Francis M. Tyers

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‘In so moche that in my dayes happened that certayn marchauntes were in a shippe in Tamyse, for to haue sayled ouer the see into Selande, and for lacke of wynde thei taryed atte Forlond, and wente to lande for to refreshe them;
And specyally he axyed after eggys. And the good wyf answerde that she coude speke no frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry for he also coude speke no frenshe but wold haue hadde egges and she vnderstode hym not. And thenne at laste a nother sayd that he wolde haue eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel’

—Caxton's Eneydos (1490)

Publications

2011

Forcada, M. L., Ginestí-Rosell, M., Nordfalk, J., O’Regan, J., Ortiz-Rojas, S., Pérez-Ortiz, J. A., Sánchez-Martínez, F., Ramírez-Sánchez, G. and Tyers, F. M. (2011) "Apertium: a free/open-source platform for rule-based machine translation. Machine Translation 24(1) pp. 1--18

Otte, P. and Tyers, F. M. (2011) "Rapid rule-based machine translation between Dutch and Afrikaans". Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT11

Brandt, M. D and Loftsson, H. and Sigurþórsson, H. and Tyers, F. M. (2011) "Apertium-IceNLP: A rule-based Icelandic to English machine translation system". Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT11

2010

Wiechetek, L. and Tyers, F. M. and Omma, T. (2010) "Shooting at flies in the dark: Rule-based lexical selection for a minority language pair". Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 6233/2010, pp. 418--429

Tyers, F. M. (2010) "An treiñ emgefreek diazezet war reolennoù evit treiñ ar brezhoneg e galleg". Hor Yezh 262 (Mezheven 2010) pp. 27--39 _{[Translation by Thierry Fohanno]}

Tyers, F. M. (2010) "Rule-based Breton to French machine translation". Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT10 pp. 174--181. _[poster]

Tyers, F. M. and Alperen, M. S. (2010) "SETimes: A parallel corpus of Balkan languages". Proceedings of the MultiLR Workshop at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC2010

Tyers, F. M. and Sánchez-Martínez, F. and Ortiz-Rojas, S. and Forcada, M. L. (2010) "Free/open-source resources in the Apertium platform for machine translation research and development". The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 93, pp. 67--76

2009

Ginestí-Rosell, M. and Ramírez-Sánchez, G. and Ortiz-Rojas, S. and Tyers, F. M. and Forcada, M. L. (2009) "Development of a free Basque to Spanish machine translation system". Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural No. 43, pp. 185--197 _[slides]
Tyers, F. M. (2009) "Rule-based augmentation of training data in Breton–French statistical machine translation ". Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT09. pp. 213--218 _[poster]
Tyers, F. M. and Wiechetek, L. and Trosterud, T. (2009) "Developing prototypes for machine translation between two Sámi languages". Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT09. pp. 120--128 _[poster]
Tyers, F. M. and Donnelly, K. (2009) "apertium-cy - a collaboratively-developed free RBMT system for Welsh to English". The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 91, pp. 57--66. _[slides]

2008

Tyers, F. M. and Pienaar, J. A. (2008) "Extracting bilingual word pairs from Wikipedia". Proceedings of the SALTMIL Workshop at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC2008. pp. 19--22. _[slides]

Other talks

Tyers, F. M. (2011) "The only option is open: Why should language technology and resources be free?" at Workshop on visibility and availability of LT resources in conjunction with NoDaLiDa 2011, Riga, Latvia, May 11th 2011

Reviews

International Workshop on Lexical Resources at ESSLLI 2011 August 1-5, 2011 – Ljubljana, Slovenia
Workshop in Constraint Grammar Applications in conjunction with NoDaLiDa 2011, Riga, Latvia, May 11th 2011
Second International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, 20th--21st January 2011, Barcelona

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