translated form Arabic to English.
Achievements
- December 2014Best in show demo at the BBC Labs NewsHack III - LangTech.
- September 2015Part of the SUMMA consortium, an EU Horizon 2020 funded Big Data project.
- June 2012First place constrained system at the WMT12 Spanish-English track.
Related Publications
QAT2 – The QCRI Advanced Transcription and Translation System
Ahmed Abdelali, Ahmed Ali, Francisco Guzmán, Felix Stahlberg, Stephan Vogel, Yifan Zhang. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2015.
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Ahmed Abdelali, Ahmed Ali, Francisco Guzmán, Felix Stahlberg, Stephan Vogel, Yifan Zhang. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2015.
PDF Abstract BibTex Software/Code
QCRI at WMT12: Experiments in Spanish-English and German-English Machine Translation of News Text
Francisco Guzmán, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Thabet, and Stephan Vogel. In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT'12), pages 298-303, 2012.
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Francisco Guzmán, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Thabet, and Stephan Vogel. In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT'12), pages 298-303, 2012.
PDF Abstract BibTex Slides