Our research will be on improving the quality of EBMT and decreasing the required corpus size. We have completed this phase for one language, Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche Indians in Chile. Mineduc will contribute 20,000 US dollars. UFRO will contribute personnel and office resources. The Organization of American States has identified potential collaborators in Mexico and Colombia, but these partnerships have not been established yet.
Data collection is a pre-requisite for developing any kind of machine translation system.
Our agreement with Chile is for a five month data collection project, possibly to be renegotiated beyond the initial five months.