@conference{_2008 METISII,
author = "Schmidt, P. and Vandeghinste, V. and Dirix, P. and Schuurman, I. and Markantonatou, Stella and Sofianopoulos, Sokratis and Yannoutsou, Olga and Vassiliou, Marina and Piperidis, Stelios and Melero, M. and Carl, M.",
abstract = "In this paper we describe the METIS-II system and its evaluation on each of the language pairs: Dutch, German, Greek, and Spanish to English. The METIS-II system envisaged developing a data-driven approach in which no parallel corpus is required, and in which no full parser or extensive rule sets are needed. We describe evalution on a development test set and on a test set coming from Europarl, and compare our results with SYSTRAN. We also provide some further analysis, researching the impact of the number and source of the reference translations and analysing the results according to test text type. The results are expectably lower for the METIS system, but not at an unatainable distance from a mature system like SYSTRAN.

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address = "Marrakech, Morocco",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)",
editor = "Calzolari N.; Choukri K.; Maegaard B.; Mariani J.; Odjik J.; Piperidis S.; Tapias D.",
isbn = "2-9517408-4-0",
month = "28-30 Μαΐου",
organization = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
pages = "449-456",
title = "{E}valuation of a {M}achine {T}ranslation {S}ystem for {L}ow {R}esource {L}anguages: {M}ETIS-II ",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/summaries/116.html",
year = "2008",
}