EC-MT-GPS - MLIS

(European Commission Machine Translation System for the Greek Public Sector)

Person responsible for the project: Athanassia Fourla
Start date: 01/01/2000
End date: 31/12/2001
Type and name of programme: MLIS/EC-MT-GPS

Summary - Main aims:

The main objective of this project was to lower the language barriers of Public Administrations in Greece by providing them with a machine translation tool and by spreading its use.

The EC-MT-GPS project aimed at:

• the further development of the machine translation system EC-SYSTRAN and in particular the language pair English -> Greek according to the needs of the Greek Public Sector
• the development of new language pairs under this platform: Greek-> English, French->Greek and Greek->French
• the development of new tools for the amelioration of the coding procedure of new terms and lemmas
• enrichment of the system's lexica with terminology by the users
• sensitization of the Greek Public Sector about MT technology and its benefits
• free machine translation services for the Greek Public Sector
• the creation of a user group, which evaluates the performance of the system

Main deliverables: Machine translation software for the following language pairs: English->Greek, Greek->English, French->Greek and Greek->French.

Consortium:
Coordinator: ILSP / R.C. "Athena".
Partners: SYSTRAN S.A and CTI.

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