program at a glance

AMTA 2000 Conference Program
October 12, 2000

8:00 -- 8:45: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 -- 9:00
Introductory Remarks
David Farwell, General Chair
John White, Program Chair
Laurie Gerber, Workshops and Tutorials Chair
Eduard Hovy, President, AMTA

Announcements:
Muriel Vasconcellos, Local Arrangments Chair

9:00 -- 10:00
Featured Speaker
"Every Time I Fire a Statistician I Get a Warm Fuzzy Feeling"
Kevin Knight, USC/ISI

10:00 -- 10:30 Break and Exhibits (Luna & Estrella)

10:30 -- 12:00
Panel 1: "The Dot Coms and MT" 
Eduard Hovy, chair

12:00 -- 1:30	Buffet Lunch and Exhibits
	Tickets required for buffet luncheon
	AMTA Board Luncheon

1:30 -- 3:00
Parallel Session: Evaluation  (Angeles)
"The Effect of Source Analysis on Translation Confidence"   Arendse Bernth and Michael C. McCord
"Evaluating Embedded Machine Translation in Military Field Exercises"  M. Holland, C. Schlesiger, C. Tate
"Contemplating Automatic MT Evaluation"  John White
"How Are You Doing"?  A Look at MT Evaluation  Michelle Vanni and Florence Reeder

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Parallel Session: MT and the Field of Translation   (Luna)
"User Perspectives on MT and Localization"   Alan Melby
"The Betrayal of Native Thought in non-Native Words"  Patrick Johannson

3:00 -- 3:30 Break and Exhibits (Luna & Estrellas)

3:30 -- 5:30
Parallel Session: Application Technologies (Angeles)
"A Machine Translation System from English to American Sign Language"  Liwei Zhao, Karin Kipper, William Schuler, Christian Vogler, Norman Badler, and Martha Palmer
"Building a Chinese-English Mapping Between Verb Concepts for Multilingual Applications"  Bonnie J. Door, gina-Ane Levow & DeKang Lin
"Applying Machine Translation to Two-Stage Cross-Language Information Retrieval"  Atsushi Fujii and Tetsuya Ishikawa
"Mixed-Initiative Translation of Web Pages"   Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen

3:30 -- 4:30
Parallel Session: Example-Based MT and Translation Memory
"DTD-Driven Bilingual Document Generation"   Arantza Casillas, Joseba Abaitua, Raquel Martinez
"Combining Invertible Example-Based Machine Translation with Translation Memory Technology"  Michael Carl
"What's been Forgotten in Translation Memory"   Elliot Macklovitch and Graham Russell

4:30 -- 5:30
Parallel Session: SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS 1 (Luna--continued)
"The KANTOO Machne Translation Environment"  Eric Nyberg & Teruko Mitamura
"The Logo Vista ES Translation System"  Nan Decker
 

AMTA-2000 Conference Program
October 13, 2000

9:00 -- 10:00
Featured Speaker    (Angeles)
"Government Perspectives of MT in the Information Future"
Antonio Sanfilippo, formerly from the European Commission DG XIII

10:00 -- 10:30 Break and Exhibits (Luna & Estrellas)

10:30 -- 12:00
Panel 2: "Postediting in a Production Environment"
Scott Bennett & K. Godden,moderators

12:00 -- 1:30	Buffet Lunch and Exhibits
	Tickets required for buffet luncheon

1:30 -- 3:00
Parallel Session: Comparative: MT     (Angeles)
"A Self-Learning Method of Parallel Text Alignment"
Antonio Ribeiro, Gabriel Lopes & Joao Mexia
"Handling Structural Divergences and Recovering Dropped Arguments in a Korean-English Machine Translation System"
Chung-hye Han, Benoit Lavoie, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Richard Kittredge Tanya Korelsky,Nari Kim & Myunghee Kim
"Information Structure Transfer: Bridging the Information Gap in Structurally Different Languages"
Margo Budzikowska

1:30-3:00 pm
Parallel Session: System Description 2
"Pacific Rim Portable Translator"  John Weisgerber, Jin Yang, and Pete Fisher
"A New Look for the PAHO MT System"  Marjorie Leon
"L&H Lexicography Toolkit for Machine Translation"  Timothy Meekhof and David Clements

3:00 -- 3:30 Break and Exhibits (Luna & Estrellas)

3:30 -- 5:00
Parallel Session: The Semantics of MT    (Angeles)
"Challenges in Adapting an Interlingua for Bidirectional English-Italian Translation"  Violetta Cavalli-Sfprza, Krzysztof Czuba, Teruko Mitamura & Eric Nyberg
"Understanding Politics by Studying Weather: A cognitive Approach to the Representation of Polish Verbs of Motion, Appearance, and Existance"  Barbara Gawronska & Hanna Duczak
"Text Meaning Representation as a Basis for Representation of Text Interpretation" Stephen Helmreich & David Farwell

3:30-5:00pm
Parallel Session: SYSTEM DESCRIPTION 3   (Luna)
Machine Translation Systems: E-K, K-E, J-K, K-J   Yu Seop Kim, Sung Dong Kim, Seong Bae Park, Jong Woo Lee, Jeong Ho Chang, Kyu Baek Hwang, Jang Min O and Yung Taek Kim
"oxyGEN"   Nizar Habash
MT-based Transparent Arabization of the Internet TARJIM.COM   Achraf Chalabi
LabelTool: A Localization Application for Devices with Restricted Display Areas  Jimmy C.M. Lu, Lars Åkerman, and Karin Spalink

5:00 -- 6:00
AMTA Business Meeting    (Angeles)
Introduction of new AMTA officers

7:30 -- 12:00
Banquet
Buses leave Mission del Sol at 7:00
Seating at 8:00