EPT-Web

An Interinstitutional Center for Research and Development in Computational Linguistics

EPT-Web

Automatic Translation of Web Pages Using the Universal Networking Language (UNL)

Period: Jan. 2002 to Jul. 2004

Goals
To Implement an English-Portuguese web translator prototypical in that it should only be expected to perform well in translating front pages of the electronic version of the North-American newspaper "The New York Times". Further development of the resulting prototype is intended but beyond the scope of this project.

Features
The translator is to be developed as a plug-in for Microsoft’s browser Internet Explorer featuring:

the preservation of the layout features found in the original page;

a translation model based on a semantic interlingua, namely the Universal Networking Language (UNL). Therefore, this project tackles the following tasks: encoding English into UNL, decoding UNL into Portuguese, and designing the dictionaries to support both the previous tasks.

Team
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (coordinator)
Ronaldo Teixeira Martins (vice-coordinator; computational linguist)
Juliana Galvani Greghi (computational linguist)

Marcela Franco Fossey (linguist; translator)
Tatiana Pedrolongo (linguist)

Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Jr.
Lucia Helena M. Rino

Bento Carlos Dias-da-Silva

Finantial Support
CNPq, proc. # 551485/2001-9 Modalidade AI, Edital Tecnologias para Desenvolvimento e Pesquisa em Conteúdos Digitais.

Contact
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes: gracan@icmc.usp.br

Related Publications

ANTIQUEIRA L.; FOSSEY, M.F.; PEDROLONGO, T.; GREGHI, J.G.; MARTINS, R.T.; NUNES, M.G.V. (2002) A construção do corpus e dos dicionários Inglês-UNL e UNL-português para o projeto EPT-Web - Série de Relatórios do Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional NILC - NILC-TR-02-24, Dezembro, 2002. pdf

MARTINS, Ronaldo Teixeira, HASEGAWA, Ricardo, NUNES, M. G. V. HERMETO: A Natural Language Analysis Environment In: TIL- Workshop em Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana, 2004, Salvador. Anais do SBC 2004. São Paulo: Tec Art Editora, 2004. pdf

MARTINS, Ronaldo T, HASEGAWA, Ricardo, NUNES, M. G. V. Hermeto: A NL-UNL Enconverting Environment In: Convergence´03 - International Conference on the Convergence of Knowledge, Culture, Language and Information Technologies, 2003, Alexandria, Egito. Proceedings of Convergence´03 - International Conference on the Convergence of Knowledge, Culture, Language and Information Technologies. , 2003. pdf