!!!Notes on MT infrastructure

In the short term, this is a plan document for the smesmj MT project. The infrastructure should be set up in a language-independent way, though.

This document is meant as an informal place for making plans more 


!!Overview

# The team
# Timetable
# The MT process
# Plan to set up infrastructure


!!The team

* Trond Trosterud, project leader
* Lene Antonsen, linguist (analysis and generation)
* Tino Diderichsen, programmer, infrastructure
* Saara Huhmarniemi, programmer, infrastructure
* Svenn Egil Knutsen, lexicographer (smesmj transfer component)
* Kimme Utsi, lexicographer (smenob transfer component)
* Thomas Omma, linguist (conversion smesmj)

!!Timetable

The short-term timetable is to get as much as possible done within the funding period for the smesmj project, which is 2007. In the long term, MT will have long-term priority in Tromsø.

Lexical tasks:
# Carry on the smesmj conversion (Svenne, Thomas, Trond)
# Go through the results (Svenne)

Infrastructure:
# Reading the literature

Papers by Eckhard Bick and collegues on CG-based MT:
	
* [[http://beta.visl.sdu.dk/pdf/MTsummit07_final.pdf|Dan2eng: Wide-Coverage Danish-English Machine Translation]]
* [[http://beta.visl.sdu.dk/pdf/tsd_paper.pdf|The Fyntour Multilingual Weather and Sea Dialogue System]]
* [[http://beta.visl.sdu.dk/pdf/nodalida2007mt.pdf|Using Danish as a CG Interlingua: A WideCoverage Norwegian-English Machine Translation System]]




!!The MT process

We will set up a triplet analys - transfer - generation, inspired by the Odense model.


!!Plan to set up infrastructure

This will be a cooperation between Tino, Saara and Trond.