News from MEDAR:

March 2012:

The MEDAR Consortium is awarding grants for students from Arabic countries to attend the 8th edition of the International conference LREC taking place in Istanbul on May 21 to 27, 2012. Each grant will cover the registration fees and support part of the travel and accommodation expenses.
At the time of the application, applicants must be enrolled as Master’s or Ph.D students at a University in an Arabic country.
To apply for a grant, send a message to: medar-grants@elda.org no later than April 23rd, 2012. The applications will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis and notifications will be sent accordingly.
The LREC 2010 website: LREC 2012

December 2010:

Download the MEDAR MT package
or download the English/Arabic data
The package includes:

• Monolingual and parallel training data
• Source corpora and their reference translations
• Sentence and word alignment
  (morphosyntactic disambiguated)
• An alignment package
• Two MT baseline systems that uses MOSES
• Evaluation metrics (BLEU/NIST and WER)
• Formatting scripts to convert XML files

When downloading please sign the end-user agreement

See also: Short description and Copyrights