EuroMatrixPlus


The EuroMatrixPlus is a project that ran from March 2009 to February 2012. EuroMatrixPlus succeeded a project called EuroMatrix and continued in further development and improvement of machine translation systems for languages of the European Union.

Project objectives

EuroMatrixPlus focused on achieving several goals:
EuroMatrixPlus contributed to MT field in several ways. It continued in development of an open source statistical MT engine Moses. The project worked on research in hybrid approaches to MT. Several “MT Marathons” and annual evaluation campaigns were organized by the project. The project also resulted in releasing of 196 scientific publications.
The results of the work were arranged into ten work packages:
Here is a list of software and data that were released by the project:
The EuroMatrixPlus project was sponsored by EU Information Society Technology program.
Total cost of the project was 5 942 121 €, from which the European Union contributed 4 266 896 €.

Project members

To ensure advance in MT, several organizations that are experts in various disciplines were brought together to cooperate on EuroMatrixPlus.
The consortium consisted of academic as well as commercial partners. Academic partners were the University of Edinburgh, DFKI – German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Charles University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Le Mans, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Dublin City University. Two institutions joined about one year into the project. These were the L'udovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics and IICT – Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Commercial partners included Lucy Software and Services GmbH and CEET s.r.o..
Coordination of the project was in hands of DFKI with its Language Technology Lab in Saarbrücken. The principal investigator and scientific coordinator was Hans Uszkoreit, a professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University.