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Anastasopoulos studying machine translation for Austronesian languages

Grant and Award Announcement

George Mason University

Anastasopoulos Studying Machine Translation For Austronesian Languages 

Antonios Anastasopoulos, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, received funding for: "Machine Translation for Austronesian Languages." 

He is helping to develop a solution that can automatically translate languages of the southeast Asia and Pacific regions, with a particular focus on languages of lndonesia and the Philippines. 

Anastasopoulos received $63,680 from Barron Associates, Inc., on a subaward from the U.S. Department of the Army for this project. Funding began in Jan. 2024 and will end in July 2024. 

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