Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

MACHINE TRANSLATION AND THE INFORMATION SOUP

(MT in a growing field of language technologies)

The Sheraton Bucks County Hotel
Langhorne, Pennsylvania
October 28-31, 1998

LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS

Evaluating Language Technologies: The MULTIDOC Approach to Taming the Knowledge Soup Jörg Schütz & Nübel, IAI, Saarbrücken Multi-Subject Constructions in the multilingujal MT-System CAT2 Munpyo Hong, IAI, Saarbrücken An Ontology-Based Approach to Parsing Turkish Sentences Murat Temizsoy & Ilyas Cicekli, Bilkent University EMIS: A Multilingual Information System Bärbel Ripplinger, IAI, Saarbrücken Quality and Robustness in MT--a Balancing Act Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf & Micheal Dorna, IMS, Stuttgart University Implementing MT in the Greek Public Sector Athanassia Fourla & Olga Yannoutsou, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece Lexicons as Gold: Mining, Embellishment and Reuse Keith Miller & David Zajic, The Mitre Corporation Lexical Choice and Syntactic Generation in a Transfer System Claudia Gdaniec, IBM Sentence Analysis Using a Concept lattice Lebelo Serutla & Derrick Kourie, University of Pretoria Rapid prototyping of domain-specific machine translation systems Martha Palmer & Owen Rambow, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania Easy English: Addressing Structural Ambiguity Arendse Bernth, IBM Translation with Finite-State Devices Kevin Knight & Yaser Al-Onaizan, Information Sciences Institute, USC Can Similtaneous Interpretation Help Machine Translation Dan Loehr, Georgetown University Integrating Query Translation and Document Translation in a Cross-language Information Retrieval System Guo-Wei Bian & Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University Robust Semantic Interpretation of Japanese Parse Trees Ulrich Germann, Information Sciences Institute, USC Machine Translation in Context Kurt Godden, General Motors Fast Document Translation for Cross-language Information Retrieval Scott McCarley & Salim Roukos, IBM An Open Transfer Translation Jorge Kinoshita, Universidade de São Paulo Yet Another Chinese-English Machine Translation Ststem Liu Qun, Chinese Academy of Science; Yu Shiwen, Peking University When Stalhandski Becomes Steelglove Pernilla Danielsson & Katarina Mühlenbock, Göteborg University The Application of Machine Translation to Automotive Assembly Process Planning Nestor Rychtyckyj, Ford Motor Co. Improving Translation Quality by Manipulating Sentence Length Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Systems Inc.; Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, USC An Evaluation of the Multi-Engine MT Architecture Christopher Hogan & Robert Frederking, Language Technologies Institute, CMU Ordering Translation Templates by Assigning Confidence Factors Zeynep Öz & Ilyas Cicekli, Bilkent University Taxonomy and Semantic Processing--From the Perspective of Machine Readable Dictionaries Jason Chang, Mathis Chen, National Tsing Hua University; Sue Ker, Soochow University Twisted Pair Grammar: Support for Rapid Development of Machine Translation for Low Density Languages Douglas Jones, NLP Research Branch, DOD Predicting What MT is Good for: User Judgements and Task Performance Kathhryn Taylor & John White, Litton PRC & FIDUL Time-Constrained Machine Translation Janine Toole, Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Dan Fass & Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University Parallel Strands: A Preliminary Investigation into Mining the Web for Bilingual Text Philip Resnik, University of Maryland A Multilingual Procedure for Dictionary-based Sentence Alignment Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman, New York University; Michiko Kosaka, Monmouth University Monolingual Translator Workstation Guy Bashkansky, IBM--Haifa; Uzzi Ornan, Technion System Description/Demo of Alis Translation Solutions: Overview Kathleen Levesque & Steve Allan, Alis Technologies Inc. System Description/Demo of Alis Translation Solutions: Application--Multilingual Search and Retrieval Kathleen Levesque & Steve Allan, Alis Technologies Inc. SYSTRAN on AltaVista: A User Study of Real-time Machine Translation on the Internet Jin Yang & Elke Lange, SYSTRAN Software Inc. A Prototype Interlingua-based Machine Translation System from English to Turkish Dilek Hakkani, Gökhen Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent University; Teruko Mitamura, & Eric Nyberg, Carnegie Mellon Universtiy System Demonstration: SYSTRAN Enterprise Christian Raby, SYSTRAN Software Inc. Statistical Approach for Korean Analysis: A Methoid Based on Structural Patterns Nari Kim, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania Finding the Right Words Flo Reeder & Dan Loehr, The Mitre Corporation Machine Translation among Languages with Transitivity Divergences Using the Causal Relation in the Interlingual Lexicon Yukiko Alam, San Francisco State University A Modular Approach to Spoken Language Translation for Large Domains Monika Wosczcyna, Matthew Broadhead, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavalda, Alon Lavie Lori Levin Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University A Thematic Hierarchy for Efficient Generation from Lexical-Conceptual Structure Bonnie Dorr, Nizar Habash & David Traum, UMIACS, University of Maryland Logos8 System Description Brigitte Orliac, LOGOS Revision of Morphological Analysis Errors by Person Name Construction Model Hiroyuki Shinnou, Ibaraki University Integrating Tools with the Translation Process Edith Westfall, TRADOS Corporation Sakhr Arabic-English Computer-Aided Translation System Achraf Chalabi, Sakhr Software Reusing Translated Terms to Expand a Multilingual Thesaurus Rocio Guillen, California State University--San Marcos A Comparative Study of Query and Document Translation for Cross-language Information Retrieval Douglas Oard, University of Maryland Lexical Selection for Cross-Language Applications Bonnie Dorr & Maria Katsova, UMIACS, University of Maryland Enhancing Automatic Acquisition of the Thematic Structure in a Large-scale Lexicon for Mandarin Chinese Mari Broman Olsen, Bonnie Dorr & Scott Thomas, UMIACS, University of Maryland The LMT Transformational System Micheal McCord & Arendse Bernth, IBM SYSTRANET Online Translation Services Laurent Pontegnier, SYSTRAN Software, Inc. Spicing Up the Information Soup Steve McLaughlin & Ulrike Schwall, Lernout & Hauspie

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