Project EPT-Web (2002-2004)
Automatic Translation of Web Pages Using UNL
Automatic Translation of Web Pages Using UNL
The goal of this project was to evaluate the use of UNL to create an English-Portuguese web translator prototypical expected to perform well in translating front pages of the electronic version of the North-American newspaper "The New York Times".
Features
The translator was supposed to be a plug-in for Microsoft’s browser Internet Explorer featuring:
the preservation of the layout features found in the original page;
a translation model based on a semantic interlingua, namely the Universal Networking Language (UNL). Therefore, involving the following tasks: encoding English into UNL, decoding UNL into Portuguese, and designing the dictionaries to support the two previous tasks.
Team
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (coordinator)
Ronaldo Teixeira Martins (vice-coordinator; computational linguist)
Juliana Galvani Greghi (computational linguist)
Marcela Franco Fossey (linguist; translator)
Tatiana Pedrolongo (linguist)
Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Jr.
Lucia Helena M. Rino
Bento Carlos Dias-da-Silva
Finantial Support
CNPq, proc. # 551485/2001-9 Modalidade AI, Edital Tecnologias para Desenvolvimento e Pesquisa em Conteúdos Digitais.
Related Publications
ANTIQUEIRA L.; FOSSEY, M.F.; PEDROLONGO, T.; GREGHI, J.G.; MARTINS, R.T.; NUNES, M.G.V. (2002) A construção do corpus e dos dicionários Inglês-UNL e UNL-português para o projeto EPT-Web - Série de Relatórios do Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional NILC - NILC-TR-02-24, Dezembro, 2002.
MARTINS, Ronaldo Teixeira, HASEGAWA, Ricardo, NUNES, M. G. V. HERMETO: A Natural Language Analysis Environment In: TIL- Workshop em Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana, 2004, Salvador. Anais do SBC 2004. São Paulo: Tec Art Editora, 2004.
MARTINS, Ronaldo T, HASEGAWA, Ricardo, NUNES, M. G. V. Hermeto: A NL-UNL Enconverting Environment In: Convergence´03 - International Conference on the Convergence of Knowledge, Culture, Language and Information Technologies, 2003, Alexandria, Egito. Proceedings of Convergence´03 - International Conference on the Convergence of Knowledge, Culture, Language and Information Technologies. , 2003.