Work Packages
From Cosyne
WP1 Robust Dynamic Machine Translation
Leader: University of Amsterdam
The objective of this specific work package is to develop a robust machine translation component that is fully integrated into a multilingual Wiki content management system. The MT component must be able to translate user-generated content with sufficient quality by handling noisy input that can contain typos and ungrammatical sentences. In addition, the MT component must interact with the user edits in a dynamic manner by translating edited parts and inserting them in the right places, leaving as much of the original target side intact as possible.
The MT decision process
WP2 Cross-Lingual Content Entailment
Leader: Fondazione Bruno Kessler
The objective of WP2 is to implement the semantic analysis techniques that are necessary to synchronize the content of Wiki pages about the same topic but written in different languages. The task consists in annotating the pages in terms of fully overlapping (semantically equivalent), partially overlapping, and non-overlapping segments. Textual Entailment (TE) recognition will be applied as a core technology to perform such annotations, that will determine which portions of the input pages have to be translated for their mutual update in the following steps of the synchronization process.
Cross-lingual Textual Entailment in the content synchronization workflow
WP3 Adaptive and Self-Learning Machine Translation
Leader: University of Amsterdam
The objective of this work package is to develop adaptive and self-learning methods for the machine translation component in the CoSyne project. The adaptive aspect focuses on improving translation quality by incorporating information about the category of a document or segment. The self-learning aspect exploits user corrections of machine translation output to learn from the translation mistakes and improve the translation model for future translations.
WP4 Language-independent induction of structure for Wikis
Leader: Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
The objective of this work package is to introduce, transfer and adapt a structure of the Wiki pages. By structure we mean text segmentation into sections, hyperlinks to other Wikis from the users' sites, and infoboxes – short lists in attribute-value format that capture particularly salient information about the topic of the Wiki to which they belong.
WP5 Machine Translation Evaluation
Leader: Dublin City University
This work package has as its objective to evaluate the quality of the translations produced by the system. This is an ongoing task inasmuch as it permits feedback to the MT development work packages. Likewise, the end-user evaluation has two phases, the first of which can be seen as a pilot.
WP6 Integration and End User Evaluation
Leader: Sound & Vision
This work package will deliver the integrated software package in two consecutive stages and evaluate it within three test beds.
WP7 Dissemination and Exploitation
Leader: Deutsche Welle
The aim of this work package is to ensure the dissemination of information about the project, its objectives, approaches and results. This will be achieved through a public web site, dissemination materials, participation and publication at academic and industry events as well as in scientific and trade journals.
The second major objective of this work package is the exploitation of the projects results by the participants and the consortium as a whole in defined market segments.
CoSyne to change workflow at DW
WP0 Project Management
Leader: University of Amsterdam
The objectives of this work package are the co-ordination of all participants and detection and handling of risks and contingencies; the continuous control, monitoring, and where necessary, improvement of the project objectives; the assurance of timeliness and quality of deliverables.
Progress of the work will be measured against the milestones and the objectives as defined in the project program.
