Papers by Ernesto L. Estevanell-Valladares
SmartMatch: Real-Time Semantic Retrieval for Translation Memory Systems (2026.eacl-demo)
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Ernesto L. Estevanell-Valladares, Salima Lamsiyah, Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ruslan Mitkov, Rafael Muñoz
| Challenge: | Translation Memory (TM) systems are core components of computer-aided translation tools . however, they fail to retrieve semantically relevant content when surface similarity is low. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source demo and evaluation toolkit for TM retrieval that connects modern sentence encoders and strong lexical/fuzzy baselines with a vector database. |
| Outcome: | The proposed toolkit exposes the end-to-end retrieval pipeline through a web-based UI for qualitative inspection and preference logging. |