Milestones of the first years

DateAchievement
Fall 2008Beginning of the constribution from Environment Canada.
Tabling of the Seed Project file at MITACS.
First meetings at Environment Canada (EC).
First tries at accessing Meteocode's XML data.
Winter 2009Confirmation of the provisional MITACS grant.
Weather warning translation website.
First prototypes made with the participation of undergraduate students.
Summer 2009Additional information is sent to MITACS, grant confirmation.
Setup for the automated retrieval of weather warnings.
Setup for a Meteocode database.
10 Dec. 20091st MITACS Workshop
7 Jan. 2010Presentation of the warning translation prototype to managers from EC, all across Canada via videoconferencing, from the offices of EC in Montreal  (Place Bonaventure). [pdf]
Winter 2010Negotiations for a contribution agreement between MITACS, the Université de Montréal and Environment Canada.
Summer 2010Study and new proposal for the web presentation of meteorological information.
Consolidation of the Meteocode database and first tests attempting to learn corrections of forecasts.
31 August 2010Visit of the weather prediction center on the 7th floor of Place Bonaventure organized by Michelle Hardy, Quebec Storm Prediction Center (a) Chief. The visit was guided by Brigitte Bourque, meteorologist.

Participants UdeM: Fabrizio Gotti, Alessandro Sordoni, Guy Lapalme, Pascal Vincent, Marc-Élie Lapointe, Xavier Bouthillier

14 Jan 20112nd MITACS Workshop
17 June 2011Presentation by Guy Lapalme to Michelle Hardy and 5 other EC representatives in the offices at Place Bonaventure: prototype of an editor for help to write weather warnings. A trigram language model allows to give suggestions to continue the text already entered. A unigram model is used to highlight unknown words by the automatic translator.
Fall 2011Evaluation of the translation prototype WATT
24 Feb. 20123rd MITACS Workshop