Task description

Tenjinno is a competition that combines grammatical inference with machine translation. The task is to create a machine translation system based on the data only. This data is generated automatically. How this is done (any why) can be found on the background page.

Essentially, we have generated an automatic machine translation system that is based on finite state transduces and syntax directed translation schemas. Based on these formal models, we have generated sentences in the source language and corresponding translations in the target language. The test data, that can be used to train you system, contain both the source and target sentences, but the test data only contains the source sentences. The task is to generate the corresponding target sentences. These can be submitted on the oracle page. The oracle will test the translated sentences for correctness and will tell you if the result is good enough.

To win this competition you need to do the following:

1. Download the training data and test data.
2. Train your system using the training data.
3. Apply your system to the test data (sentences in the source language). This should result in a list of translations (sentences) in the output language.
4. Submit your translations to the oracle.
5. If the oracle does not think your results are good enough, rethink your system and try again (go to step 2).
6. If your results are good enough, you have probably solved the problem. Send an email to tenjinno@ics.mq.edu.au with your translations and the problem name to validate your result. Please include also in your email a description of the technique that you have used (the purpose of this is to aid the ongoing design of the competition and will not be communicated to the other contestants before the end of the competition).
7. Once the results are finally approved, tou may celebrate.
8. (Optional) Take pictures of yourself while celebrating. If you send the pictures to tenjinno@ics.mq.edu.au then they will be added to the website.