Apertium is a fast-growing Machine Translation platform.
The last 6 months Swedish-Danish, Norwegian nynorsk-bokmål and Esperanto-English was added to the portfolio of over 20 released language pairs.
Apertium is unique because:
During the talk I will introduce the core functions of Apertium.
During the workshop we will install Apertium, and play with (and improve) the language data, to get better translations.
There is an introductory article (in Danish) you can get for free at DKUUG's booth, in their member's journal.
Jacob Nordfalk is an external lecturer at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering (Ingeniørhøjskolen i København) and co-developer of Apertium, where he has made Esperanto-English. In Spring 2009 he was mentoring a Swedish-Danish language pair.