Machine Translation Archive: index of applications

Machine Translation Archive

Index to applications, uses, tools, etc.

Publications 1990-1999

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Abstracts

(1999) Hideki Kashioka, Hiroko Ohta, Kazutaka Takao, & Yoshiko Shirokizawa: Applying TDMT to abstracts on science and technology. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 213-219. [PDF, 258KB]

Aircraft maintenance

(1996) Eva Dauphin & Véronika Lux: Corpus-based annotated test set for machine translation evaluation by an industrial user. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 1061-1065. [PDF, 445KB]

(1992) B. Roudaud: Typology study of French technical texts, with a view to developing a machine translation system. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 1284-1288. [PDF, 359KB]

Air traffic control

(1994) Boh Wasyliw & Douglas Clarke: Natural language analysis and machine translation in pilot-ATC communication. International conference “Machine translation: ten years on” Proceedings ... held at Cranfield University, England, 12-14 November 1994 (Cranfield University Press, 1998) [PDF, 251KB]

Air travel see Travel and tourism

Algorithms see Programming and coding

Authoring tools

(1999) Svetlana Sheremetyeva & Sergei Nirenburg: Interactive MT as support for non-native language authoring. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 324-330. [PDF, 212KB]

(1998) Richard Power & Donia Scott: Multilingual authoring using feedback texts. Coling-ACL ’98: 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 10-14, 1998, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; pp. 1053-1059. [PDF, 600KB]

(1994) Hervé Blanchon: Perspectives of DBMT for monolingual authors on the basis of LIDIA-1, an implemented mock-up. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 115-119. [PDF, 529KB]

(1994) Kazunori Muraki, Susumu Akamine, Kenji Satoh, & Sinichi Ando: TWP: how to assist English production on Japanese word processor. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 847-852. [PDF, 553KB]

(1994) A pre-editor for Logos? Language Industry Monitor, issue no.19, January-February 1994; p.10. [PDF, 69KB]

Automotive industry

(1999) Jörg Schütz: Deploying the SAE J2450 translation quality metric in MT projects. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 278-284. [PDF, 172KB]

(1996) Jörg Schütz: Combing language technolgy and web technology to streamline an automotive hotline support service. Expanding MT horizons: Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2-5 October 1996, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Washington, DC: AMTA); pp.180-189 [PDF, 151KB]

Business texts

(1999) Hajime Uchino, Yoshifumi Ooyama, & Osamu Furuse: ALTFLASH: a Japanese-to-English machine translation system for market flash reports. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 438-443. [PDF, 255KB]

(1993) Wolfgang Wahlster: Verbmobil: translation of face-to-face dialogs MT Summit IV: International Cooperation for Global Communication. Proceedings, July 20-22, 1993, Kobe, Japan; pp.127-135 [PDF, 208KB]

(1992) L.Iordanskaja, M.Kim, R.Kittredge, B.Lavoie, & A.Polguère: Generation of extended bilingual statistical reports. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 1019-1023. [PDF, 315KB]

Chatroom language

(1997) Mary Flanagan: Machine translation of interactive texts [abstract]. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 50 [PDF, 60KB]

(1994) CompuServe deploys online MT for German and French. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.22, July-August 1994; pp.13-14. [PDF, 70KB]

Commercial systems

(1999) Orie Fukutomi: Report on commercial machine translation in a manufacturing industry domain. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 10: October 1999; pp.16-25. [PDF]

(1999) Elliott Macklovitch: Regional survey: M(A)T in North America. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp.73-79. [PDF, 153KB]

(1999) Se-Young Park & Gil-Rok Oh: Machine translation in Korea. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp.100-104. [PDF, 138KB]

(1999) Yoshiyuki Sakamoto & Minoru Moriguchi: Report on machine translation market in Japan. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp.92-99. [PDF, 205KB]

(1997) Laurie Gerber: R&D for commercial MT. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 94-97 [PDF, 104KB]

(1997) Fred Klein: Machine translation – mystery, misery or miracle. TC-Forum, 4-97, December 1997. [PDF, 87KB]

(1995) Winfield Scott Bennett: Realities of development in market-oriented MT MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 4pp. [PDF, 93KB]

(1995) Globalink to use L&H text-to-speech to check translations. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.26, March-April 1995; pp.8-9. [PDF, 74KB]

(1995) InterGraph’s Transcend. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.25, January-February 1995; pp.8-9. [PDF, 75KB]

(1994) L.Chris Miller: Commercial PC-based machine translation software packages. Technology partnerships for crossing the language barrier. Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 5-8 October 1994, Columbia, Maryland, USA (Washington, DC: AMTA); pp.242-243 [PDF, 79KB]

(1994) Muriel Vasconcellos & L.Chris Miller: A new era for Systran. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.24, November-December 1994; pp.1-3. [PDF, 104KB]

(1994) Globalink and MicroTac tie the knot. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.22, July-August 1994; pp.11-12. [PDF, 99KB]

(1994) LogoVista conquers Japan. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.20, March-April 1994; pp.9-11. [PDF, 103KB]

(1994) Low-end translation tools: catching on? Language Industry Monitor, issue no.19, January-February 1994; pp.11-12. [PDF, 84KB]

(1994) The Sietec connection. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.22, July-August 1994; pp.7-9. [PDF, 104KB]

(1994) Winger: still hanging in there. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.19, January-February 1994; pp.5-6. [PDF, 88KB]

(1993) Europe’s linguistic superhighway. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.16, July-August 1993; pp.1-6. [PDF, 120KB]

(1993) Focus on Japan. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.17, September-October 1993; pp.1-4. [PDF, 94KB]

(1993) A report on MT from the ATA. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.13, January-February 1993; p.12. [PDF, 85KB]

(1993) San Diego’s other MT company. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.16, July-August 1993; pp.10-12. [PDF, 108KB]

(1992) Is MT profitable? A round table discussion. Part 1. In: MT News International no.2, May 1992. [PDF]

(1992) MT systems galore in San Diego. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.12, November-December 1992; p.2. [PDF, 106KB]

(1991) Elliott Macklovitch: Evaluating commercial MT systems. Proceedings of the Evaluators’ Forum, April 21st – 24th, 1991, Les Rasses, Vaud, Switzerland, ed. Kirsten Falkedal. (Geneva: ISSCO); pp. 37-49. [PDF, 152KB]

(1991) Adriane Rinsche: Comparative MT performance evaluation: an empirical study. Proceedings of the Evaluators’ Forum, April 21st – 24th, 1991, Les Rasses, Vaud, Switzerland, ed. Kirsten Falkedal. (Geneva: ISSCO); pp. 169-180. [PDF, 126KB]

(1991) Low-cost automatic translation – an American dream? Language Industry Monitor, issue no.2, March-April 1991; pp.5-6. [PDF, 85KB]

(1990) Dong Zhen Dong: TRANSTAR – a commercial English-Chinese MT system. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.3, pp. 339-341. [PDF, 225KB]

Computer manuals (see also Software documentation)

(1993) Tetsuya Nasukawa: Discourse constraint in computer manuals. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 183-194. [PDF, 271KB]

Computer networks (see also Internet)

(1997) Jörg Schütz: Utilizing evaluation in networked machine translation. TMI-97: proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, July 23-25, 1997, St.John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; pp.208-215. [PDF, 154KB]

(1996) Jörg Schütz: Network-based machine translation services. In: EAMT Workshop, Vienna, 29-30 August 1996. [PDF]

Conference registrations and hotels bookings

(1993) Akira Kurematsu: Overview of speech translatioin at ATR. In: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 33-41. [PDF, 183KB]]

(1993) Tsuyoshi Morimoto & Akira Kurematsu: Automatic speech translation at ATR MT Summit IV: International Cooperation for Global Communication. Proceedings, July 20-22, 1993, Kobe, Japan; pp.83-96 [PDF, 305KB]

Controlled languages

(1999) Christian Boitet: Dialogue-based MT and self-explaining documents as an alternative to MAHT and MT of controlled languages. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 10: October 1999; pp.6-15. [PDF]

(1999) Hiroyuki Kaji: Controlled languages for machine translation: state of the art. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 37-39. [PDF, 140KB]

(1999) Uus Knops: Controlled language – issues in checkers’ design. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 40-45. [PDF, 135KB]

(1999) Teruko Mitamura: Controlled language for multilingual machine translation. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 46-52. [PDF, 187KB]

(1999) Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Enrique Torrejon & Robert Igo: Multiple strategies for automatic disambiguation in technical translation. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 99), August 23-25, 1999, University College, Chester, England; pp. 218-227 [PDF, 222KB]

(1998) Arendse Bernth: Easy English: addressing structural ambiguity. Machine translation and the information soup: third conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA '98, Langhorne, PA,USA, October 1998; ed. David Farwell, Laurie Gerber, Eduard Hovy (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1998); pp.164-173. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Kurt Godden: Machine translation in context. Machine translation and the information soup: third conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA '98, Langhorne, PA,USA, October 1998; ed. David Farwell, Laurie Gerber, Eduard Hovy (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1998); pp.158-163. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Pim van der Eijk & Jacqueline van Wees: Supporting controlled language authoring. In: EAMT Workshop, Geneva, 2-3 April 1998. [PDF]

(1998) Jörg Schütz: MULTIDOC -- controlling language in multilingual documentation. In: EAMT Workshop, Geneva, 2-3 April 1998. [PDF]

(1997) Herman Caeyers: Presentation of Lant technology. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 253-254 [PDF, 93KB]

(1997) Herman Caeyers: Machine translation and controlled English EAMT Workshop "Language technology in your organization?", May 21 - 22, 1997, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.91-103. [PDF, 264KB]

(1997) Anna Sågvall Hein: Language control and machine translation. TMI-97: proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, July 23-25, 1997, St.John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; pp.103-110. [PDF, 138KB]

(1997) Christine Kamprath: Using MT in a corporate setting. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; 12pp. [PDF of PPT, 465KB]

(1996) Michiel de Koning: Bringing controlled language support to the desktop. In: EAMT Workshop, Vienna, 29-30 August 1996. [PDF]

(1995) Geert Adriaens & Lieve Macken: Technological evaluation of a controlled language application: precision, recall and convergence tests for SECC. TMI-95: proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, July 5-7, 1995, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium; pp.123-141. [PDF, 270KB]

(1995) Teruko Mitamura & Eric H. Nyberg, 3rd: Controlled English for knowledge-based MT: experience with the KANT system. TMI-95: proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, July 5-7, 1995, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium; pp.158-172. [PDF, 214KB]

(1994) Peggy Andersen: ClearCheck demonstration. Technology partnerships for crossing the language barrier. Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 5-8 October 1994, Columbia, Maryland, USA (Washington, DC: AMTA); pp.227 [PDF, 50KB]

(1994) Kathryn L. Baker, Alexander M. Franz, Pamela W. Jordan, Teruko Mitamura, & Eric H. Nyberg, 3^rd: Coping with ambiguity in a large-scale machine translation system. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 90-94. [PDF, 436KB]

(1994) Christian Boitet: Dialogue-Based MT and self-explaining documents as an alternative to MAHT and MT of controlled languages. International conference “Machine translation: ten years on” Proceedings ... held at Cranfield University, England, 12-14 November 1994 (Cranfield University Press, 1998) [PDF, 164KB]

(1993) Cap Volmac’s tailormade MT systems. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.18, November-December 1993; pp.9-10. [PDF, 97KB]

(1992) Eric H. Nyberg III & Teruko Mitamura: The KANT system: fast, accurate, high-quality translation in practical domains. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 1069-1073. [PDF, 351KB]

(1992) Localizing the Bull way. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.9, May-June 1992; pp.4-5. [PDF, 102KB]

(1992) New MT system for Caterpillar now under development. In: MT news, Language Industry Monitor, issue no.10, July-August 1992; pp.6-7. [PDF, 90KB]

(1992) Pre-editing Systran. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.9, May-June 1992; p.2. [PDF, 77KB]

Cooking see Food and cooking

Cross-language information retrieval see Information retrieval

Customization and implementation

(1999) Alan Barrett: Otelo and the Domino Translation Object. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp.177-181. [PDF, 103KB]

(1999) Walter K. Hartmann: The next step: moving to an integrated MT system for high-volume environments. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 266-271. [PDF, 183KB]

(1999) Nobutoshi Hatanaka: Development of an intranet MT system adapting to usage domain. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 259-265. [PDF, 246KB]

(1999) Nikolai Puntikov: MT and TM technologies in localization industry: the challenge of integration. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp.63-70. [PDF, 210KB]

(1999) Sayori Shimohata, Toshiki Murata, Atsushi Ikeno, Tsuyoshi Fukui, & Hideki Yamamoto: Machine translation system PENSÉE: system design and implementation. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 380-384. [PDF, 154KB]

(1999) Key-Yih Su & Jing-Shin Chang: A customizable, self-learnable parameterized MT system: the next generation. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp.182-188. [PDF, 180KB]

(1999) Nancy L. Underwood & Bart Jongejan: Profiling translation projects: an essential part of routing translations. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 99), August 23-25, 1999, University College, Chester, England; pp. 139-149 [PDF, 154KB]

(1997) Jennifer A.Brundage, Susan McCormick & Chris Pyne: Managing distributed MT projects today – a new challenge. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 58-63 [PDF, 103KB]

(1997) Ulrike Schwall & Gregor Thurmair: From METAL to T1: systems and components for machine translation applications. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 180-190 [PDF, 181KB]

(1995) D. Marty-Albisser: Integration of MT into the business process. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 1p. [abstract only] [PDF, 55KB]

(1994) Satoshi Kinoshita, Akira Kumano, & Hideki Hirakawa: Improvement in customizability using translation templates. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 25-31. [PDF, 433KB]

(1994) The Finnish formula. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.21, May-June 1994; pp.1-6. [PDF, 112KB]

(1994) Logos: working on front ends. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.21, May-June 1994; pp.13-14. [PDF, 86KB]

(1994) Nokia: Kielikone’s first MT customer. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.21, May-June 1994; p.3. [PDF, 82KB]

(1994) Systran flourishes. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.20, March-April 1994; pp.11-12. [PDF, 80KB]

(1993) Joann P. Ryan: Machine translation: matching reality to expectations. In: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 225-235. [PDF,160KB]

(1993) Zenshiro Kawasaki: Organizational use of machine translation systems. In: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 217-224. [PDF, 123KB]

(1993) Cap Volmac’s tailormade MT systems. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.18, November-December 1993; pp.9-10. [PDF, 97KB]

(1993) Europe’s linguistic superhighway. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.16, July-August 1993; pp.1-6. [PDF, 120KB]

(1993) Logos: new partners, new language pairs. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.13, January-February 1993; p.3. [PDF, 86KB]

(1992) Ralph B. Dessau: Machine translation evaluation criteria. Annex A in: MT evaluation: basis for future directions. Proceedings of a workshop..., 2-3 November 1992, San Diego, California; 5pp. [PDF, 100KB]

(1992) PC-based translators: they keep on coming. In: MT news, Language Industry Monitor, issue no.10, July-August 1992; pp.6-7. [PDF, 90KB]

(1991) see contributions to panel Building the customer base. MT Summit III. Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 127-128 [PDF, 87KB] [Reprinted in: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 213-216]

(1991) Doris Albisser: Evaluating machine translation systems in a real work environment [contribution to panel] Evaluation of MT systems. MT Summit III. Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; p. 146

(1991) Hideki Hirakawa, Hiroyasu Nogami, & Shin-ya Amano: EJ/JE machine translation system ASTRANSAC – extensions toward personalization. MT Summit III. Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 73-80 [PDF, 668KB] [Revised reprint in: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 127-138]

(1991) Brigitte Roudaud: A procedure for the evaluation and improvement of an MT system by the end-user. Proceedings of the Evaluators’ Forum, April 21st – 24th, 1991, Les Rasses, Vaud, Switzerland, ed. Kirsten Falkedal. (Geneva: ISSCO); pp. 129-142. [PDF, 180KB]

Drug enforcement

Dynamic programming

(1999) Yevgeny Ludovik & Ron Zacharski: Multilingual document language recognition for creating corpora. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 317-323. [PDF, 184KB]

(1998) S. Nießen, S.Vogel, H.Ney, & C.Tillmann: A DP based search algorithm for statistical machine translation. Coling-ACL ’98: 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 10-14, 1998, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; pp. 960-967. [PDF, 654KB]

Economics of MT

(1999) Margaret King: TransRouter: a decision support tool for translation managers. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 272-277. [PDF, 148KB]

(1999) Marjorie León: FAMT is alive and well. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp.149-151. [PDF, 93KB]

(1997) Doris Marty-Albisser: Economics of translation tools -- experience gained at Swiss Bank Corporation EAMT Workshop "Language technology in your organization?", May 21 - 22, 1997, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.8-16. [PDF, 370KB]

(1996) Harri Arnola: Kielikone machine translation technology and its perspective on the economics of machine translation. In: EAMT Workshop, Vienna, 29-30 August 1996. [PDF]

(1996) Julian Perkin: More computers are being used to translate documents, and they save money. Financial Times, 22 April 1996. 3pp. [PDF, 69KB]

(1995) Stephan Bodenkamp: Machine translation - the economical part of multilingual information processing. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 1p. [abstract only] [PDF, 72KB]

(1995) D. Marty-Albisser: Integration of MT into the business process. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 1p. [abstract only] [PDF, 55KB]

(1994) Viggo Hansen: PaTrans - a MT System: development and implementation of and experiences from a MT-system. Technology partnerships for crossing the language barrier: Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas,5-8 October, Columbia, Maryland, USA. [Washington, DC: AMTA]; pp.114-121. [PDF, 128KB]

(1994) The economics of MT. Panel at the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 5-8 October 1994, Columbia, Maryland, USA (Washington, DC: AMTA); p.220 [PDF, 75KB]

(1994) Kazunori Muraki: The cost of MT in Japan. Contribution to panel Voices of experience: MT in operational settings at the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 5-8 October 1994, Columbia, Maryland, USA (Washington, DC: AMTA); pp.221-222 [PDF, 84KB]

(1994) Bonjour, Eurolang Optimizer. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.20, March-April 1994; pp.1-3. [PDF, 91KB]

(1993) Doris Albisser: Evaluating machine translation systems in a real work environment. [Expanded version.] In: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 278-282. [PDF, 117KB]

(1992) Gudrun Magnusdottir: Evaluation of lexical coverage. In: MT evaluation: basis for future directions. Proceedings of a workshop..., 2-3 November 1992, San Diego, California; p. 60 [PDF, 73KB]

(1991) Doris Albisser: Evaluation of MT systems at Union Bank of Switzerland. Proceedings of the Evaluators’ Forum, April 21st – 24th, 1991, Les Rasses, Vaud, Switzerland, ed. Kirsten Falkedal. (Geneva: ISSCO); pp. 51-53. [PDF, 84KB]

Edit distance

(1992) Keh-Yih Su, Ming-Wen Wu, & Jing-Shin Chang: A new quantitative quality measure for machine translation systems. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 433-439. [PDF, 494KB]

Embedded MT

(1999) Chin-Yew Lin: Machine translation for information access across the language barrier: the MuST system. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 308-316. [PDF, 276KB]

(1991) see contributions to panel Applications of MT technology. MT Summit III. Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 147-153 [PDF, 207KB] [Revised reprints in: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 285-296]

Error detection and correction

(1999) Arendse Bernth: A confidence index for machine translation. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 99), August 23-25, 1999, University College, Chester, England; pp. 109-119 [PDF, 158KB]

(1999) June-Jei Kuo: An automated mandarin document revision system using both phonetic and radical approaches. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 449-457. [PDF, 580KB]

(1999) Graham Russell: Errors of omission in translation. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 99), August 23-25, 1999, University College, Chester, England; pp. 128-138 [PDF, 131KB]

(1997) Juan C.Amengual, José M.Benedí, Francisco Casacuberta, Asunción Castaño, Antonio Castellanos, David Llorens, Andrés Marzal, Federico Prat, Enrique Vidal, & Juan M.Vilar: Error correcting parsing for text-to-text machine translation using finite state models. TMI-97: proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, July 23-25, 1997, St.John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; pp.135-142. [PDF, 217KB]

(1996) I. Dan Melamed: Automatic detection of omissions in translations. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 764-769. [PDF, 566KB]

(1995) Elliott Macklovitch: TransCheck – or the automatic validation of human translations. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 11pp. [PDF, 246KB]

(1994) Tetsuo Araki, Satoru Ikehara, Nobuyuki Tsukahara, & Yasunori Komatsu: An evaluation to detect and correct erroneous characters wrongly substituted, deleted and inserted in Japanese and English sentences using Markov models. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 187-193. [PDF, 518KB]

(1992) Mitsugu Miura, Mikito Hirata, & Nami Hoshino: Learning mechanism in machine translation system “PIVOT”. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 693-699. [PDF, 331KB]

(1990) Gregor Thurmair: Parsing for grammar and style checking. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.2, pp. 365-370. [PDF, 490KB]

File interchange and exchange formats

(1999) Shin-ichiro Kamei: Sharing dictionaries among MT users by common formats and social filtering framework. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp.180-181. [PDF, 80KB

(1997) Shin-ichiro Kamei, Etsuo Itoh, Mikiko Fujii, Tokuyuki Hirai, Yukari Saitoh, Masashito Takahashi, Tsutomu Hiyama, & Kazunori Muraki: Sharable formats and their suporting environments for exchanging user dictionaries among different MT systems as part of AAMT activities. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 132-141 [PDF, 160KB]

(1997) Gr.Thurmair: Exchange interfaces for translation tools. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 74-93 [PDF, 241KB]

(1993) Alan Melby on TEI-TIF. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.14, Mar-Apr 1993; pp.5-6. [PDF, 105KB]

(1993) Termbase design and TIF. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.14, Mar-Apr 1993; p.7. [PDF, 105KB]

Financial texts

(1999) Takaaki Tanaka & Yoshihiro Matsuo: Extraction of translation equivalents from non-parallel corpora. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 99), August 23-25, 1999, University College, Chester, England; pp. 109-119 [PDF, 249KB]

Food and cooking

(1997) Evelyne Viegas: Mismatches and divergences: the continuum perspective. TMI-97: proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, July 23-25, 1997, St.John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; pp.216-224. [PDF, 179KB]

(1994) Chadia Moghrabi: On parametering the choice of words in text generation and its usefulness in machine translation. International conference “Machine translation: ten years on” Proceedings ... held at Cranfield University, England, 12-14 November 1994 (Cranfield University Press, 1998) [PDF, 113KB]

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

(1999) Antonio Sanfilippo, Shuo Bai, Roberto Cencioni, Akira Izumi, Gary Strong, & Dimitri Theologitis: Human language technologies for the information society: role, plans and visions of funding agencies. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp. 191-193. [PDF, 167KB]

(1997) Roger Havenith: MT research and development (R&D) in Europe. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 64-73 [PDF, 179KB]

(1997) Thomas R. Pedtke: U.S. government support and use of machine translation: current status MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 14-23 [PDF, 136KB]

(1997) Loll Rolling: The emergence of MT in Europe. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 39-40 [PDF, 78KB]

(1995) Roberto Cencioni: Language engineering and the Commission MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 1p. [abstract only] [PDF, 68KB]

(1995) Zaharin Yusoff: Towards a language information centre for Malay. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 8pp. [PDF, 249KB]

(1994) Center for Sprogteknologi: thriving in Denmark. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.19, January-February 1994; p.3. [PDF, 83KB]

(1993) Jan-Michael Czermak: Government support for MT in Germany. In: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 199-201. [PDF, 98KB]

(1993) L. Rolling: E.C. language projects MT Summit IV: International Cooperation for Global Communication. Proceedings, July 20-22, 1993, Kobe, Japan; pp.97-115 [PDF, 381KB]

(1993) L. Rolling: [contribution to] Panel on international cooperation MT Summit IV: International Cooperation for Global Communication. Proceedings, July 20-22, 1993, Kobe, Japan; pp.221-222 [PDF, 78KB]

(1993) ARPA’s deep pockets. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.15, May-June 1993; pp.5-8. [PDF, 95KB]

(1993) Another boost from Luxembourg. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.18, November-December 1993; pp.4-5. [PDF, 101KB]

(1993) Europe’s linguistic superhighway. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.16, July-August 1993; pp.1-6. [PDF, 120KB]

(1993) Laying the foundation for a European linguistic infrastructure. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.16, July-August 1993; p.3. [PDF, 96KB]

(1991) see contributions to panel International views on MT. MT Summit III. Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 129-130 [PDF, 95KB]

(1991) Andrew Joscelyne: Eurotra continues. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.4, July-August 1991; pp.3-4. [PDF, 94KB]

(1991) Tony Whitecomb: MT research revitalized from the Hague? Language Industry Monitor, issue no.3, May-June 1991; p.6. [PDF, 95KB]

(1991) Calling all Euro-lang engineers. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.5, September-October 1991; pp.6-7. [PDF, 95KB]

Grammar checkers

(1991) Rod Johnson: [contribution to panel] Applications of MT technology. MT Summit III. Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; p. 148

Health see Medical texts

Human translation and MT

(1999) Jun-ichi Tsujii: Machine translation for the next century. Machine Translation Summit VII, 13th-17th September 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. Proceedings of MT Summit VII “MT in the Great Translation Era”; pp.175-176. [PDF, 81KB]

(1998) Dan Loehr: Can simultaneous interpretation help machine translation? Machine translation and the information soup: third conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA '98, Langhorne, PA,USA, October 1998; ed. David Farwell, Laurie Gerber, Eduard Hovy (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1998); pp.213-224. [go to publisher details]

(1997) Shiho Ogina & Tetsuya Nasukawa: Generating natural sentences by using shallow discourse information. TMI-97: proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, July 23-25, 1997, St.John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; pp.39-46. [PDF, 173KB]

(1996) Claude Bédard: Juggling with words: some insights from the human translation process. Expanding MT horizons: Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2-5 October 1996, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Washington, DC: AMTA); pp.24-33 [PDF, 160KB]

(1995) Elliott Macklovitch: TransCheck - or, the automatic validation of human translation. MT Summit V, Luxembourg, 1995. [PDF,43KB]

(1994) Susanne Heizmann: Human strategies in translation and interpretation - What MT can learn from translators. International conference “Machine translation: ten years on” Proceedings ... held at Cranfield University, England, 12-14 November 1994 (Cranfield University Press, 1998) [PDF, 452KB]

(1994) Alan Melby: Machine translation and philosophy of language. International conference “Machine translation: ten years on” Proceedings ... held at Cranfield University, England, 12-14 November 1994 (Cranfield University Press, 1998) [PDF, 143KB]

(1993) Pierre Isabelle, Marc Dymetman, George Foster, Jean-Marc Jutras, Elliott Macklovitch, François Perrault, Xiaobo Ren & Michel Simard: Translation analysis and translation automation. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 201-217. [PDF, 772KB]

(1993) Pierre Isabelle, Marc Dymetman, George Foster, Jean-Marc Jutras, Elliott Macklovitch, François Perrault, Xiaobo Ren & Michel Simard: Translation analysis and translation automation. IBM Center for Advanced Studies Conference (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Proceedings of the 1993 conference on collaborative research: distributed computing, vol.2, pp. 1133-1147. [PDF, 1090KB]