| DATE/TIME |
TOUCAN |
MACAW |
| 29 October | ||
| 9:00-12:00 | Tutorial: A Gentle Introduction to MT:
Theory and Current Practice
E. Hovy, ISI |
Tutorial: Making MT Work for You
M. León, PAHO |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-17:00 | Tutorial: MT Evaluation: Old, New, and
Recycled Methods
J. White, PRC |
Tutorial: Post-editing MT
K. Spalink, Internationalization and Translation Services, Inc. |
| 21:30 | 50th Anniversary Reception |
| DATE/TIME |
AVIARY |
BOARDROOM |
| 30 October | ||
| 8:30-8:45 | Opening Session
M. Vasconcellos & W. S. Bennett |
|
| 8:45-9:45 | Keynote: U. S. Government Support and Use of Machine Translation: Current Status
T. Pedtke, NAIC |
|
| 9:45-10:15 | Plenary Session: First Steps in
Mechanical Translation
J. Hutchins, East Anglia University |
|
| 10:15-10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30-12:30 | Panel: Pioneers of Machine Translation
Moderator: M. Vasconcellos A. F. R. Brown C. Montgomery R. Heller L. Rolling I. Mel'cuk P. Toma V. Yngve |
|
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | System Presentation: TRANSLATOR MTK (13:00) |
| 13:30-14:00 | Machine Translation Through Language Understanding
M. Nagao, Kyoto University |
A Real-Time MT System for Translating
Broadcast Captions
E. Nyberg & T. MitamuraCMU |
| 14:00-15:00 | MT from the Production Perspective
M. Flanagan, CompuServe F. Bruckert, Logos |
Managing Distributed MT Projects Today
- A New Challenge
J. Brundage, SAP, S. McCormick, SAP, & C. Pyne, S&D |
| 15:00-15:15 | Break | |
| 15:15-16:15 | MT R&D in Europe
P. Quartier, Lotus R. Havenith, EC |
MT from an Everyday User's Point of
View
A. Bech, Lingtech AS Translating Scientific Texts Using MT and MAT Systems O. Bezhanova, Ukraine |
| 16:15-17:15
(BOARDROOM to 17:45) |
R&D for Commercial MT
G. Thurmair, GMS L. Gerber, SYSTRAN |
System Presentation: CompuServe
System Presentation: Globalink System Presentation: ALIS Technologies |
| 18:00-19:30 | Sternwheeler Cruise | |
| 19:30 | Luau |
| DATE/TIME |
AVIARY |
BOARDROOM |
| 31 October | ||
| 9:00-9:45 | Plenary Session: Current State of MT
H. Somers, UMIST |
|
| 9:45-10:00 | Break | |
| 10:00-11:30 | The Shape of Commercial MT Systems
T. Lück, Logos D. Gachot, SYSTRAN H. Hagerty, B. Garr, J. O'Hara , Globalink |
Sharable Formats and Their Supporting
Environments for Exchanging User Dictionaries among Different MT Systems
as a Part of AAMT Activities
S. Kamei, NEC, et al. JEIDA's Bilingual Corpus and Other Corpora for NLP Research in Japan H. Isahara, JEIDA Multi-lingual Spoken Dialog Translation System H. Mima, O. Furuse & H. Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories |
| 11:30-13:00 | Lunch | User-Friendly Machine Translation:
Alternate Translations based on Differing Beliefs (11:30)
D. Farwell & S. Helmreich, NMSU |
| 13:00-14:00 | MT R&D in Asia
H. Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology K-Y. Su, BDC |
PARS/U for Windows
M. Blekhman, Ukraine From METAL to T1 Systems and Components for Machine Translation Applications U. Schwall, GMS |
| 14:00-15:00
(BOARDROOM to 15:30) |
Production MT in the Public Agencies
D. Theologitis, EC J. Ross, FBIS |
System Presentation: Logos Corporation
System Presentation: LANT System Presentation: Trados |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00-17:00 | IAMT General Assembly | |
| 18:00 | Banquet |
| DATE/TIME |
AVIARY |
BOARDROOM |
| 1 November | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Plenary Session: Whither MT?
B. Maegaard, CST |
|
| 9:30-10:30 | MT R&D in America
E. Hovy, ISI E. Macklovitch, Université de Montréal |
SYSTRAN MT Dictionary Development
J. Yang, SYSTRAN MT as a commercial service: three case studies T. Lewis, Hook & Hatton Ltd |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45-11:45 | What Do Users Need from MT Systems?
E. Westfall, MCS M. Marubio, Logos |
Java and its role in Natural Language
Processing and Machine Translation
T. Read, Granada End-to-end Evaluation in VERBMOBIL I R. Nübel, IAI |
| 11:45-13:00 | Lunch | System Presentation: ISI (11:45) |
| 13:00-14:00 | Using MT in a Corporate Setting
L. Cremers, Océ C. Kamprath, Caterpillar |
System Presentation: STYLUS
System Presentation: PAHO |
| 14:00-15:00 | Break | System Presentation: DIPLOMAT
System Presentation: MULTIDOC |
| 15:00-16:00 | The MT Market Perspective
L. C. Miller, MCS C. Brace, LIM Y. Shimamoto-Caleo, Fidelity Management & Research |
System Presentation: ESTeam
System Presentation: SYSTRAN |
| 16:00-16:30 | Closing Session: S. Nirenburg, NMSU | |
| 16:30-16:45 | Final Remarks |
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