The groups winning META Prize are big names, who have contributed to the community useful and practical products for translation and multilingual communications, for example:<\/p>\n
MOSES: statistical engine for machine translation<\/p>\n
DGT: alignment of a hugh open database to make pairs of sentences between different languages used in EU. See their results provided through the OPUS project:\u00a0http:\/\/opus.nlpl.eu\/DGT.php<\/a><\/p>\n BabelNet: now provide a multilingual encyclopedia that helps translation with a hugh knowledge base (including Wikipedia):\u00a0http:\/\/live.babelnet.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n BabelNet live<\/b>\u00a0(beta) is the next evolutionary stage of BabelNet, today’s most far-reaching\u00a0multilingual resource<\/b>\u00a0that covers\u00a0hundreds of languages<\/b>\u00a0and, according to need, can be used as either an\u00a0encyclopedic dictionary<\/b>, or a\u00a0semantic network<\/b>, or a huge\u00a0knowledge base<\/b>. BabelNet live (beta) is growing continuously, thanks to being fed with\u00a0daily updates<\/b>\u00a0from all the sources that go to make it up, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, users’ input, etc.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Rosetta Foundation: focus on humanitarian translation service, e.g. helping translation to deal with disasters, communicate with refugees. They maintain a web translation platform called Translation Commons (https:\/\/trommons.org\/<\/a>) to ask volunteers translate documents from charity organizations as open documents. This Trommons website runs the platform SOLAS developed by University of Limerick (Ireland), which became open source in 2011:\u00a0http:\/\/www.localisation.ie\/solas\/<\/a>. In 2017, The Rosetta Foundation merges with Translation Without Borders<\/a>, a counterpart (non-profit humanitarian organization, focused in translation) in US.<\/p>\n InterACT: the group of Prof. Alex Waibel in Karlsruhe KIT with expertise in speech recognition, who led the project creating EU Bridge (http:\/\/www.eu-bridge.eu\/) – for\u00a0Automatic transcription and translation services. EU Bridge provides the services (but they seem to release no tools for public use):<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n The META Prize is awarded by the META Technology Council to outstanding products or services supporting the European Multilingual Information Society.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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