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Abstracts

(2004) Hal Daumé III & Daniel Marcu: A phrase-based HMM approach to document/abstract alignment.  EMNLP-2004: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 111KB]

(2000) Masumi Narita: A corpus-based English language assistant to Japanese software engineers. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 8pp. [PDF, 1844KB]

Agricultural texts

(2004) Suhaimi Ab. Rahman & Normaziah Abdul Aziz: Improving word alignment in an English-Malay parallel corpus for machine translation.  LREC-2004. Workshop, 25th May 2004: The amazing utility of parallel and comparable corpora; pp. 22-25. [PDF, 414KB]

(2004) Per Weijnitz, Eva Forsbom, Ebba Gustavii, Eva Pettersson, & Jörg Tiedemann: MT goes farming: comparing two machine translation approaches on a new domain.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.2043-2046. [PDF, 296KB]

Air travel see Travel and tourism

Algorithms see Programming and coding

Authoring tools

(2004) Rita Nübel: Evaluation and adaptation of a specialised language checking tool for non-specialised machine translation and non-expert MT users for multi-lingual telecooperation. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.2027-2030. [PDF, 536KB]

(2004) Jian-Cheng Wu, Thomas C.Chuang, Wen-Chi Shei, & Jason S.Chang: Subsentential translation memory for computer assited writing and translation.  ACL 2004: 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the interactive poster and demonstration sessions, 21-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 4pp. [PDF, 56KB]

(2000) Arantza Casillas, Joseba Abaitua, & Raquel Martínez: Recycling annotated parallel corpora for bilingual document composition. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.117-126. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Masumi Narita: A corpus-based English language assistant to Japanese software engineers. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 8pp. [PDF, 1844KB]

Automotive manuals

(2002) Anna Sågvall Hein, Eva Forsbom, Jörg Tiedemann, Per Weijnitz, Ingrid Almqvist, Leif-Jöran Olsson, & Sten Thaning: Scaling up an MT prototype for industrial use – databases and data flow. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.1759-1766. [PDF, 116KB]

(2002) Nestor Rychtyckyj: An assessment of machine translation for vehicle assembly process planning at Ford Motor Company. Machine translation: from research to real users: 5th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2002, Tiburon, CA, October 2002; ed. Stephen D. Richardson (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2002); pp. 207-215. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Walter Hartmann: Machine translation, the road ahead. AMTA 2000 pre-conference workshop “Machine translation in practice: from old guard to new guard”, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October10,  2000 . 7p. [PDF, 103KB]

Biology texts

(2001) Lynette Hirschman, Kris Concepcion, Laurie Damianos, David Day, John Delmore, Lisa Ferro, John Griffith, John Henderson, Jeff Kurtz, Inderjeet Mani, Scott Mardis, Tom McEntee, Keith Miller, Beverly Nunan, Jay Ponte, Florence Reeder, Ben Wellner, George Wilson, & Alex Yeh: Integrated feasibility experiment for bio-security: IFE-Bio. A TIDES demonstration. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 5pp. [PDF, 245KB]

Bootstrapping

(2004) Pascale Fung & Percy Cheung: Mining very-non-parallel corpora: parallel sentence and lexicon extraction via bootstrapping and EM. EMNLP-2004: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 276KB]

(2004) Pascale Fung & Percy Cheung: Multi-level bootstrapping for extracting parallel sentences from a quasi-comparable corpus.  Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 245KB]

(2004) Hang Li & Cong Li: Word translation disambiguation using bilingual bootstrapping. Computational Linguistics 30 (1), pp. 1-22. [PDF, 2311KB]

(2003) Chris Callison-Burch & Miles Osborne: Bootstrapping parallel corpora HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF, 83KB]

(2002) Ruvan Weerasinghe: Bootstrapping the lexicon building process for machine translation between 'new' languages. Machine translation: from research to real users: 5th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2002, Tiburon, CA, October 2002; ed. Stephen D. Richardson (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2002); pp. 177-186. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Hiroshi Masuichi, Raymond Flournoy, Stefan Kaufmann, & Stanley Peters: A bootstrapping method for extracting bilingual text pairs Coling 2000 in Europe: the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July -4 August 2000; pp. 1066-1070 [PDF,.464KB]

(2000) Ioannis Triantafyllou, Iason Demiros, Christos Malavazos, & Stelios Piperidis: An alignment architecture for translation memory bootstrapping. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 8pp. [PDF, 1579KB]

Business texts

(2004) Jeffrey Allen: Case study: implementing MT for the translation of pre-sales marketing and post-sales software deployment documentation at Mycom International. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 1-6. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Stephen D. Richardson: Machine translation of online product support articles using data-driven MT system. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 246-251. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Xin Zhao, Fuji Ren, & Stefan Voß: A super-function based Japanese-Chinese machine translation system for business users. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 272-281. [go to publisher details]

(2002) Kenji Matsumoto & Hideki Tanaka: Automatic alignment of Japanese and English newspaper articles using an MT system and a bilingual company name dictionary. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.480-484. [PDF, 252KB]

(2002) D.Verne Morland: Nutzlos, bien pratique or muy util? Business users speak out on the value of pure machine translation Translating and the Computer 24, London, 21-22 November [PPT presentation, 296KB]

(2002) Anna Sågvall Hein, Eva Forsbom, Jörg Tiedemann, Per Weijnitz, Ingrid Almqvist, Leif-Jöran Olsson, & Sten Thaning: Scaling up an MT prototype for industrial use – databases and data flow. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.1759-1766. [PDF, 116KB]

(2000) Adriane Rinsche: Computer-assisted business process management for translation and localisation companies Fifth EAMT Workshop "Harvesting existing resources", May 11 - 12, 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia; pp.83-85. [PDF, 109KB]

Chatroom language

(2002) Sherri Condon & Keith Miller: Sharing problems and solutions for machine translation of spoken and written interaction; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp. 93-100 [PDF, 66KB]

Collaboration

(2003) Toshiki Murata, Mihoko Kitamura, Tsuyoshi Fukui, & Tatsuya Sukehiro: Implementation of collaborative translation environment 'Yakushite Net' MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.479-482. [PDF, 244KB]

Commercial systems (see also Economics of MT)

(2003) Scott Bennett & Laurie Gerber: Inside commercial machine translation. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.175-190.

(2003) John Hutchins: Commercial systems: the state of the art. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.161-174.

(2001) Mikel L.Forcada: Learning machine translation strategies using commercial systems: discovering word reordering rules. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 12: December 2001; pp.13-18.

(2001) Derek Lewis: PC-based machine translation: an illustration of capabilities in response to submitted test sentences.  In: Machine Translation Review, issue 12: December 2001; pp.36-57.

(2000) Mikel L. Forcada: Learning machine translation strategies using commercial systems: discovering word-reordering rules. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 8pp. [PDF, 1379KB]

Controlled languages

(2004) Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield, & Xiahong Wu: Designing a controlled language for the machine translation of medical protocols: the case of English to Chinese. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 37-47. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Nano Gough & Andy Way: Example-based controlled translation 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp.73-81. [PDF, 155KB]

(2003) proceedings of the conference: Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003 [HTML]

(2003) Nano Gough &  Andy Way: Controlled generation in example-based machine translation MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 45KB]

(2003) Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita & Yuji Matsumoto: Automatic construction of machine translation knowledge using translation literalness. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.155-162 [PDF, 397KB]

(2003) Aurélien Max: Multi-language machine translation through interactive document normalization. 7th EAMT Workshop, "Improving machine translation through other language technology tools", 13 April 2003, Budapest, Hungary; pp. 25-32 [PDF, 424KB]

(2003) Teruko Mitamura, Kathryn Baker, David Svoboda, & Eric Nyberg: Source language diagnostics for MT MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.254-260. [PDF, 55KB]

(2003) Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura & Willem-Olaf Huijsen: Controlled language for authoring and translation. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.245-281.

(2003) Reinhard Schäler, Andy Way & Michael Carl: EBMT in a controlled environment. In: Michael Carl & Andy Way (eds.) Recent advances in example-based machine translation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pp.83-114.

(2003) Svetlana Sheremetyeva: Natural language analysis of patent claims. ACL 2003: Proceedings of workshop “Patent corpus processing”, Sapporo, Japan, 7-12 July 2003; 8pp. [PDF, 201KB]

(2003) Yao Ziyuan: Introduction to the Babelcode project. December 13, 2003 [private, preliminary version]. [PDF, 141KB]

(2002) Michael Carl, Andy Way, & Reinhard Schäler: Toward a hybrid integrated translation environment. Machine translation: from research to real users: 5th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2002, Tiburon, CA, October 2002; ed. Stephen D. Richardson (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2002); pp. 11-20. [go to publisher details]

(2002) Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Kathy Baker, Peter Cramer, Jeongwoo Ko, David Svoboda, & Michael Duggan: The KANTOO MT system: controlled language checker and lexical maintenance tool. Machine translation: from research to real users: 5th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2002, Tiburon, CA, October 2002; ed. Stephen D. Richardson (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2002); pp. 244-247. [go to publisher details]

(2002) Enrique Torrejón & Celia Rico: Controlled translation: a new teaching scenario tailor-made for the translation industry Sixth EAMT Workshop "Teaching machine translation", November 14-15, 2002, UMIST, Manchester, England; pp.107-116. [PDF, 192KB]

(2002) Taro Watanabe, Mitsuo Shimohata, & Eiichiro Sumita: Statistical machine translation on paraphrased corpora. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.1954-1957. [PDF, 133KB]

(2000) Dawn Murphy: Keeping translation technology under control. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 11: December 2000; pp. 11-13. [PDF]

(2000) Walter Hartmann: Machine translation, the road ahead. AMTA 2000 pre-conference workshop “Machine translation in practice: from old guard to new guard”, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October10,  2000 . 7p. [PDF, 103KB]

Cross-language information retrieval see Information retrieval

Customization and implementation

(2003) Rémi Zajac: MT customization. Tutorial at MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, September 2003 [PDF of presentation, 2150KB]

(2002) Natalie Kübler: Creating a term base to customise an MT system: reusability of resources and tools from the translator’s point of view. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop: Language resources for translation work and research, Las Palmas Canary Islands, 27 May 2002; pp.44-48. [PDF, 31KB]

Drug enforcement

(2004) Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Jaime G. Carbonell, & Peter J. Jansen: Developing language resources for a transnational digital government system. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.945-948. [PDF, 271KB]

Dynamic programming

(2003) Eiichiro Sumita: An example-based machine translation system using DP-matching between word sequences. In: Michael Carl & Andy Way (eds.) Recent advances in example-based machine translation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pp. 189-209.

(2003) Christoph Tillmann & Hermann Ney: Word reordering and a dynamic programming beam search algorithm for statistical machine translation. Computational Linguistics 29 (1), pp.97-133. [PDF, 352KB]

(2003) Keiji Yasuda, Fumiaki Sugaya, Toshiyuki Takezawa, Seiichi Yamamoto & Masuzo Yamagida:  Applications of automatic evaluation methods to measuring a capability of speech translation system. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.371-378 [PDF, 1659KB]

(2001) Federico Prat: Machine translation with grammar association: some improvements and the Loco_C model. ACL-EACL 2001 workshop "Data-driven machine translation", July 7, 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.71-78. [PDF, 89KB]

(2001) Eiichiro Sumita: Example-based machine translation using DP-matching between word sequences. ACL-EACL 2001 workshop "Data-driven machine translation", July 7, 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.1-8. [PDF, 79KB]

(2000) Christoph Tillmann & Hermann Ney: Word reordering and DP-based search in statistical machine translation Coling 2000 in Europe: the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July -4 August 2000; pp. 850-856 [PDF,.603KB]

Economics of MT

(2003) David Clements: From the garage to the attic: an insider's view of entrepreneurial MT. Part 1: reinventing the wheel. In MT News International no.32, Spring 2003; part 2: nuts and bolts. In MT News International no.33, Autumn 2003; part 3: hitting the road. In MT News International no.34, Winter 2003.

(2003) David M.Ewalt: Remodel the Net’s Tower of Babel.  Information Week, April 14, 2003. 3pp. [PDF, 99KB]

(2003) Laurie Gerber: Data-driven MT grows up. In MT News International no.32, Spring 2003

(2003) Jaap van der Meer: At last translation automation becomes a reality: an anthology of the translation market  Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003; pp.180-184. [PDF, 37KB]

(2003) Jaap van der Meer: Translation automation finally achieved: an overview of the translation market. In: MT News International no.32, Spring 2003

(2002) Reinhard Schäler: Can translation companies survive the current economic climate? Translating and the Computer 24, London, 21-22 November [PPT presentation, 315KB]

(2001) Phil Scanlan: Seamless TranslationTM : delivering for the user.  In: Machine Translation Review, issue 12: December 2001; pp.67-74.

Electronic mail

(2003) Salvador Climent, Joaquim Moré & Antoni Oliver: Building an environment for unsupervised automatic email translation Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003 [PDF, 274KB]

Embedded MT

(2004) J. Laoudi, C.Tate, & Clare R.Voss: Towards an automated evaluation of an embedded MT system 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp. 106-115. [PDF, 250KB]

(2003) Wessel Kraaij, Jian-Yun Nie, & Michel Simard: Embedding web-based statistical translation models in cross-language information retrieval. Computational Linguistics 29 (3), pp.381-419. [PDF, 209KB]

(2000) see proceedings of ANLP/NAACL 2000 workshop: Embedded machine translation systems, May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington, [USA]

(2000) M.Holland, C. Schlesinger, & C. Tate: Evaluating embedded machine translation in military field exercises. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.239-247. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Florence Reeder: At your service: embedded MT as a service; ANLP/NAACL 2000 workshop: Embedded machine translation systems, May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington, [USA]; pp. 17-22. [PDF, 497KB]

(2000) Clare R.Voss & Carol Van Ess-Dykema: When is an embedded MT system “good enough” for filtering? ANLP/NAACL 2000 workshop: Embedded machine translation systems, May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington, [USA]; pp.1-8. [PDF, 649KB]

Error detection and correction

(2004) Ariadna Font Llitjós & Jaime Carbonell: The translation correction tool: English-Spanish user studies. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.347-350. [PDF, 606KB]

(2000) Jean-Marc Jutras: An automatic reviser: the TransCheck system. ANLP-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp.127-134. [PDF, 658KB]

Evaluation of systems see index of methods

File interchange and exchange formats

(2001) Christian Lieske, Susan McCormick & Gregor Thurmair: The Open Lexicon Interchange Format (OLIF) comes of age. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.211-216. [PDF, 184KB]

Financial texts

(2004) Ross Smith: Translation memory: is it useful for financial and legal translation? [PricewaterhouseCoopers Spain] [PDF from PPT presentation, 1851KB]

(2004) Dan Tufiş: Term translations in multilingual corpora: discovery and consistency check. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1981-1984. [PDF, 749KB]

Government intelligence and MT

(2004) Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Jaime G. Carbonell, & Peter J. Jansen: Developing language resources for a transnational digital government system. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.945-948. [PDF, 271KB]

(2000) Kathleen Egan: The foreign language challenge in the USG and machine translation. AMTA 2000 pre-conference workshop “Machine translation in practice: from old guard to new guard”, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October10,  2000 . 1p. [abstract only] [PDF, 58KB]

(2000) Vladimir Oboronko: Wired for peace and multi-language communication: virtual diplomacy in northeast Asia and web-based translation. AMTA 2000 pre-conference workshop “Machine translation in practice: from old guard to new guard”, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October10,  2000 . 5p. [PDF, 183KB]

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)

(2001) Florence Reeder: Is that your final answer?  HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 4pp. [PDF, 55KB]

Implementation of MT see Customization and implementation

Information extraction

(2004) Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel & Alex Waibel: Toward named entity extraction and translation in spoken language translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2004], September 30 – October 1, 2004, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 131-137 [PDF, 393KB]

(2004) Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, & Ralph Grishman: Cross-lingual information extraction system evaluation. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 186KB]

(2004) M. Vanni, C.R.Voss, & C. Tate: Ground truth, reference truth & “omniscient truth” – parallel phrases in parallel texts for MT evaluation.  LREC-2004. Workshop, 25th May 2004: The amazing utility of parallel and comparable corpora; pp. 10-13. [PDF, 352KB]

(2003) Aarno Lehtola, Jarno Tenni & Tuula Käpylä: Multilingual cataloguing of product information of specific domains: case Mkbeem system Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003; pp.79-86. [PDF, 993KB]

(2002) Jim Cowie and Sergei Nirenburg: Two experiments in situated MT. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002. [PDF, 693KB]

(2002) Scott Shepard, Sean Colbath, Kathleen Egan, & Francis Kubala: Oasis Translator's Aide. HLT 2002: Human Language Technology Conference: proceedings of the second international conference on human language technology research, March 24-27, 2002, San Diego, California; ed. Mitchell Marcus [San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann for DARPA]; pp. 389-390. [PDF, 122KB]

(2001) Lynette Hirschman, Kris Concepcion, Laurie Damianos, David Day, John Delmore, Lisa Ferro, John Griffith, John Henderson, Jeff Kurtz, Inderjeet Mani, Scott Mardis, Tom McEntee, Keith Miller, Beverly Nunan, Jay Ponte, Florence Reeder, Ben Wellner, George Wilson, & Alex Yeh: Integrated feasibility experiment for bio-security: IFE-Bio. A TIDES demonstration. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 5pp. [PDF, 245KB]

(2001) F.Jelinek, W.Byrne, S.Khudanpur, B.Hladká, H.Ney, F.J.Och, J.Cuřin, J.Psutka: Robust knowledge discovery from parallel speech and text sources. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 3pp. [PDF, 44KB]

(2000) Jim Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salgado, & Sergei Nirenburg: The week at a glance - cross-language cross-document information extraction and translation Coling 2000 in Europe: the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July -4 August 2000; pp. 1007-1010 [PDF,.297KB]

(2000) Michael White, Claire Cardie, Chung-hye Han, Nari Kim, Benoit Lavoie, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, & Juntae Yoon: Towards translingual information access using portable information extraction; ANLP/NAACL 2000 workshop: Embedded machine translation systems, May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington, [USA]; pp. 31-37. [PDF, 530KB]

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

(2004) Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Jaime G. Carbonell, & Peter J. Jansen: Developing language resources for a transnational digital government system. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.945-948. [PDF, 271KB]

(2004) Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Language model adaptation for statistical machine translation based on information retrieval. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.327-330. [PDF, 291KB]

(2004) Michael Kluck: Evaluation of cross-language information retrieval using the domain-specific GIRT data as parallel German-English corpus. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1343-1346. [PDF, 1533KB]

(2004) Frank Lin & Teruko Mitamura: Keyword translation from English to Chinese for multilingual QA. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 164-176. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Carol Peters, Martin Braschler, Khalid Choukri, Julio Gonzalo, & Michael Kluck: The future of evaluation for cross-language information retrieval systems. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.841-844. [PDF, 266KB]

(2004) Monica Rogati & Yiming Yang: Customizing parallel corpora at the document level. ACL 2004: 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the interactive poster and demonstration sessions, 21-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 4pp. [PDF, 80KB]

(2004) Patrick Ruch: Query translation by text categorization. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 168KB]

(2004) Gregor Thurmair: Multilingual content processing. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.xii-xvi. [PDF, 391KB]

(2004) Dan Tufiş: Term translations in multilingual corpora: discovery and consistency check. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1981-1984. [PDF, 749KB]

(2003) Y. Al-Onaizan, R.Florian, M.Franz, H.Hassan, Y.S.Lee, S.McCarley, K.Papineni, S.Roukos, J.Sorensen, C.Tillmann, T.Ward, & F.Xia: TIPS: a translingual information processing system HLT-NAACL 2003: conference combining Human Language Technology conference series and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference series,  May 27 – June 1,  2003, Edmonton, Canada; Demonstrations, pp.1-2 [PDF, 284KB]

(2003) Wessel Kraaij, Jian-Yun Nie, & Michel Simard: Embedding web-based statistical translation models in cross-language information retrieval. Computational Linguistics 29 (3), pp.381-419. [PDF, 209KB]

(2003) Aarno Lehtola, Jarno Tenni & Tuula Käpylä: Multilingual cataloguing of product information of specific domains: case Mkbeem systemControlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003; pp.79-86. [PDF, 993KB]

(2003) Gina-Anne Levow: Issues in pre- and post-translation document expansion: untranslatable cognates and missegmented words IRAL 2003: Sixth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages,  July 7,  2003, Sapporo, Japan; 7pp. [PDF, 139KB]

(2003) Mitsuharu Makita, Shigeto Higuchi, Atsushi Fujii, & Tetsuya Ishikawa: A system for Japanese/English/Korean multilingual patent retrieval MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.475-478. [PDF, 153KB]

(2003) Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, & Shunsuke Uemura: Bilingual terminology acquisition from comparable corpora and phrasal translation to cross-language information retrieval ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 61KB]

(2003) Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, & Shunsuke Uemura: Learning bilingual translations from comparable corpora to cross-language information retrieval: hybrid ststistics-based and linguistics-based approach IRAL 2003: Sixth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages,  July 7,  2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 122KB]

(2003) Tetsuya Sakai, Makoto Koyama, Masaru Suzuki, Akira Kumano, & Toshihiko Manabe: BRIDJE over a language barrier: cross-language information access by integrating translation and retrieval IRAL 2003: Sixth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages,  July 7,  2003, Sapporo, Japan; 12pp. [PDF, 81KB]

(2003) Takehito Utsuro, Takashi Horiuchi, Kohei Hino, Takeshi Hamamoto & Takeaki Nakayama: Effect of cross-language IR in bilingual lexical acquisition from comparable corpora. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.355-362 [PDF, 734KB]

(2003) Paola Virga & Sanjeev Khudanpur: Transliteration of proper names in cross-language information retrieval ACL-2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 119KB]

(2002) Jim Cowie and Sergei Nirenburg: Two experiments in situated MT. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002. [PDF, 693KB]

(2002) Douglas W.Oard, Frederic C. Gey, & Bonnie J. Dorr: Evaluating Arabic retrieval from English or French queries: the TREC-2001 cross-language information retrieval track. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop Arabic language resources and evaluation: status and prospects, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 1 June 2002; 6pp. [PDF, 183KB]

(2001) Shigeto Higuchi, Masatoshi Fukui, Atsushi Fujii & Tetsuya Ishikawa: PRIME: a system for multi-lingual patent retrieval. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.163-167. [PDF, 149KB]

(2001) K.L.Kwok, N.Distl & P.Deng: English-Chinese CLIR using a simplified PIRCS system. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 4pp. [PDF, 191KB]

(2001) Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas W. Oard, & Philip Resnik: Rapidly retargetable interactive translingual retrieval. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 5pp. [PDF, 95KB]

(2001) Helen Meng, Berlin Chen, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina-Anne Levow, Wai-Kit Lo, Douglas Oard, Patrick Schone, Karen Tang, Hsin-Min Wang, & Jianqiang Wang: Mandarin-English information (MEI): investigating translingual speech retrieval. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 7pp. [PDF, 187KB]

(2001) Philip Resnik, Douglas Oard, & Gina Levow: Improved cross-language retrieval using backoff translation. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 3pp. [PDF, 66KB]

(2000) Jinxi Xu & Ralph Weischedel: Cross-lingual information retrieval using Hidden Markov models. EMNLP-2000: Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, 7-8 October 2000, Hong Kong; pp. 95-103 [PDF, 717KB]

 (2000) Martin Braschler, Donna Harman, Michael Hess, Michael Kluck, Carol Peters, & Peter Schäuble: The evaluation of systems for cross-language information retrieval. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Athens, Greece, 31 May – 2 June 2000; pp. 1469-1474. [PDF, 60KB]

(2000) Jiang Chen & Jian-Yun Nie: Automatic construction of parallel English-Chinese corpus for cross-language information retrieval.  ANLP-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp.7-12. [PDF, 753KB]

(2000) Jim Cowie, Sergei Nirenburg, Hugo Molina-Salgado: Generating personal profiles. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 7pp. [PDF, 1479KB]

(2000) Bonnie J. Dorr, Gina-Anne Levow, & Dekang Lin: Building a Chinese-English mapping between verb concepts for multilingual applications. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.1-12. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Sharon Flank: Cross-language multimedia information retrieval.  ANLP-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp.13-20. [PDF, 991KB]

(2000) Atsushi Fuji & Tetsuya Ishikawa: Applying machine translation to two-stage cross-language information retrieval. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.13-24. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Md Maruf Hasan & Yuji Matsumoto: Chinese-Japanese cross-language information retrieval: a Han character based approach. ACL 2000 Workshop on Word Senses and Multi-linguality, Hong Kong, October 2000; pp.19-26 [PDF, 681KB]

(2000) Gareth J.F.Jones: Applied machine translation resources for cross-language information access from spoken documents. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 9pp. [PDF, 2044KB]

(2000) Hiroshi Masuichi, Raymond Flournoy, Stefan Kaufmann, & Stanley Peters: A bootstrapping method for extracting bilingual text pairs Coling 2000 in Europe: the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July -4 August 2000; pp. 1066-1070 [PDF,.464KB]

(2000) Helen Meng, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina Levow, Douglas W.Oard, & Hsin-Ming Wang: Mandarin-English Information (MEI): investigating translingual speech retrieval; ANLP/NAACL 2000 workshop: Embedded machine translation systems, May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington, [USA]; pp.23-30. [PDF, 682KB]

(2000) Zhang Yibo, Sun Le, Du Lin, Sun Yufang: Query translation in Chinese-English cross-language information retrieval. EMNLP-2000: Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, 7-8 October 2000, Hong Kong; pp. 104-109 [PDF, 491KB]          

Information services [see also Translation services]

(2004) Walter Kasper, Jörg Steffen, Jakob Piskorski, & Paul Buitenlaar: Integrated language technologies for multilingual information services in the MEMPHIS project.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1939-1942. [PDF, 238KB]

(2004) Gregor Thurmair: Multilingual content processing. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.xii-xvi. [PDF, 391KB]

Internationalization see Localization

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

(2004) Federico Gaspari: Integrating on-line MT services into monolingual web-sites for dissemination purposes: an evaluation perspective 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp.62-72. [PDF, 186KB]

(2004) Adriane Rinsche: LTC Communicator - a web-based e-communication tool 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp. 143-146. [PDF, 187KB]

(2003) Philippe Nozay & Adriane Rinsche: LTC Communicator MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.483-486. [PDF, 98KB]

(2002) Wang-Ju Tsai: A platform for experimenting UNL (Universal Networking Language). LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop: First international workshop on UNL, other interlinguas and their applications, Las Palmas Canary Islands, 27 May 2002; pp.27-32. [PDF, 175KB]

(2000) Etienne Blanc: From the UNL hypergraph to GETA’s multilevel tree. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 9pp. [PDF, 1671KB]

(2000) M. Abdus Salam: Machine translation and multilingual communication on the internet. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 5pp. [PDF, 1003KB]

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 Barrière & 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

(2004) Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Seiichi Yamamoto, & Hiroshi G. Okuno: Incremental methods to select test sentences for evaluating translation ability.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.2015-2018. [PDF, 271KB]

(2004) Ray Clifford, Neil Granoien, Douglas Jones, Wade Shen, & Clifford Weinstein: The effect of text difficulty on machine translation performance: a pilot study with ILR-rated texts in Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, Russian and Korean. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.343-346. [PDF, 643KB]

Legal texts

(2004) Ross Smith: Translation memory: is it useful for financial and legal translation? [PricewaterhouseCoopers Spain] [PDF from PPT presentation, 1851KB]

(2002) Lawrence Cheung, Tom Lai, Robert Luk, Oi Yee Kwong, King Kui Sin, & Benjamin K.Tsou: Some considerations on guidelines for bilingual alignment and terminology extraction; Coling-2002: First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 5pp. [PDF, 177KB]

(2002) Oi Yee Kwong, Benjamin K.Tsou, Tom B.Y.Lai, Robert W.P.Luk, Lawrence Y.L.Cheung, & Francis C.Y.Chik: Alignment and extraction of bilingual legal terminology from context profiles; Coling-2002: Second international workshop on computational terminology (COMPUTERM 2002), 31 August 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 224KB]

(2001) Ying Zhang, Ralf D.Brown, & Robert E.Frederking: Adapting an example-based translation system to Chinese. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 4pp. [PDF, 50KB]

Localization

(2003) Jean-Cédric Costa & Christiane Panissod: SYSTRAN Review Manager MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 365KB]

(2003) Bert Esselink: Localisation and translation. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.67-86.

(2003) Jaap van der Meer: At last translation automation becomes a reality: an anthology of the translation market Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003; pp.180-184. [PDF, 37KB]

(2002) Reinhard Schäler: Can translation companies survive the current economic climate? Translating and the Computer 24, London, 21-22 November [PPT presentation, 315KB]

(2002) Jianmin Yao, Ming Zhou, Tiejun Zhao, Hao Yu & Sheng Li: An automatic evaluation method for localization oriented lexicalised EBMT system. Coling 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 26-30 August 2002 [PDF, 320KB]

(2001) Jennifer A. Brundage: Machine translation - evolution not revolution. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.59-62. [PDF, 1236KB]

(2001) Adriane Rinsche: Managing translation and localisation projects with LTC Organiser. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.293-304. [PDF, 496KB]

(2000) Jimmy C.M. Lu, Lars Åkerman, & Karin Spalink: LabelTool: a localization application for devices with restricted display areas. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.202-208. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Adriane Rinsche: Computer-assisted business process management for translation and localisation companies Fifth EAMT Workshop "Harvesting existing resources", May 11 - 12, 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia; pp.83-85. [PDF, 109KB]

(2000) Bob Sheng: Automated translation for the deployment of dynamic and mission critical content AMTA 2000 pre-conference workshop “Machine translation in practice: from old guard to new guard”, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October10,  2000 . 1p. [abstract only] [PDF, 58KB]

Machine aids for translators see Translation tools and aids for translators

Marketing, sales and product support texts see Business texts

Market surveys

(2003) Jaap van der Meer: At last translation automation becomes a reality: an anthology of the translation market Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003; pp.180-184. [PDF, 37KB]

(2003) Jaap van der Meer: Translation automation finally achieved: an overview of the translation market. In: MT News International no.32, Spring 2003

Medical texts

(2004) Robert S.Belvin, Susanne Riehemann, & Kristin Precoda: A fine-grained evaluation method for speech-to-speech translation using concept annotations. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1427-1430. [PDF, 765KB]

(2004) Robert S.Belvin, Win May, Shrikanth Narayanan, Panayiotis Georgiou, & Shadi Ganjavi: Creation of a doctor-patient dialogue corpus using standardized patients. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.187-190. [PDF, 480KB]

(2004) Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield, & Xiahong Wu: Designing a controlled language for the machine translation of medical protocols: the case of English to Chinese. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 37-47. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Improving statistical machine translation in the medical domain using the Unified Medical Language System. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 81KB]

(2004) Nadia Mana, Roldano Cattoni, Emanuele Pianta, Franca Rossi, Fabio Pianesi, & Susanne Burger: The Italian NESPOLE! Corpus: a multilingual database with interlingua annotation in tourism and medical domains. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1467-1470. [PDF, 753KB]

(2004) Suhaimi Ab. Rahman & Normaziah Abdul Aziz: Improving word alignment in an English-Malay parallel corpus for machine translation.  LREC-2004. Workshop, 25th May 2004: The amazing utility of parallel and comparable corpora; pp. 22-25. [PDF, 414KB]

(2004) Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Beth Ann Hockey, Nikos Chatzichrisafis & Marianne Starlander: Comparing rule-based and statistical approaches to speech understanding in a limited domain speech translation system; TMI-2004: proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; pp.21-29. [PDF, 86KB]

(2004) Patrick Ruch: Query translation by text categorization. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 168KB]

(2004) Tanja Schultz, Dorcas Alexander, Alan W.Black, Kay Peterson, Sinaporn Suebvisai, & Alex Waibel: A Thai speech translation system for medical dialogs. HLT-NAACL 2004: Human Language Technology conference and North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting, May 2-7, 2004, The Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, USA; demonstration paper, 2pp. [PDF, 122KB]

(2003) Nuno M.F.Dionisio: Nominal taxonomies and word sense disambiguation. Ph D thesis, University of East Anglia, Norwich, November 15, 2003. 303pp. [PDF, 2991KB]

(2003) Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Vol Van Dalsem III, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, & Beth Ann Hockey: A limited-domain English to Japanese medical speech translator built using REGULUS 2 ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 41KB]

(2003) Harold Somers & Hermione Lovel: Computer-based support for patients with limited English 9th EAMT Workshop, "Improving machine translation through other language technology tools", 13 April 2003, Budapest, Hungary; pp. 41-49 [PDF, 198KB]

(2002) Manny Rayner & Pierrette Bouillon: A flexible speech to speech phrasebook translator; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp. 69-76 [PDF,175KB]

(2001) Alon Lavie, Lorin Levin, Tanja Schultz, Chad Langley, Benjamin Han, Alicia Tribble, Donna Gates, Dorcas Wallace, & Kay Peterson: Domain portability in speech-to-speech translation.  HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 5pp. [PDF, 58KB]

(2000) Gustavo A. Silva: The use of ENGSPAN at the Pan American Health Organization: a reviser’s perspective. AMTA 2000 pre-conference workshop “Machine translation in practice: from old guard to new guard”, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October10,  2000 . 8p. [PDF, 123KB]

Meteorological reports

(2004) Thomas Leplus, Philippe Langlais, & Guy Lapalme: Weather report translation using a translation memory. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 154-163. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Barbara Gawronska & Hannah Duczak: Understanding politics by studying weather: a cognitive approach to representation of Polish verbs of motion, appearance, and existence. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.147-157. [go to publisher details]

Military texts

(2004) L. Hernandez, J. Turner, & M. Holland: Feedback from the field: the challenge of users in motion. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 94-101. [go to publisher details]

(2002) Robert E.Frederking, Alan W.Black, Ralf D.Brown, John Moody, & Eric Steinbrecher: Field testing the Tongues speech-to-speech machine translation system. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.160-164. [PDF, 130KB]

(2000) Christopher Hogan & Robert Frederking: WebDIPLOMAT: a web-based interactive machine translation system Coling 2000 in Europe: the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July -4 August 2000; pp. 1041-1045 [PDF,.473KB]

(2000) M.Holland, C. Schlesinger, & C. Tate: Evaluating embedded machine translation in military field exercises. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.239-247. [go to publisher details]

(2000) John Weisgerber, Jin Yang, & Pete Fisher: Pacific Rim portable translator. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.196-201. [go to publisher details]

Mobile devices

(2003) Alex Waibel, Ahmed Badran, Alan W.Black, Robert Frederking, Donna Gates, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Kevin Lenzo, Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Juergen Reichert, Tanja Schultz, Dorcas Wallace, Monika Woszczyna, & Jing Zhang: SPEECHALATOR: two-way speech-to-speech translation in your hand HLT-NAACL 2003: conference combining Human Language Technology conference series and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference series,  May 27 – June 1,  2003, Edmo