m4t1ss / multi-system-hybrid-translator

A hybrid machine translation solution that employs a language model and online translation APIs

Multi-System Hybrid Translator

This is a hybrid solution for acquiring the best translation out of multiple online MT engines

Requirements

• PHP with curl

• KenLM compatible language model (preferrably binarized)

• Access to at least two APIs

  • Google Translate - https://cloud.google.com/translate/
  • Bing Translator - http://www.bing.com/dev/en-us/translator
  • LetsMT - https://www.letsmt.eu
  • Yandex Translator - https://tech.yandex.com/translate/
  • iTranslate - http://itranslate4.eu/en/api/settings

• Tokenized input sentances

Supported APIs

• Google Translate
• Bing Translator
• LetsMT
• Yandex Translator
• iTranslate

Usage

php MSHT.php languageModel.binary inputSentances.txt

The output generates six files:

• output.google.txt
• output.bing.txt
• output.letsmt.txt
• output.yandex.txt
• output.itranslate.txt
• output.hybrid.txt

Publications

If you use this tool, please cite the following paper:

Matīss Rikters (2015). "Multi-system machine translation using online APIs for English-Latvian." In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra)(2015).

@inproceedings{Rikters2015,
	author = {Rikters, Matīss},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra)},
	pages = {6--10},
	title = {{Multi-system machine translation using online APIs for English-Latvian}},
	url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-4102},
	year = {2015}
}