Demos

VERTa

VERTa is a linguistically motivated Machine Translation metric. It allows you to compare (evaluate) a translation (translated text) with (against) one or more reference translation. and evaluate adequacy, fluency and ranking of sentences. In Machine Translation (MT) evaluation plays a key role both in their development and improvement of the systems. BLEU is one of the most well-known and widely used but BLEU has its weaknesses regarding translation quality and its tendency to favour statistically-based MT systems.

June 8, 2020 Read

Euro Love Map

EuroLoveMap (2013 opeNER hackathon): Based on topics that relate to a specific country (eg. Berlusconi, Amsterdam) we want to see if the sentiment per country (language) differs. This demo was developed as part of the OpeNER’s Hackathon that took place 1st and 2nd of July. Using OpeNER APIs that the different project partners made available for the hackathon the differnt teams developed small but original applications along the day. More than 50 people spent the day programming, interchanging ideas and having fun.

July 23, 2013 Read

Yahoo! Quest

Yahoo! Quest (2013) Yahoo! Answers was one of the most popular Yahoo! properties were people ask and answers any type of questions. Although most of the time it was difficult to find related/similar questions. Yahoo! Quest was a smarter way to search and navigate through yahoo! answers. See this blog Yahoo answers text processing Processing the text from Yahoo! Answers to obtain dependency tree. Using syntactic information (dependencies) The syntactic dependencies were used to extract meaningful phrases

June 8, 2013 Read

Yahoo! Correlator

Yahoo! Correlator (2008) was the first yahoo! sandbox demo developed in Yahoo! Labs Barcelona. It allowed smart searches over the English Wikipedia exploding shallow NLP tools to identify Named entities (places, dates, people). At that time this demo was pushing what search engine were able to do, see this blog. This demo is no longer available since Yahoo! Sandbox demos were closed around 2014. Related papers: El paper de la lingüística en la cerca d’informació (In Catalan).

March 15, 2008 Read