EAMT-2006

11th Annual Conference of the

European Association for Machine Translation

June 19 & 20, 2006

Oslo University (Norway)

Table of Contents

Preface

Viggo Hansen and Bente Maegaard 3

Invited Keynote: Fully Automatic Useful Translation

Jaap van der Meer 7

A Bilingual Grammar for Translation of English-Swedish Verb Frame Divergences

Sara Stymne and Lars Ahrenberg 9

A Cheap MT-Evaluation Method Based on Internet Searches

Joaquim Moré and Salvador Climent 19

Combinatory Examples Extraction for Machine Translation

Alberto Simões and Joé João Almeida 27

A Computer-Assisted Translation Tool based on Finite-State Technology

Jorge Civera, Antonio L. Lagarda, Elsa Cubel, Francisco Casacuberta,

Enrique Vidal, Juan M. Vilar, and Sergio Barrachina 33

Detecting Inappropriate Use of Free Online Machine Translation by Language Students. A Special Case of Plagiarism Detection

Harold Somers, Federico Gaspari, and Ana Niño 41

A Dictionary Lookup Strategy for Translating of Discontinuous Phrases

Michael Carl and Ecaterina Rascu 49

Disambiguation Strategies for Data-Oriented Translation

Mary Hearne and Andy Way 59

English-Hungarian NP Alignment in MetaMorpho^TM

Gábor Pohl 69

Exploiting Word Transformation in Statistical Machine Translation from Spanish to English

Deepa Gupta and Marcello Federico 75

A Flexible Architecture for CAT Applications

Saša Hasan, Shahram Khadivi, Richard Zens, and Hermann Ney 81

A Flexible Online Server for Machine Translation Evaluation

Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, and Alex Waibel 89

Grammatical Framework (GF) for MT in Sublanguage Domains

Janna Khegai 95

Handling Low Translatability in Machine Translation of Long Sentences

Svetlana Sheremetyeva 105

Hybridity in MT. Experiments on the Europarl Corpus

Declan Groves and Andy Way 115

Identifying Complex Phenomena in a Corpus via a Treebank Lens

Dan Flickinger 125

Interoperability Between Translation Memories and Localization Tools by Using the MultiLingual Information Framework

Samuel Cruz-Lara, Nadia Bellalem, Julien Ducret, and Isabella Kramer 131

Leveraging Recurrent Phrase Structure in Large-scale Ontology Translation

G. Craig Murray, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy Lin, Jan Hajič, and Pavel Pecina 141

Look Who's Translating. Impersonations, Chinese Whispers and Fun with Machine Translation on the Internet

Federico Gaspari 149

Mixtures of IBM Model 2

Jorge Civera and Alfons Juan 159

Morpho-Syntax Based Statistical Methods for Automatic Sign Language Translation

Daniel Stein, Jan Bungeroth, and Hermann Ney 169

Obtaining Word Phrases with Stochastic Inversion Translation Grammars for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

J. A. Sánchez and J. M. Benedí 179

Pragmatics-based MT and the Translation of Puns

David Farwell and Stephen Helmreich 187

A Syntactic Skeleton for Statistical Machine Translation

Bart Mellebeek, Karolina Owczarzak, Declan Groves, Josef Van Genabith, and Andy Way 195

Task-based Evaluation of Machine Translation (MT) Engines. Measuring How Well People Extract Who, When, Where-Type Elements in MT Output

Clare R. Voss and Calandra R. Tate 203

Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation Method of Memory-Based Translation Systems

Gábor Hodasz 213

Transformation-Based Correction of Rule-Based MT

Jakob Elming 219

Translation Context Sensitive WSD

Lucia Specia, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, and Mark Stevenson 227

Using a Bi-Lingual Dictionary in Lexical Transfer

Lars Nygaard, Jan Tore Lønning, Torbjørn Nordgård, and Stephan Oepen 233

Using Patterns for Machine Translation

Stella Makantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Vassiliki Spilioti, George Tambouratzis,

Marina Vassiliou, and Olga Yannoutsou 239

WebBootCaT. Instant Domain-Specific Corpora to Support Human Translators

Marco Baroni, Adam Kilgarriff, Jan Pomikalek, and Pavel Rychly 247