Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
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(MT in a growing field of language technologies)
The Sheraton Bucks County Hotel
Langhorne, Pennsylvania
October 28-31, 1998
The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas hold its third conference in the biennial series at the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel in Langhorne, PA on October 28-31. AMTA-98 focused on the multilingual aspects of the diverse language technologies being used increasingly on the web: Information Retrieval, Text Summarization, Speech Recognition, and so on. The conference featured invited speakers, panel discussions, papers by researchers and developers, workshops, tutorials, and more.
The complete description of the program can be found at http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/conferences/amta98/program.html
Featured Speakers:
The internation business of MT - Gaston Bastiaens (Lernout & Hauspie)
Integrating MT with other technologies - Louis Monier (Alta Vista)
Situating MT in the Information (Language Technology) Soup! - Gary Strong (National Science Foundation)
MT-Related technologies:
Information Retrieval - Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research)
Miltilingual Text Summarization - Jaime Carbonnell (Carnegie Mellon University)
The future of the lexicon:
- Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- Dan Melamed (University of Pennsylvania)
Panels
Breaking the Quality Ceiling (moderator: David Farwell)
The forgotten Majority: Neglected Languages (moderator: Laurie Gerber)
The AMTA Seal of Approval (moderator: Eduard Hovy)
Research PapersPapers on a variety of topics, written by researchers, practitioners and users of Machine Translation and related language technologies were presented in sessions parallel to the system demonstrations.
See list of accepted papers at http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/conferences/amta98/accept-papers.html.
Tutorials
Survey of Methodological Approaches to MT - Harold Somers, UMIST
Multilingual Text Summarization - Eduard Hovy and Daniel Marcu, ISI/USC
Speech-to-Speech Translation - Monica Woszczyna, CMU
MT Evaluation: Old, New and Recycled - John White, PRC
Survey of Language Learning Technologies - Patricia O'Neill-Brown, US Department of Commerce
Multilingual Text Retrieval - Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox/Grenoble
Ontological Semantics for Knowledge-Based Machine Translation - Sergei Nirenburg, CRL/NMSU
ExhibitsIn addition to the scheduled demonstrations, vendor booths were showcasing commercial products on an ongoing basis throughout the conference.
Tuesday, October 27
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM1. Second SIG-IL Workshop on Interlinguas and Interlingual Approaches to MT
Organizer: Stephen Helmreich, CRL/NMSU
Contact: Stephen Helmreich ( shelmrei@crl.nmsu.edU)
Webpage: http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/FWOI/SecondWorkshop/index.html.2. Workshop on Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Systems with an MT Component
Organizers: Clare Voss, ARL Florence Reeder, MITRE
Contact: Clare Voss (voss@arl.mil)
Webpage: http://rpstl.arl.mil/isb-south/Clareworkshop.htm
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Eduard Hovy USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 USA Tel: +1-310-822-1511 ext. 731 Fax: +1-310-823-6714 Email: hovy@isi.edu |
Laurie Gerber SYSTRAN Software, Inc. 7855 Fay Avenue, Suite 300 La Jolla, CA 92037 USA Tel: +1-619-459-6700 ext. 119 Fax: +1-619-459-8487 Email: lgerber@systransoft.com |
David Farwell Computing Research Laboratory New Mexico State University Box 3001/3CRL Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 USA Tel: +1-505-646-5108 Fax: +1-505-646-6218 Email: david@crl.nmsu.edu |
| Local Arrangements Chair | Exhibits Coordinator | AMTA Focal Point |
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Martha Palmer Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Suite 400A, 3401 Walnut Bldg. Philadelphia, PA 19041-6228 Tel: +1-215-898-0361 Fax: +1-215-573-9247 Email: mpalmer@linc.cis.upenn.edu |
Kim Belvin 659 Dell Street Solana Beach, CA 92075 Tel: +1-619-481-8446 Fax: +1-619-350-8613 |
Deborah Becker Association for Machine Translation in the Americas 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 300 Washington, DC 20004 USA Tel/fax: +1-703-716-0912 Email: AMTAInfo@worldnet.att.net |
Maintained by Katya Shuldiner