METIS-II was a EU-FET MT project running from October 2004 to September
2007, which aimed at translating free text input without resorting to parallel corpora.
The idea was to use ‘basic’ linguistic tools and representations and to link them with
patterns and statistics from the monolingual target-language corpus. The METIS-II
project has four partners, translating from their ‘home’ languages Greek, Dutch,
German, and Spanish into English.
The paper outlines the basic ideas of the project, their implementation, the
resources used, and the results obtained. It also gives examples of how METIS-II
has continued beyond its lifetime and the original scope of the project. On the basis
of the results and experiences obtained, we believe that the approach is promising
and offers the potential for development in various directions