An English-Swahili parallel corpus and its use for neural machine translation in the news domain

no code implementations • EAMT 2020 • Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Andrew Secker, Susie Coleman, Julie Wall

This paper describes our approach to create a neural machine translation system to translate between English and Swahili (both directions) in the news domain, as well as the process we followed to crawl the necessary parallel corpora from the Internet.

Machine Translation Translation

Architecture of a Scalable, Secure and Resilient Translation Platform for Multilingual News Media

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Susie Coleman, Andrew Secker, Rachel Bawden, Barry Haddow, Alex Birch, ra

A growth in news sources makes this increasingly challenging and time-consuming but MT can help automate some aspects of this process.

Machine Translation Translation

Global Under-Resourced Media Translation (GoURMET)

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Alex Birch, ra, Barry Haddow, Ivan Tito, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, Rachel Bawden, Felipe S{\'a}nchez-Mart{\'\i}nez, Mikel L. Forcada, Miquel Espl{\`a}-Gomis, V{\'\i}ctor S{\'a}nchez-Cartagena, Juan Antonio P{\'e}rez-Ortiz, Wilker Aziz, Andrew Secker, Peggy van der Kreeft

Translation

Automated Fact Checking in the News Room

no code implementations • 3 Apr 2019 • Sebastião Miranda, David Nogueira, Afonso Mendes, Andreas Vlachos, Andrew Secker, Rebecca Garrett, Jeff Mitchel, Zita Marinho

Fact checking is an essential task in journalism; its importance has been highlighted due to recently increased concerns and efforts in combating misinformation.

Fact Checking Misinformation