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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]

Administrative documents

(1996) Richard Power & Nico Cavallotto: Multilingual generation of administrative forms.  Eighth International Natural Language Generation workshop (INLG’96), Proceedings, 12-15 June 1996, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, UK; pp. 21-24. [PDF, 233KB]

(1994) David Canter: The impact of enlargement on translation in Sweden: assessment and guesswork. Translating and the Computer 16. Paper presented … 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); 4pp. [PDF, 20KB]

(1994) Stelios Piperidis: Interactive corpus-based translation drafting tool (Translearn).  Translating and the Computer 16. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); pp.37-50. [PDF, 148KB]

(1990) Andrew Evans & Dimitri Theologitis: Putting the VIM into AVIMA. Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 129-138. [PDF, 165KB]

Advertising texts

(1997) Harold Somers, Bill Black, Joakim Nivre, Torbjörn Lager, Annarosa Multari, Luca Gilardoni, Jeremy Ellman, & Alex Rogers: Multilingual generation and summarization of job adverts: the TREE project.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.33-40. [PDF, 845KB]

Aircraft maintenance

(1996) Farid Cerbah: A study of some lexical differences between French and English instructions in a multilingual generation framework. Eighth International Natural Language Generation workshop (INLG’96), Proceedings, 12-15 June 1996, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, UK; pp. 131-140. [PDF, 834KB]

(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 algorithms

Authoring tools

(1999) Jeffrey Allen: Adapting the concept of “translation memory” to “authoring memory” for a controlled language writing environment. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 13pp. [PDF, 123KB]

(1999) Sharon O’Brien: Translation technology – the next generation. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 9pp. [PDF, 46KB]

(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]

(1999) John Tait, Jeremy Ellman, & Diomidis Spinelis: MABLe: a multi-lingual authoring tool for business letters. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 12pp. [PDF, 152KB]

(1998) José Coch: Interactive generation and knowledge administration in Multimeteo. Ninth International workshop on Natural Language Generation,  Proceedings, 5-7 August 1998, Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada; pp. 198-207. [PDF, 346KB]

(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]

(1997) Arendse Bernth: EasyEnglish: a tool for improving document quality.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.159-165. [PDF, 635KB]

(1997) John Tait, Huw Sanderson, Jeremy Ellman, Peter Hellwig, Periklis Tsahageas, & Ana Maria Martinez San José: Practical considerations in building a multi-lingual authoring system for business letters. From research to commercial applications: making NLP work in practice. Proceedings of a workshop [at ACL-EACL-1997] ed. by Jill Burstein and Claudia Leacock, 12 July 1997, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain; pp.35-42. [PDF, 541KB]

(1997) Kiyoshi Yamabana, Kazunori Muraki, Shin-ichiro Kamei, Kenji Satoh, Shinichi Doi, & Shinko Tamura: An interactive translation support facility for non-professional users.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.324-331. [PDF, 828KB]

(1996) Johann Haller: MULTILINT. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 8pp. [PDF, 85KB]

(1996) Donia R.Scott: Computer support for authoring multilingual software documentation. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 11pp. [PDF, 117KB]

(1996) Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Sergei Nirenburg, & Irene Nirenburg: Generating patent claims from interactive input.  Eighth International Natural Language Generation workshop (INLG’96), Proceedings, 12-15 June 1996, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, UK; pp. 61-70. [PDF, 721KB]

(1995) Anna Cordon: The translator in the communications web.  Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 6pp. [PDF, 396KB]

(1994) G. Adriaens : Simplified English grammar and style correction in an MT framework: the LRE SECC project. Translating and the Computer 16. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); pp.78-88. [PDF, 80KB]

(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]

(1993) Jörg M.Haake & Christine M.Neuwirth: Collaborative authoring of hypermedia documents. Machine Translation Today: Translating and the Computer 15. Papers presented at a conference… 18-19 November 1993, CBI Cinference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1993); pp.41-58. [PDF, 127KB]

(1993) Donia R.Scott: Multilingual drafting of instructional texts.  Machine Translation Today: Translating and the Computer 15. Papers presented at a conference… 18-19 November 1993, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1993); pp.193-196. [PDF, 117KB]

(1992) Jane Dorner: Writing on disk: an author at play in a computer-simulated world. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.67-73. [PDF, 36KB]

(1992) Gert van der Steen & Bert-Jan Dijenborgh: Online correction and translation of industrial texts.  Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.135-164. [PDF, 217KB]

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]

(1999) Jörg Schütz: Deploying the SAE J2450 translation quality metric in language technology evaluation projects. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 10pp. [PDF, 69KB]

(1998) Jörg Schütz: Multilingual human language technology in automotive documentation workflows. Translating and the Computer 20. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference…12-13 November 1998 (London: Aslib, 1998); 10pp. [PDF, 188KB]

(1998) Jörg Schütz & Rita Nübel: Multi-purpose vs. task-specific application: diagnostic evaluation of multilingual language technologies. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.1251-1254. [PDF, 127KB]

(1996) Johann Haller: MULTILINT. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 8pp. [PDF, 85KB]

(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]

Back translation

(1999) Robert Frederking, Christopher Hogan, & Alexander Rudnicky: A new approach to the translating telephone.  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. 556-563. [PDF, 175KB]

(1999) Shoichi Yokoyama, Akira Kumano, Masaki Matsudaira, Yoshiko Shirokizawa, Mutsumi Kawagoe, Shuji Kodama, Hideki Kashioka, Terumasa Ehara. Shinichiro Miyazawa & Yasuo Nakajima: Quantitative evaluation of machine translation using two-way MT. 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. 568-573. [PDF, 185KB]

Business texts

(1999) John Tait, Jeremy Ellman, & Diomidis Spinelis: MABLe: a multi-lingual authoring tool for business letters. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 12pp. [PDF, 152KB]

(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]

(1997) Ian Johnson: Personal translation applications. Translating and the Computer 19. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 13 & 14 November 1997 (London: Aslib, 1997); 14pp. [PDF, 186KB]

(1997) John Tait, Huw Sanderson, Jeremy Ellman, Peter Hellwig, Periklis Tsahageas, & Ana Maria Martinez San José: Practical considerations in building a multi-lingual authoring system for business letters. From research to commercial applications: making NLP work in practice. Proceedings of a workshop [at ACL-EACL-1997] ed. by Jill Burstein and Claudia Leacock, 12 July 1997, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain; pp.35-42. [PDF, 541KB]

(1996) Klaus Schubert: Accessing Internet-based business communication services in your own language : outline of an R&D report for small enterprises.  Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 7pp. [PDF, 95KB]

(1996) Evelyne Viegas, Boyan Onyshkevich, Victor Raskin, & Sergei Nirenburg: From submit to submitted via submission: on lexical rules in large-scale lexicon acquisition. 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 24-27 June 1996, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA; pp. 32-39. [PDF, 762KB]

(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]

(1990) Andrew Evans & Dimitri Theologitis: Putting the VIM into AVIMA. Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 129-138. [PDF, 165KB]

(1990) D.Jones: Guranteed high quality translation for monolinguals. Proceedings of a Workshop on Machine Translation, 2-3 July 1990, UMIST, Manchester, ed.J.McNaught; 6pp. [PDF, 44KB]; [abstract in Rapportage]

Character coding

(1998) Florence Reeder: Trainer beware: corpora for language/encoding identification. First International Conference on Language Resources & E valuation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.1247-1250. [PDF, 45KB]

(1998) Olaf-Michael Stefanov: Towards a multi-language multi script web based reference & terminology system. Translating and the Computer 20. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference…12-13 November 1998 (London: Aslib, 1998); 10pp. [PDF, 79KB]

(1996) Abdel-Malek Boualem, Stéphane Harié & Jean Véronis: MtScript: a multilingual text editor.  Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 15pp. [PDF, 267KB]

(1995) Peter Kwan: UNICODE – implications for the translator. Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 15pp. [PDF with PPT presentation, 1424KB]

(1993) Peter Kahrel: Foreign languages in Wordperfect.  Machine Translation Today: Translating and the Computer 15. Papers presented at a conference… 18-19 November 1993, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1993); pp.153-163. [PDF, 147KB]; corrected version [HTML, 33KB]

(1992) H.Z. Zhang: The reunion of an Eastern family – the world’s first truly integrated Chinese, Japanese and Korean DTP system. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.175-179. [PDF, 26KB]

(1991) John Clews: Dealing with multiple languages in the computer industry. Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.47-60. [PDF, 139KB]

(1991) John Parry: Computer character sets: their evolution and impact. Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.61-67. [PDF, 53KB]

(1990) Peter Laurie & David Hickman: Document conversion.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 49-52. [PDF, 23KB]

(1990) Beryl Wood: Session 2: summary of the discussion.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 61-62. [PDF, 16KB]

Character recognition see Optical character recognition

Chatrooms and discussion fora

(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]

Collaboration

(1998) Susan Armstrong, Masja Kempen, David McKelvie, Dominique Petitpierre, Reinhard Rapp, & Henry S.Thompson: Multilingual corpora for cooperation. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.975-980. [PDF, 70KB]

 (1998) Tomaž Erjavec, Ann Lawson, & Laurent Romary: East meets West: producing multilingual resources in a European context. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.981-985. [PDF, 104KB]

(1998) Eduard Hovy: Combining and standardizing large-scale, practical ontologies for machine translation and other uses. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.535-542. [PDF, 83KB]

 (1993) Jörg M.Haake & Christine M.Neuwirth: Collaborative authoring of hypermedia documents.  Machine Translation Today: Translating and the Computer 15. Papers presented at a conference… 18-19 November 1993, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1993); pp.41-58. [PDF, 127KB]

Commercial systems

(1999) Orie Fukutomi: Experiment report of a commercial machine translation in a manufacturing industry 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. 579-585 . [PDF, 166KB]

(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]

(1998) Svetlana Sokolova: ProMT 98 – the current state.  Translating and the Computer 20. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference…12-13 November 1998 (London: Aslib, 1998); 7pp. [PDF, 163KB]

(1997) Chinatsu Aone & John Maloney: Reuse of a proper noun recognition system in commercial and operational NLP applications. From research to commercial applications: making NLP work in practice. Proceedings of a workshop [at ACL-EACL-1997] ed. by Jill Burstein and Claudia Leacock, 12 July 1997, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain; pp.1-5. [PDF, 489KB]

(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]

(1997) Martin Volk: Probing the lexicon in evaluating commercial MT systems. ACL-EACL-1997: 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Conference, 7-12 July 1997, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain; pp. 112-119. [PDF, 729KB]

(1997) Logos machine translation system. Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Description of system demonstrations and video, 31 March – 3 April, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA; p.17. [PDF, 72KB]

(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]

(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) Gábor Prószéky: Industrial applications of unification morphology.  Fourth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 13-15 October 1994, Stuttgart, Germany;  pp.213-214. [PDF, 169KB]

(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) Nigel Burnford: The Globalink translation system – GTS. Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.107-111. [PDF, 29KB]

(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) Makoto Nagao: Current practical machine translation systems in Japan and future directions. Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.129-136. [PDF, 56KB]

(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) Thomas Seal: Alpnet and TSS: the commercial realities of using a computer-based translation system.  Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.119-125. [PDF, 46KB]

(1991)  Low-cost automation – an American dream?  Language Industry Monitor, issue no.2, March-April 1991; p.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]

Computational complexity

(1992) Hiroaki Kitano: Utility of massively parallel computing platform in natural language processing . International Workshop on Fundamental Research for the Future Generation of Natural Language Processing (FGNLP): Proceedings, 30-31 July 1992, Hotel Dominion, Manchester; Sofia Ananiadou, editor (Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST); pp.22-36. [PDF, 161KB]

Computer equipment and accessories (see also Microcomputers, Photoscopic store; Programming and algorithms)

(1994) Peter Ball: Practical choices for hardware and software. Translating and the Computer 16. Paper presented … 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); 8pp. [PDF, 37KB]

Computer manuals (see also Software documentation)

(1997) Cigdem Keyder Turhan: An English to Turkish machine translation system using structural mapping. Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.320-323. [PDF, 355KB]

(1996) Anthony Hartley & Cécile Paris: Two sources of control over the generation of software instructions. 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 24-27 June 1996, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA; pp. 192-199. [PDF, 695KB]

(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 hotel bookings

(1999) Norbert Reithinger: Robust information extraction in a speech translation system. Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech ’99), Budapest, Hungary, September 5-9, 1999; pp.2427-2430; abstract [PDF, 47KB]

(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]

(1993) Monika Woszczyna, N.Coccaro, A.Eisele, A.Lavie, A.McNair, T.Polzin, Ivica Rogina, C.P.Rose, Tilo Sloboda, M.Tomita, J.Tsutsumi, N.Aoki-Waibel, Alex Waibel, Wayne Ward: Recent advances in JANUS: a speech translation system.  Eurospeech ’93 Third European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Berlin, Germany, September 22-25, 1993; pp.1295-1298; abstract [PDF, 28KB]

(1992) Osamu Furuse & Hitoshi Iida: Transfer-driven machine translation. International Workshop on Fundamental Research for the Future Generation of Natural Language Processing (FGNLP): Proceedings, 30-31 July 1992, Hotel Dominion, Manchester; Sofia Ananiadou, editor (Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST); pp.95-111. [PDF, 178KB]

(1991) Eiichiro Sumita & Hitoshi Iida: Experiments and prospects of example-based machine translation.  29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 18-21 June 1991, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; pp.185-192. [PDF, 663KB]

Controlled languages

(1999) Jeffrey Allen: Adapting the concept of “translation memory” to “authoring memory” for a controlled language writing environment. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 13pp. [PDF, 123KB]

(1999) Arendse Bernth: Controlling input and output of MT for greater user acceptance. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 10pp. [PDF, 93KB]

(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) Aarno Lehtola, Jarno Tenni, Catherine Bounsaythip, & Kristiina Jaaranen: WEBTRAN: a controlled language machine translation system for building multilingual services on Internet. 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. 487-495. [PDF, 361KB]

(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) 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) Dawn Murphy, Jane Mason, & Stuart Sklair: Improving translation at the source. Translating and the Computer 20. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference…12-13 November 1998 (London: Aslib, 1998); 8pp. [PDF, 78KB]

(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) Arendse Bernth: EasyEnglish: a tool for improving document quality.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.159-165. [PDF, 635KB]

(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) Anna Sågvall Hein, Ingrid Almqvist & Per Starbäck: Scania Swedish – a basis for multilingual translation. Translating and the Computer 19. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 13 & 14 November 1997 (London: Aslib, 1997); 15pp. [PDF, 269KB]

(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) Farid Cerbah: A study of some lexical differences between French and English instructions in a multilingual generation framework. Eighth International Natural Language Generation workshop (INLG’96), Proceedings, 12-15 June 1996, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, UK; pp. 131-140. [PDF, 834KB]

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

(1996) Johann Haller: MULTILINT. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 8pp. [PDF, 85KB]

(1996) Edward Johnson: LinguaNet: … setting a linguist to catch a thief. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 8pp. [PDF, 255KB]

(1996) Alan K.Melby: Building machine translation on a firm foundation. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 10pp. [PDF, 69KB]

(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) G. Adriaens : Simplified English grammar and style correction in an MT framework: the LRE SECC project. Translating and the Computer 16. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); pp.78-88. [PDF, 80KB]

(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, 3rd:  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) Arthur Lee: Controlled English with and without machine translation.  Machine Translation Today: Translating and the Computer 15. Papers presented at a conference… 18-19 November 1993, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1993); pp. 35-39. [PDF, 37KB]

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

(1992) Roger T.Bell & Jack Lonergan: Cab computer-speak language: developing multilingual audio and visual communications systems for Transmanche trains. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.187-196. [PDF, 68KB]

(1992) John Newton: The Perkins experience. In: John Newton (ed.) Computers in translation: a practical appraisal (London: Routledge, 1992),; pp.33-57.

(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) Gert van der Steen & Bert-Jan Dijenborgh: Online correction and translation of industrial texts.  Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.135-164. [PDF, 217KB]

(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]

(1990) Andrew Evans & Dimitri Theologitis: Putting the VIM into AVIMA. Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 129-138. [PDF, 165KB]

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) Orie Fukutomi: Experiment report of a commercial machine translation in a manufacturing industry 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. 579-585 . [PDF, 166KB]

(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]

(1998) Santiago del Pino: Using translation memory software (TMS): an organisational checklist. Terminologie et Traduction, 1.1998; pp.132-139. [PDF, 37KB]

(1998) Kaarina Hyvönen & Harri Arnola: Kielikone MT takes user-friendliness seriously. Translating and the Computer 20. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference…12-13 November 1998 (London: Aslib, 1998); 14pp. [PDF, 108KB]

(1998) Steve McLaughlin & Ulrike Schwall: Horses for courses: changing user acceptance of machine translation. Translating and the Computer 20. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference…12-13 November 1998 (London: Aslib, 1998); 12pp. [PDF, 96KB]

(1997) F.Bruckert: Logos as an internet and intranet application. Translating and the Computer 19. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 13 & 14 November 1997 (London: Aslib, 1997); 20 slides. [PDF, 768KB]

(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) 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) 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]

(1996) Chris Pyne: Making a service out of MT. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 9pp. [PDF, 320KB]

(1996) Koichi Takeda: Pattern-based context-free grammars for machine translation. 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 24-27 June 1996, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA; pp. 144-176. [PDF, 769KB]

(1995) John Hatley: Some practical suggestions for implementing machine translation. Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 9pp. [PDF, 43KB]

(1995) Dirk Lueke: MT at SAP – a successful integration. Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 3pp. [PDF, 23KB]

(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]

(1995) Svetlana Sokolova: The tools for adapting the machine translation system to individual needs. Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 5pp. [PDF, 659KB]

(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) Chris Pyne: Integration into workflow – what makes MT work?  Translating and the Computer 16. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); pp.59-64. [PDF, 28KB]

(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) 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) 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]

(1991) Thomas Seal: Alpnet and TSS: the commercial realities of using a computer-based translation system.  Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.119-125. [PDF, 46KB]

(1991) François Secheresse: Systran: or the reality of machine translation. Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.113-118. [PDF, 35KB]

(1990) Gr.Thurmair: METAL: computer integrated translation. Proceedings of a Workshop on Machine Translation, 2-3 July 1990, UMIST, Manchester, ed.J.McNaught; 19pp. [PDF, 169KB]

Data elicitation

(1998) Sergei Nirenburg: Project Boas: “a linguist in the box” as a multi-purpose language resource. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.739-746. [PDF, 141KB]

Decipherment

(1999) Kevin Knight & Kenji Yamada: A computational approach to deciphering unknown scripts. ACL-1999 Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of the Workshop ed. Andrew Kehler and Andreas Stolcke, 21 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; pp.31-36. [PDF, 629KB]

Dictation

(1994) Helen McCready & Francoise Moreau-Johnson: Developments in voice and language technology.  Translating and the Computer 16. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); pp.33-36. [PDF, 61KB]

(1990) Brigitte Engelien: Language technology products in the European Market. Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 65-82. [PDF, 226KB]

Document management and organization

(1999) Jeffrey Allen: Adapting the concept of “translation memory” to “authoring memory” for a controlled language writing environment. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 13pp. [PDF, 123KB]

(1999) Dan Dube, Debbie Bucchianeri, & Karen O’Neil: Case study: document management and localization. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 10pp. [PDF, 206KB]

(1999) Klaus Schubert: Resource and workflow management support in teletranslation.  Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 13pp. [PDF, 84KB]

(1990) Gr.Thurmair: METAL: computer integrated translation. Proceedings of a Workshop on Machine Translation, 2-3 July 1990, UMIST, Manchester, ed.J.McNaught; 19pp. [PDF, 169KB]

(1990) Barry Wilson: GEPRO – a computerised system for controlling the production of translation in the European Parliament.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 143-148. [PDF, 27KB]

Drug enforcement

(1998) Thomas Schneider: Multilingual information processing: the AVENTINUS project. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.775-779. [PDF, 46KB]

(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]

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]

(1999) Ryuichi Sawada & Kyoji Umemura: Dynamic programming – a new paradigm for information retrieval. Proceedings of the First NTCIR Workshop on Research in Japanese Text retrieval and Term Recognition, August 30 – September 1, Tokyo, Japan; 6pp. [PDF, 387KB]

(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]

(1997) C.Tillmann, S.Vogel, H.Ney, & A.Zubiaga: A DP based search using monotone alignments in statistical translation. ACL-EACL-1997: 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Conference, 7-12 July 1997, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain; pp. 289-296. [PDF, 585KB]

(1996) Hiyan Alshawi: Head automata and bilingual tiling: translation with minimal representations. Invited talk at: 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 24-27 June 1996, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA; pp. 167-176. [PDF, 1031KB]

(1995) Mark W.Davis, Ted E.Dunning, & William C.Ogden: Text alignment in the real world: improving alignments of noisy translations using common lexical features, string matching strategies and n-gram comparisons. Seventh conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, March 27-31, 1995, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland; pp. 67-74. [PDF, 728KB]

(1994) Robert Frederking & Sergei Nirenburg: Three heads are better than one.  Fourth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 13-15 October 1994, Stuttgart, Germany;  pp.95-100. [PDF, 485KB]

(1994) Harris Papageorgiou, Lambros Cranias, & Stelios Piperidis: Automatic alignment in parallel corpora. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 27-30 June 1994, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA; pp.334-336. [PDF, 277KB]

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]

(1991) Thomas Seal: Alpnet and TSS: the commercial realities of using a computer-based translation system.  Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.119-125. [PDF, 46KB]

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]

Electronic mail

(1999) Junichi Matsuda & Hiroyuki Kumai: Transfer-based Japanese-Chinese translation implemented on an e-mail 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. 476-480. [PDF, 165KB]

(1997) Harold Somers, Bill Black, Joakim Nivre, Torbjörn Lager, Annarosa Multari, Luca Gilardoni, Jeremy Ellman, & Alex Rogers: Multilingual generation and summarization of job adverts: the TREE project.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.33-40. [PDF, 845KB]

(1992) Christoph Bouthillier: A professional bulletin board for translators, an on-line members database, a new structure for printed directories. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.127-133. [PDF, 46KB]

Embedded MT

(1999) Lisa Decrozant & Clare R.Voss: Dual use of linguistic resources: evaluation of MT systems and language learners. ACL-1999 Computer Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of a Symposium, 22 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; pp.32-38. [PDF, 483KB]

(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]

Employment

(1997) Harold Somers, Bill Black, Joakim Nivre, Torbjörn Lager, Annarosa Multari, Luca Gilardoni, Jeremy Ellman, & Alex Rogers: Multilingual generation and summarization of job adverts: the TREE project.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.33-40. [PDF, 845KB]

(1991) Harold L. Somers & Danny Jones: Machine translation seen as multilingual text generation.  Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.153-165. [PDF, 73KB]

Ergonomic aspects

(1990) Gunnela Westlander: The long-term effects of working with computers: the state of the art in the field of computer use and occupational health.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 115-128. [PDF, 155KB]

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]

(1997) Robert Frederking, Alexander Rudnicky, & Christopher Hogan: Interactive speech translation in the DIPLOMAT project.  Spoken Language Translation: proceedings of a workshop… ed. Steven Krauwer, Doug Arnold, Walter Kasper, Manny Rayner, Harold Somers, 11 July 1997, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain; pp.61-66. [PDF, 622KB]

(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]

Examples of MT output

(1999) Arendse Bernth: Controlling input and output of MT for greater user acceptance. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 10pp. [PDF, 93KB]

(1999) Terence Lewis: The best of both worlds – or will two mongrels ever make a pedigree. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 9pp. [PDF, 63KB]

(1998) John Beaven: MT: 10 years of development. Terminologie et Traduction, 1.1998; pp.242-256. [PDF, 56KB]

(1998) Kaarina Hyvönen & Harri Arnola: Kielikone MT takes user-friendliness seriously. Translating and the Computer 20. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference…12-13 November 1998 (London: Aslib, 1998); 14pp. [PDF, 108KB]

(1998) Rosemarie Sauer-Stipperger: SYSTRAN funnies. Terminologie et Traduction, 1.1998; pp.327-329. [PDF, 22KB]

 (1996) Harri Arnola, Kaarina Hyvönen, Jukka-Pekka Juntunen, Tim Linnanvirta, & Petteri Suoranta: Kielikone Finnish-English MT system TranSmart in practical use. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 17pp. [PDF, 200KB]

(1995) Terence Lewis: Can we make do with near human quality? Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 5pp. [PDF, 40KB]

(1992) Annette Grimaila & John Chandioux: Made to measure solutions. In: John Newton (ed.) Computers in translation: a practical appraisal (London: Routledge, 1992),; pp.33-45.

(1992) Muriel Vasconcellos & Dale A. Bostad: Machine translation in a high-volume translation environment. In: John Newton (ed.) Computers in translation: a practical appraisal (London: Routledge, 1992),; pp.58-77.

(1991) Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg, 3rd, & Jaime G. Carbonell: An efficient interlingua translation system for multi-lingual document production.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 55-61 [PDF, 380KB] [Revised reprint in: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 105-117]

File interchange and exchange

(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) Gerhard Budin, Alan K.Melby, Sue Ellen Wright, Deryle Lonsdale, & Arie Lommel: Integrating translation technologies using Salt. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 9pp. [PDF, 66KB]

(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]

(1995) Roger Harris: Translation, the Internet and standing still. Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 7pp. [PDF, 100KB]

(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]

(1992) Edward John Moore: Interchange of documents in electronic form utilising international standards. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); 12pp. [PDF, 40KB]

(1991) Alan K.Melby & Sue Ellen Wright: TEI-TERM: an SGML-based interchange format for terminology files. Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.19-37. [PDF, 104KB]

(1990) David Hickman: Online data exchange.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 57-59. [PDF, 17KB]

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]

(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]

(1996) Evelyne Viegas, Boyan Onyshkevich, Victor Raskin, & Sergei Nirenburg: From submit to submitted via submission: on lexical rules in large-scale lexicon acquisition. 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 24-27 June 1996, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA; pp. 32-39. [PDF, 762KB]

(1994) D.Farwell: Pangloss: a knowledge-based machine assisted translation research project – site 2. Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 8-11, 1994. (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1994); p.465. [PDF, 533KB]

(1994) Jonathan Yamron, James Cant, Anne Demedts, Taiko Dietzel, & Yoshiko Ito: The automatic component of the LINGSTAT machine-aided translation system. Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 8-11, 1994. (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1994); pp.163-168. [PDF, 921KB]

(1993) Y. Wilks: Pangloss: a knowledge-based machine assisted translation research project – site 2.  Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); p.406. [PDF, 99KB]

(1993) Jonathan Yamron & James Baker: LINGSTAT: an interactive, machine-aided translation system.  Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); p.393. [PDF, 99KB]

(1993) Jonathan Yamron, James Baker, Paul Bamberg, Haakon Chevalier, Taiko Dietzel, John Elder, Frank Kampmann, Mark Mandel, Linda Manganaro, Todd Margolis, & Elizabeth Steele: LINGSTAT: an interactive, machine-aided translation system.  Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); pp.191-195. [PDF, 426KB]

(1992) Sergei Nirenburg: The workstation substrate of the Pangloss project. International Workshop on Fundamental Research for the Future Generation of Natural Language Processing (FGNLP): Proceedings, 30-31 July 1992, Hotel Dominion, Manchester; Sofia Ananiadou, editor (Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST); pp.37-60. [PDF, 215KB]

(1992) Y. Wilks: Pangloss: a knowledge-based machine assisted translation research project – site 2.  Speech and Natural Language: proceedings of a workshop held at Harriman, New York, USA, February 23-26, 1992. (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1992); p. 480. [PDF, 540KB]

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) David Canter: The impact of enlargement on translation in Sweden: assessment and guesswork. Translating and the Computer 16. Paper presented … 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); 4pp. [PDF, 20KB]

(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]

Government intelligence and MT

(1999) Lisa Decrozant & Clare R.Voss: Dual use of linguistic resources: evaluation of MT systems and language learners. ACL-1999 Computer Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of a Symposium, 22 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; pp.32-38. [PDF, 483KB]

(1997) Multilingual NameTagTM  multilingual internet surveillance system, multimedia fusion system. Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Description of system demonstrations and videos, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.31-32. [PDF, 154KB]

Grammar checkers

(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]

(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 Language Technology

(1994) Helen McCready & Francoise Moreau-Johnson: Developments in voice and language technology.  Translating and the Computer 16. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); pp.33-36. [PDF, 61KB]

(1990) Brigitte Engelien: Language technology products in the European Market. Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 65-82. [PDF, 226KB]

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]

(1998) Dimitri Theologitis: …and the profession? The impact of new technology on the translator. Terminologie et Traduction, 1.1998; pp.342-351. [PDF, 48KB]

(1997) Shiho Ogino & 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]

(1994) Birte Prahl & Susanne Petzolt: Translation problems and translation strategies involved in human and machine translation: empirical studies. In: Christa Hauenschild & Susanne Heizmann (eds.) Machine translation and translation theory. [EAMT workshop, Hildesheim University, September 1994]. (Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 19970; pp.123-144.

(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]

(1992) Translators still in the loop. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.12, November-December 1992; pp.1-4. [PDF, 106KB]

(1991) see contributions to panel Where do translators fit into MT?.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 131-140 [PDF, 179KB] [Reprinted as ‘Translators and MT?’ in: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 253-266]

(1991) Lorna Balkan: Quality criteria for MT.  Proceedings of the Evaluators’ Forum, April 21st – 24th, 1991, Les Rasses, Vaud, Switzerland, ed. Kirsten Falkedal. (Geneva: ISSCO); pp. 73-84. [PDF, 129KB]

(1991) Deanna Hammond: MT, the Federal Government, and the role of translator associations [contribution to panel] International views on MT.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; p. 129 [Reprint in: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 209-210]

(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]

Implementation of MT see Customization and implementation

Industrialization of MT see Customization and implementation

Information extraction

(1999) Lars Ahrenberg, Magnus Merkel, Daniel Ridings, Anna Sågvall Hein & Jörg Tiedemann. Automatic processing of parallel corpora: A Swedish perspective. Linköping Electronic Articles in Computer and Information Science, vol. 4 (1999), nr: 2, December 1999. 45pp. [PDF, 3449KB]

(1998) Chikashi Nobata, Satoshi Sekine, & Roman Yangarber: Japanese IE system and customization tool. Tipster Text Program Phase III. Proceedings [of a workshop held] October 1998, sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; pp. 91-95. [PDF, 670KB]

(1998) Thomas Schneider: Multilingual information processing: the AVENTINUS project. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.775-779. [PDF, 46KB]

(1997)  Chinatsu Aone, Nicholas Charocopos, & James Gorlinsky: An intelligent multilingual information browsing and retrieval system using information extraction.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.332-339. [PDF, 1072KB]

(1997) Scott W. Bennett, Chinatsu Aone, & Craig Lovell: Learning to tag multilingual texts through observation. Second conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Proceedings ed. Claire Cardie and Ralph Weischedel, August 1-2, 1997, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; pp.109-116. [PDF, 827KB]

(1994) Chinatsu Aone, Hatte Blejer, Mary Ellen Okurowski & Carol Van Ess-Dykema: A hybrid approach to multilingual text processing: information extraction and machine translation. 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. 1-7 [PDF, 157KB]

(1993) P. Jacobs: Shogun – multilingual data extraction for TIPSTER.  Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); p.395. [PDF, 91KB]

(1993) Y. Wilks, J. Pustejovsky, & J. Cowie: Diderot: TIPSTER program, automatic data extraction from text utilizing semantic analysis.  Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); p.405. [PDF, 97KB]

(1993) Jonathan Yamron, James Baker, Paul Bamberg, Haakon Chevalier, Taiko Dietzel, John Elder, Frank Kampmann, Mark Mandel, Linda Manganaro, Todd Margolis, & Elizabeth Steele: LINGSTAT: an interactive, machine-aided translation system.  Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); pp.191-195. [PDF, 426KB]

(1992) Y. Wilks, J. Pustejovsky, & J. Cowie: Diderot: TIPSTER program, automatic data extraction from text utilizing semantic analysis.  Speech and Natural Language: proceedings of a workshop held at Harriman, New York, USA, February 23-26, 1992. (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1992); p. 479. [PDF, 541KB]

(1992) Lynn Carlson: Semi-automated evaluation of Japanese and English output. In session on Evaluation of related NLP research at: MT evaluation: basis for future directions. Proceedings of a workshop..., 2-3 November 1992, San Diego, California; pp. 31-33 [PDF, 123KB]

(1992) Craig A. Will & Boyan Onyshkevych: Measurement of human performance for information extraction. In session on Evaluation of related NLP research at: MT evaluation: basis for future directions. Proceedings of a workshop..., 2-3 November 1992, San Diego, California; pp. 34-36 [PDF, 123KB]

(1991) Steven Weinstein: [contribution to panel] Applications of MT technology.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 151-152

(1991) Yorick Wilks: [contribution to panel] Applications of MT technology.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 152-153

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

(1999) Proceedings of the First NTCIR Workshop on Research in Japanese Text retrieval and Term Recognition, August 30 – September 1, Tokyo, Japan

(1999) Janet Carter-Sigglow: The Internet and the single translator. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 13pp. [PDF, 53KB]

 (1999) Hsin-Hsi Chen, Guo-Wei Bian, & Wen-Cheng Lin: Resolving translation ambiguity and target polysemy in cross-language information retrieval. ACL-1999: 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 20-26 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; pp.215-222. [PDF, 1025KB]

(1999) Krzysztof Czuba & Xin Liu: Experiments in translingual information retrieval using web-based MT and WordNet.  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. 174-184 [PDF, 637KB]

(1999) Atsushi Fujii & Tetsuya Ishikawa: Cross-language information retrieval for technical documents. Joint SIGDAT conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora. Proceedings ed. Pascale Fung and Joe Zhou, 21-22 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; pp.29-37. [PDF, 744KB]

(1999) Yoshihiko Hayashi, Genichiro Kikui, & Toshiaki Iwadera: A scalable cross-language metasearch architecture for multilingual information access on the web.  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.157-164. [PDF, 221KB]

(1999) Myung-Gil Jang, Sung Hyon Myaeng, & Se Young Park: Using mutual information to resolve query translation ambiguities and query term weighting. ACL-1999: 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 20-26 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; pp.223-229. [PDF, 547KB]

(1999) Derek Lewis: [review of] Gregory Grefenstette (ed) Cross-language information retrieval (Kluwer, 1998). In: Machine Translation Review, issue 10: October 1999; pp.26-27. [PDF]

(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]

(1999) J.Scott McCarley: Should we translate the documents or the queries in cross-language information retrieval? ACL-1999: 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 20-26 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; pp.208-214. [PDF, 609KB]

(1999) Sung Hyon Myaeng, & Myung-Gil Jang: Complementing dictionary-based query translations with corpus statistics for cross-language IR. 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.165-171. [PDF, 198KB]

(1999) Piek Vossen, Wim Peters, & Julio Gonzalo: Towards a universal index of meaning.  SIGLEX99: Standardizing Lexical Resources. Proceedings of a workshop sponsored by the [ACL] Special Interest Group on the Lexicon, June 21, 22, 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; pp.81-90. [PDF, 896KB]

(1999) Vilas Wuwongse: Applications using multilinguality: IR, summarization and generalization.  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.155-156. [PDF, 112KB]

(1998) Guo-Wei Bian & Hsin-Hsi Chen: Integrating query translation and document translation in a cross-language information retrieval system. 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.250-265. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Hsin-Hsi Chen, Sheng-Jie Huang, Yung-Wei Ding, & Shih-Chung Tsai: Proper name translation in cross-language information retrieval. 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. 232-236. [PDF, 423KB]

(1998) Nigel Collier, Hideki Hirakawa, & Akira Kumano: Machine translation vs dictionary term translation – a comparison for English-Japanese news article alignment. 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. 263-267. [PDF, 480KB]

(1998) Nigel Collier, Kenji Ono, & Hideki Hirakawa: An experiment in hybrid dictionary and statistical sentence alignment. 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. 268-274. [PDF, 559KB]

(1998) Nathalie Côté: System description/demo of Alis Translation Solutions application: multilingual search and query expansion. 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.522-525. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Bonnie Dorr & Maria Katsova: Lexical selection for cross-language applications: combining LCS with WordNet. 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.438-447. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Bonnie J.Dorr & Douglas W.Oard: Evaluating resources for query translation in cross-language information retrieval. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.759-764. [PDF, 288KB]

(1998) Gregory Grefenstette: Evaluating the adequacy of a multilingual transfer dictionary for the cross language information retrieval. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.755-758. [PDF, 42KB]

(1998) Gregory Grefenstette: Problems and techniques of cross language information retrieval. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.523-524. [PDF, 27KB]

(1998) Donna Harman: The Text REtrieval Conferences (TRECs) and the cross-language track. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.517-522. [PDF, 52KB]

(1998) Kui-Lam Kwok: Improving English and Chinese ad-hoc retrieval: TIPSTER text phase 3 final report. Tipster Text Program Phase III. Proceedings [of a workshop held] October 1998, sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; pp. 129-137. [PDF, 1269KB]

(1998) J.Scott McCarley & Salim Roukos: Fast document translation for cross-language information retrieval. 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.150-157. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Jian-Yun Nie, Pierre Isabelle, Pierre Plamondon, & George Foster: Using a probabilistic translation model for cross-language information retrieval. Coling-ACL’98: Sixth workshop on Very Large Corpora. Proceedings ed. Eugene Charniak, 15th-16th August 1998, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; pp.18-27. [PDF, 862KB]

(1998) Douglas W. Oard: A comparative study of query and document translation for cross-language information retrieval. 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.472-483. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Eugenio Picchi & Carol Peters: Exploiting lexical resources and linguistic tools in cross-language information retrieval: the EuroSearch approach. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.865-872. [PDF, 95KB]

(1998) Tim Read & Elena Barcena: JaBot: a multilingual Java-based intelligent agent for Web sites. 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. 1086-1090. [PDF, 455KB]

(1998) Bärbel Ripplinger: EMIS: A multilingual information system. 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.506-509. [go to publisher details]

(1997)  Chinatsu Aone, Nicholas Charocopos, & James Gorlinsky: An intelligent multilingual information browsing and retrieval system using information extraction.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.332-339. [PDF, 1072KB]

(1997) Denis A.Gachot: InfoRaptor – SYSTRAN’s multilingual data retrieval system.  MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future.  Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 267-268 [PDF, 67KB]

(1996) Mark Davis: Advances in  multilingual text retrieval. Tipster Text Program Phase II. Proceedings of a workshop held at Vienna, Virginia, May 6-8, 1996, sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; pp. 185-194. [PDF, 1332KB]

(1996) Anthony F. Gallippi: Learning to recognize names across languages. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 424-429. [PDF, 650KB]

(1996) Peggy Otsubo: SPOT: TRW’s multi-lingual text search tool. Tipster Text Program Phase II. Proceedings of a workshop held at Vienna, Virginia, May 6-8, 1996, sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; pp. 57-58. [PDF, 599KB]

(1996) Michelle Vanni & Rémi Zajac: The Temple translator’s workstation project. Tipster Text Program Phase II. Proceedings of a workshop held at Vienna, Virginia, May 6-8, 1996, sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; pp. 101-106. [PDF, 1056KB]

(1995) Gr. Thurmair: Multilingual information processing. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 11pp. [PDF, 197KB]

(1993) Chinatsu Aone, Hatte Blejer, Sharon Flank, Douglas McKee, & Sandy Shinn: The Murasaki project: multilingual natural language understanding. Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); pp. 144-149. [PDF, 487KB]

(1991) HICATS/JE for RPI’s JIRS. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.4, July-August 1991; pp.6-7. [PDF, 91KB]

Information services [see also Translation services]

(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]

(1999) Jörg Schütz: Deploying the SAE J2450 translation quality metric in language technology evaluation projects. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 10pp. [PDF, 69KB]

(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]

Internationalization see Localization

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

(1999) Janet Carter-Sigglow: The Internet and the single translator. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 13pp. [PDF, 53KB]

(1999) Aarno Lehtola, Jarno Tenni, Catherine Bounsaythip, & Kristiina Jaaranen: WEBTRAN: a controlled language machine translation system for building multilingual services on Internet. 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. 487-495. [PDF, 361KB]

(1999) Keisuke Nakayama & Akira Kumano: Collection of dictionary data through internet translation service. 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. 586-592. [PDF, 261KB]

(1999) Toru Nishigaki: What can MT do for multilingualism on the Net? 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. 15-20. [PDF, 147KB]

(1999) Stuart Sklair: Multilingual component management: trends and implications for translation.  Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 10pp. [PDF, 111KB]

(1999) Hiroshi Uchida, Meiying Zhu, & Tarcisio Della Senta: A gift for a millennium. Tokyo: United Nations University: Institute of Advanced Studies. [Geneva: UNDL Foundation]

(1998) Steve McLaughlin & Ulrike Schwall: Spicing up the information soup: machine translation and the Internet. 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.384-397. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Tricia Roth, Sharon Gillenwater, & Tina Duong: Business-to-business model for an integrated Internet strategy: using the web for content development and delivery as  practical solution for multilingual communications. Paper submitted to Translating and the Computer 20. November 1998; 8pp. [PDF, 108KB]

(1997) F.Bruckert: Logos as an internet and intranet application. Translating and the Computer 19. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 13 & 14 November 1997 (London: Aslib, 1997); 20 slides. [PDF, 768KB]

(1996) Joachim Meyer: Translation and the Internet: a sample application based on the Logos MT system. In: EAMT Workshop, Vienna, 29-30 August 1996. [PDF]

(1996) Lyn Robinson: The Internet – myth and reality. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 12pp. [PDF, 142KB]

(1995) Anna Cordon: The translator in the communications web.  Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 6pp. [PDF, 396KB]

(1995) Roger Harris: Translation, the Internet and standing still. Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 7pp. [PDF, 100KB]

(1994) Minako O’Hagan: Translating in cyberspace: the coming industry of teletranslation. Translating and the Computer 16. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); pp.89-98. [PDF, 44KB]

(1994) Jörg Schütz & Bärbel Ripplinger: Towards text-based machine translation. 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. 185-192 [PDF, 149KB]

(1993) Gerhard Obenaus: The Internet – an electronic treasure trove.  Machine Translation Today: Translating and the Computer 15. Papers presented at a conference… 18-19 November 1993, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1993); pp.99-110. [PDF, 50KB]

(1992) Christoph Bouthillier: A professional bulletin board for translators, an on-line members database, a new structure for printed directories. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.127-133. [PDF, 46KB]

Language teaching and learning

(1999) Liang Chen & Naoyuki Tokuda: A new diagnostic system for J-E translation ILTS by global matching algorithm and POST parser.  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. 608-616. [PDF, 222KB]

(1999) Lisa Decrozant & Clare R.Voss: Dual use of linguistic resources: evaluation of MT systems and language learners. ACL-1999 Computer Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of a Symposium, 22 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; pp.32-38. [PDF, 483KB]

(1999) Masaru Fuji: Evaluation experiment for reading comprehension of machine translation outputs. 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. 285-289. [PDF, 140KB]

(1998) Chadia Moghrabi & Christian Boitet: Using GETA’s MT/NLP resources in an intelligent tutoring system for French. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.1235-1238. [PDF, 48KB]

(1997) Bonnie J. Dorr: Large-scale acquisition of LCS-based lexicons for foreign language tutoring. Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.139-146. [PDF, 776KB]

(1997) John Nerbonne, Lauri Karttunen, Elena Paskaleva, Gabor Proszeky, & Tiit Roosmaa: Reading more into foreign languages.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.135-138. [PDF, 622KB]

(1996) R.Mitkov, J.Higgins-Cezza & O.Fukutomi: Towards a more efficient use of PC-based machine translation in education.  Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 7pp. [PDF, 49KB]

(1993) Masaru Tomita, Masako Shirai, Junya Tsutsumi, Miki Matsumura & Yuki Yoshikawa: Evaluation of MT systems by TOEFL. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 252- 265. [PDF, 253KB]

(1992) Masaru Tomita: Application of the TOEFL test to the evaluation of English-Japanese MT [abstract]. In: MT evaluation: basis for future directions. Proceedings of a workshop..., 2-3 November 1992, San Diego, California; p. 59 [PDF, 115KB]

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

(1991) Lori Levin: [contribution to panel] Applications of MT technology.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 149-151

(1991) Yorick Wilks: [contribution to panel] Applications of MT technology.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 152-153

Legal aspects

(1996) Edith Westfall: Legal implications of MT on-line. Contribution to panel What can we learn from users? at the Second Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2-5 October 1996, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Washington, DC: AMTA); pp.231-232 [PDF, 105KB]

Legal texts

(1998) Bärbel Ripplinger: EMIS: A multilingual information system. 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.506-509. [go to publisher details]

(1994) Stelios Piperidis: Interactive corpus-based translation drafting tool (Translearn).  Translating and the Computer 16. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); pp.37-50. [PDF, 148KB]

Localization

(1999) Michael Anobile: Translation technology applications to the localization industry.  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. 55-62. [PDF from PPT, 336KB]

(1999) Dan Dube, Debbie Bucchianeri, & Karen O’Neil: Case study: document management and localization. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 10pp. [PDF, 206KB]

(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) David Stevens: The language of change: a discussion of the emerging market for global translation and localization. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 5pp. [PDF, 24KB]

(1998) Reinhard Schäler: Localisation is good for you: the Localisation Resources Centre as an example for the successful co-operation between industrial users and academic researchers. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.1239-1244. [PDF, 85KB]

(1997) Martyn Brougham: Publishing product information in a global market place. Translating and the Computer 19. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 13 & 14 November 1997 (London: Aslib, 1997); 8 slides. [PDF, 156KB]

(1997) Per N.Dohler: Facets of software localization: a translator’s view. Translation Journal 1 (1), July 1997; 17pp. [PDF, 141KB]

(1997) Tim O'Donoghue: Localizing Canon's user documentation in Europe EAMT Workshop "Language technology in your organization?", May 21 - 22, 1997, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.56-64. [PDF, 165KB]

(1996 Orlagh Neary: Automate, emigrate or evaporate! Corel and translation automation.  Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 4pp. [PDF, 31KB]

(1996) Reinhard Schäler: Machine translation, translation memories and the phrasal lexicon: the localisation perspective. In: EAMT Workshop, Vienna, 29-30 August 1996. [PDF]

(1994) David Kumhyr, Carla Merrill, & Karin Spalink: Internationalization and translatability. 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. 142-148. [PDF,119KB]

(1994) Reinhard Schäler: A practical evaluation of an integrated translation tool during a large scale localisation project.  Fourth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 13-15 October 1994, Stuttgart, Germany;  pp.192-193. [PDF, 197KB]

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

(1994) LISA: back for more. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.21, May-June 1994; p.7. [PDF, 92KB]

(1994) A moving target. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.23, September-October 1994; pp.8-9. [PDF, 80KB]

(1994) A novel approach to localization. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.19, January-February 1994; pp.12-13. [PDF, 87KB]

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

(1994) XL8 becomes a family. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.20, March-April 1994; pp.7-8. [PDF, 103KB]

(1993) E.A.Karkaletsis, C.D.Spyropoulos, & G.Vouros: The use of terminological knowledge bases in software localisation. In: Machine translation and the lexicon: Third international EAMT workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, April 26-28 1993, Proceedings (Berlin: Springer, 1995); pp.174-188. [abstract]

(1993) A hot date with LISA. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.15, May-June 1993; p.8. [PDF, 91KB]

(1993) TM/2: tip of the iceberg? Language Industry Monitor, issue no.15, May-June 1993; pp.1-5. [PDF, 100KB]

(1992) Flemming Svanholm: “The happy triad” – the human, the MAT, and the MT. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.15-24. [PDF, 164KB]

(1992) Gert van der Steen & Bert-Jan Dijenborgh: Online correction and translation of industrial texts.  Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.135-164. [PDF, 217KB]

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

(1992) XL8: IDOC’s localization package. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.12, November-December 1992; p.11. [PDF, 106KB]

(1991) Graham Bason: Software localisation: a case history. Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.71-77. [PDF, 39KB]

Machine aids for translators see Translation tools and aids for translators

Machinery

(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]

Marketing, sales and product support texts see Business texts

Market surveys

(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]

(1999) David Stevens: The language of change: a discussion of the emerging market for global translation and localization. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 5pp. [PDF, 24KB]

(1998) Yuko Shimamoto: The MT marketplace in the Asia-Pacific region. In: MT News International no. 21, February 1999. [PDF]

(1998) Colin Brace: The MT market – a European perspective. In: MT News International no. 20, October 1998. [PDF]

(1998) L. Chris Miller: The MT market – a view from the Americas. In: MT News International no. 20, October 1998. [PDF]

(1992) Tony Whitecomb: Did Ovum get it right? Language Industry Monitor, issue no.8, March-April 1992; p.10. [PDF, 89KB]

(1992) Brigitte Engelien: A reply from Ovum. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.10, July-August 1992; p.10. [PDF, 87KB]

(1991) A new MT report – they keep on coming. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.1, January-February 1991; p.3. [PDF, 78KB]

(1990) Brigitte Engelien: Language technology products in the European Market. Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 65-82. [PDF, 226KB]

(1990) W.John Hutchins: Out of the shadows: a retrospect of machine translation in the eighties. Terminologie et Traduction, 3.1990; pp. 275-292. [PDF, 83KB]

Mathematics texts

(1994) Miguel Filgueiras: A successful case of computer aided translation.  Fourth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 13-15 October 1994, Stuttgart, Germany;  pp.91-94. [PDF, 296KB]

Medical texts

(1999) Hemant Darbari: Computer-assisted translation system – an Indian perspective.  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.80-85. [PDF, 132KB]

(1996) G.Deville, E.Herbigniaux, P.Mousel, G.Thienpont & M.Wéry: System demonstration: ANTHEM:advanced natural language interface for multilingual text generation in healthcare (LRE 62-007). 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.240-243 [PDF, 86KB]

(1995) Mark W.Davis, Ted E.Dunning, & William C.Ogden: Text alignment in the real world: improving alignments of noisy translations using common lexical features, string matching strategies and n-gram comparisons. Seventh conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, March 27-31, 1995, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland; pp. 67-74. [PDF, 728KB]

(1995) Guy Deville & Emmanuel Herbignaux: Natural language modeling in a machine translation prototype for healthcare applications: a sublanguage approach. 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.142-157. [PDF, 241KB]

(1993) Chinatsu Aone, Hatte Blejer, Sharon Flank, Douglas McKee, & Sandy Shinn: The Murasaki project: multilingual natural language understanding. Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); pp. 144-149. [PDF, 487KB]

Meteorological reports

(1998) José Coch: Interactive generation and knowledge administration in Multimeteo. Ninth International workshop on Natural Language Generation,  Proceedings, 5-7 August 1998, Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada; pp. 198-207. [PDF, 346KB]

(1998) Tianfang Yao, Dongmo Zhang, & Qian Wang: Multilingual weather forecast generation system. Ninth International workshop on Natural Language Generation,  Proceedings, 5-7 August 1998, Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada; pp. 296-299. [PDF, 348KB]

(1996) John Chandioux & Annette Grimaila: "Specialized" machine translation. 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.206-211 [PDF, 104KB]

(1994) Richard Kittredge, Eli Goldberg, Myunghee Kim, & Alain Polguère: Sublanguage engineering in the FoG system. Fourth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 13-15 October 1994, Stuttgart, Germany;  pp.215-216. [PDF, 210KB]

(1992) Pierrette Bouillon, Katharina Boesefeldt, & Graham Russell: Compound nouns in a unification-based MT system.  Third conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1992, Trento, Italy;  pp.209-215. [PDF, 630KB]

(1992) Annette Grimaila & John Chandioux: Made to measure solutions. In: John Newton (ed.) Computers in translation: a practical appraisal (London: Routledge, 1992),; pp.33-45.

(1992) Bengt Sigurd, Caroline Willners, Mats Eeg-Olofsson, & Christer Johansson: Deep comprehension, generation and translation of weather forecasts (Weathra). Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 749-755. [PDF, 341KB]

(1991) John Chandioux: Meteo: Environment Canada [contribution to panel] The MT user experience.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; p. 123

(1990) L. Bourbeau, D.Carcagno, E.Goldberg, R.Kittredge, & A.Polguère: Bilingual generation of weather forecasts in an operations environment.  Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.3, pp. 318-320. [PDF, 296KB]

(1990) Stephan Kerpedjiev & Veska Noncheva: Intelligent handling of weather forecasts. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.3, pp. 379-381. [PDF, 354KB]

Microcomputers

(1993) Roger Bennett: Terminology and the computer – attention shifts to the micro. Machine Translation Today: Translating and the Computer 15. Papers presented at a conference… 18-19 November 1993, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1993); pp.59-81. [PDF, 96KB]

Military texts

(1999) Robert Frederking, Christopher Hogan, & Alexander Rudnicky: A new approach to the translating telephone.  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. 556-563. [PDF, 175KB]

(1996) Clifford Weinstein, Dinesh Tummala, Young-Suk Lee, & Stephanie Seneff: Automatic English-to-Korean text translation of telegraphic messages in a limited domain. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 705-710. [PDF, 697 KB]

(1995) Hyun S.Park: Mapping scrambled Korean sentences into English using synchronous TAGs. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 26-30 June 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.317-319 . [PDF, 267KB]

Modularity (see also Customization and implementation)

(1998) Stephen Beale, Sergei Nirenburg, Evelyne Viegas, & Leo Wanner: De-constraining text generation. Ninth International workshop on Natural Language Generation,  Proceedings, 5-7 August 1998, Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada; pp. 48-57. [PDF, 788KB]

(1998) Monika Woszczyna, Matthew Broadhead, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavaldá, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, & Alex Waibel: A modular approach to spoken language translation for large domains. 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.31-40. [go to publisher details]

(1996) Patricia Schmid & Claudia Gdaniec: Evolution of the Logos grammar: system design and development methodology. 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.86-95 [PDF, 169KB]

(1992) J.-J.Pérot: Eurolang project (European languages).  Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.103-106. [PDF, 30KB]

 (1991) Hiyan Alshawi, David Carter, Manny Rayner, & Björn Gambäck: Translation by quasi logical form transfer. 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 18-21 June 1991, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; pp.161-168. [PDF, 669KB]

(1990) Ami Segal: Machine translation of natural languages: the TOVNA MTS solution: a learning system.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 83-109. [PDF, 310KB]

Monolingual use

 (1998) Guy Bashkansky & Uzzi Ornan: Monolingual translator workstation. 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.136-149. [go to publisher details]

(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]

(1992) Harold Somers: Interactive multilingual text generation for a monolingual user Fourth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-92), Empiricist vs. rationalist methods in MT, June 25-27, 1992, Montreal, CCRIT-CWARC; pp.151-161. [PDF, 148KB]

(1991) Harold L. Somers & Danny Jones: Machine translation seen as multilingual text generation.  Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.153-165. [PDF, 73KB]

(1990) Xiuming Huang: A machine translation system for the target language inexpert. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.3, pp. 364-367. [PDF, 359KB]

(1990) Xiuming Huang: Machine translation in a monolingual environment. Third international conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Language, 11-13 June 1990, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas; pp.33-41. [PDF, 152KB]

(1990) D.Jones: Guranteed high quality translation for monolinguals. Proceedings of a Workshop on Machine Translation, 2-3 July 1990, UMIST, Manchester, ed.J.McNaught; 6pp. [PDF, 44KB]; [abstract in Rapportage]

(1990) D. Jones & J.Tsujii: Interactive high-quality translation for monolinguals. Third international conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Language, 11-13 June 1990, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas; pp.43-46. [PDF, 115KB]

(1990) Harold L.Somers, Jun-ichi Tsujii, & Danny Jones: Machine translation without a source text. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.3, pp. 271-276. [PDF, 611KB]

Multilingual communication

(1998) Thomas Schneider: Multilingual information processing: the AVENTINUS project. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.775-779. [PDF, 46KB]

Multimodal (and multimedia) applications

(1999) Shoji Mizobuchi, Sankon Lee, Fumihiko Kawano, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, & Takahiro Komatsu: Multi-lingual multi-media information retrieval system. Proceedings of the First NTCIR Workshop on Research in Japanese Text retrieval and Term Recognition, August 30 – September 1, Tokyo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 174KB]

(1997) Multilingual NameTagTM  multilingual internet surveillance system, multimedia fusion system. Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Description of system demonstrations and videos, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.31-32. [PDF, 154KB]

(1995) Tsuyoshi Morimoto: Issues in multimodal telecommunications. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 1p. [abstract only] [PDF, 81KB]

(1994) Tony Veale & Alan Conway: Cross modal comprehension in ZARDOZ, an English to sign-language translation system. Seventh international workshop on Natural Language Generation, Proceedings, June 21-24, 1994, Nonantun Inn, Kennebunkport, Maine; pp. 249-252. [PDF, 453KB]

(1993) Jörg M.Haake & Christine M.Neuwirth: Collaborative authoring of hypermedia documents.  Machine Translation Today: Translating and the Computer 15. Papers presented at a conference… 18-19 November 1993, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1993); pp.41-58. [PDF, 127KB]

(1993) Ch. Boitet: Practical speech translation systems will integrate human expertise, multimodal communication, and interactive disambiguation MT Summit IV: International Cooperation for Global Communication. Proceedings, July 20-22, 1993, Kobe, Japan; pp.173-176 [PDF, 141KB]

(1990) Kent Taylor: Multimedia/Multilanguage publishing for the 1990s.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp.  159-171. [PDF, 78KB]

News texts

(1999) Jim Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, & Sergei Nirenburg: Using a target language model for domain independent lexical disambiguation. 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. 412-416. [PDF, 163KB]

(1999) Hemant Darbari: Computer-assisted translation system – an Indian perspective.  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.80-85. [PDF, 132KB]

(1999) Barbara Gawronska, Jaana Anttila & Dan-Ivar Jacobsson: Mental spaces, space builders and bilingual summarization of news reports. 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. 1-10 [PDF, 210KB]

(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]

(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]

(1999) Takehiko Yoshimi & Ichiko Sata: Improvement of translation quality of English newspaper headlines by automatic preediting. 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. 496-500. [PDF, 142KB]

(1998) Susan Armstrong, Masja Kempen, David McKelvie, Dominique Petitpierre, Reinhard Rapp, & Henry S.Thompson: Multilingual corpora for cooperation. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.975-980. [PDF, 70KB]

 (1998) Nigel Collier, Hideki Hirakawa, & Akira Kumano: Machine translation vs dictionary term translation – a comparison for English-Japanese news article alignment. 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. 263-267. [PDF, 480KB]

(1998) Pascale Fung & Lo Yuen Yee: An IR approach for translating new words from nonparallel, comparable 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. 414-420. [PDF, 599KB]

(1997) Multilingual NameTagTM  multilingual internet surveillance system, multimedia fusion system. Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Description of system demonstrations and videos, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.31-32. [PDF, 154KB]

(1996) Don D.Anderson: The multilingual entity task: a descriptive analysis of ENAMEX in Spanish. Tipster Text Program Phase II. Proceedings of a workshop held at Vienna, Virginia, May 6-8, 1996, sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; pp. 457-459. [PDF, 657KB]

(1996) Kenji Yamada: A controlled skip parser 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.14-23 [PDF, 155KB]

(1994) D.Farwell: Pangloss: a knowledge-based machine assisted translation research project – site 2. Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 8-11, 1994. (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1994); p.465. [PDF, 533KB]

(1994) Satoru Ikehara, Satoshi Shirai, Akio Yokoo, Francis Bond, & Yoshie Omi: Automatic acquisition of semantic attributes for user defined words in Japanese to English machine translation.  Fourth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 13-15 October 1994, Stuttgart, Germany;  pp.184-85. [PDF, 210KB]

(1994) Naoto Katoh & Teruaki Aizawa: Machine translation of sentences with fixed expressions. Fourth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 13-15 October 1994, Stuttgart, Germany;  pp.28-33. [PDF, 526KB]

(1994) Hideki Tanaka: Verbal case frame acquisition from a bilingual corpus: gradual knowledge acquisition. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 727-731. [PDF, 391KB]

(1994) Jonathan Yamron, James Cant, Anne Demedts, Taiko Dietzel, & Yoshiko Ito: The automatic component of the LINGSTAT machine-aided translation system. Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 8-11, 1994. (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1994); pp.163-168. [PDF, 921KB]

(1993) Chinatsu Aone, Hatte Blejer, Sharon Flank, Douglas McKee, & Sandy Shinn: The Murasaki project: multilingual natural language understanding. Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); pp. 144-149. [PDF, 487KB]

(1993) Hiroshi Maruyama, Shiho Ogino & Masaru Hidano: The mega-word tagged-corpus project. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 15-23. [PDF, 196KB]

(1993) Satoshi Shirai, Satoru Ikehara & Tsukasa Kawaoka: Effects of automatic rewriting of source language within a Japanese to English MT system. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 226-239. [PDF, 664KB]

(1993) Y. Wilks: Pangloss: a knowledge-based machine assisted translation research project – site 2.  Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); p.406. [PDF, 99KB]

(1993) NHK. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.17, September-October 1993; p.13. [PDF, 77KB]

(1992) Hiromi Nakaiwa & Satoru Ikehara: Zero pronoun resolution in a Japanese to English machine translation system using verbal semantic attributes.  Third conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1992, Trento, Italy;  pp.201-208. [PDF, 802KB]

(1992) Hideki Tanaka, Teruaki Aizawa, Yeun-Bae Kim, & Nobuko Hatada: A method of translating English delexical structures into Japanese. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 567-573. [PDF, 471KB]

(1992) Y. Wilks: Pangloss: a knowledge-based machine assisted translation research project – site 2.  Speech and Natural Language: proceedings of a workshop held at Harriman, New York, USA, February 23-26, 1992. (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1992); p. 480. [PDF, 540KB]

(1990) Teruaki Aizawa, Terumasa Ehara, Noriyoshi Uratani, Hideki Tanaka, Naoto Kato, Sumio Nakase, Norikazu Aruga, & Takeo Matsuda: A machine translation system for foreign news in satellite broadcasting. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.3, pp. 308-310. [PDF, 296KB]

Office automation

(1995) Key-Sun Choi: Machine translation and office automation. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 1p.[abstract only] [PDF, 73KB]

(1990) Brigitte Engelien: Language technology products in the European Market. Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 65-82. [PDF, 226KB]

(1990) Gunnela Westlander: The long-term effects of working with computers: the state of the art in the field of computer use and occupational health.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 115-128. [PDF, 155KB]

Official documents

(1998) Joseba Abaitua, Arantza Casillas, & Raquel Martínez: Value added tagging for multilingual resource management. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.1003-1007. [PDF, 64KB]

(1998) Susan Armstrong, Masja Kempen, David McKelvie, Dominique Petitpierre, Reinhard Rapp, & Henry S.Thompson: Multilingual corpora for cooperation. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.975-980. [PDF, 70KB]

Olympic games

(1996) John Chandioux & Annette Grimaila: "Specialized" machine translation. 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.206-211 [PDF, 104KB]

Online MT

(1999) Elke D.Lange & Jin Yang: Automatic domain recognition for 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. 641-645. [PDF, 171KB]

(1998) Guo-Wei Bian & Hsin-Hsi Chen: Integrating query translation and document translation in a cross-language information retrieval system. 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.250-265. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Stephen Budiansky: Lost in translation. Atlantic Monthly, vol.282, no.6, December 1998, pp.80-84. [PDF, 124KB]

(1998) Fred Klein: Machine translation – a new dimension and what you can expect. TC-Forum, 2-98, July 1998. [PDF, 98KB]

(1998) Jin Yang & Elke D. Lange: SYSTRAN on AltaVista: a user study on real-time machine translation on the Internet. 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.275-285. [go to publisher details]

(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]

(1997) Mary Flanagan: Online translation: MT’s new frontier [abstract]. Translating and the Computer 19. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 13 & 14 November 1997 (London: Aslib, 1997); 1pp. [PDF, 11KB]

(1996) Mary Flanagan: Two years online: experiences, challenges and trends. 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.192-197 [PDF, 86KB]

(1996) Mary Flanagan: System demonstration: Online MT at Compuserve. 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.244-246 [PDF, 69KB]

(1996) MT online: the future is now! Panel at the Second Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2-5 October 1996, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Washington, DC: AMTA); pp.220-223 [PDF, 97KB]

(1996) Edith Westfall: Legal implications of MT on-line. Contribution to panel 'What can we learn from users?' at the Second Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2-5 October 1996, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Washington, DC: AMTA); pp.231-232 [PDF, 105KB]

(1995) Mary Flanagan: MT in the online environment: challenges and opportunities. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 6pp. [PDF, 90KB]

(1995) CompuServe likes online MT. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.25, January-February 1995; pp.7-8. [PDF, 83KB]

(1994) Mary Flanagan: CompuServe MT service goes live. MT News International no.9, September 1994.

(1994) Mary Flanagan & Philip Jensen: Machine translation on CompuServe forums. 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); p.228 [PDF, 46KB]

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

(1992) CompuServe looking at MT. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.11, Sept-Oct 1992; p.4. [PDF, 70KB]

Optical character recognition

(1999) Feng-Long Hwang & Ming-Shing Yu: Resolving category ambiguity of non-text symbols in Mandarin text. 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. 633-640. [PDF, 342KB]

(1999) Yasuhiko Watanabe, Yoshihiro Okada, Yeun-Bae Kim, & Tetsuya Takeda: Translation camera. 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. 601-607. [PDF, 232KB]

(1990) Peter Laurie: Optical charcter recognition.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 45-47. [PDF, 19KB]

Organizations and associations (see also Collaboration)

(1996) Geoffrey  Kingscott: The European translation platform. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 7pp. [PDF, 89KB]

Parallel processing

(1999) Yiping Li, Chimu Pun, & Fei Wu: Portuguese-Chinese machine translation in Macao. 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. 236-243. [PDF, 236KB]

(1995) Eiichiro Sumita & Hitoshi Iida: Heterogeneous computing for example-based translation of spoken language. 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.273-286. [PDF, 224KB]

(1994) Kozo Oi, Eiichiro Sumita, Osamu Furuse, Hitoshi Iida, & Tetsuya Higuchi: Real-time spoken language translation using associative processors.  Fourth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 13-15 October 1994, Stuttgart, Germany;  pp.196-197. [PDF, 602KB]

(1993) Patrick Saint-Dizier: A producer-consumer schema for machine translation within the PROLEXICA project. In: Building lexicons for machine translation: papers from the 1993 AAAI Spring Symposium, March 23-25, Stanford, California. (Technical report SS-93-02; Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press, 1993); pp.108-119.

(1992) Hiroaki Kitano: Utility of massively parallel computing platform in natural language processing . International Workshop on Fundamental Research for the Future Generation of Natural Language Processing (FGNLP): Proceedings, 30-31 July 1992, Hotel Dominion, Manchester; Sofia Ananiadou, editor (Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST); pp.22-36. [PDF, 161KB]

 (1991) Hiroaki Kitano, Dan Moldovan, & Seungho Cha: Toward high performance machine translation: preliminary results from massively parallel memory-based translation on SNAP.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 93-100 [PDF, 518KB] [Revised reprint in: Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Progress in machine translation (Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington, DC: IOS Press; Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1993), pp. 139-152]

Patents

(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) Ingeborg Blank: Computer-aided analysis of multilingual patent documentation. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.765-773. [PDF, 79KB]

(1996) Hiroyuki Kaji & Toshiko Aizono: Extracting word correspondences from bilingual corpora based on word co-occurrence information. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 23-28. [PDF, 543KB]

(1996) Bjarne Ørsnes, Bradley Music, & Bente Maegaard: PaTrans – a patent translation system. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 1115-1118. [PDF, 392KB]

(1996) Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Sergei Nirenburg, & Irene Nirenburg: Generating patent claims from interactive input.  Eighth International Natural Language Generation workshop (INLG’96), Proceedings, 12-15 June 1996, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, UK; pp. 61-70. [PDF, 721KB]

(1994) Colin Brace: Danish patent systems based on Eurotra experience. In: MT News International no.8, May 1994. [PDF]

(1994) The spirit of Eurotra. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.19, January-February 1994; pp.1-4. [PDF, 105KB]

(1991) HICATS/JE for RPI’s JIRS. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.4, July-August 1991; pp.6-7. [PDF, 91KB]

Patents relating to MT

(1994) Leighton Chong: The U.S. Patent system and MT technology. In: MT News International no.7, January 1994

Police

(1998) Thomas Schneider: Multilingual information processing: the AVENTINUS project. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.775-779. [PDF, 46KB]

 (1996) Edward Johnson: LinguaNet: … setting a linguist to catch a thief. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 8pp. [PDF, 255KB]

(1990) F.W.Stentiford: Work at British Telecom in automatic interpretation and translation. Proceedings of a Workshop on Machine Translation, 2-3 July 1990, UMIST, Manchester, ed.J.McNaught; 13pp. [PDF, 62KB]

Political texts

(1991) John Laffling: Towards high-precision machine translation, based on contrastive textology. Berlin, New York: Foris Publications, 1991. xiii, 178pp. (Distributed Language Translation, 7). Contents.

Post-editing

(1998) Dorothy Senez: The machine translation helpdesk and the post-editing service. Terminologie et Traduction, 1.1998; pp.289-295. [PDF, 30KB]

(1995) S. Donomae: Pre- and post-editing MT text for better communication and documentation. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 9pp. [PDF, 375KB]

(1995) CompuServe likes online MT. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.25, January-February 1995; pp.7-8. [PDF,

(1994) Kevin Knight & Ishwar Chander. Automated postediting of documents. 12th National conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 1994) July 31 - August 4, 1994, Seattle,Washington,USA. [PDF, 140KB]

(1994) Kevin Knight & Ishwar Chander: Automated post-editing of English. ARPA Workshop on Machine Translation, 17-18 March 1994, Sheraton Premier Hotel at Tyson’s Corner, Vienna; 23 slides [PDF, 219KB]

(1994) Evgeny Lovtsky: Multilingual MT and the post-editing bottleneck. In: MT News International no.9, September 1994. [PDF]

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

(1993) Peter F. Brown: Applying statistical methods to machine translation. Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); p.397. [PDF, 95KB]

(1993) Robert Frederking, Ariel Cohen, Dean Grannes, Peter Cousseau, & Sergei Nirenburg: The PANGLOSS Mark I MAT system. Sixth conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 21-23 April 1993, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; p. 468. [PDF, 107KB]

(1992) Marjorie León, Doris Albisser, Gudrun Magnusdottir, Larry Childs, Margarita Baena: [contributions to panel] Assessing the labor-intensive elements of MT [with discussion]. In: MT evaluation: basis for future directions. Proceedings of a workshop..., 2-3 November 1992, San Diego, California; pp. 61-71 [PDF, 171KB]

(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]

(1992) Translators still in the loop. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.12, November-December 1992; pp.1-4. [PDF, 106KB]

(1991) Kenneth W.Church & Eduard H.Hovy: Good applications for crummy machine translation. In: Jeanette  G.Neal and Sharon M.Walter (eds.): Natural Language Processing Systems Evaluation Workshop, Calspan-UB Research Center, Buffalo, NY, 18 June 1991; pp.147-157. [PDF, 811KB]

 (1991) H. Jäppinen & L. Kulikov: Evaluation of machine translation systems: a system developer’s viewpoint.  Proceedings of the Evaluators’ Forum, April 21st – 24th, 1991, Les Rasses, Vaud, Switzerland, ed. Kirsten Falkedal. (Geneva: ISSCO); pp. 143-156. [PDF, 152KB]

(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) 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]

Pre-editing (see also Controlled languages)

(1999) Arendse Bernth: Controlling input and output of MT for greater user acceptance. Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 10pp. [PDF, 93KB]

(1999) Takehiko Yoshimi & Ichiko Sata: Improvement of translation quality of English newspaper headlines by automatic preediting. 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. 496-500. [PDF, 142KB]

(1998) Laurie Gerber & Eduard Hovy: Improving translation quality by manipulating sentence length. 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.448-460. [go to publisher details]

(1995) S. Donomae: Pre- and post-editing MT text for better communication and documentation. MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 9pp. [PDF, 375KB]

(1994) Terence Lewis: Aspects of an empirical approach to language processing. International conference “Machine translation: ten years on” Proceedings ... held at Cranfield University, England, 12-14 November 1994 (Cranfield University Press, 1998) [PDF, 91KB]

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

(1993) Roger Bennett: Terminology and the computer – attention shifts to the micro. Machine Translation Today: Translating and the Computer 15. Papers presented at a conference… 18-19 November 1993, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1993); pp.59-81. [PDF, 96KB]

(1993) Satoshi Shirai, Satoru Ikehara & Tsukasa Kawaoka: Effects of automatic rewriting of source language within a Japanese to English MT system. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 226-239. [PDF, 664KB]

Product development see System development

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

(1999) Silviu Cucerzan & David Yarowsky: Language independent named entity recognition combining morphological and contextual evidence. Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, Proceedings ed. Pascale Fung and Joe Zhou, 21-22 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; pp.90-99. [PDF, 987KB]

(1997) Hiroshi Echizen-ya, Kenji Araki, Yoshikazu Miyanaga & Koji Tochinai: An improvement in the selection process of machine translation using inductive learning with genetic algorithms.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Description of system demonstrations and videos , 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.11-12. [PDF, 163KB]

(1997) I.Dan Melamed: A portable algorithm for mapping bitext correspondence. ACL-EACL-1997: 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Conference, 7-12 July 1997, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain; pp. 305-312. [PDF, 714KB]

(1997) Tim Read, Elena Bárcena, & Pamela Faber: Java and its role in natural language processing and machine translation.  MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future.  Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 224-231 [PDF, 143KB]

(1997) Ye-Yi Wang & Alex Waibel: Decoding algorithm in statistical machine translation. ACL-EACL-1997: 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Conference, 7-12 July 1997, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain; pp. 366-372. [PDF, 589KB]

(1996) Jan W. Amtrup & Jörg Benra: Communication in large distributed AI systems for natural language processing.  Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 35-40. [PDF, 552KB]

(1996) J. Gareth Evans: Implementing an efficient compact parser for a machine translation system. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 3: April 1996; pp.7-20.

(1996) Günther Görz, Marcus Kesseler, Jörg Spilker, & Hans Weber: Research on architectures for integrated speech/language systems in Verbmobil. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 484-489. [PDF, 547KB]

(1996) Gen-itiro Kikui: Identifying the coding system and language of on-line documents on the Internet. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 1061-1065. [PDF, 516KB]

(1996) I.Dan Melamed: A geometric approach to mapping bitext correspondence.  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Proceedings ed. Eric Brill and Kenneth Church, 17-18 May 1996, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. USA; pp.1-12. [PDF, 1025KB]

(1996) William C.Ogden: TUIT: a toolkit for constructing multilingual Tipster user interfaces. Tipster Text Program Phase II. Proceedings of a workshop held at Vienna, Virginia, May 6-8, 1996, sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; pp. 219-220. [PDF, 658KB]

(1996) Dekai Wu: A polynomial-time algorithm for statistical machine translation. 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 24-27 June 1996, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA; pp. 152-158. [PDF, 663KB]

(1995) Victor Poznański, John L.Beaven, & Pete Whitelock: An efficient generation algorithm for lexicalist MT. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 26-30 June 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.261-267. [PDF, 597KB]

(1994) Christian Boitet & Mark Seligman: The “whiteboard” architecture: a way to integrate heterogeneous components of NLP systems. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 426-430. [PDF, 511KB]

(1994) Kuang-hua Chen & Hsin-Hsi Chen: A part-of-speech-based alignment algorithm. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 166-171. [PDF, 412KB]

(1994) R.Johnson & M.Rosner: UD, yet another unification device. In: Current issues in computational linguistics: in honour of Don Walker, ed. Antonio Zampolli, Nicoletta Calzolari, Martha Palmer (Linguistica Computazionale, vol. 9-10); Pisa: Giradini Editori; Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, [1994]; pp.525-534. [PDF, 132KB]

(1994) Yves Lepage: Non-directionality and self-assessment in an example-based system using genetic algorithms. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 616-621. [PDF, 467KB]

(1992) Wilhelm Weisweber: Term-rewriting as a basis for a uniform architecture in machine translation. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 777-783. [PDF, 572KB]

(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]

(1992) Andrew Joscelyne: John Chandioux’s GramR. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.7, January-February 1992; pp.2-3. [PDF, 97KB]

(1990) Tomek Strzalkowski: How to invert a natural language parser into an efficient generator: an algorithm for logic grammars. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.2, pp. 347-352. [PDF, 587KB]

Publishing

(1999) Stuart Sklair: Multilingual component management: trends and implications for translation.  Translating and the Computer 21. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference…10-11 November 1999 (London: Aslib, 1999); 10pp. [PDF, 111KB]

(1997) Martyn Brougham: Publishing product information in a global market place. Translating and the Computer 19. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 13 & 14 November 1997 (London: Aslib, 1997); 8 slides. [PDF, 156KB]

(1992) Jane Dorner: Writing on disk: an author at play in a computer-simulated world. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.67-73. [PDF, 36KB]

(1992) H.Z. Zhang: The reunion of an Eastern family – the world’s first truly integrated Chinese, Japanese and Korean DTP system. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.175-179. [PDF, 26KB]

(1990) Philippa Moss: The growing range of document preparation systems available for translators from the simplest tools to the most sophisticated modern word processors.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp. 33-39. [PDF, 34KB]

(1990) Kent Taylor: Multimedia/Multilanguage publishing for the 1990s.  Translating and the Computer 12: Applying technology in the translation process, ed. Catriona Picken. Proceedings of a conference… 8-9 November 1990, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1991); pp.  159-171. [PDF, 78KB]

Punched cards

(1997) Roger A. Heller: The challenge of keypunching for MT. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future.  Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 37-38 [PDF, 77KB]

Quality assurance

(1992) Siegrun O’Sullivan: Quality management in translation.  Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.107-115. [PDF, 29KB]

(1992) Linda J. Wedlake: An introduction to quality assurance and a guide to the implementation of BS 5750 , Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.1-13. [PDF, 85KB]

Question-answering

(1990) William J.Black: Running a robust dialogue system. Proceedings of a Workshop on Machine Translation, 2-3 July 1990, UMIST, Manchester, ed.J.McNaught; 9pp. [PDF, 52KB]; [abstract in Rapportage]

Railway systems

(1992) Roger T.Bell & Jack Lonergan: Cab computer-speak language: developing multilingual audio and visual communications systems for Transmanche trains. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.187-196. [PDF, 68KB]

(1991) N.Venkata Subramaniam, N.Alwar, G.Mallikarjuna, P.Prabhakar Rao, & S.Raman: Bidirectional machine translation in Indian languages. Eurospeech ’91 Second European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Genova, Italy, September 24-26, 1991; pp.1067-1070; abstract [PDF, 28KB]

Reading speed and comprehension

(1993) Masaru Tomita, Masako Shirai, Junya Tsutsumi, Miki Matsumura & Yuki Yoshikawa: Evaluation of MT systems by TOEFL. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 252- 265. [PDF, 253KB]

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

(1999) W.John Hutchins: On assuming the presidency of IAMT [address at] MT Summit VII, Singapore, September 16, 1999. In: MT News International no.23, September 1999. [PDF]

(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]

(1993) Alex Waibel: Machine translation. [Summary of Session 6]. Human Language Technology: proceedings of a workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, March 21-24, 1993. (San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993); pp.183-184. [PDF, 272KB]

(1991) Sture Allen: MT evaluation from the standpoint of a research sponsor [contribution to panel] Evaluation of MT systems.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 144-145

(1991) Nicholas Ostler: [contribution to panel] International views on MT.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 129-130

Robustness

(1999) Gianni Lazzari: Robust spoken translation at ITC-irst. 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.114-120. [PDF, 168KB]

(1999) Andy Way: A hybrid architecture for robust MT using LFG-DOP. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, vol. 11, pp.441-471. [PDF, 2786KB]

(1999) Rémi Zajac: A multilevel framework for incremental development of MT systems. 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. 646-653. [PDF, 172KB]

(1998) Bianka. Buschbeck-Wolf & Michael Dorna: Quality and robustness in MT—A balancing act. 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.62-71. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Osamu Furuse, Setsuo Yamada, Kazuhide Yamamoto: Splitting long or ill-formed input for robust spoken-language 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. 421-427. [PDF, 625KB]

(1998) Carolyn Penstein Rosé & Lori S.Levin: An interactive domain independent approach to robust dialogue interpretation. 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. 1129-1135. [PDF, 691KB]

(1998) Rémi Zajac: MT Express. Proceedings of the 10th European Summer School on Logic, Linguistics and Information (ESSLLI), Saarbrücken, 24-28 August 1998: Workshop on machine translation. [PDF, 40KB]

(1996) Michel Simard & Pierre Plamondon: Bilingual sentence alignment: balancing robustness and accuracy. 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.135-144 [PDF, 230KB]

(1995) Jan Alexandersson, Elisabeth Maier, & Norbert Reithinger: A robust and efficient three-layered dialogue component for a speech-to-speech translation system. Seventh conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, March 27-31, 1995, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland; pp. 188-193. [PDF, 593KB]

Ship building and maintenance

(1993) Making MT work. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.13, January-February 1993; pp.1-4. [PDF, 102KB]

Sign languages

(1996) Tony Veale & Bróna Collins: Space, metaphor and schematization in sign: sign language translation in the ZARDOZ system. 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.168-179 [PDF, 203KB]

(1994) Tony Veale & Alan Conway: Cross modal comprehension in ZARDOZ, an English to sign-language translation system. Seventh international workshop on Natural Language Generation, Proceedings, June 21-24, 1994, Nonantun Inn, Kennebunkport, Maine; pp. 249-252. [PDF, 453KB]

Social aspects of MT

(1999) Christian Boitet: A research perspective on how to democratize machine translation and translation aids aiming at high quality final output.  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.125-133. [PDF, 200KB]

(1999) Nicholas Ostler: “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”: is machine translation a cultural threat to anyone? [extended abstract]  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. 172-173 [PDF, 99KB]

(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]

Software documentation

(1997) Per N.Dohler: Facets of software localization: a translator’s view. Translation Journal 1 (1), July 1997; 17pp. [PDF, 141KB]

(1996) Donia R.Scott: Computer support for authoring multilingual software documentation. Translating and the Computer 18. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 14 & 15 November 1996 (London: Aslib, 1996); 11pp. [PDF, 117KB]

(1993) E.A.Karkaletsis, C.D.Spyropoulos, & G.Vouros: The use of terminological knowledge bases in software localisation. In: Machine translation and the lexicon: Third international EAMT workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, April 26-28 1993, Proceedings (Berlin: Springer, 1995); pp.174-188. [abstract]

(1991) Graham Bason: Software localisation: a case history. Translating and the Computer 13: The Theory and Practice of Machine Translation – A Marriage of Convenience? Papers presented at a conference… 28-29 November 1991, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.71-77. [PDF, 39KB]

Software resources

(1994) Peter Ball: Practical choices for hardware and software. Translating and the Computer 16. Paper presented … 10-11 November 1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, London SW1 (London: Aslib, 1994); 8pp. [PDF, 37KB]

(1993) Jörg M.Haake & Christine M.Neuwirth: Collaborative authoring of hypermedia documents.  Machine Translation Today: Translating and the Computer 15. Papers presented at a conference… 18-19 November 1993, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1993); pp.41-58. [PDF, 127KB]

(1992) Bob Clark: Stop reinventing the wheel. Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.181-186. [PDF, 29KB]

(1992) J.E.Rowley: Evaluation of software.  Translating and the Computer 14: Quality Standards and the Implementation of Technology in Translation. Papers presented at a conference… 10-11 November 1992, CBI Conference Centre, London (London: Aslib, 1992); pp.117-126. [PDF, 36KB]

Spelling checkers

(1992) E.Agirre, I.Alegria, X.Arregi, X.Artola, A.Diaz de Ilarraza, M.Maritxalar, K.Sarasola, & M.Urkia: XUXEN: a spelling checker/corrector for Basque based on two-level morphology.  Third conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1992, Trento, Italy;  pp.119-125. [PDF, 684KB]

Standards for MT

(1998) Eduard Hovy: Combining and standardizing large-scale, practical ontologies for machine translation and other uses. First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998. Proceedings ed. Antonio Rubio, Natividad Gallardo, Rosa Castro and Antonio Tejada; pp.535-542. [PDF, 83KB]

(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]

(1995) Christian Galinski: Terminology and standardization under a machine translation perspective MT Summit V Proceedings, Luxembourg, July 10-13, 1995; 11pp. [PDF, 200KB]

(1993) EAGLES: stretching its wings. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.15, May-June 1993; p.14. [PDF, 93KB]

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

(1991) Tony Whitecomb: Opening up Eurotra: trap or treasure-house? Language Industry Monitor, issue no.5, September-October 1991; p.5. [PDF, 76KB]

Subtitles

(1999) Janine Toole, Fred Popowich, Devlan Nicholson, Davide Turcato, & Paul McFetridge: Explanation-based learning 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. 161-171 [PDF, 172KB]

(1998) Janine Toole, Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Dan Fass, & Paul McFetridge Time-constrained 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.103-112. [go to publisher details]

(1997) Fred Popowich, Davide Turcato, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge, J.Devlan Nicholson, Patrick McGivern, Maricela Corzo-Pena, Lisa Pidruchney, & Scott McDonald: A lexicalist approach to the translation of colloquial text. 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.76-86. [PDF, 187KB]

(1997) Eric Nyberg & Teruko Mitamura: A real-time MT system for translating broadcast captions. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future.  Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 51-57 [PDF, 195KB]

(1993) NHK. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.17, September-October 1993; p.13. [PDF, 77KB]

(1991) Hideki Tanaka: STAR: Nippon Hoso Kyokai [contribution to panel] The MT user experience.  MT Summit III.  Proceedings, July 1-4, 1991, Washington, DC, USA; pp. 123-125

Summarization

(1999) Barbara Gawronska, Jaana Anttila & Dan-Ivar Jacobsson: Mental spaces, space builders and bilingual summarization of news reports. 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. 1-10 [PDF, 210KB]

(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]

(1999) Vilas Wuwongse: Applications using multilinguality: IR, summarization and generalization.  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.155-156. [PDF, 112KB]

(1998) Jim Cowie, Eugene Ludovik, & Hugo Molina-Salgado: Improving robust domain independent summarization. Tipster Text Program Phase III. Proceedings [of a workshop held] October 1998, sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; pp. 171-177. [PDF, 862KB]

(1998) Eduard Hovy & Chin-Yew Lin: Automated text summarization and the SUMMARIST system. Tipster Text Program Phase III. Proceedings [of a workshop held] October 1998, sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; pp. 197-214. [PDF, 1788KB]

(1997) Harold Somers, Bill Black, Joakim Nivre, Torbjörn Lager, Annarosa Multari, Luca Gilardoni, Jeremy Ellman, & Alex Rogers: Multilingual generation and summarization of job adverts: the TREE project.  Fifth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 31 March – 3 April 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA;  pp.33-40. [PDF, 845KB]

System development (see also Customization and implementation)

(1999) Rémi Zajac: A multilevel framework for incremental development of MT systems. 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. 646-653. [PDF, 172KB]

(1998) John Beaven: Future MT developments. Terminologie et Traduction, 1.1998; pp.319-326. [PDF, 36KB]

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

 (1995) I.Höser, G.Klimonow, A.Küstner, & B.Rüdiger: METAL Russian-German on the way to a product. Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 7pp. [PDF, 110KB]

 (1993) Ian Pigott: Systran development at the EC Commission, 1976 to 1992. [Luxembourg: European Commission, May 1993] [PDF, 407KB]

 (1991) H. Jäppinen & L. Kulikov: Evaluation of machine translation systems: a system developer’s viewpoint.  Proceedings of the Evaluators’ Forum, April 21st – 24th, 1991, Les Rasses, Vaud, Switzerland, ed. Kirsten Falkedal. (Geneva: ISSCO); pp. 143-156. [PDF, 152KB]

 (1991) Sylvie Régnier: The respective roles of the “industrial evaluators” and the system developers in the evaluation of MT systems.  Proceedings of the Evaluators’ Forum, April 21st – 24th, 1991, Les Rasses, Vaud, Switzerland, ed. Kirsten Falkedal. (Geneva: ISSCO); pp. 157-168. [PDF, 290KB]

 (1991) Andrew Way: Developer-oriented evaluation of MT systems.  Proceedings of the Evaluators’ Forum, April 21st – 24th, 1991, Les Rasses, Vaud, Switzerland, ed. Kirsten Falkedal. (Geneva: ISSCO); pp. 237-244. [PDF, 119KB]

 (1990) Jeanette M.Pugh: 1991-1992: the Eurotra transition programme. Proceedings of a Workshop on Machine Translation, 2-3 July 1990, UMIST, Manchester, ed.J.McNaught; 3pp. [PDF, 22KB]

Teaching MT

(1998) Mario J.Mira i Giménez & Mikel L.Forcada: Understanding commercial machine translation systems for evaluation, teaching, and reverse engineering: the treatment of noun phrases in Power Translator Deluxe. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 7: April 1998; pp.20-27. [PDF]

Technical documents

(1999) Atsushi Fujii & Tetsuya Ishikawa: Cross-language information retrieval for technical documents. Joint SIGDAT conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora. Proceedings ed. Pascale Fung and Joe Zhou, 21-22 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; pp.29-37. [PDF, 744KB]

(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]

(1995) Gary Jaekel: In the balance – Ericsson Language Services. Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 14pp. [PDF, 41KB]

(1995) Dirk Lueke: MT at SAP – a successful integration. Translating and the Computer 17. Papers from the Aslib conference held on 9th and 10th November 1995 (London: Aslib, 1995); 3pp. [PDF, 23KB]

(1994) Ido Dagan & Ken Church: Termight: identifying and translating technical terminology. Fourth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing [of] Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, 13-15 October 1994, Stuttgart, Germany;  pp. 34-40. [PDF, 661KB]

(1994) Béatrice Daille: Study and implementation of combined techniques for automatic extraction of terminology. The balancing act: combining symbolic and statistical approaches to language. Proceedings of the workshop, 1 July 1994, New Mexico