Machine Translation Summit VII ’99

“MT in the Great Translation Era”

 

September 13-17, 1999

Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore

 

Proceedings

 

KEYNOTE SPEECH:

                                What should we do next for MT system development? – Hozumi Tanaka ..... 3

 

INVITED TALKS:

                                Chart translation – Martin Kay ..... 9

                                What can MT do for multilingualism on the Net? – Toru Nishigaki .... 15

                                SAIL: present and future – Jo Lernout .... 21

 

CLOSING REMARKS:

                                Retrospect and prosepct in computer-based translation – John Hutchins .... 30

 

SPECIAL SESSIONS:

                Session S1: Controlled language

                                Controlled languages for machine translation: state of the art – Hiroyuki Kaji .... 37

                                Controlled language – issues in checkers’ design – Uus Knops .... 40

                                Controlled language for multilingual machine translation – Teruko Mitamura .... 46

                Session S2: Localization

                                Translation technology applications for the localization industry – Michael Anobile .... 55

                                MT and TM technologies in localization industry: the challenge of integration – Nikolai Puntikov .... 63

                Session S3: Survey reports on MT in each area

                                Regional survey: M(A)T in North America – Elliott Macklovitch .... 73

                                Computer assisted translation system – an Indian perspective – Hemant Darbari .... 80

                                The research and development of machine translation in China – Aiping Fu .... 86

                                Report on machine translation market in Japan – Yoshiyuki Sakamoto and Minoru Moriguchi .... 92

                                Machine translation in Korea – Se-Young Park and Gil-Rok Oh .... 100

Session S4: MT and speech

                                Prospects for advanced speech translation – Hitoshi Iida .... 107

                                Robust spoken translation at ITC-IRST – Gianni Lazzari .... 114

                                Translation systems under the C-STAR framework [abstract only]– Alex Waibel .... 121

                Session S5: MT from the research perspective

A research perspective on how to democratize machine translation and translation aids aiming at high quality final output – Christian Boitet .... 125

From parallel grammar development towards machine translation – a project overview – Anette Frank .... 134

                                MT from the research perspective – Yussoff Zaharin .... 143

                Session S6: Views from users

                                FAMT is alive and well – Marjorie Leσn .... 149

                Session S7: Multilingual information access

                                Applictaions using multilinguality: IR, summarization and generalization – Vilas Wuwongse .... 155

A scalable cross-language metasearch architecture for multilingual information access on the Web – Yoshihiko Hayashi, Genichiro Kikui and Toshiaki Iwadera .... 157

Complementing dictionary-based query translations with corpus statistics for cross-language IR – Sung Hyon Myaeng and Mung-Gil Jang .... 165

                Session S8: MT for the next century

                                Machine translation for the next century  – Jun-ichi Tsujii .... 175

                                Otelo and the Domino translation object – Alan Barrett .... 177

Sharing dictionaries among MT users by common formats and social filtering framework – Shin-ichiro Kamei .... 180

                                A customizable, self-learning parameterized MT system: the next generation – Keh-Yih Su and Jing-Shin Chang .... 182

 

PANELS:

            Session PN1: International cooperation – from funding agencies’ point of view

Human language technologies for the information society: roles, plans and visions of funding agencies – Antonio Sanfilippo, Shuo Bai, Roberto Cencioni, Akira Izumi, Gary Strong and Dimitrios Theologitis .... 191

            Session PN2: MT evaluation

MT evaluation – Margaret King, Eduard Hovy, Benjamin K. T’sou, John White and Yusoff Zaharin .... 197

 

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS – General Sessions

            Session G1: MT methodologies

Applying TDMT to abstracts on science and technology – Hideki Kashioka, Hiroko Ohta, Yoshiko Shirokizawa and Kazutaka Takao .... 213

UNL-French deconversion as transfer & generation from an interlingua with possible quality enhancement through offline human interaction – Gilles Sιrasset and Christian Boitet .... 220

Solutions to problems inherent in spoken-language translation: the ATR-MATRIX approach – Eiichiro Sumita, Setsuo Yamada, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Michael Paul, Hideki Kashioka, Kai Ishikawa and Satoshi Shirai ... 229

            Session G2: Example-based MT

Portuguese-Chinese machine translation in Macao – Yi-Pmg Li, Chi-Man Pun and Fei Wu .... 236

Example-based machine translation based on the synchronous SSTC annotation schema – Mosleh H. Al-Adhaileh and Tang Enya Kong.... 244

Inducing translation templates for example-based machine translation – Michael Carl ....        250

Session G3 :   Multilingual human language technology

Development of an intranet MT system adapting to usage domain – Nobutoshi Hatanaka ... 259

The next step: moving to an integrated MT system for high-volume environments – Walter K. Hartmann ...  266

TransRouter : a decision support tool for translation managers – Margaret King .... 272

Deploying the SAE J2450 translation quality metric in MT projects – Jφrg Schόtz ... 278

Session G4 :   MT evaluation

Evaluation experiment  for reading comprehension of machine translation outputs – Masaru Fuji .... 285

Study on evaluation of WWW MT systems – Shinichiro Miyazawa, Shoichi Yokoyama, Masaki Matsudaira, Akira Kumano, Shuji Kodama, Hideki Kashioka, Yoshiko Shirokizawa and Yasuo Nakajima ....290

A new evaluation method for speech translation systems and a case study on ATR-MATRIX from Japanese to English – Toshiyuki Takezawa, Fumiaki Sugaya, Akio Yokoo and Seiichi Yamamoto   • • •  299

Session G5 :   Multilingual information processing

Machine translation for information access across the language barrier : the MuST system – Chin-Yew Lin .... 308

Multilingual document language recognition for creating corpora – Yevgeny Ludovik and Ron Zacharski .... 317

Session G6 :   Translation tools

Interactive MT as support for non-native language authoring – Svetlana Sheremetyeva and Sergei Nirenburg .... 324

Formalizing translation memories – Emmanuel Planas and Osamu Furuse .... 331

The PARS family of MT systems : a 15-year love story – Michael S. Blekhman, Olga Bezhanova, Andrei Kursin and Alia Rakova .... 340

Session G7 :   Language resources

Parallel text collections at Linguistic Data Consortium – Xiaoyi Ma .... 346

The ELAN Slovene-English aligned corpus – Tomaz Erjavec ... 349

Harmonised large-scale syntactic/semantic lexicons: a European multilingual infrastructure – Nicoletta Calzolari and Antonio Zampolli .... 358

Developing knowledge bases for MT with linguistically motivated quality-based learning – Evelyne Viegas .... 366

 

Session G8 :   System presentation (1)

A pipelined multi-engine approach to Chinese-to-Korean machine translation: MATES/CK – Min Zhang and Key-Sun Choi .... 375

Machine translation system PENSΙE: system design and implementation – Sayori Shimohata, Toshiki Murata, Atsushi Ikeno, Tsuyoshi Fukui and Hideki Yamamoto. .... 380

Rapid development of translation tools – Jan Amtrup, Karine Megerdoomian and Remi Zajac .... 385

Session G9 :   Knowledge extraction

The use of abstracted knowledge from an automatically sense-tagged corpus for lexical transfer ambiguity resolution – Hui-Feng Li, Namwon Heo. Kyounghi Moon and Jong-Hyeok Lee .... 390

Towards the automatic acquisition of lexical selection rules – Jin Yang .... 397

A bootstrap approach to automatically generating lexical transfer rules – Davide Turcato, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich and Janine Toole .... 404

Session Gl0 :   Statistical methods

Target word selection with co-occurrence and translation information – Su Jian, Guo Jin and Tong Loong Cheong .... 412

Using a target language model for domain independent lexical disambiguation – Jim Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik and Sergei Nirenburg .... 417

Article selection using probabilistic sense disambiguation – Hian-Beng Lee .... 421

Compound noun decomposition using a Markov model – Jongwoo Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang and Yung Taek Kim .... 427

Session G1l :   System presentation (2)

English-to-Korean Web translator : “FromTo/Web-EK” – Sung-Kwon Choi, Taewan Kim, Sanghwa Yuh, Han-Min Jung, Chul-Min Sim and Sang-Kyu Park .... 432

ALTFLASH: a Japanese-to-English machine translation system for market flash reports – Hajime Uchino, Yoshifumi Ooyama and Osamu Furuse .... 438

ALT-J/M a prototype Japanese-to-Malay translation system – Kentaro Ogura, Francis Bond and Yoshifumi Ooyama .... 444

Session G12 :   Asian language processing

An automated mandarin document revision system using both phonetic and radical approaches – June-Jei Kuo .... 449

The pitfalls and complexities of Chinese to Chinese conversion – Jack Halpern and Jouni Kerman .... 458

[Only the papers above are available as yet. Those below will be processed in due course. There are more papers in the proceedings than for any other MT Summit, before or since, and there are problems with scanning and editing due to the format of the printing (narrow margins and tight binding).]

 

POSTER SESSIONS :

Session PS1 :   Poster session (1)

From To K/E: a Korean-English machine translation system based on idiom recognition and fail softening – Byong-Rae Ryu, Youngkil Kim, Sanghwa Yuh and Sangkyu Park .... 469

Transfer-based Japanese-Chinese translation implemented on an e-mail system – Junichi Matsuda and Hiroyuki Kumai .... 476

A Cantonese-English machine translation system PolyU-MT-99 – Yan Wu and James Liu .... 481

WEBTRAN: a controlled language machine translation system for building multilingual services on Internet – Aarno Lehtola, Jarno Tenni, Catherine Bounsaythip and Kristiina Jaaranen .... 487

Improvement of translation quality of English newspaper headlines by automatic preediting – Takehiko Yoshimi and Ichiko Sata .... 496

Transfer in experience-guided machine translation -- Gang Zhao and Junichi Tsujii .... 501

Example-based machine translation of part-of-speech tagged sentences by recursive division – Tantely Andriamanankasina, Kenji Araki and Koji Tochinai .... 509

A new way to conceptual meaning representation – Xiaojie Wang and Yixin Zhong .... 518

Using computational semantics for Chinese translations – Evelyne Viegas, Wanying Jin and Stephen Beale .... 522

Session PS2 :   Poster session (2)

Sources of linguistic knowledge for minority languages -- Harold L. Somers .... 531

BITS: a method for bilingual text search over the Web – Xiaoyi Ma and Mark Y. Liberman .... 538

Sharing syntactic structures – Masahiro Ueki, Takenobu Tokunaga and Hozumi Tanaka .... 543

A deterministic dependency parser for Japanese -- Ulrich Germann .... 547

A new approach to the translating telephone – Robert Frederking, Christopher Hogan and Alexander Rudnicky .... 556

A method of evaluation of the quality of translated text – Satoshi Yamauchi .... 564

Quantitative evaluation of machine translation using two-way MT – Shoichi Yokoyama, Akira Kumano, Masaki Matsudaira, Yoshiko Shirokizawa, Mutsumi Kawagoe, Shuji Kodama, Hideki Kashioka, Terumasa Ehara. Shinichiro Miyazawa and Yasuo Nakajima .... 568

Task-based evaluation for machine translation -- Jennifer B. Doyon, Kathryn B. Taylor and John S. White ... 574

Experiment report of a commercial machine translation in a manufacturing industry domain – Orie Fukutomi .... 579

Session PS3 :   Poster session (3)

Collection of dictionary data through Internet translation service – Keisuke Nakayama and Akira Kumano .... 586

Term Builder: a lexical knowledge acquisition tool for the Logos machine translation system – Brigitte Orliac and Kutz Arrieta .... 593

Computer-aided translation tools for Russian. Ukrainian, and English – Michael S. Blekhman, Maryna Byezhanova, Andrei Kursin, Igor Backlan, Alexander Kazakov and Vladimir Petrov .... 598

Translation Camera -- Yasuhiko Watanabe, Yoshihiro Okada, Yeun-Bae Kim and Tetsuya Takeda .... 601

A new diagnostic system for J-E translation ILTS by global matching algorithm and POST parser – Liang Chen and Naoyuki Tokuda .... 608

Linking translation memories with example-based machine translation -- Michael Carl and Silvia Hansen .... 617

Towards an interlingual treatment of modality -- Christoph Neumann .... 625

Resolving category ambiguity of non-text symbols in Mandarin text – Feng-Long Hwang and Ming-Shing Yu .... 633

Automatic domain recognition for machine translation .... Elke D. Lange and Jin Yang .... 641

A multilevel framework for incremental development of MT systems – Remi Zajac .... 646