Francis M. Tyers

5 paper cards in Mova's library · 2009–2022

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Ancient Hebrew (2022)
The authors build the first UD treebank of Biblical Hebrew, the books of Genesis and Ruth (1,579 sentences).
Handling Stress in Finite-State Morphological Analyzers for Ancient Greek and Ancient Hebrew (2022)
The authors argue that finite-state analysers can model lexical stress if the lexicon carries control characters beyond the surface form.
Apertium: a free/open source platform for machine translation and basic language technology (2016)
A one-page project description of Apertium, a free/open-source shallow-transfer rule-based MT platform started in 2005.
Flexible finite-state lexical selection for rule-based machine translation (2012)
The paper adds a lexical-selection module to the Apertium pipeline. When a dictionary offers several target words for one source word, a rule chooses one from the context. Rules are written in XML as context patterns, compiled into a finite-state transducer, and applied with a best-coverage dynamic program that…
The Apertium machine translation platform: Five years on (2009)
A retrospective of Apertium after five years: how a consortium of Spanish universities and companies turned two inherited MT systems into a free engine with data for many language pairs.