Machine Translation Archive: index of applications

Machine Translation Archive

Index to applications, uses, tools, etc.

Publications 2000 to 2004

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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) Toru Hisamitsu, Yoshiki Niwa, Shingo Nishioka, Hirofumi Sakurai, Osamu Imaichi, Makoto Iwayama, & Akihiko Takano: Term extraction using a new measure of term representativeness. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop on Terminology Resources and Computation, Athens, Greece, 29 May 2000; 8pp. [PDF, 224KB]

(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]

Administrative documents

(2000) A.Fourla, O.Yannoutsou, I.Tsakou, S.Stamou, & A.Petrits: The contribution of a user group to the evaluation and improvement of an MT system. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 13pp. [PDF, 132KB]

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 algorithms

Authoring tools

(2004) Ana Niño: Recycling MT: a course on foreign language writing via MT post-editing. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Research Colloquium of the UK Special Interest Group for Computational Linguistics [CLUK-2004], Birmingham, UK, 6-7 January 2004; 9pp. [PDF, 170KB]

(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]

(2002) Christian Lieske, Christine Thielen, Melanie Wells, & Andrew Bredenkamp: Controlled authoring at SAP. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 15pp. [PDF, 256KB]

(2000) Caroline Brun, Marc Dymetman, & Veronika Lux: Document structure and multilingual authoring. INLG’2000 : Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, 12-16 June 2000; pp.24-31. [PDF, 729KB]

(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]

Automotive manuals

(2004) Celia Rico & Enrique Torrejón: Controlled translation as a new translation scenario: training the future user. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 24pp. [PDF, 141KB]

(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]

Back translation

(2004) Slaven Bilac & Hozumi Tanaka: A hybrid back-transliteration system for Japanese. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 999KB]

(2004) Slaven Bilac & Hozumi Tanaka: Improving back-transliteration by combining information sources. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.216-223. [abstract]

(2000) Jay Tucker & Ace Sarich: A voice-enabled phrase-based translation system. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 4pp. [PDF, 32KB]

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]

Broadcast transcripts (see also News texts)

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: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 17pp. [PDF, 253KB]; presentation, 35 slides [PDF of PPT, 389KB]

(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]

Character coding

(2004) Patrick A.V.Hall: Localising nations, saving languages: moving from Unicode to language engineering. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 12pp. [PDF, 172KB]

Chatrooms and discussion fora

(2003) Imelda P.de Castro: The Philippine Style Chat – instant messenger translation system. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 11pp. [PDF, 177KB]

(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]

(2001) Chris Callison-Burch: Upping the ante for “best of breed” machine translation providers. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 9pp. [PDF, 52KB]

(2000) Raymond S.Flournoy & Christopher Callison-Burch: Reconciling user expectations and translation technology to create a useful real-world application. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 8pp. [PDF, 106KB]

Cloze technique

(2000) Harold Somers & Elizabeth Wild: Evaluating machine translation: the cloze procedure revisited. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 11pp. [PDF, 85KB]

Collaboration

(2004) Gilles Sérasset: A generic collaborative platform for multilingual lexical database development. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.79-86. [PDF, 503KB]

(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]

(2000) Ulrich Callmeier, Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger, Rob Malouf, & Stephan Oepen: Scalable grammar software for computational linguists: building, testing, and running grammars large and small. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Demonstration notes, 3-6 October 2000; pp.38-39 [PDF, 175KB]

Commercial systems (see also Economics of MT)

(2004) Johann Roturier: Assessing the set of controlled language rules: can they improve the performance of commercial machine translation systems? Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 14pp. [PDF, 178KB]

(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]

(2000) Hubert Lehmann: Practical machine translation and linguistic theory. In: Manfred Klenner and Henriëtte Visser (eds.) Computational linguistics for the new millennium: divergence or synergy? Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 21-22 July 2000. Festschrift in honour of Peter Hellwig on the occasion of his 60^th birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002); pp. 73-82. [PDF, 44KB]

Computer science and information technology texts

(2002) Carrie Chau Kam Hung & Irene Ip Kwok Chun: Computer technology and translation – friends or foes? In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.155-163.

(2002) Aman Chiu & Björn Jernudd: Chinese IT terminology management in Hong Kong. In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.92-114.

(2002) Charlotte Tu & Björn Jernudd: Terminological problems and language management for Internet language professionals in Hong Kong. In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.115-129.

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]

(2004) Manu Herbigniaux: Measurement of gains in computer-assisted ASP-mode translation process within EC-funded applied research project CATI. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Research Colloquium of the UK Special Interest Group for Computational Linguistics [CLUK-2004], Birmingham, UK, 6-7 January 2004; 7pp. [PDF, 171KB]

(2004) Sharon O’Brien: Machine translatability and post-editing effort: how do they relate? Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 31pp. [PDF, 38KB]

(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]

(2001) S.Schachtl & A.Fraser-Tillmann: TopTrans: interactive machine translation. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 13pp. [PDF, 177KB]

(2000) Ingrid Almqvist & Anna Sågvall Hein: A language checker of controlled language and its integration in a documentation and translation workflow. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 18pp. [PDF, 171KB]

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

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]

(2001) Jon Wells: Productively testing the scalability of MT & TM to the limit! And beyond. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 9pp. [PDF, 187KB]

Document management and organization

(2004) Joanna Drugan: Multilingual document management and workflow in the European institutions. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 23pp. [PDF, 111KB]

(2004) Mirko Plitt: Connecting writers and translators – XML-based content management of product documentation at Autodesk. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 11pp. [PDF, 71KB]

(2003) JosuKa Díaz-Labrador, Joseba Abaitua, Inés Jacob, Fernando Quintana, & Garikoitz Araolaza: Metadata for multilingual content management: a practical experience with the SARE-Bi system. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 20pp. [PDF, 146KB]

(2003) Brian Porro, Jean Acheroy, & Florent Thouvenin: Generic text interface (Canevas/GTi): producing and publishing structured legal documents at the Court of Justice of the European Communities. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 35pp. [PDF, 514KB]

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]

Economic aspects

(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) Reinhard Schäler: Making a business case for localisation. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 19pp. [PDF, 191KB]

(2003) Jaap van der Meer: The business case for machine translation. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 6pp. [PDF, 43KB]

(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) Daniel W.Dube: Reducing localization costs with XML-based technology. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 9pp. [PDF, 103KB]

(2002) Reinhard Schäler: Can translation companies survive the current economic climate? Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 16pp. [PDF, 187KB]; presentation, 23 slides [PDF of PPT, 353KB]

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

Edit distance

(2003) Jesús Tomás, Josep Àngel Mas, & Francisco Casacuberta: A quantitative method for machine translation evaluation. EACL 2003: Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluation Initiatives in Natural Language Processing: are evaluation methods, metrics and resources reusable? April 14th 2003, Budapest, Hungary; pp.27-34. [PDF, 6570KB]

(2001) Yasuhiro Akiba, Kenji Imamura & Eiichiro Sumita: Using multiple edit distances to automatically rank machine translation output. . MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.15-20. [PDF, 271KB]

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-NAACL-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing and 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp.127-134. [PDF, 658KB]

Evaluation of systems see index of methods

Examples of MT output

(2002) Thei Zervaki: Online free translation services. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 10pp. [PDF, 33KB]

File interchange and exchange

(2002) Lee Gillam, Khurshid Ahmad, David Dulby, & Christopher Cox: Knowledge exchange and terminology interchange: the role of standards. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 22pp. [PDF, 277KB]; presentation by Lee Gillam [with minor defects], 40 slides [PDF of PPT, 389KB]

(2002) Mike Roche: Web services for translation. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 8pp. [PDF, 60KB]

(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]

(2000) Susan M.McCormick: Exchanging lexical and terminological data with OLIF2. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 7pp. [PDF, 49KB]

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]

Food and cooking

(2002) Chan Sin-wai: The making of TransRecipe: a translational approach to the machine translation of Chinese cookbooks. In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.3-22.

Government intelligence and MT

(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 Language Technology

(2002) Andreas Eisele and Dorothea Ziegler-Eisele (eds.): Towards a road map on human language technology: Natural language processing. (Version 2: March 2002). TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002: Discussion paper for Workshop. [PDF, 235KB]

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

(2004) Richard Jelinek: Modern MT systems and the myth of human translation: real world status quo. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 15pp. [PDF, 149KB]

(2002) Paris Lau Chi-chuen: Globalisation on language: death of the translator in the technological age. In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.177-183.

(2002) Zhuang Xinglai: The emerging role of translation experts in the coming MT era. Translation Journal 6 (4), October 2002; 7pp. [PDF, 122KB]

(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]

(2001) Celia Rico Pérez: From novelty to ubiquity: computers and translation at the close of the industrial age. Translation Journal 5 (1), January 2001; 14pp. [PDF, 136KB]

(2000) Steve Vlasta Vitek: Reflections of a human translator on machine translation. Translation Journal 4 (3), July 2000; 8pp. [PDF, 93KB]

Humanitarian aid

(2002) David Stallard, Premkumar Natarajan, Mohammed Noamany, Richard Schwartz, & John Makhoul: Design for a speech-to-speech translator for field use. ICSLP 2002, Interspeech 2002:7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, September 16-20, 2002, Denver, Colorado, USA; pp.1705-1708; abstract [PDF, 46KB]

Images see Visual information

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) Tony Hartley & Martin Rajman: Predicting MT fluency from IE precision and recall. MT Eval Workshop, Geneva, 19-24 April 2001; 15 slides. [PDF of PPT, 60KB]

(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]

(2000) Feiyu Xu, Klaus Netter, & Holger Stenzhorn: A system for uniform and multilingual access to structured database and web information in a tourism domain. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Demonstration notes, 3-6 October 2000; pp.9-10 [PDF, 207KB]

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

(2004) see Proceedings of NTCIR-4, Tokyo, 2-4 June 2004

(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) In-Su Kang, Jae-Hak J.Bae & Jong-Hyeok Lee: Natural language database access using semi-automatically constructed translation knowledge. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.280-289. [abstract]

(2004) In-Su Kang, Seung-Hoon Na & Jong-Hyeok Lee: Influence of WSD on cross-language information retrieval. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.358-366. [abstract]

(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]

(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) Hsin-Hsi Chen, Changhua Yang, & Ying Lin: Learning formulation and transformation rules for multilingual named entities. ACL 2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 285KB]

(2003) Hsin-Hsi Chen: Spoken cross-language access to image collection via captions. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.2749-2752; abstract [PDF, 33KB]

(2003) Fuminori Kimura, Akira Maeda, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, & Shunsuke Uemura: Cross-language information retrieval based on category matching between language versions of a web directory. IRAL 2003: Sixth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, July 7, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 78KB]

(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) Wai-Kit Lo, Yuk-Chi Li, Gina Levow, Hsin-Min Wang, & Helen M.Meng: Multi-scale document expansion in English-Mandarin cross-language spoken document retrieval. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.2337-2340; abstract [PDF, 34KB]

(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) Douglas W.Oard, David Doermann, Bonnie Dorr, Daqing He, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, William Byrne, Sanjeev Khudanpur, David Yarowsky, Anton Leuski, Philipp Koehn, & Kevin Knight: Desparately seeking Cebuano. 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; 3pp. [PDF, 21KB]

(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) NTCIR Workshop 3: Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, Automatic Text Summarization and Question Answering, October 8-10, 2002, Tokyo, Japan

(2002) Pushpak Bhattacharya, Sarvjeet Singh, Tushar Chandra, Upmanyu Misra, & Ushhan D.Gundevia: A multi-lingual, meaning based search engine. ICUKL-2002: International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language, 25th-29th November 2002, Goa, India, organised by UNDL Foundation and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; 8pp. [PDF, 67KB]

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

(2002) P.Majumder, M.Mitra, & B.B.Chaudhuri: N-gram: a language indendent approach to IR and NLP. ICUKL-2002: International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language, 25th-29th November 2002, Goa, India, organised by UNDL Foundation and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; 7pp. [PDF, 73KB]

(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) NTCIR Workshop 2: Proceedings of the Second NTCIR Workshop on Research in Chinese & Japanese Text retrieval and Text Summarization, March 7-9, 2001, Tokyo, Japan

(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) Hodong Lee & Jong C.Park: Automatic augmentation of translation dictionary with database terminologies in multilingual query interpretation. ACL 2001 Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management, July 2001, Toulouse, France; 10pp. [PDF, 108KB]

(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) Wai-Kit Lo, Patrick Schone, & Helen M.Meng: Multi-scale retrieval in MEI: an English-Chinese translingual speech retrieval system. Eurospeech 2001 Scandinavia: 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2nd Interspeech Event, Aalborg, Denmark, September 3-7, 2001; pp.1303-1306; abstract [PDF, 42KB]

(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) 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-NAACL-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing and 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp.7-12. [PDF, 753KB]

(2000) Yong-Seok Choi, Juho Lee, Jin-Xia Huang, & Key-Sun Choi: Cross-language information retrieval system for Korean-Chinese-Japanese-English languages. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Demonstration notes, 3-6 October 2000; pp.28-29 [PDF, 165KB]

(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-NAACL-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing and 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp.13-20. [PDF, 991KB]

(2000) Atsushi Fujii & 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) 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) Douglas W. Oard: Multilingual information access [abstract]. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Tutorial abstracts, 1-2 October 2000; p.4 [PDF, 79KB]

(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) 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 Buitelaar: 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]

(2003) Anja Ruetten: Computer-based information management for conference interpreters, or How will I make my computer act like an infallible information butler? Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 12pp. [PDF, 54KB]

Internationalization see Localization

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

(2004) Heather Fulford & Joaquín Granell Zafra: The uptake of online tools and web-based language resources by freelance translators: implications for translator training, professional development, and research. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training, 28th August, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp. 50-57. [PDF, 70KB]

(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. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 10pp. [PDF, 91KB]

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

(2002) Beverly Adab: The Internet and other IT resources: tools for translators within a translation programme. In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.133-153.

(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]

(2001) C.Sestier: eTermino Q&A – multilingual internet terminology assistant. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 9pp. [PDF, 165KB]

(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) Fang Li & Wilhelm Weisweber: Bilingual lexicon extraction from Internet. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop on Terminology Resources and Computation, Athens, Greece, 29 May 2000; 7pp. [PDF, 59KB]

(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]

Interpretation service

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]

(2004) Emiko Suzuki, Mariko Horikoshi, & Kyoko Kakihana: Bilingual sign language dictionary for learning a second sign language without learning the target spoken language. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.93-96. [PDF, 1015KB]

(2004) Keiji Yasuda, Fumiaki Sugaya, Eiichiro Sumita, Toshiyuki Takezawa, Genichiro Kikui, & Seiichi Yamamoto: Automatic measuring of English language proficiency using MT evaluation technology. Coling 2004: Workshop eLearning for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistics for eLearning, Geneva, 28 August 2004; 8pp. [PDF, 762KB]

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]

(2002) Isabelle Moulinier, Hugo Molina-Salgado, & Peter Jackson: Thomson Legal and Regulatory at NTCIR-3: Japanese, Chinese and English retrieval experiments. NTCIR Workshop 3: Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, Automatic Text Summarization and Question Answering, October 8-10, 2002, Tokyo, Japan; 6pp. [PDF, 82KB]

(2002) Jonathan J.Webster, Sin King Kui, & Hu Qinan: The application of Semantic Web technology for example-based machine translation (EBMT). In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.79-91.

(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

(2004) Reinhard Schäler: The Certified Localisation Professional (CLP). Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 20 04); 11pp. [PDF, 186KB]

(2004) Reinhard Schäler: Language resources and localisation. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training, 28th August, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp. 27-35. [PDF, 174KB]

(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) Minako O’Hagan: Can language technology respond to the subtitler’s dilemma? – A preliminary study. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 18pp. [PDF, 117KB]

(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) Dag Forssell: One translator’s thoughts on software localization. Translation Journal 5 (3), July 2001; 7pp. [PDF, 88KB]

(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) Sarah Carroll: Introducing the TRADOS workflow development. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 20pp. [PDF, 96KB]

(2000) Daniel W.Dube & John D.Rice: XML and the localization process. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 8pp. [PDF, 64KB]

(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: LTC Organiser – a one-stop shop for managing translation and localisation projects. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 10pp. [PDF, 546KB]

(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

Mechanical engineering

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) 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) 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) 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. 312pp. [PDF, 3062KB]

(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]

(2003) Alex Waibel, Ahmed Badran, Alan W.Black, Robert Frederking, Donna Gates, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Kevin A.Lenzo, Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Jurgen Reichert, Tanja Schultz, Dorcas Wallace, Monika Woszczyna, & Jing Zhang: Speechalator: two-way speech-to-speech translation on a consumer PDA. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.369-372; abstract [PDF, 34KB]

(2003) Dominic Widdows, Stanley Peters, Scott Cederberg, Chiu-Ki Chan, Diana Steffen, & Paul Buitelaar: Unsupervised monolingual and bilingual word-sense disambiguation of medical documents using UMLS. ACL 2003 Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine, July 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 124KB]

(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]

(2000) Tianfang Yao, Dongmo Zhang, & Qian Wang: MLWFA: a multilingual weather forecast text generation system. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Demonstration notes, 3-6 October 2000; pp.13-14 [PDF, 179KB]

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]

(2004) Ace Sarich, Jim Bass, & Horacio Franco: Development and fielding of the Phraselator^® phrase translation system. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 13pp. [PDF, 168KB]

(2002) Alan W.Black, Ralf D.Brown, Robert Frederking, Kevin Lenzo, John Moody, Alexander I.Rudnicky, Rita Singh, & Eric Steinbrecher: Rapid development of speech-to-speech translation. ICSLP 2002, Interspeech 2002:7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, September 16-20, 2002, Denver, Colorado, USA; pp.1709-1712; abstract [PDF, 47KB]

(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) 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

(2004) Pascale Fung, Yi Liu, Yongsheng Yang, Yihai Shen, & Dekai Wu: A grammar-based Chinese to English speech translation system for portable devices. Interspeech 2004 – ICSLP 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004; pp.1577-1580; abstract [PDF, 61KB]

(2004) Bowen Zhou, Daniel Dechelotte, & Yuqing Gao: Two-way speech-to-speech translation on handheld devices. Interspeech 2004 – ICSLP 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004; pp.1637-1640; abstract [PDF, 55KB]

(2003) Horacio Franco, Jing Zheng, Kristin Precoda, Federico Cesari, Victor Abrash, Dimitra Vergyri, Anand Ventataraman, Harry Bratt, Colleen Richey & Ace Sarich: Development of phrase translation systems for handheld computers: from concept to field. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.373-376; abstract [PDF, 34KB]

(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, Edmonton, Canada; Demonstrations, pp.29-30 [PDF, 25KB]

(2003) Kiyoshi Yamabana, Ken Hanazawa, Ryosuke Isotani, Seiya Osada, Akitoshi Okumura, & Takao Watanabe: A speech translation system with mobile wireless clients. ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. 4pp. [PDF, 192KB]

(2002) Karin Spalink: Small-screen devices and translation. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 8pp. [PDF, 59KB]

(2002) Nigel Ward: Machine translation in the mobile and wearable age. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002: Workshop. [PDF, 70KB]

(2001) Duncan Graham-Rowe: Mobile phone translator service unveiled. New Scientist, 15 August 2001. [PDF, 71KB]

Modularity (see also Customization and implementation)

(2001) Ulrike Bernardi, Petra Gieselmann & Steve McLaughlin: A taste of MALT . MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 43-48. [PDF, 187KB]

Multilingual communication

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

Multimodal applications (see also Visual information)

(2004) Stelios Piperidis, Iason Demiros, Prokopis Prokopidis, Peter Vanroose, Anja Hoethker, Walter Daelemans, Elsa Sklavounou, Manos Konstantinou, & Yannis Karavidis: Multimodal multilingual resources in the subtitling process. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.205-208. [PDF, 319KB]

(2003) Susanne Burger, Erica Costantini, & Fabio Pianesi: Communicative strategies and patterns of multimodal integration in a speech-to-speech translation system MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 69KB]

(2002) Erica Costantini, Susanne Burger, & Fabio Pianesi: NESPOLE!’s multilingual and multimodal corpus. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.165-170. [PDF, 84KB]

News texts

(2004) Bill Dolan, Chris Quirk, & Chris Brockett: Unsupervised construction of large paraphrase corpora: exploiting massively parallel news sources. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 107KB]

(2004) Frederic C. Gey: Chinese and Korean topic search of Japanese news collections. Proceedings of NTCIR-4, Tokyo, 2-4 June 2004; 5pp. [PDF, 456KB]

(2004) Chris Quirk, Chris Brockett, & William Dolan: Monolingual machine translation for paraphrase generation. EMNLP-2004: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 127KB]

(2004) Li Shao & Hwee Tou Ng: Mining new word translations from comparable corpora. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 305KB]

(2004) Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Yujie Zhang, Kiyoshi Sudo, Masaki Murata, Satoshi Sekine, & Hitoshi Isahara: Multilingual aligned parallel treebank corpus reflecting contextual information and its applications. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.63-70. [PDF, 162KB]

(2003) Akio Kobayashi, Franz J.Och, & Hermann Ney: Named entity extraction from Japanese broadcast news. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.1125-1128; abstract [PDF, 33KB]

(2003) Tadashi Kumano, Hideki Kashioka, Hideki Tanaka, & Takahiro Fukusima: Construction and analysis of Japanese-English broadcast news corpus with named entity tags ACL-2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp.. [PDF, 56KB]

(2003) Stephen Nightingale & Hideki Tanaka: Comparing the sentence alignment yield from two news corpora using a dictionary-based alignment system HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF, 142KB]

(2002) Fei Huang & Alex Waibel: An adaptive approach to named entity extraction for meeting applications. 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. 165-170. [PDF, 137KB]

(2002) Hideki Kashioka: Translation unit concerning timing of simultaneous translation. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.142-146. [PDF, 44KB]

(2002) Takehito Utsuro, Takashi Horiuchi, Yasunobu Chiba, & Takeshi Hamamoto: Semi-automatic compilation of bilingual lexicon entries from cross-lingually relevant news articles on WWW news sites. 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. 165-176. [go to publisher details]

(2002) Bing Zhao & Stephan Vogel: Full-text story alignment models for Chinese-English bilingual news corpora. ICSLP 2002, Interspeech 2002:7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, September 16-20, 2002, Denver, Colorado, USA; pp.517-520; abstract [PDF, 45KB]

(2001) Sivaji Bandyopadhyay: An example based MT systems in news items domain from English to Indian languages. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 12: December 2001; pp.19-23.

(2001) Young-Suk Lee, Wu Sok Yi, Stephanie Seneff, & Clifford J. Weinstein: Interlingua-based broad-coverage Korean-English translation at CCLINC. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 6pp. [PDF, 80KB]

(2001) Masaki Murata, Masao Utiyama, Qing Ma, Hiromi Ozaku, & Hitoshi Isahara: CRL at NTCIR2. NTCIR Workshop 2: Proceedings of the Second NTCIR Workshop on Research in Chinese & Japanese Text retrieval and Text Summarization, March 7-9, 2001, Tokyo, Japan; 11pp. [PDF, 143KB]

(2001) Seigo Tanimura, Masashi Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakagawa, & Tatsunori Mori: Japanese and English cross-lingual information retrieval at DLUT. NTCIR Workshop 2: Proceedings of the Second NTCIR Workshop on Research in Chinese & Japanese Text retrieval and Text Summarization, March 7-9, 2001, Tokyo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 148KB]

(2000) Sivaji Bandyopadhyay: An example-based MT system in news items domain from English to Indian languages. 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, 1026KB]

(2000) Estela Saquete & Patricio Martínez-Barco: Grammar specification for the recognition of temporal expressions. 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, 1397KB]

Online MT

(2004) Federico Gaspari: Enhancing free on-line machine translation services. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Research Colloquium of the UK Special Interest Group for Computational Linguistics [CLUK-2004], Birmingham, UK, 6-7 January 2004; pp.68-74. [PDF, 192KB]

(2004) Federico Gaspari: Online MT services and real users' needs: an empirical usability evaluation. 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. 74-85. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Cristina Vertan: Language resources for the Semantic Web – perspectives for machine translation. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training, 28th August, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp. 37-41. [PDF, 232KB]

(2003) Jin Yang & Elke Lange: Going live on the internet. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.191-210

(2003) Andy Way & Nano Gough: wEBMT: developing and validating an example-based machine translation system using the World Wide Web. Computational Linguistics 29 (3), pp.421-457. [PDF, 169KB]

(2002) Federico Gaspari: Using free on-line services in MT training Sixth EAMT Workshop "Teaching machine translation", November 14-15, 2002, UMIST, Manchester, England. [PDF, 85KB]

(2002) Thei Zervaki: Online free translation services. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 10pp. [PDF, 33KB]

(2002) Machine translation: tongues of the web. The Economist, March 14th, 2002; 5pp. [PDF, 85KB]

(2000) Achraf Chalabi: MT-based transparent Arabization of the Internet TARJIM.COM. 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.189-191. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Alastair Lindsay: Machine translations – an important part of your Internet strategy. Cultivate Interactive, issue 2, December 2000. 3pp. [PDF, 125KB]

Open source

(2002) Christian Boitet: A roadmap for MT: four «keys» to handle more languages, for all kinds of tasks, while making it possible to improve quality (on demand). ICUKL-2002: International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language, 25th-29th November 2002, Goa, India, organised by UNDL Foundation and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; 12pp. [PDF, 482KB]

(2002) Christian Boitet, Mathieu Mangeot, & Gilles Sérasset: The Papillon project : cooperatively building a multilingual lexical data-base to derive open source dictionaries & lexicons. Coling-2002: Second Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2002), August 2002, Taipei, Taiwan; 3pp. [PDF, 163KB]

(2001) Bernard Scott: The Logos model: principles and motivations underlying the OpenLogos MT system. [Logos Institute, revised 2009]; 36pp. [PDF, 301KB]

Optical character recognition

(2003) Yves Champollion: Convergence in CAT: blending MT, TM, OCR & SR to boost productivity. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 13pp. [PDF, 51KB]

Patents

(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]

(2002) Aitao Chen & Frederic C.Gey: Experiments on cross-language and patent retrieval at NTCIR-3 workshop. NTCIR Workshop 3: Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, Automatic Text Summarization and Question Answering, October 8-10, 2002, Tokyo, Japan; 12pp. [PDF, 152KB]

(2001) Tatsuya Izuha: Machine translation using bilingual term entries extracted from parallel texts. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.169-173 [PDF, 200KB]

(2001) Steve Vlasta Vitek: Useful machine translations of Japanese patents have become a reality. Translation Journal 6 (2), October 2001; 8pp. [PDF, 103KB]

(2000) David Chambers: Automatic bilingual terminology extraction: a practical approach. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 19pp. [PDF, 383KB]

Phrasebooks

Plagiarism

(2006) Harold Somers, Federico Gaspari, & Ana Niño: Detecting inappropriate use of free online machine translation by language students. A special case of plagiarism detection. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.41-48 [PDF, 276KB]

Portable devices see Mobile devices

Post-editing

(2004) Jeff Allen: Mastering machine translation (MT) output. Tutorial notes, at AMTA 2004: Sixth biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, September 28, 2004, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA [PDF of PPT presentation, 684KB]

(2004) Chris Callison-Burch, Colin Bannard, & Josh Schroeder: Improving statistical translation through editing 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp.26-32. [PDF, 227KB]

(2004) Lambros Kranias & Anna Samiotou: Automatic translation memory fuzzy match post-editing: a step beyond traditional TM/MT integration. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.331-334. [PDF, 346KB]

(2003) Jeffrey Allen: Post-editing. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.297-317.

(2003) Judith Belam: Buying up to falling down: a deductive approach to teaching post-editing. MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, Workshop on Teaching Translation Technologies and Tools, 27 September 2003. [PDF, 208KB]

(2003) Charles Callaway: Multilingual revision. ENLG-2003: Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, April 13th-14th 2003, Budapest, Hungary; pp.15-22. [PDF, 1195KB]

(2003) Catherine Hyland: Testing "Prompt": the development of a rapid post-editing service at CLS Corporate Language Services AG, Switzerland MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.189-193 [PDF, 201KB]

(2003) Antonio Sayáns Gómez & Elena Villar Conde: The functionality of a tool bar for postedition in machine translation between languages with linguistic interference: the Spanish-Galician case MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.118-124. [PDF, 354KB]

(2003) Falko Schäfer: MT post-editing: how to shed light on the "unknown task". Experiences at SAP. Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003; pp.133-140. [PDF, 332KB]

(2002) Sharon O'Brien: Teaching post-editing: a proposal for course content Sixth EAMT Workshop "Teaching machine translation", November 14-15, 2002, UMIST, Manchester, England; pp.99-106. [PDF, 170KB]

(2001) Claus Povlsen & Annelise Bech: Ape: reducing the monkey business in post-editing by automating the task intelligently. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.283-286. [PDF, 134KB]

Pre-editing (see also Controlled languages)

(2002) Christian Boitet & Wang-Ju Tsai: Coedition to share text revision across languages and improve MT a posteriori; Coling-2002 workshop "Machine translation in Asia", 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 116KB]

(2002) Christian Boitet & Tsai Wang-Ju: Coedition of texts and UNL graphs to share text revision across languages and improve MT a posteriori. ICUKL-2002: International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language, 25th-29th November 2002, Goa, India, organised by UNDL Foundation and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; 46 slides [PDF of PPT presentation, 418KB]

(2002) Lorna Joy: Translating tagged text – imperfect matches and a good finished job. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 15pp. [PDF, 222KB]

(2002) Chi-Chiang Shei: Teaching MT through pre-editing: three case studies Sixth EAMT Workshop "Teaching machine translation", November 14-15, 2002, UMIST, Manchester, England; pp.89-98. [PDF, 58KB]

(2002): Hideo Watanabe, Katashi Nagao, Michael C. McCord & Arendse Bernth: An annotation system for enhancing quality of natural language processing. Coling 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 26-30 August 2002 [PDF, 202KB]

(2001) Daniel J. Walker, David E. Clements, Maki Darwin and Jan W. Amtrup: Sentence boundary detection: a comparison of paradigms for improving MT quality. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 369-372. [PDF, 181KB]

Programming and algorithms [see also Computer equipment and accessories, Dynamic programming, Parallel processing]

(2004) Youngjik Lee, Jun Park, & Seung-Shin Oh: Usability considerations of speech-to-speech translation system. Interspeech 2004 – ICSLP 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004; pp.369-372; abstract [PDF, 58KB]

(2004) Raghavendra Udupa U, Tanveer A. Faruquie, & Hemanta K.Maji: An algorithmic framework for the decoding problem in statistical machine translation. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 138KB]

(2003) Yuqing Gao: Coupling vs. unifying: modeling techniques for speech-to-speech translation. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.365-368; abstract [PDF, 33KB]

(2003) Ulrich Germann: Greedy decoding for statistical machine translation in almost linear time 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; 8pp. [PDF, 158KB]

(2002) Rafael C.Carrasco & Mikel L.Forcada: Incremental construction and maintenance of minimal finite-state automata. Computational Linguistics 28 (2), pp. 207-216 [PDF, 103KB]

(2002) Adriana Gomes Alves, Hugo Cesar Hoeschl, & Andre Bortolon: Object oriented modelling applied to UNL. ICUKL-2002: International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language, 25th-29th November 2002, Goa, India, organised by UNDL Foundation and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; 7pp. [PDF, 569KB]

(2002) Hisami Suzuki: A development environment for large-scale multi-lingual parsing systems. Coling-2002: Workshop on Grammar Engineering and Evaluation, August 2002, Taipei, Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 83KB]

(2002) Taro Watanabe & Eiichiro Sumita: Statistical machine translation decoder based on phrase. ICSLP 2002, Interspeech 2002:7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, September 16-20, 2002, Denver, Colorado, USA; pp.1889-1902; abstract [PDF, 47KB]

(2001) Ilyas Cicekli: A specific least general generalization of strings and its application to example-based machine translation. Proceedings of the 10th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN 2001), North Cyprus, June 2001; pp.228-237. [PDF, 138KB]

(2000) Antony F.R.Brown: Machine translation: just a question of finding the right programming language? In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.129-134.

Publishing

Quality assurance

(2001) Carmen Heine: Quality assurance in the technical documentation and translation process. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 13pp. [PDF, 74KB]

(2000) Ian Johnson & Maria-José Palos Caravina: Validation and quality control issues in a new web-based, interactive terminology database for the institutions and agencies of the European Union. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 9pp. [PDF, 54KB]

(2000) Gr.Thurmair: TQPro: quality tools for the translation process. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 7pp. [PDF, 56KB]

Question-answering

Reading and comprehension

(2002) Li Defeng: Information technology in translator training: reflections on an aborted comprehensibility test of machine-translated texts. In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.165-176.

Research policy and surveys (see also Government and MT policy)

(2002) Gianni Lazzari: The VI framework program in Europe: some thoughts about speech to speech translation research; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp. 129-135 [PDF, 149KB]

Robustness

(2004) Nano Gough & Andy Way: Robust large-scale EBMT with marker-based segmentation; TMI-2004: proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; pp.95-104. [PDF, 94KB]

(2004) Declan Groves, Mary Hearne, & Andy Way: Robust sub-sentential alignment of phrase-structure trees. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 94KB]

(2004) Gábor Hodász, Tamás Gröbler, & Balázs Kis: Translation memory as a robust example-based translation system 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp.82-89. [PDF, 227KB]

(2004) Gábor Prószéky, László Tihanyi, & Gábor Ugray: Moose: a robust high-performance parser and generator 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp. 138-142. [PDF, 179KB]

(2003) Fu-Hua Liu, Yuqing Gao, Liang Gu, & Michael Picheny: Noise robustness in speech to speech translation. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.2797-2800; abstract [PDF, 34KB]

(2002) Tz-Liang Kueng & Keh-Yih Su: A robust cross-style bilingual sentences alignment model. Coling 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 26-30 August 2002 [PDF, 290KB]

(2001) David Yarowsky, Grace Ngai, & Richard Wicentowski: Inducing multilingual text analysis tools via robust projection across aligned corpora. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 4pp. [PDF, 161KB]

(2000) Hristo Tanev & Ruslan Mitkov: LINGUA – a robust architecture for text processing and anaphora resolution in Bulgarian. 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, 1780KB]

Scientific texts

(2000) Hoda O.M.Mokhtar, Nevin M.Darwish, & Ahmed A.Rafea: An automated system for English-Arabic translation of scientific texts (SEATS). 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, 1096KB]

Semantic Web

SGML

Sign languages

(2004) Matt Huenerfauth: A multi-path architecture for machine translation of English texts into American Sign Language animation. 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 – Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop. 6pp. [PDF, 272KB]

(2004) Matt Huenerfauth: Spatial and planning models of ASL classifier predicates for machine translation; TMI-2004: proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; pp.65-74. [PDF, 190KB]

(2003) Ian Marshall & Éva Sáfár: A prototype text to British Sign Language (BSL) translation system ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 204KB]

(2002) Ian Marshall & Éva Sáfár: Sign language generation using HPSG. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp.105-114. [PDF, 229KB]

Signs see Visual information

SMS see Mobile devices

Software documentation (see also Computer manuals)

(2001) Christine Bruckner & Mirko Plitt: Evaluating the operational benefit of using machine translation output as translation memory input in the translation process of software documentation. MT Eval Workshop, Geneva, 19-24 April 2001; 8pp. [PDF, 52KB]

(2001) Dag Forssell: One translator’s thoughts on software localization. Translation Journal 5 (3), July 2001; 7pp. [PDF, 88KB]

(2000) David Mowatt & Harold Somers: Is MT software documentation appropriate for MT users? 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.223-238. [go to publisher details]

Spelling checkers

(2004) Martin Reynaert: Multilingual text induced spelling correction. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.117-124. [PDF, 239KB]

Standards for MT

(2002) Mike Roche: Web services for translation. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 8pp. [PDF, 60KB]

(2001) Nicoletta Calzolari, Alessandro Lenci, Antonio Zampolli, Nuria Bel, Marta Villegas & Gregor Thurmair: The ISLE in the ocean. Transatlantic standards for multilingual lexicons (with an eye to machine translation). MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.67-71. [PDF, 193KB]

(2001) Maghi King: Standards work related to evaluation. MT Eval Workshop, Geneva, 19-24 April 2001; 17pp. [PDF, 58KB]

(2000) John Hutchins: The IAMT certification initiative and defining translation system categories Fifth EAMT Workshop "Harvesting existing resources", May 11 - 12, 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia; pp.61-68. [PDF, 72KB]

(2000) John Hutchins: The IAMT certification initiative. In: MT News International no.25, Summer 2000. [PDF]

Subtitles

(2001) Young-Ae Seo, Yoon-Hyung Roh, Ki-Young Lee & Sang-Kyu Park: CaptionEye/EK: a English-to-Korean caption translation system using the sentence pattern. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.325-329. [PDF, 279KB]

(2000) Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Paul McFetridge, Devlan Nicholson, & Janine Toole: Pre-processing closed captions for machine translation; ANLP/NAACL 2000 workshop: Embedded machine translation systems, May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington, [USA]; pp. 38-45 [PDF,752KB]

Summarization

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

(2000) Jan Alexandersson, Peter Poller, Michael Kipp, & Ralf Engel: Multilingual summary generation in a speech-to-speech translation system for multilingual dialogues. INLG'2000 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, 12-16 June 2000; pp.148-155. [PDF, 670KB]

(2000) Michele Banko, Vibhu O.Mittal, & Michael J.Whitbrock: Headline generation based on statistical translation. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong, October 2000. [PDF, 59KB]

(2000) Natalia V.Loukachevitch & Boris V.Dobrov: Thesaurus-based structural thematic summary in multilingual information systems. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 11: December 2000; pp.14-28. [PDF]

System development

(2002) Gunarso: Utilization of the visual studio IDE for integrating the UNL development environment. ICUKL-2002: International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language, 25th-29th November 2002, Goa, India, organised by UNDL Foundation and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; 6pp. [PDF, 597KB]

(2001) Angeliki Petrits: EC Systran: the Commission’s machine translation system. Revised 31 August 2001. 32pp. [PDF, 362KB]

Teaching MT

(2003) proceedings of the workshop Teaching translation technologies and tools at the MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 27 September 2003. [HTML]

(2003) Harold Somers: Machine translation in the classroom. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.319-340.

(2002) proceedings of Sixth EAMT Workshop "Teaching machine translation", November 14-15, 2002, UMIST, Manchester, England. [HTML]

(2002) Toni Badia, Gemma Boleda, Carme Colominas, Agnès González, Mireia Garmendia, Martí Quixal: BancTrad: a web interface for integrated access to parallel annotated corpora. 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.15-19. [PDF, 106KB]

(2002) Judith Belam & Derek Lewis: Report on the 6th EAMT Workshop ‘Teaching Machine Translation’, November 14-15 2002, UMIST, Manchester, England. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 13: December 2002; pp.35-39.

(2001) proceedings of the Workshop on Teaching Machine Translation, MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 22 September 2001. [HTML]

(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.

Technical documents

Telecommunications

Telephony

(2001) M.Pastor-i-Gadea, A.Sanchis, F.Casacuberta, & E.Vidal: EuTrans: a speech-to-speech translator prototype. Eurospeech 2001 Scandinavia: 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2nd Interspeech Event, Aalborg, Denmark, September 3-7, 2001; pp.2385-2388; abstract [PDF, 54KB]

Television captions/subtitles see Subtitles

Termbanks

(2004) Janet Carter-Sigglow: Who’s afraid of CAT? Redefining the boundaries of translation. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 17pp. [PDF, 159KB]; presentation [PDF, 3800KB]

(2003) Sylvia Ball: Joined-up terminology – the IATE system enters production. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 17pp. [PDF, 583KB]

(2001) D.Rummel & S.Ball: The IATE project – towards a single terminological database for the European Union. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 28pp. [PDF, 551KB]

(2000) Ian Johnson & Alastair MacPhail: IATE – Inter-Agency Terminology Exchange: development of a single central terminology database for the institutions and agencies of the European Union. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop on Terminology Resources and Computation, Athens, Greece, 29 May 2000; 7pp. [PDF, 55KB]

Terminology

(2004) Michael Carl, Ecaterina Rascu, & Johann Haller: Using weighted abduction to align term variant translations in bilingual texts. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1973-1976. [PDF, 294KB]

(2004) Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa, & Jong-Hyeok Lee : Term extraction from Korean corpora via Japanese. Coling 2004, CompuTerm 2004: 3rd International Workshop on Computational Technology, Proceedings of the Workshop, 29th August 2004, Geneva, Switzerland; 8pp. [PDF, 107KB]

(2004) Le An Ha: Co-training applied in automatic term extraction. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Research Colloquium of the UK Special Interest Group for Computational Linguistics [CLUK-2004], Birmingham, UK, 6-7 January 2004; 7pp. [PDF, 115KB]

(2004) Nestor Rychtyckyj: Maintenance issues for machine translation systems. 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. 252-261. [go to publisher details]

(2003) Lynne Bowker: Terminology tools for translators. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.49-65.

(2003) Bob McCallum: Streamlining multilingual content delivery for large organizations: case studies in enterprise linguistic asset management. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 20pp. [PDF, 260KB]

(2003) Jean Senellart, Jin Yang, & Anabel Rebollo: SYSTRAN intuitive coding technology MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.346-353. [PDF, 445KB]

(2003) Gregor Thurmair: Making term extraction tools usable Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003; pp.170-179. [PDF, 213KB]

(2002) Michael Carl & Philippe Langlais: An intelligent terminology database as a pre-processor for statistical machine translation; Coling-2002: Second international workshop on computational terminology (COMPUTERM 2002), 31 August 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 216KB]

(2002) Marianne Dabbadie, Widad Mustafa El Hadi, & Ismail Timimi: Terminological enrichment for non-interactive MT evaluation. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.1878-1884. [PDF, 63KB]

(2002) Mathias Heyn: Scalable language technology . Presented at Translating and the Computer 24: the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002; 19slides [PDF of PPT presentation, 700KB]

(2002) Philippe Langlais: Improving a general-purpose statistical translation engine by terminological lexicons; Coling-2002: Second international workshop on computational terminology (COMPUTERM 2002), 31 August 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 133KB]

(2002) Véronique Sauron: Tearing out the terms: evaluating terms extractors. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 18pp. [PDF, 142KB]

(2002) Antonio S.Valderrábanos, Alexander Belkis, & Luis Iraola: TExtractor: a multilingual terminology extraction tool. 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. 393-398. [PDF, 247KB]

(2001) Ulrich Boehme & Svetlana Svetova: An integrated solution: applying PROMT machine translation technology, terminology mining, and the TRADOS TWB translation memory to SAP content translation. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 49-52. [PDF, 161KB]

(2000) Sun Le, Jin Youbing, Du Lin, & Sun Yufang: Automatic extraction of English-Chinese term lexicons from noisy bilingual corpora. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Athens, Greece, 31 May – 2 June 2000; pp. 751-755. [PDF, 128KB]

(2000) Uwe Reinke: Towards a closer integration of termbases, translation memories and parallel corpora: a translation-oriented view. In: IAI Working Paper no.36, 2000; 14pp. [PDF, 216KB]

(2000) Sayori Shimohata: An empricial method for identifying and translating technical terminology 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. 782-788 [PDF,.513KB]

(2000) Jörg Tiedemann: Extracting phrasal terms using bitext. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop on Terminology Resources and Computation, Athens, Greece, 29 May 2000; 7pp. [PDF, 160KB]

(2000) Špela Vintar: Extracting terminological collocations from a parallel corpus. Fifth EAMT Workshop "Harvesting existing resources", May 11 - 12, 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia; pp.21-30. [PDF, 132KB]

Terminology of MT see index of methods

Text prediction see index of methods

Text typology

(2003) Andreea Calude: Machine translation of various text genres. [Unpublished] Presented at 7th Language and Society Conference of the New Zealand Linguistic Society, November 2002, Hamilton, New Zealand. 12pp. [PDF, 206KB]

Tools and aids for MT/NLP developers

(2004) Najeh Hajlaoui & Christian Boitet: PolyphraZ: a tool for the management of parallel corpora. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.109-116. [PDF, 528KB]

(2003) Rob Koeling, Adam Kilgarriff, David Tugwell, & Roger Evans: An evaluation of a lexicographer's workbench: building lexicons for machine translation 7th EAMT Workshop, "Improving machine translation through other language technology tools", 13 April 2003, Budapest, Hungary; pp. 9-16 [PDF, 250KB]

(2002) Andre Bortolon, Hugo Cesar Hoeschl, Joel Ossamu Mitsui, Jaime Leonel de Paula Júnior, & Ricardo Miranda Barcia: A proposal of an UNL application development environment. ICUKL-2002: International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language, 25th-29th November 2002, Goa, India, organised by UNDL Foundation and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; 8pp. [PDF, 1103KB]

(2002) Gabriela Tissiani, Hugo Cesar Hoeschl, & Ricardo Miranda Barcia: Semiotic approach for the design of adaptive graphical user interfaces using Universal Networking Language. ICUKL-2002: International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language, 25th-29th November 2002, Goa, India, organised by UNDL Foundation and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; 6pp. [PDF, 468KB]

Tourism see Travel and tourism

Translatability

(2004) Bogdan Babych, Debbie Elliott, & Anthony Hartley: Extending MT evaluation tools with translation complexity metrics. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 68KB]

(2003) Ursula Reuther: Two in one -- can it work? Readability and translatability by means of controlled language Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003; pp.124-132. [PDF, 233KB]

(2001) Nancy Underwood & Bart Jongejan: Translatability checker: a tool to help decide whether to use MT. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 363-368. [PDF, 177KB]

Translating (process)

Translation management

(2004) Elia Yuste: Corporate language resources in multilingual content creation, maintenance and leverage. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training, 28th August, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp. 9-15. [PDF, 71KB]

(2003) Ian Harris: Translation web services – a reality. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 11pp. [PDF, 154KB]

(2003) Andrzej Zydroń: xml:tm – Using XML technology to reduce the cost of authoring and translation. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 16pp. [PDF, 237KB]

(2002) Mathias Heyn: Scalable language technology . Presented at Translating and the Computer 24: the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002; 19slides [PDF of PPT presentation, 700KB]

(2002) Monika Röthlisberger-Käser: CLS workflow – a translation workflow system. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 10pp. [PDF, 150KB]

(2001) Chris Callison-Burch & Raymond S. Flournoy: A program for automatically selecting the best output from multiple machine translation engines. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.63-66. [PDF, 155KB]

(2001) Celia Rico: Reproducible models for CAT tools evaluation: a user-oriented perspective. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 12pp. [PDF, 76KB]

(2000) Reinhard Schäler: The EU LE4 TransRouter project. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 7pp. [PDF, 71KB]

Translation memory

(2004) Lynne Bowker & Michael Barlow: Bilingual concordancers and translation memories: a comparative evaluation. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training, 28th August, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.70-79. [PDF, 88KB]

(2004) Chris Callison-Burch, Colin Bannard, & Josh Schroeder: Searchable translation memories. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 8pp. [PDF, 263KB]

(2004) Christophe Chenon: Dynamical visualization of nested correspondences. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 17pp. [PDF, 191KB]

(2004) Tamás Grőbler, Gábor Hodász, & Balázs Kis: MetaMorpho TM: a rule-based translation corpus. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.339-342. [PDF, 390KB]

(2004) Francisco Nevado, Francisco Casacuberta, & Josu Landa: Translation memories enrichment by statistical bilingual segmentation. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.335-338. [PDF, 354KB]

(2004) Anna Samiotou, Lambros Kranias, George Papadopoulos, Marita Asunmaa, & Gudrun Magnusdottir: Exploitation of parallel texts for populating MT & TM databases. LREC-2004. Workshop, 25th May 2004: The amazing utility of parallel and comparable corpora; pp. 1-4. [PDF, 323KB]

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

(2003) Isao Goto, Naoto Kato, Noriyoshi Uratani, Terumasa Ehara, Tadashi Kumano, & HidekiTanaka: A multi-language translation example browser MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 421KB]

(2003) Jan Hajič, Petr Homola, Vladislav Kuboň: A simple multilingual machine translation system MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 204KB]

(2003) Jin-Xia Huang, Wei Wang, & Ming Zhou: A unified statistical model for generalized translation memory system MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 544KB]

(2003) Elliott Macklovitch: On the pleasure of being bi-textual; or My life in parallel text. HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF from PPT, 301KB]

(2003) Emmanuel Planas & Osamu Furuse: Formalizing translation memory. In: Michael Carl & Andy Way (eds.) Recent advances in example-based machine translation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pp. 157-188.

(2003) Michel Simard: Translation spotting for translation memories HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF, 120KB]

(2003) Harold Somers: Translation memory systems. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.31-47.

(2003) Andy Way & Nano Gough: wEBMT: developing and validating an example-based machine translation system using the World Wide Web. Computational Linguistics 29 (3), pp.421-457. [PDF, 169KB]

(2003) Jian-Cheng Wu, Kevin C.Yeh, Thomas C.Chuang, Wen-Chi Shei, & Jason S.Chang: TotalRecall: a bilingual concordance for computer assisted translation and language learning ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 76KB]

(2003) Translation memory debate. Institute of Translation and Interpreting conference, 12 September 2003; 9pp. [PDF, 134KB]

(2002) Timothy Baldwin: Translation memories TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002: Tutorial. [slides, PDF, 256KB]

(2002) Yves Champollion: Automated translation: the next frontier. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 7pp. [PDF, 47KB]; presentation: 10pp. [PDF, 44KB]

(2002) Lukasz Dębowski, Jan Hajič, & Vladislav Kuboň: Testing the limits – adding a new language to an MT system. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, no.78, 2002; 7pp. [PDF, 208KB]

(2002) Andrei Gerasimov: Trados – is it a must? Translation Journal 6 (4), October 2002; 5pp. [PDF, 62KB]

(2002) Mathieu Guidère: Toward corpus-based machine translation for standard Arabic. Translation Journal, Vol. 6, no.1, January 2002 [PDF, 173KB]

(2002) Mathias Heyn: Scalable language technology . Presented at Translating and the Computer 24: the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002; 19slides [PDF of PPT presentation, 700KB]

(2002) Reinhard Rapp: A part-of-speech-based search algorithm for translation memories. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.466-472. [PDF, 102KB]

(2002) Mark Shuttleworth: Combining MT and TM on a technology-oriented translation masters: aims and perspectives Sixth EAMT Workshop "Teaching machine translation", November 14-15, 2002, UMIST, Manchester, England; pp.123-129. [PDF, 111KB]

(2002) Angelika Zerfass: Evaluating translation memory systems. 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.49-52. [PDF, 29KB]

(2001) Timothy Baldwin: Low cost, high-performance translation retrieval: dumber is better ACL-EACL-2001: 39th Annual meeting [of the Association for Computational Linguistics] and 10th Conference of the European Chapter [of ACL], July 9th - 11th 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.18-25. [PDF, 283KB]

(2001) Christine Bruckner & Mirko Plitt: Evaluating the operational benefit of using machine translation output as translation memory input MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001. Workshop on MT Evaluation. [PDF, 32KB]

(2001) Andrei Gerasimov: An effective and inexpensive translation memory tool. Translation Journal 5 (3), July 2001; 4pp. [PDF, 83KB]

(2001) Kirsty Macdonald: Improving automatic alignment for translation memory creation. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 11pp. [PDF, 114KB]

(2001) Daniel Marcu: Towards a unified approach to memory- and statistical-based machine translation ACL-EACL-2001: 39th Annual meeting [of the Association for Computational Linguistics] and 10th Conference of the European Chapter [of ACL], July 9th - 11th 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.378-385. [PDF, 67KB]

(2001) Reinhard Schäler: Beyond translation memories MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001. Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation. [PDF, 91KB]

(2001) Michel Simard & Philippe Langlais: Sub-sentential exploitation of translation memories. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.335-339. [PDF, 175KB]

(2001) Mark Stevenson: [review of] Jean Véronis: Parallel text processing (Kluwer). In: Machine Translation Review, issue 12: December 2001; pp.75-76.

(2000) Suzanne Assénat-Falcone: More translation memory tools. Translation Journal 4 (2), April 2000; 8pp. [PDF, 93KB]

(2000) Timothy Baldwin & Hozumi Tanaka: The effects of word order and segmentation on translation retrieval performance 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. 35-41 [PDF,.733KB]

(2000) Michael Carl: Combining invertible example-based machine translation with translation memory technology. 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.127-136. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Jan Hajič, Jan Hric, & Vladislav Kuboň: ČESÍLKO – an MT system for closely related languages. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Demonstration notes, 3-6 October 2000; pp.7-8 [PDF, 187KB]

(2000) Elliott Macklovitch & Graham Russell: What's been forgotten in translation memory. 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.137-146. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Elliott Macklovitch: Two types of translation memory. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 15pp. [PDF, 198KB]

(2000) Elliott Macklovitch, Michel Simard, & Philippe Langlais: TransSearch: a free translation memory on the World Wide Web. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Athens, Greece, 31 May – 2 June 2000; pp. 1201-1208. [PDF, 214KB]

(2000) Tara O’Leary: Memory based translation: using translation memory tools, from a freelancer’s perspective. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 7pp. [PDF, 117KB]

(2000) Emmanuel Planas: Extending translation memories. Fifth EAMT Workshop "Harvesting existing resources", May 11 - 12, 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia; pp.7-19 [PDF, 170KB]

(2000) Emmanuel Planas & Osamu Furuse: Multi-level similar segment matching algorithm for translation memories and example-based 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. 621-627 [PDF,.564KB]

(2000) Uwe Reinke: Evaluating the linguistic performance of translation memory systems. [abstract] In: IAI Working Paper no.36, 2000; 5pp. [PDF, 76KB]

(2000) Uwe Reinke: Towards a closer integration of termbases, translation memories and parallel corpora: a translation-oriented view. In: IAI Working Paper no.36, 2000; 14pp. [PDF, 216KB]

(2000) S.Vogel & H.Ney: Construction of a hierarchical translation memory 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. 1131-1135 [PDF,.396KB]

Translation profession

(2004) Yves Champollion: Representing and defending our profession in the age of globalization. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 7pp. [PDF, 38KB]

Translation services (see also Online MT)

(2004) Julia Aymerich: Machine translation in practice at PAHO. Tutorial notes, at AMTA 2004: Sixth biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, September 28, 2004, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA [PDF of PPT presentation, 2391KB]

(2003) Donald Barabé: Soaring demand, shrinking supply in translation: how we plan to make ends meet MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003. [PDF from PPT, 481KB]

(2003) Ross Smith: Overview of PwC/Sytranet on-line MT facility. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 17pp. [PDF, 1034KB]

(2002) Mike Roche: Web services for translation. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 8pp. [PDF, 60KB]

(2002) Laraine Tunick: Web site translation is fastest growing segment of worldwide language translation industry. Allied Business Intelligence, October 29, 2002. 1p. [PDF, 55KB]

(2001) Steve McLaughlin & Angela Schmidt: DTS: a delivery system for translation and translation-related services. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 10pp. [PDF, 145KB]

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

Translation theory

Translation tools and aids for translators

(2004) Jorge Civera, Elsa Cubel, Antonio L.Lagarda, David Picó, Jorge González, Enrique Vidal, Francisco Casacuberta, Juan M.Vilar, & Sergio Barrachina: From machine translation to computer-assisted translation using finite-state models. EMNLP-2004: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 77KB]

(2004) Olivia Craciunescu, Constanza Gerding-Salas, & Susan Stringer-O’Keeffe: Machine translation and computer-assisted translation: a new way of translating? Translation Journal 8 (3), July 2004; 11pp. [PDF, 198KB]

(2004) José Esteban, José Lorenzo, Antonio S. Valderrábanos, & Guy Lapalme: TransType2 – an innovative computer assisted translation system. 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, 421KB]

(2004) Elliott Macklovitch: The contribution of end-users to the TransType2 project. 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. 197-207. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Andrzej Nedoma & Jurek Nedoma: Problems of CAT tools related to translations into central and eastern European languages. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 19pp. [PDF, 144KB]

(2004) Laurent Nepveu, Guy Lapalme, Philippe Langlais, & George Foster: Adaptive language and translation models for interactive machine translation. EMNLP-2004: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 100KB]

(2004) Angelika Zerfass: Teaching translation tools over the web. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training, 28th August, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp. 61-67. [PDF, 67KB]

(2003) Simona Gandrabur & George Foster: Confidence estimation for translation prediction HLT-NAACL 2003: proceedings of Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning, May 27 – June 1, 2003, Edmonton, Canada; 8pp. [PDF, 420KB]

(2003) Harold Somers (ed.): Computers and translation: a translator’s guide. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003 (Benjamins Translation Library, vol.35)

(2003) Antonio S. Valderrábanos, José Esteban, & Luis Iraola: TransType2 - a new paradigm for translation automation MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.498-501. [PDF, 117KB]

(2002) see proceedings of the Workshop: Language resources for translation work and research, LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Las Palmas Canary Islands, 27 May 2002. [PDF, 653KB]

(2002) Heather Fulford: Freelance translators and machine translation: an investigation of perceptions, uptake, experience and training needs Sixth EAMT Workshop "Teaching machine translation", November 14-15, 2002, UMIST, Manchester, England. [PDF, 86KB]

(2002) George Foster, Philippe Langlais, & Guy Lapalme: TransType: text prediction for translators. 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. 372-374. [PDF, 214KB]

(2002) George Foster, Philippe Langlais, & Guy Lapalme: User-friendly text prediction for translators. EMNLP-2002: Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp.148-155. [PDF, 121KB]

(2002) George Foster, Philippe Langlais, & Guy Lapalme: Text prediction with fuzzy alignment. 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. 44-53. [go to publisher details]

(2001) Philippe Langlais, George Foster & Guy Lapalme: Integrating bilingual lexicons in a probabilistic translation assistant. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.197-202. [PDF, 95KB]

(2001) Terence Lewis: Combining tools to improve automatic translation. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.207-209. [PDF, 95KB]

(2001) Elliott Macklovitch & Antonio S. Valderrábanos: Rethinking interaction: the solution for high-quality MT? MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001. Towards a Road Map for MT [PDF, 10KB]

(2002) Danilo Nogueira: Translation tools today: a personal view. Translation Journal 6 (1), January 2002; 7pp. [PDF, 89KB]

(2000) Tibor Környei: WordFisher for MS Word: an alternative to translation memory programs for freelance translators? Translation Journal 4 (1), January 2000; 5pp. [PDF, 73KB]

(2000) Philippe Langlais, George Foster, & Guy Lapalme: TransType: a computer-aided translation typing system; ANLP/NAACL 2000 workshop: Embedded machine translation systems, May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington, [USA]; pp.46-51. [PDF, 599KB]

(2000) Philippe Langlais, George Foster, & Guy Lapalme: Unit completion for a computer-aided translation typing system. ANLP-NAACL-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing and 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp. 135-141. [PDF, 795KB]

(2000) Philippe Langlais, Sébastien Sauvé, George Foster, Elliott Macklovitch, & Guy Lapalme: Evaluation of TransType, a computer-aided translation typing system: a comparison of a theoretical- and a user-oriented evaluation procedures. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Athens, Greece, 31 May – 2 June 2000; pp. 641-648. [PDF, 1302KB]

(2000) Yevgeny Ludovik & Ron Zacharski: MT and topic-based techniques to enhance speech recognition systems for professional translators 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. 1061-1065 [PDF,.382KB]

Translation workstation

(2004) Heather Fulford & Joaquin Granell-Zafra: The freelance translator's workstation: an empirical investigation 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp.53-61. [PDF, 165KB]

(2003) Dan Gervais: MultiTrans system presentation: translation support and language management solutions MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 131KB]

(2003) Harold Somers: The translator’s workstation. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.13-30.

(2002) Daniel Gervais: The full-text multilingual corpus: breaking the translation memory bottleneck. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 12pp. [PDF,160KB]; presentation, 22 slides [PDF of PPT, 2753KB]

(2001) Joris Goetschalckx, Catia Cucchiarini, & Johan Van Hoorde: Machine translation for Dutch : the NL-Translex project. Why machine translation? Brussels/Den Haag, Jamuary 2001 ; 16pp. [PDF, 87KB]

(2001) Ross Smith: Using information technology to optimise translation processes at PricewaterhouseCoopers Madrid. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.341-344. [PDF, 123KB]

Translator training

(2004) Jarmila Fictumova: Technology-enhanced translator training. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training, 28th August, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp. 43-48. [PDF, 327KB]

(2001) Federico Gaspari: Teaching machine translation to trainee translators: a survey of their knowledge and opinions. MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001. Workshop on Teaching Machine Translation [PDF, 125KB]

(2000) Tatyana Gurina: Educational implications of a machine translation system. AMTA 2000 pre-conference workshop “Machine translation in practice: from old guard to new guard”, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October10, 2000 . 5p. [PDF, 90KB]

Travel and tourism

(2004) proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2004], September 30 – October 1, 2004, Kyoto, Japan.

(2004) Hervé Blanchon: HLT modules scalability within the NESPOLE! Project. Interspeech 2004 – ICSLP 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004; pp.1641-1644; abstract [PDF, 72KB]

(2004) Mitsuo Shimohata, Eiichiro Sumita, & Yuji Matsumoto: Building a paraphrase corpus for speech translation. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1407-1410. [PDF, 672KB]

(2003) Genichiro Kikui, Eiichiro Sumita, Toshiyuki Takezawa, & Seiichi Yamamoto: Creating corpora for speech-to-speech translation. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.381-384; abstract [PDF, 34KB]

(2002) Toshiyuki Takezawa, Eiichiro Sumita, Fumiaki Sugaya, Hirofumi Yamamoto, & Seiichi Yamamoto: Toward a broad-coverage bilingual corpus for speech translation of travel conversations in the real world. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.147-152. [PDF, 216KB]

(2002) Bowen Zhou, Yuqing Gao, Jeffrey Sorensen, Zijian Diao, & Michael Picheny: Statistical natural language generation for speech-to-speech machine translation systems. ICSLP 2002, Interspeech 2002:7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, September 16-20, 2002, Denver, Colorado, USA; pp.1897-1900; abstract [PDF, 54KB]

(2001) Christian Fügen, Martin Westphal, Mike Schneider, Tanja Schultz, & Alex Waibel: LingWear: a mobile tourist information system. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 5pp. [PDF, 997KB]

(2001) Alon Lavie, Chad Langley, Alex Waibel, Fabio Pianesi, Ganni Lazzari, Paolo Coletti, Loredana Taddei, & Franco Balducci: Architecture and design considerations in NESPOLE!: a speech translation system for e-commerce applications. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 4pp. [PDF, 51KB]

(2000) Takao Watanabe, Akitoshi Okumura, Shinsuke Sakai, Kiyoshi Yamabana, Shinichi Doi, & Ken Hanazawa: An automatic interpretation system for travel conversation. ICSLP 2000: Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China, October 16-20, 2000; pp.444-447. [PDF, 61KB]

Usability of systems

(2001) Sébastien Sauvé, Philippe Langlais, & Guy Lapalme: User interface aspects of a translation typing system. Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2001, Ottawa, Canada, June 7-9, 2001, Proceedings; pp. 246-256 [PDF, 267KB]

User experiences and needs

(2004) Mike Dillinger & Arle Lommel: Implementing machine translation (LISA Best Practice Guides). [Geneva: LISA, 2004] iv, 65pp. [PDF, 585KB]