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

AMTA-98 PROGRAM

TUESDAY	OXFORD I
27 October
9:00 — 12:00	Workshop: Interlinguas and Interlingual Approaches to MT
12:00 — 2:00	LUNCH
2:00 — 5:00	Workshop: Interlinguas and Interlingual Approaches to MT (continued)

WEDNESDAY	AMPHITHEATER	OXFORD I	REGENT I	OXFORD II	REGENT II
28 October
9:00 — 12:00	Tutorial: MT Evaluation J. White	Tutorial: MT Approaches H. Somers	Tutorial: ICALL Techs P. O'Neill-Brown	Tutorial: Ontol. Semantics S. Nirenburg
12:00 — 2:00	LUNCH
2:00 — 5:00	Tutorial: Multilingual IR G. Grefenstette	Tutorial: Speech-to-Speech M. Woszczyna	Tutorial: Multiling. Summ. E. Hovy	Workshop: Chinese Treebank	Workshop: Embedded MT C. Voss, F. Reeder
6:00 — 8:00	WELCOME RECEPTION - MAIN FOYER >>>EXHIBITS OPEN - PLAZA I<<<

THURSDAY	PLAZA II	REGENTS I & II
29 October
8:45 — 9:00	Opening Remarks Eduard Hovy, Conference Chair Martha Palmer, Local Arrangements Chair David Farwell & Laurie Gerber, Program Chairs
9:00 — 10:30	Invited Speaker The International Business of MT Gaston Bastiaens, Lernout & Hauspie
10:30 — 11:00	BREAK – Exhibits
11:00 — 12:30	Panel 1 The Forgotten Majority: Neglected Languages Moderator: Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Software Panelists: Lynn Carlson, DOD Bruce Esrig, LOGOS Inc. Denis Gachot, SYSTRAN Software Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State John O'Hara, Globalink Inc. Harold Somers, UMIST Peter Wilkniss, CATANAL Project	Technical Papers 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 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 Ordering Translation Templates by Assigning Confidence Factors Zeynep Öz & Ilyas Cicekli, Bilkent University
12:30 — 2:00	LUNCH – Exhibits
2:00 — 3:30	Invited Presentations: MT-Related Language Technologies Multilingual Information Retrieval Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Research Europe Multilingual Text Summarization Eduard Hovy, USC/Information Sciences Institute	System Demos Alis Translation Solution Application: Multilingual Search and Query Expansion N. Cote, Alis Technologies Inc. SYSTRAN Enterprise Christian Raby, SYSTRAN Software Inc. Integrating Tools with the Translation Process Edith Westfall, TRADOS Corp.
3:30 — 4:00	BREAK – Exhibits
4:00 — 5:30	Technical Papers Quality and Robustness in MT—A Balancing Act Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf & Micheal Dorna, IMS, University of Stuttgart Parallel Strands: A Preliminary Investigation into Mining the Web for Bilingual Text Philip Resnik, University of Maryland An English to Turkish Interlingual Machine Translation System Dilek Hakkani, Gökhen Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent University; Teruko Mitamura, & Eric Nyberg, Carnegie Mellon Universtiy Rapid Prototyping of Domain-Specific Machine Translation Systems Martha Palmer & Owen Rambow, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania	Technical Papers Time-Constrained Machine Translation Janine Toole, Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Dan Fass & Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University An Evaluation of the Multi-Engine MT Architecture Christopher Hogan & Robert Frederking, Language Technologies Institute, CMU An Ontology-Based Approach to Parsing Turkish Sentences Murat Temizsoy & Ilyas Cicekli, Bilkent University Monolingual Translator Workstation Guy Bashkansky, IBM—Haifa; Uzzi Ornan, Technion
6:00 — 7:00	AMTA General Membership Meeting

FRIDAY	PLAZA II	REGENT I & II	OXFORD II
30 October
9:00 — 10:30	Technical Papers Fast Document Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Scott McCarley & Salim Roukos, IBM   Machine Translation in Context Kurt Godden, General Motors     Easy English: Addressing Structural Ambiguity Arendse Bernth, IBM Multi-Subject Constructions in the Multilingual MT System CAT2 Munpyo Hong, IAI, Saarbrücken	Technical Papers A Multilingual Procedure for Dictionary-Based Sentence Alignment Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman, New York University; Michiko Kosaka, Monmouth University Taxonomy and Semantic Processing from the Perspective of Machine Readable Dictionaries Jason Chang, Mathis Chen, National Tsing Hua University; Sue Ker, Soochow University Can Simultaneous Interpretation Help Machine Translation Dan Loehr, Georgetown University Sentence Analysis Using a Concept Lattice Lebelo Serutla & Derrick Kourie, University of Pretoria	Technical Papers Evaluating Language Technologies: The MULTIDOC Approach to Taming the Knowledge Soup Jörg Schütz & Rita Nübel, IAI, Saarbrücken Integrating Query Translation and Document Translation in a Cross-Language Information Retrieval System Guo-Wei Bian & Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University When Stalhandski Becomes Steelglove: A Study of Names in Parallel Text Pernilla Danielsson & Katarina Mühlenbock, Göteborg University
10:30 — 11:00	BREAK – Exhibits
11:00 — 12:30	Panel 2 A Seal of Approval for MT Systems Moderator: Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI Panelists: John Hutchins, U of E. Anglia Bente Maegaard, CST L. Chris Miller, MCS Hozumi Tanaka, TITech Reba Rosenbluth, SYSTRAN Muriel Vasconcellos John White, Litton PRC	System Demos EMIS: A Multilingual Information System Bärbel Ripplinger, IAI, Saarbrücken   An Open Transfer Translation Jorge Kinoshita, Universidade de São Paulo TransEasy: Chinese-English MT Ststem Based on Hybrid Approach Liu Qun, Chinese Academy of Science; Yu Shiwen, Peking University Sakhr Arabic-English Computer-Aided Translation System Achraf Chalabi, Sakhr Software Inc.	Technical Papers SYSTRAN on AltaVista: A User Study of Real-Time MT on the Internet Jin Yang & Elke Lange, SYSTRAN Software Inc. Making Semantic Interpretation Parser Independent Ulrich Germann, Information Sciences Institute, USC Implementing MT in the Greek Public Sector: A Survey Athanassia Fourla & Olga Yannoutsou, Inst. for Language and Speech Processing, Greece Statistical Approach for Korean Analysis: A Method Based on Structural Patterns Nari Kim, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania
12:30 — 2:00	LUNCH – Exhibits
2:00 — 3:30	Invited Speaker Integrating MT with Other Technologies Louis Monier, AltaVista Inc.
3:30 — 4:00	BREAK – Exhibits
4:00 — 5:30	Invited Presentations: The Future of the Lexicon Empirical Methods for MT Lexicon Development I. Dan Melamed, West Group A statistical View on Bilingual Lexicon Extraction: From Parallel Corpora to Non-Parallel Corpora Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Technical Papers Twisted Pair Grammar: Support for Rapid Development of MT for Low Density Languages Douglas Jones, NLP Research Branch, US Dept. of Defense A Thematic Hierarchy for Efficient Generation from Lexical-Conceptual Structure Bonnie Dorr, Nizar Habash & David Traum, UMIACS, University of Maryland The LMT Transformational System Micheal McCord & Arendse Bernth, IBM Finding the Right Words: An Analysis of Not-Translated Words in MT Florence Reeder & Dan Loehr, The Mitre Corporation	Technical Papers Predicting What MT is Good for: User Judgements and Task Performance Kathryn Taylor & John White, Litton PRC & FIDUL Reusing Translated Terms to Expand a Multilingual Thesaurus Rocio Guillen, California State University at San Marcos Spicing Up the Information Soup: MT and the Internet Steve McLaughlin & Ulrike Schwall, Lernout & Hauspie Revision of Morphological Analysis Errors throguh Person Name Construction Model Hiroyuki Shinnou, Ibaraki University
7:00	BANQUET - Buses leave from front of hotel from 5:50 - 6:00 p.m.

SATURDAY	PLAZA II	REGENTS I & II
31 October
9:00 — 10:25	Technical Papers Lexical Choice and Syntactic Generation in a Transfer System: English-German in LMT Claudia Gdaniec, IBM Translation with Finite-State Devices Kevin Knight & Yaser Al-Onaizan, Information Sciences Institute, USC Lexical Selection for Cross-Language Application: Combining LCS with WordNets Bonnie Dorr & Maria Katsova, UMIACS, University of Maryland Improving Translation Quality by Manipulating Sentence Length Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Systems Inc.; Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, USC	System Demos Demo of Alis Translation Solutions: Overview N. Cote, Alis Technologies Inc. Logos8 System Description Brigitte Orliac, LOGOS Inc. SYSTRANET Online Translation Services Laurent Pontegnier, SYSTRAN Software, Inc.
10:25 — 10:45	BREAK – Exhibits
10:45 — 12:10	Panel 3 Breaking the Quality Ceiling Moderator: David Farwell, New Mexico State U Panelists: Christian Boitet, U. Joseph Fourier John Chandioux, Chandioux Consult. Ron Fournier, Lexi-tech Inc. Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State Harold Somers, UMIST Dekai Wu, HKUST	Technical Papers Machine Translation among Languages with Transitivity Divergences Using the Causal Relation in the Interlingua Lexicon Yukiko Alam, San Francisco State University A Comparative Study of Query and Document Translation for Cross-language IR Doulas Oard, UMIACS, University of Maryland Lexicons as Gold: Mining, Embellishment and Reuse Keith Miller & David Zajic, The Mitre Corporation
12:10 — 1:15	LUNCH – Last Chance to Visit Exhibits!
1:15 — 2:45	Invited Speaker Situating MT in the Information Technology Soup! Gary Strong, NSF
2:45 — 3:00	Closing Remarks Eduard Hovy, Conference Chair

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