COMTIS

Improving the Coherence of Machine Translation Output by Modeling Intersentential Relations

COMTIS was a collaborative project in machine translation, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under the Sinergia program, grant number CRSI22_127510.  COMTIS involved partners from the Idiap Research Institute, the Department of Linguistics of the University of Geneva, and the Centre Universitaire d'Informatique of the University of Geneva.  COMTIS started on March 1st, 2010, and finished on July 31st, 2013.

The methodology put forward in COMTIS is applied to a new set of problems, related to the machine translation of discourse entities and relations, within the SNSF Sinergia MODERN project (2013-2016).  Two new partners have joined the consortium: the Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich, and the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics at the University of Utrecht.

 

News

 
[10-DEC-2013] Andrea Gesmundo has defended his PhD thesis at the University of Geneva:
                      Algorithms and Frameworks for Tree-based Machine Translation and Tree Structure Prediction.
 
[30-OCT-2013] Final scientific and final reports are approved by the SNSF.
 
[26-SEP-2013] Software and annotation for connectives has been released, see Resources.
 
[11-SEP-2013] Final scientific and financial reports are sent to the SNSF.
 
[01-AUG-2013] New SNSF Sinergia MODERN project starts with new consortium.
 
[31-JUL-2013] Official end of the COMTIS project.
 

Previous news

 

[17-JUN-2013] Several new publications online, that will be presented at the DiscoMT workshop at ACL 2013 in Bulgaria.

[3-JUN-2013] Sharid Loaiciga starts internship within COMTIS at Idiap on verb tense translation.

[1-MAR-2013] Having completed his thesis, Andrea Gesmundo is now a research scientist at Google Research Labs (Zurich/New York).

[25-FEB-2013] Plenary meeting at the University of Geneva.

[15-FEB-2013] Thomas Meyer starts 3-month internship at the University of Edinburgh.

[1-FEB-2013] Internship on verb tenses for SMT available at Idiap.

[12-NOV-2012] COMTIS plenary meeting at the University of Geneva. 

[1-NOV-2012] Two papers presented at AMTA 2012, San Diego, CA

[9-AUG-2012] Two papers presented at ACL 2012, Jeju Island, Korea

[11-JUNE-2012] COMTIS plenary meeting at the University of Geneva

[21-27-MAY-2012] Two papers presented at LREC 2012, in Istanbul

[9-DEC-2011] Presentation of COMTIS at the Swiss national day of research project in linguistics, organised by the SSL, Basel.

[6-DEC-2011] Intermediary meetings at Geneva : ISD label in MT (morning) - Annotation of Verb tense and Connective (afternoon).

[18-OCT-2011] COMTIS plenary meeting at the University of Geneva (Landolt room L511, 10:00-14:00).

[15-OCT-2011] Two abstracts submitted to LREC 2012.

[31-AUG-2011]  The workshop "Towards a multilingual database of connectives" was held from August 31 to September 2 in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.  Attendance is by invitation only.

[18-JULY-2011] COMTIS plenary meeting at the University of Geneva (Landolt room 511, 10:00-16:00).

[JULY-2011] First year scientific and financial reports are approved by SNSF.

[JUNE-JULY 2011] Papers from the COMTIS project are presented at several conferences: EMNLP 2011 and TALN 2011 (Andrea Gesmundo and James Henderson), ACL student session (Thomas Meyer), BUCC 2011 (Bruno Cartoni et al.), SigDial (Thomas Meyer et al.), Corpus Linguistics 2011 (Bruno Cartoni, Thomas Meyer, et al.).  See the publications page for full details.

[11-MAY-2011] The workshop "Towards a multilingual database of connectives", organized by COMTIS members, has been accepted for sponsoring by the SNSF as an International Exploratory Workshop.

[09-APR-2011] First annual report (internal document) sent to the Swiss National Science Foundation.

[01-APR-2011] Welcome to our new intern, Jeevanthi Liyanapathirana, at the Idiap Research Institute.

[11-MAR-2011] Invited talk at the Idiap Research Institute by COMTIS members James Henderson and Paola Merlo:

                         "Latent Feature Models for the Structure and Meaning of Text" (11:00-12:00),
                         followed by discussions with Idiap researchers and an internal meeting.

[09-MAR-2011] COMTIS plenary meeting at the University of Geneva (Landolt room 511, 12:15-16:00).

[16-NOV-2010] Invited talk by Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerpen) : "The impersonal pronouns of English,
                         Dutch and German", at the Linguistic Department, UniGe, 12:15-14:00.

[12-OCT-2010] Invited talk by Prof. Liesbeth Degand (at the Linguistics Department, UniGe, 12:15-14:00).
                        (preceded by a discussion with COMTIS members)

[29-SEP-2010] Invited talk by Prof. Laurence Danlos (at the Linguistics Department, UniGe, 12:15-14:00).
                        (preceded by a discussion on cooperation with COMTIS)

[21-SEP-2010] COMTIS internal meeting at the University of Geneva, 14:15-16:15, room L511.

[01-SEP-2010] Welcome to our new postdoc, Bruno Cartoni, and PhD student, Thomas Meyer.

[19-AUG-2010] Postdoc position available at Idiap starting March 1st, 2011. The position has now been filled.

[01-MAR-2010] Welcome to two new PhD students: Cristina Hulea and Andrea Gesmundo. 

[08-MAR-2010] Kick-off meeting at the University of Geneva.

[02-DEC-2009] Three PhD positions and a postdoc position are available at the participating institutions. The positions have now been filled.