English/Veneto Resource Poor Machine Translation with STILVEN

The paper reports ongoing work for the implementation of a system for automatic translation from English-to-Veneto and viceversa. The system does not have parallel texts to work on because of the almost inexistence of such manual translations. The project is called STILVEN and is financed by the Regional Authorities of Veneto Region in Italy. After the first year of activities, we managed to produce a prototype which handles Venetian questions that have a structure very close to English. We will present problems related to Veneto, basic ideas, their implementatiion and results obtained.