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Abstracts

(2005) Hiroyuki Kaji: Domain dependence of lexical translation: a case study of patent abstracts MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Patent Translation; pp.43-49. [PDF, 215KB]

(2005) Sayori Shimohata: Finding translation candidates from patent corpus MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Patent Translation; pp.50-54. [PDF, 290KB]

Advertising texts

(2006) Arendse Bernth: EasyEnglish Analyzer: taking controlled language from sentence to discourse level. CLAW 2006: 5th International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 12, 2006; 7pp. [PDF, 116KB]

Air travel see Travel and tourism

Algorithms see Programming and coding

Authoring tools

(2007) Young-Ae Seo, Chang-Hyun Kim, Seong-Il Yang, & Young-gil Kim: Getting professional translation through user interaction. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.413-419 [PDF, 479KB]

(2007) Svetlana Sheremetyeva: On portability of resources for a quick ramp up of multilingual MT of patent claims. MT Summit XI Workshop on patent translation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.28-33. [PDF, 66KB]

(2006) Svetlana Sheremetyeva: Integration of correction modules in a controlled language application. CLAW 2006: 5th International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 12, 2006; 9pp. [PDF, 193KB]

(2005) Stephen Beale, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, & Tod Allman: Document authoring the Bible for minority language translation. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.63-70. [PDF, 415KB]

Automotive manuals

(2007) Anna Sĺgvall Hein: Rule-based and statistical machine translation with a focus on Swedish [abstract]. Invited talk at TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; 1p. [PDF, 15KB]

(2006) Nestor Rychtyckyj: Standard language at Ford Motors: a case study in controlled language development and deployment. CLAW 2006: 5th International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 12, 2006; 10pp. [PDF, 70KB]

Bible

(2006) Tod Allman & Stephen Beale: A natural language generator for minority languages.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.39-46. [PDF, 301KB]

(2005) Stephen Beale, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, & Tod Allman: Document authoring the Bible for minority language translation. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.63-70. [PDF, 415KB]

Bootstrapping

(2007) Paula Estrella, Olivier Hamon, & Andrei Popescu-Belis: How much data is needed for reliable MT evaluation? Using bootstrapping to study human and automatic metrics. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.167-174 [PDF, 143KB]

(2007) Paula Estrella, Andrei Popescu-Belis, & Maghi King: A new method for the study of correlations between MT evaluation metrics. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.55-64 [PDF, 949KB]; presentation [PDF, 95KB]

(2007) Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa, & Andy Way: Bootstrapping word alignment via word packing. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 304-311 [PDF, 198KB]

(2007) Tarek Sherif & Grzegorz Kondrak: Bootstrapping a stochastic transducer for Arabic-English transliteration extraction. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 864-871 [PDF, 189KB]

(2007) Yik-Cheung Tam, Ian Lane, & Tanja Schultz: Bilingual-LSA based LM adaptation for spoken language translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 520-527 [PDF, 162KB]

Business texts

(2007) Adriane Rinsche: LTC tutorial on workflow and business information management in the language industry. Tutorial at MT Summit XI, 10 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; abstract, 2pp. [PDF, 30KB]; materials, 10pp. [PDF, 83KB]

(2006) Jaap van der Meer: The emergence of FAUT: fully automatic useful translation. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.7 [PDF, 19KB]

Character recognition

(2005) Hideharu Nakajima, Yoshiro Matsuo, Masaaki Nagata, & Kuniko Saito: Portable translator capable of recognizing characters on signboard and menu captured by built-in camera.  ACL-2005: Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 2005; pp. 61-64. [PDF, 251KB]

Chatroom language

(2006) Michael C. McCord: MT for social impact (contribution to panel on “Machine translation for social impact”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 1022KB]

Collaboration

(2007) Mary Harper, Alex Acero, Srinivas Bangalore, Jaime Carbonell, Jordan Cohen, Barbara Cuthill, Carol Espy-Wilson, Christiane Fellbaum, John Garofolo, Chin-Hui Lee, Jim Lester, Andrew McCallum, Nelson Morgan, Michael Picheney, Joe Picone, Lance Ramshaw, Jeff Reynar, Hadar Shemtov, & Clare Voss: Report on the NSF-sponsored Human Language Technology Workshop on Industrial Centers. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.239-246 [PDF, 94KB]

(2007) Hitoshi Isahara, Sadao Kurohashi, Jun’ichi Tsujii, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Kaji, & Shun’ichi Kikuchi: Development of a Japanese-Chinese machine translation system.  MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.263-267 [PDF, 161KB]

(2006) Youcef Bey, Christian Boitet, & Kyo Kageura: The TRANSBey prototype: an online collaborative Wiki-based CAT environment for volunteer translators.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Third International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research & Training (LR4Trans-III), Genoa, Italy, 28 May 2006; pp.49-54. [PDF, 670KB]

(2006) Oliver Streiter, Mathias Stuflesser, & Qiu Lan Weng: Models of cooperation for the development of NLP resources: a comparison of institutional coordinated research and voluntary cooperation.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.109-112. [PDF, 1377KB]

Commercial systems (see also Economics of MT)

(2006) Sattar Izwaini: Problems of Arabic machine translation: evaluation of three systems. The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT. International conference at the British Computer Society, London, 23 October 2006; pp.118-148. [PDF, 281KB]

(2006) Jaap van der Meer: The emergence of FAUT: fully automatic useful translation. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.7 [PDF, 19KB]

(2005) Andreas Eisele: First steps towards multi-engine machine translation. ACL-2005: Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts – Data-driven machine translation and beyond, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 29-30 June 2005; pp. 155-158. [PDF, 43KB]

(2005) Setsuo Yamada, Syuuji Kodama, Taeko Matsuoka, Hiroshi Araki, Yoshiaki Murakami, Osamu Takano, & Yoshiyuki Sakamoto: A report on the machine translation market in Japan. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.55-62. [PDF, 121KB]

Computational complexity (see also Modularity)

(2007) Marcello Federico & Mauro Cettolo: Efficient handling of n-gram language models for statistical machine translation.  ACL 2007: proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 23, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 88-95 [PDF, 361KB]

(2006) Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch & Miles Osborne: Constraining the phrase-based, joint probability statistical translation model. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.10-18 [PDF, 244KB]

(2006) Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborne, & Philipp Koehn: Constraining the phrase-based, joint probability statistical translation model.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 154-157 [PDF, 134KB]

(2006) Raghavendra Udupa U. & Hemanta K.Maji: Computational complexity of statistical machine translation. EACL-2006: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, April 3-7, 2006; pp.25-32 [PDF, 142KB]

(2006) Hao Zhang, Liang Huang, Daniel Gildea, & Kevin Knight: Synchronous binarization for machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 256-263 [PDF, 206KB]

Controlled languages

(2007) Takako Aikawa, Lee Schwartz, Ronit King, Mo Corston-Oliver, & Carmen Lozano: Impact of controlled language on translation quality and post-editing in a statistical machine translation environment. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.1-7 [PDF, 314KB]

(2007) Sharon O’Brien & Johann Roturier: How portable are controlled language rules? A comparison of two empirical MT studies. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.345-352 [PDF, 77KB]

(2006) proceedings of CLAW 2006: 5th International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 12, 2006.

(2006) Michael Blench [presenter]: Automated translation system Job Bank. AMTA 2006:  7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; presentation on User Track [PDF of PPT presentation, 383KB]

(2006) Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Pierrette Bouillon, Manny Rayner, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander & Beth Ann Hockey: Evaluating task performance for a unidirectional controlled language medical speech translation system.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the  Workshop on Medical Speech Translation, 9 June 2006, New York, NY, USA; pp.9-16 [PDF, 109KB]

(2006) David M.Rojas & Takako Aikawa: Predicting MT quality as a function of the source language.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.2534-2537 [PDF, 613KB]

(2006) Marcus Sammer, Kobi Reiter, Stephen Soderland, Katrin Kirchhoff & Oren Etzioni: Ambiguity reduction for machine translation: human-computer collaboration.  AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.193-202 [PDF, 247KB]

(2005) Stephen Beale, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, & Tod Allman: Document authoring the Bible for minority language translation. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.63-70. [PDF, 415KB]

(2005) Andre Castilla, Alice Bacic, & Sergio Furuie: Machine translation on the medical domain: the role of BLEU/NIST and METEOR in a controlled vocabulary setting. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.47-54. [PDF, 156KB]

(2005) Marianne Starlander, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Marianne Santaholma, Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, & Yukie Nakao: Practicing controlled language through a help system integrated into the medical speech translation system (MedSLT). MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.188-194. [PDF, 169KB]

Cross-language information retrieval see Information retrieval

Customization and implementation

(2007) Jen Doyon: How to successfully integrate MT. Tutorial at MT Summit XI, 10 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; abstract, 1p. [PDF, 88KB]

(2007) Hans-Udo Stadler & Ursula Peter-Spörndli: The quest for machine translation quality at CLS Communication. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.435-442 [PDF, 115KB]

(2006) Statistical machine translation gets real: the LanguageWeaver profile. Global by Design, December 2006; pp. 8-19 [PDF, 2115KB]

(2006) Donald A. DePalma: Evaluating MT prior to deployment.  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; presentation on User Track [PDF of PPT presentation, 226KB]

(2005) Mats Attnäs, Pierre Senellart, & Jean Senellart: Integration of SYSTRAN MT systems in an open workflow. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.211-218. [PDF, 1951KB]

Decipherment

(2006) Kevin Knight, Anish Nair, Nishit Rathod, & Kenji Yamada: Unsupervised analysis for decipherment problems. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, July 2006; pp.499-506. [PDF, 200KB]

Dynamic programming

(2007) Tarek Sherif & Grzegorz Kondrak: Substring-based transliteration. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 944-951 [PDF, 152KB]

(2006) Jorge Civera & Alfons Juan: Mixtures of IBM Model 2. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.159-167 [PDF, 142KB]

(2006) Liang Huang, Kevin Knight & Aravind Joshi: Statistical syntax-directed translation with extended domain of locality. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.66-73 [PDF, 162KB]

Economics of MT

(2007) Doris Marty-Albisser: Client centric multilingual leverage – scale the skills. Invited talk at MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; 25pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 686KB]

(2007) Wing Shan Shirley Ong: Sequoyah foreign language translation system – business case analysis. Masters thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, December 2007. xviii, 71pp. [PDF, 1193KB]

(2006) Statistical machine translation gets real: the LanguageWeaver profile. Global by Design, December 2006; pp. 8-19 [PDF, 2115KB]

Edit distance

(2007) Christopher Cieri, Stephanie Strassel, Meghan Lammie Glenn, & Lauren Friedman: Linguistic resources in support of various evaluation metrics. MT Summit XI Workshop: Automatic procedures in MT evaluation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, [Proceedings]; 34pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 1007KB]

(2006) Andrew T. Freeman, Sherri L. Condon & Christopher M. Ackerman: Cross linguistic name matching in English and Arabic: a “one to many mapping” extension of the Levenshtein edit distance algorithm. HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 471-478 [PDF, 371KB]

(2006) Gregor Leusch, Nicola Ueffing, & Hermann Ney: CDER: efficient MT evaluation using block movements. EACL-2006: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, April 3-7, 2006; pp.241-248 [PDF, 146KB]

(2006) Agam Patel & Dragomir R.Radev: Lexical similarity can distinguish between automatic and manual translations. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.1230-1235 [PDF, 326KB]

(2006) Mark Przybocki, Gregor Sanders, & Audrey Le: Edit distance: a metric for machine translation evaluation.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.2038-2043 [PDF, 446KB]

(2006) Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Richard Schwartz, Linnea Micciulla, & John Makhoul: A study of translation edit rate with targeted human annotation.  AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.223-231 [PDF, 185KB]

Electronic mail

(2006) Michael C. McCord: MT for social impact (contribution to panel on “Machine translation for social impact”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 1022KB]

Embedded MT

(2005) Svetlana Sheremetyeva: Embedding MT for generating patent claims in English from a multilingual interface MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Patent Translation; pp.8-15. [PDF, 883KB]

Employment

(2006) Michael Blench [presenter]: Automated translation system Job Bank. AMTA 2006:  7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; presentation on User Track [PDF of PPT presentation, 383KB]

Error detection and correction

(2007) Yi Chang, Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel, & Jie Yang: Enhancing image-based Arabic document translation using noisy channel correction model. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.89-95 [PDF, 157KB]

(2007) Ariadna Font Llitjós, Jaime Carbonell, & Alon Lavie: Improving transfer-based MT systems with automatic refinements. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.183-190 [PDF, 339KB]

(2007) Ariadna Font Llitjós & William A. Ridmann: The inner works of an automatic rule refiner for machine translation. METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 11 January 2007; 10pp. [PDF, 412KB]

(2007) John Lee, Ming Zhou, & Xiaohua Liu: Detection of non-native sentences using machine-translated training data. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.93-96 [PDF, 188KB]

(2007) Young-Ae Seo, Chang-Hyun Kim, Seong-Il Yang, & Young-gil Kim: Getting professional translation through user interaction. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.413-419 [PDF, 479KB]

(2007) Yokoyama Shoichi & Kennendai Shigehiro: Error correcting system for analysis of Japanese patent sentences. MT Summit XI Workshop on patent translation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.24-27. [PDF, 73KB]

(2006) Chris Brockett, William B.Dolan, & Michael Gamon: Correcting ESL errors using phrasal SMT techniques.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.249-256. [PDF, 109KB]

(2006) Jakob Elming: Transformation-based correction of rule-based MT. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.219-226 [PDF, 124KB]

(2006) Ariadna Font-Llitjós: Can the Internet help improve machine translation?  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 219-222 [PDF, 135KB]

(2006) David Kauchak: Contributions to research on machine translation. PhD thesis, University of California, San Diego, 2006. xiv,92pp. [PDF, 491KB]

(2005) Graham Russell, Ngoc Tran Nguyen, & George Foster: Automatic detection of translation errors: the state of the art. HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; Demonstration abstracts, p. 1. [PDF, 75KB]

(2005) Advaith Siddharthan & Kathleen McKeown: Improving multilingual summarization: using redundancy in the input to correct MT errors.  HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 33-40. [PDF, 255KB]

Evaluation of systems see index of methods

Government intelligence and MT

(2006) Salim Roukos: Rosetta: an analyst’s co-pilot. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; 60pp.  [PDF, 2789KB]

Hand-held devices see Mobile devices

Hardware see Computer equipment and accessories

Health see Medical texts

Human translation and MT (see also Translation tools and aids for translators)

(2007) Lieve Macken: Analysis of translational correspondence in view of sub-sentential alignment.  METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 11 January 2007; 9pp. [PDF, 182KB]

(2006) Lea Cyrus: Building a resource for studying translation shifts.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.697-702 [PDF, 358KB]

 (2006) Daniel Marcu & Alan K.Melby: Data-driven machine translation: a conversation with linguistics and translation studies. AMTA 2006:  7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; invited talk [PDF of PPT presentation, 998KB]

(2006) Agam Patel & Dragomir R.Radev: Lexical similarity can distinguish between automatic and manual translations. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.1230-1235 [PDF, 326KB]

(2006) Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych, & Anthony Hartley: Using comparable corpora to solve problems difficult for human translators. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, July 2006; pp.739-746. [PDF, 250KB]

(2006) Serge Sharoff: Translation as problem-solving: uses of comparable corpora.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Third International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research & Training (LR4Trans-III), Genoa, Italy, 28 May 2006; pp.23-28. [PDF, 914KB]

Humour and MT

(2006) Federico Gaspari: Look who’s translating. Impersonations, Chinese whispers and fun with machine translation on the Internet. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.149-158 [PDF, 96KB]

Implementation of MT see Customization and implementation

Information extraction

(2006) Jamal Laoudi, Calandra R.Tate, & Clare R.Voss: Task-based MT evaluation: from who/when/where extraction to event understanding.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.2048-2053 [PDF, 381KB]

(2006) Salim Roukos: Rosetta: an analyst’s co-pilot. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; 60pp.  [PDF, 2789KB]

(2006) Calandra R. Tate & Clare R. Voss: Combining evaluation metrics via loss functions. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.242-250 [PDF, 106KB]

(2006) Clare R. Voss & Calandra R. Tate: Task-based evaluation of machine translation (MT) engines. Measuring how well people extract who, when, where-type elements in MT output. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.203-212 [PDF, 235KB]

(2005) Bogdan Babych: Information extraction technology in machine translation: IE methods for improving and evaluating MT quality. Ph D thesis, University of Leeds, Centre for Translation Studies, March 2005. 186pp. [PDF, 859KB]

(2005) Andre Castilla, Alice Bacic, & Sergio Furuie: Machine translation on the medical domain: the role of BLEU/NIST and METEOR in a controlled vocabulary setting. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.47-54. [PDF, 156KB]

(2005) Thomas Hoeft, Nick Cramer, M.L.Gregory, & Elizabeth Hetzler: Bridging the gap between technology and users: leveraging machine translation in a visual data triage tool.  HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; Demonstration abstracts, pp. 2-3. [PDF, 77KB]

Information retrieval (see also Keywords and keyphrases, Semantic Web)

(2007) Eneko Agirre, Bernardo Magnini, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Arantxa Otegi, German Rigau, & Piek Vossen: SemEval-2007 task 01: evaluating WSD on cross-language information retrieval. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 4th International  Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007), Prague, Czech Republic, 23-24 June 2007; pp.1-6 [PDF, 79KB]

(2007) Peter A.Chew & Ahmed Abdelali: Benefits of the ‘massively parallel Rosetta stone’: cross-language information retrieval with over 30 languages. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 872-879 [PDF, 145KB]

(2007) Oren Etzioni, Kobi Reiter, Stephen Soderland, & Marcus Sammer: Lexical translation with application to image searching on the web. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.175-182 [PDF, 603KB]

(2007) Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu Mittal, & Yi Liu: Statistical machine translation for query expansion in answer retrieval. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 464-471 [PDF, 104KB]

(2007) Nasredine Semmar & Christian Fluhr: Arabic to French sentence alignment: exploration of a cross-language information retrieval approach. ACL 2007: proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources, Prague, Czech Republic, 28 June 2007; pp. 73-80 [PDF, 156KB]

(2007) Cristina Vertan: Example based machine translation for cross-lingual information retrieval. Tutorial at MT Summit XI, 10 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; abstract, 1p. [PDF, 83KB]; presentation, 112pp. [PDF of PPT slides, 6215KB]

(2007) Chien-Cheng Wu & Jason S.Chang: Learning to find transliteration on the Web. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Demonstration Program, pp.21-22 [PDF, 1621KB]

(2006) Conrad Chen & Hsin-Hsi Chen: A high-accurate Chinese-English NE backward translation system combining both lexical information and web statistics.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, July 2006; pp.81-88. [PDF, 313KB]

(2006) Sherri Condon & Keith J. Miller: What’s in a name: current methods, applications, and evaluation in multilingual name search and matching. [Abstract for tutorial, in] HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 299-300 [PDF, 20KB]

(2006) Andrew T. Freeman, Sherri L. Condon & Christopher M. Ackerman: Cross linguistic name matching in English and Arabic: a “one to many mapping” extension of the Levenshtein edit distance algorithm. HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 471-478 [PDF, 371KB]

(2006) Nizar Habash, Clinton Mah, Sabiha Imran, Randy Calistri-Yeh, & Páraic Sheridan: Design, construction and validation of an Arabic-English conceptual interlingua for cross-lingual information retrieval. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.107-112 [PDF, 408KB]

(2006) Diana Inkpen, Muath Alzghool, Gareth J.F.Jones & Douglas W.Oard: Investigating cross-language speech retrieval for a spontaneous conversational speech collection.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 61-64 [PDF, 43KB]

(2006) Youssef Kadri & Jian-Yun Nie: Effective stemming for Arabic information retrieval.  The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT. International conference at the British Computer Society, London, 23 October 2006; pp.68-74. [PDF, 210KB]

(2006) Qing Li, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Yun Jin, & Be-yeong Kang: Concept unification of terms in different languages for IR. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.641-648. [PDF, 234KB]

(2006) Nasredine Semmar & Christian Fluhr: Using cross-language information retrieval for sentence alignment.  The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT. International conference at the British Computer Society, London, 23 October 2006; pp.95-104. [PDF, 254KB]

(2006) Jiang Zhu & Haifeng Wang: The effect of translation quality in MT-based cross-language information retrieval. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.593-600. [PDF, 110KB]

(2005) Christian Fluhr: Criticisms and proposed evolutions of the information retrieval evaluation paradigm. ELRA-HLT Evaluation Workshop, Malta, 1-2 December 2005; 7pp. [PDF from PPT, 32KB]

(2005) Gregory Grefenstette, Nasredine Semmar, & Faďza Elkateb-Gara: Modifying a natural language processing system for European languages to treat Arabic in information processing and information retrieval applications.  ACL-2005: Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 29 June 2005; pp. 31-38. [PDF,

(2005) Udo Hahn, Kornél Markó, & Stefan Schulz: Subword clusters as light-weight interlingua for multilingual document retrieval. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.17-24. [PDF, 143KB]

(2005) Almut Silja Hildebrand, Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Adaptation of the translation model for statistical machine translation based on information retrieval. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 133-1142. [PDF, 100KB]

(2005) Thomas Hoeft, Nick Cramer, M.L.Gregory, & Elizabeth Hetzler: Bridging the gap between technology and users: leveraging machine translation in a visual data triage tool.  HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; Demonstration abstracts, pp. 2-3. [PDF, 77KB]

(2005) Fei Huang, Ying Zhang, & Stephan Vogel: Mining key phrase translations from web corpora. HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 483-490. [PDF, 310KB]

(2005) Vanessa Murdock & W.Bruce Croft: A translation model for sentence retrieval.  HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 684-691. [PDF, 205KB]

(2005) Carol Peters: Evaluating information retrieval systems: focusing on systems for cross language information retrieval. ELRA-HLT Evaluation Workshop, Malta, 1-2 December 2005; 47pp. [PDF from PPT, 561KB]

(2005) Jian-Cheng Wu, Tracy Lin, & Jason S.Chang: Learning source-target surface patterns for web-based terminology translation. ACL-2005: Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 2005; pp. 37-40. [PDF, 153KB]

Information services [see also Translation services]

(2007) Michael Blench: Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN). MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.45-49 [PDF, 331KB]

(2007) Doris Marty-Albisser: Client centric multilingual leverage – scale the skills. Invited talk at MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; 25pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 686KB]

(2006) Michael Blench [presenter]: Automated translation system Job Bank. AMTA 2006:  7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; presentation on User Track [PDF of PPT presentation, 383KB]

(2005) Thomas Hoeft, Nick Cramer, M.L.Gregory, & Elizabeth Hetzler: Bridging the gap between technology and users: leveraging machine translation in a visual data triage tool.  HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; Demonstration abstracts, pp. 2-3. [PDF, 77KB]

(2005) Weiquan Liu: Multilingual information service system for the Beijing Olympics, a playground of MT technologies. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit: invited paper; pp.i-3-6 [PDF, 89KB], also PDF of PPT presentation [2736KB]

(2005) Abla Mawudeku & Michael Blench: Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) . MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit: invited paper; pp.i-7-11 [PDF, 1073KB], also PDF of PPT presentation by Michael Blench [415KB]

(2005) Bo Xu, Z.B.Chen, W.Wei, W.Pan, & Z.D.Yang: Phrase-based statistical machine translation for MANOS system. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit: invited paper; pp.i-23-26 [PDF, 289KB], also PDF of PPT presentation [639KB]

Internationalization see Localization

Internet [see also Chatroom language, Online MT, World Wide Web]

(2006) Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: A flexible online server for machine translation evaluation. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.89-94 [PDF, 111KB]

(2006) Ariadna Font-Llitjós: Can the Internet help improve machine translation?  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 219-222 [PDF, 135KB]

(2006) Iván Guzmán de Rojas: Experience with language implementations in ATAMIRI. Presented at the Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet, International Centre of Geneva, 9-11 May 2006; 7pp. [PDF, 61KB]

(2006) Joaquim Moré & Salvador Climent: A cheap MT-evaluation method based on Internet searches. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.19-26 [PDF, 260KB]

(2005) Toru Ishida: Intercultural collaboration using machine translation. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit: invited paper [PDF of PPT presentation, 1512KB]

Keywords and keyphrases

(2005) Fei Huang, Ying Zhang, & Stephan Vogel: Mining key phrase translations from web corpora. HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 483-490. [PDF, 310KB]

(2005) David Nadeau, Caroline Barričre & George Foster: Bike: bilingual keyphrase experiments. International workshop: Modern approaches in translation technologies, Borovets, Bulgaria, 24 September 2005; p.36-41 [PDF, 184KB]

Language teaching and learning

(2007) Chao Wang & Stephanie Seneff: Automatic assessment of student translations for foreign language tutoring. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.468-475 [PDF, 124KB]

(2006) Chris Brockett, William B.Dolan, & Michael Gamon: Correcting ESL errors using phrasal SMT techniques.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.249-256. [PDF, 109KB]

(2006) Douglas Jones, Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, Martha Herzog, Michael Emonts, Sabine Atwell, James Dirgin, Neil Granoien, Sargon Jabri, Jurgen Sottung, Timothy Anderson, & Timothy Hunter: Toward an Interagency Language Roundtable based assessment of speech-to-speech translation capabilities. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.82-89 [PDF, 150KB]

(2006) Michael C. McCord: MT for social impact (contribution to panel on “Machine translation for social impact”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge,