Machine Translation Archive: methods, pre2000 publications

Machine Translation Archive

Subject Index

to methods, techniques, issues and topics

in publications 1990-1999

For later publications see the index to publications 2000-2004 and publications since 2005

For earlier publications see publications before 1990

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Adjectives

(1996) Victor Raskin & Sergei Nirenburg: Adjectival modification in text meaning representation. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 842-847. [PDF, 536KB]

Adverbs

(1997) Kentaro Ogura, Satoshi Shirai, & Francis Bond: English adverb processing in Japanese-to-English 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.95-102. [PDF, 173KB]

Alignment (see also Statistical analysis, Word alignment)

(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]

(1999) Sergio Barrachina & Juan Miguel Vilar: Bilingual clustering using monolingual algorithms. 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. 77-87 [PDF, 189KB]

(1999) Tomaž Erjavec: The ELAN Slovene-English aligned corpus. 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. 349-357. [PDF, 250KB]

(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]

(1999) Kevin McTait & Arturo Trujillo: A language-neutral sparse-data algorithm for extracting translation patterns. 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. 98-108 [PDF, 180KB]

(1999) Elena Paskaleva: Aligning and extracting translation equivalents from EU documents - a possible look on EU integration. In: EAMT Workshop, Prague, April 22-23,1999 [abstract only, PDF]

(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) Philippe Langlais, Michel Simard, & Jean Véronis: Methods and practical issues in evaluating alignment techniques. 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. 711-717. [PDF, 673KB]

(1998) Raquel Martínez, Joseba Abaitua, & Arantza Casillas: Bitext correspondences through rich mark-up. 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. 812-818. [PDF, 637KB]

(1998) Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, & Ralph Grishman: A multilingual procedure for dictionary-based sentence alignment. 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.187-198. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman, Catherine Macleod, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval: Deriving transfer rules from dominance-preserving alignments. 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. 843-847. [PDF, 418KB]

(1997) Bróna Collins & Pádraig Cunningham: Adaptation guided retrieval: approaching EBMT with caution. 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.119-126. [PDF, 220KB]

(1996) Elliott Macklovitch & Marie-Louise Hannan: Line 'em up: advances in alignment technology and their impact on translation support tools. 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.145-156 [PDF, 179KB]

(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]

(1996) Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber, & Ralph Grishman: Alignment of shared forests for bilingual corpora. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 460-465. [PDF, 475KB]

(1996) Jung H. Shin, Young S. Han, & Key-Sun Choi: Bilingual knowledge acquisition from Korean-English parallel corpus using alignment method (Korean-English alignment at word and phrase level). Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 230-235. [PDF, 480KB]

(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) Dekai Wu: Grammarless extraction of phrasal translation examples from parallel texts. 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.355-372. [PDF, 340KB]

(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) Pascale Fung & Kathleen McKeown: Aligning noisy parallel corpora across language groups: word pair feature matching by dynamic time warping. 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. 81-88. [PDF, 217KB]

(1994) Pascale Fung & Kenneth Ward Church: K-vec: a new approach for aligning parallel texts. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 1096-1102. [PDF, 515KB]

(1994) Anthony M. McEnery, Michael P. Oakes, & Roger G. Garside: The use of approximate string matching techniques in the alignment of sentences in parallel corpora. International conference “Machine translation: ten years on” Proceedings ... held at Cranfield University, England, 12-14 November 1994 (Cranfield University Press, 1998) [PDF, 145KB]

(1994) Elliott Macklovitch: Using bi-textual alignment for translation validation: the TransCheck 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. 157-168. [PDF, 223KB]

(1994) Takehito Utsuro, Hiroshi Ikeda, Masaya Yamane, Yuji Matsumoto, & Makoto Nagao: Bilingual text matching using bilingual dictionary and statistics. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 1076-1082. [PDF, 511KB]

(1993) William A. Gale & Kenneth W. Church: A program for aligning sentences in bilingual corpora. Computational Linguistics 19 (1), pp. 76-102 [PDF, 1391KB]

(1993) Martin Kay & Martin Röscheisen: Text-translation alignment. Computational Linguistics 19 (1), pp. 122-142 [PDF, 1170KB]

(1993) Arne Larsson & Magnus Merkel: Semiotics at work: technical translation and communication in a multilingual corporate environment. Proceedings of NODALIDA (Nordiska Datalingvistikdagarna), Stockholm University. 11pp. [PDF, 36KB]

(1993) Michel Simard, George F.Foster, & Pierre Isabelle: Using cognates to align sentences in bilingual corpora. IBM Center for Advanced Studies Conference (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Proceedings of the 1993 conference on collaborative research: distributed computing, vol.2, pp. 1071-1082. [PDF, 861KB]

(1992) Michel Simard, George F. Foster, & Pierre Isabelle: Using cognates to align sentences in bilingual corpora 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.67-81. [PDF, 270KB]

ALPAC

(1996) John Hutchins: ALPAC: the (in)famous report. In: MT News International no.14, June 1996

Ambiguity preservation (see also Disambiguation)

(1998) Martin C. Emele & Michael Dorna: Ambiguity preserving machine translation using packed representations. 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. 365-371. [PDF, 639KB]

Analysis see Semantic analysis; Syntactic analyis

Anaphora resolution

(1998) Masaki Murata & Makoto Nagao: An estimate of referent of noun phrases in Japanese sentences. 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. 912-916. [PDF, 460KB]

(1996) Ruslan Mitkov: Anaphora and machine translation. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 4: October 1996; pp. 6-16.

(1996) Hiromi Nakaiwa & Satoshi Shirai: Anaphora resolution of Japanese zero pronouns with deictic reference. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 1090-1093. [PDF, 574KB]

(1995) Francis Bond, Kentaro Ogura,& Tsukasa Kawaoka: Noun phrase reference in Japanese to English machine translation. 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.1-14. [PDF, 203KB]

(1995) Ruslan Mitkov, Sung-Kwon Choi, & Randall Sharp: Anaphora resolution in machine translation. 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.87-95. [PDF, 203KB]

(1995) Hiromi Nakaiwa & Satoru Ikehara: Intrasentential resolution of Japanese zero pronouns in a machine translation system using semantic and pragmatic constraints. 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.96-105. [PDF, 200KB]

(1994) Shalom Lappin & Herbert J. Leass: An algorithm for pronominal anaphora resolution. Computational Linguistics 20 (4), pp. 535-561 [PDF, 1694KB]

(1994) Ruslan Mitkov & Johann Haller: Machine translation, ten years on: Discourse has yet to make a breakthrough. International conference “Machine translation: ten years on” Proceedings ... held at Cranfield University, England, 12-14 November 1994 (Cranfield University Press, 1998) [PDF, 138KB]

(1994) Horacio Saggion & Ariadne Carvalho: Anaphora resolution in a machine translation system. International conference “Machine translation: ten years on” Proceedings ... held at Cranfield University, England, 12-14 November 1994 (Cranfield University Press, 1998) [PDF, 439KB]

(1993) Masaki Murata & Makoto Nagao: Determination of referential property and number of nouns in Japanese sentences for machine translation into English. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 218-225. [PDF, 229KB]

(1992) Louisa Sadler & Doug Arnold: A constraint-based approach to translating anaphoric dependencies. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 728- 734. [PDF, 400KB]

(1990) Shalom Lappin & Michael McCord: Anaphora resolution in slot grammar. Computational Linguistics 16 (4), pp. 197-212 [PDF, 1501KB]

(1990) Hajime Wada: Discourse processing in MT: problems in pronominal translation. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.1, pp. 73-75. [PDF, 332KB]

Annotation

(1999) Mosleh H. Al-Adhaileh & Tang Enya Kong: Example-based machine translation based on the synchronous SSTC annotation schema. 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. 244-249. [PDF, 271KB]

(1999) Hui-Feng Li, Namwon Heo, Kyoungbi Moon, & Jong-Hyeok Lee: The use of abstracted knowledge from an automatically sense-tagged corpus for lexical transfer ambiguity resolution. 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. 390-396. [PDF, 254KB]

(1998) Ludmila Dimitrova, Tomaz Erjavec, Nancy Ide, Heiki Jaan Kaalep, Vladimir Petkevic & Dan Tufis: Multext-East: parallel and comparable corpora and lexicons for six central and eastern European languages. 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. 315-319. [PDF, 414KB]

Applications of MT see index of applications

Articles

(1999) Lee Hian-Beng: Article selection using probabilistic sense 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. 421-426. [PDF, 194KB]

(1992) Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt: Exploiting linguistic iconism for article selection in machine translation. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 792-798. [PDF, 480KB]

(1990) Barbara Gawrońska-Werngren: “Translation great problem” – on the problem of inserting articles when translating from Russian into Swedish. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.2, pp. 133-138. [PDF, 506KB]

Aspect

(1999) Masaki Murata, Qing Ma, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, & Hitoshi Isahara: An example-based approach to Japanese-to-English translation of tense, aspect, and modality. 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. 66-76 [PDF, 244KB]

(1997) Bonnie J. Dorr, Mari Broman Olsen, & Scott C. Thomas: Toward compact monotonically compositional interlingua using lexical aspect. Proceedings of the AMTA/SIG-IL First Workshop on Interlinguas, October 28, 1997, San Diego, CA, USA; pp. 33-43. [PDF, 190KB]

(1995) Frank Van Eynde: A sign-based approach to the translation of temporal expressions. 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.67-86. [PDF, 855KB]

(1993) Margherita Antona & Jun-ichi Tsujii: Treatment of tense and aspect in translation from Italian to Greek — an example of treatment of implicit information in knowledge-based transfer MT. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 131-153. [PDF, 209KB]

(1992) Laurence Danlos & Pollet Samvelian: Translation in the predicative element of a sentence: category switiching, aspect and diathesis 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.21-34. [PDF, 168KB]

(1992) Barbara Gawrońska: Aspect – a problem for MT. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 652-657. [PDF, 461KB]

Bilingual corpora [see also Example-based methods, Test corpora]

(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) Xiaoyi Ma: Parallel text collections at Linguistic Data Consortium. 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. 346-348. [PDF, 108KB]

(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) Kumiko Ohmori & Masanobu Higashida: Extracting bilingual collocations from non-aligned 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. 88-97 [PDF, 243KB]

(1999) Oliver Streiter, Leonid L. Iomdin, Munpyo Hong & Ute Hauck: Learning, forgetting and remembering: statistical support for rule-based MT. 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. 44-54 [PDF, 236KB]

(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]

(1998) Pernilla Danielsson & Katarina Mühlenbock: When Stålhandske becomes Steelglove: a corpus based study of names in parallel text. 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.266-274. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Pascale Fung: A statistical view on bilingual lexicon extraction: from parallel corpora to non-parallel corpora. 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.1-17. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Éric Gaussier: Flow network models for word alignment and terminology extraction from bilingual corpora. 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. 444-450. [PDF, 585KB]

(1998) I.Dan Melamed: Empirical methods for MT lexicon development. 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.18-30. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Philip Resnik: Parallel strands: a preliminary investigation into mining the Web for bilingual text. 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.72-82. [go to publisher details]

(1998) Michael Schiehlen: Learning tense translation from bilingual corpora. 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. 1183-1187. [PDF, 410KB]

(1998) Davide Turcato: Automatically creating bilingual lexicons for machine translation from bilingual text. 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. 1299-1306. [PDF, 717KB]

(1998) Dekai Wu & Hongsing Wong: Machine translation with a stochastic grammatical channel. 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. 1408-1415. [PDF, 691KB]

(1997) Ralf D.Brown: Automated dictionary extraction for “knowledge-free” example-based 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.111-118. [PDF, 168KB]

(1997) Mathis H. Chen, Jason S. Chang, Sue J. Ker, & Jen-Nan Chen: TopAlign: word alignment for bilingual corpora based on topical clusters of dictionary entries and translations. 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.127-134. [PDF, 458KB]

(1997) Hitoshi Isahara: JEIDA’s bilingual corpus and other corpora for NLP research in Japan. MT Summit VI. Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings, 29 October – 1 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA; pp. 142-147 [PDF, 188KB]

(1997) Dekai Wu: Stochastic inversion transduction grammars and bilingual parsing of parallel corpora. Computational Linguistics 23 (3), pp. 378-403 [PDF, 1660KB]

(1996) Lars Ahrenberg & Magnus Merkel: On translation corpora and translation support tools: a project report. In Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg & Mats Johansson (eds.) Languages in Contrast. Lund University Press, 1996. 16pp. [PDF, 45KB]

(1996) Jason J.S.Chang, Jen-Nan Chen, Huei-Hong Sheng, & Sur-Jin Ker: Combining machine readable lexical resources and bilingual corpora for broad word sense disambiguation. 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.115-124 [PDF, 299KB]

(1996) Masahiko Haruno, Satoru Ikehara, & Takefumi Yamazaki: Learning bilingual collocations by word-level sorting. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 525-530. [PDF, 578KB]

(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) Lucie Langlois: Bilingual concordancers:a new tool for bilingual lexicographers. 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.34-42 [PDF, 143KB]

(1996) I. Dan Melamed: Automatic construction of clean broad-coverage translation lexicons. 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.125-134 [PDF, 431KB]

(1996) Frank Smadja, Kathleen R. McKeown, & Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou: Translating collocations for bilingual lexicons: a statistical approach. Computational Linguistics 22 (1), pp. 1-38 [PDF, 2763KB]

(1996) Virach Sornlertlamvanich & Hozumi Tanaka: The automatic extraction of open compounds from text corpora. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 1143-1146. [PDF, 364KB]

(1996) Kumiko Tanaka & Hideya Iwasaki: Extraction of lexical translations from non-aligned corpora. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 580-585. [PDF, 563KB]

(1995) Hélène Corréard: A corpus-based bilingual dictionary: why and how? In: Machine Translation Review, issue 2: October 1995; pp.25-26.

(1995) Roger Garside: Matching words in a bilingual corpus. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 2: October 1995; pp.7-18

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

(1995) Keh-Yih Su, Jing-Shin Chang, & Yu-Ling Una Hsu: A corpus-based two-way design for parameterized MT systems: rationale, architecture and training issues. 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.334-353. [PDF, 473KB]

(1995) Setsuo Yamada, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Kentaro Ogura & Satoru Ikehara: A method for automatically adapting an MT system to different domains. 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.303-310. [PDF, 189KB]

(1994) G.Deville, E. Herbigniaux, P. Mousel & G. Thienpont: Reengineering linguistic resources for machine translation in medical applications. 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. 24-31 [PDF, 142KB]

(1994) Akira Kumano & Hideki Hirakawa: Building an MT dictionary from parallel texts based on linguistic and statistical information. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 76-81. [PDF, 412KB]

(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) Dekai Wu and Xuanyin Xia: Learning an English-Chinese lexicon from a parallel corpus. 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. 206-213 [PDF, 190KB]

(1994) Ming Zhou & Changning Huang: An efficient syntactic tagging tool for corpora. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 949-955. [PDF, 426KB]

(1993) Jing-Shin Chang & Keh-Yih Su: A corpus-based statistics-oriented transfer and generation model for machine translation. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 3-14. [PDF, 260KB]

(1993) Kenneth W. Church & Robert L. Mercer: Introduction to the special issue on using large corpora. Computational Linguistics 19 (1), pp. 1-24 [PDF, 1762KB]

(1993) Shinichi Doi & Kazunori Muraki: Evaluation of DMAX criteria for selecting equivalent translation based on dual corpora statistics. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 302-311. [PDF, 481KB]

(1993) William A. Gale & Kenneth W. Church: A program for aligning sentences in bilingual corpora. Computational Linguistics 19 (1), pp. 76-102 [PDF, 1391KB]

(1993) Teruko Mitamara, Eric H. Nyberg, 3^rd, & Jaime G. Carbonell: Automated corpus analysis and the acquisition of large, multi-lingual knowledge bases for MT. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 312-328. [PDF, 281KB]

(1993) Hideo Watanabe: A method for extracting translation patterns from translation examples. TMI-93: The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan, July 14-16, 1993: Proceedings; pp. 292-301. [PDF, 322KB]

(1992) Shinichi Doi & Kazunori Muraki: Translation ambiguity resolution based on text corpora of source and target languages. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 525-531. [PDF, 428KB]

(1992) William A. Gale, Kenneth W. Church, & David Yarowsky: Using bilingual materials to develop word sense disambiguation methods 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.101-112. [PDF, 291KB]

(1992) Hiroyuki Kaji, Yuuko Kida, & Yasutsugu Morimoto: Learning translation templates from bilingual text. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 672-678. [PDF, 410KB]

(1992) Satoshi Sato: CTM: an example-based translation aid system. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 1259-1263. [PDF, 318KB]

(1992) Takehito Utsuro, Yuji Matsumoto, & Makoto Nagao: Lexical knowledge acquisition from bilingual corpora. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 581-587. [PDF, 481KB]

(1990) Judith Klavans & Evelyne Tzoukermann: The BICORD system: combining lexical information from bilingual corpora and machine readable dictionaries. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.3, pp. 174-179. [PDF, 569KB]

(1990) Victor Sadler & Ronald Vendelmans: Pilot implementation of a bilingual knowledge bank. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.3, pp. 449-451. [PDF, 365KB]

Bi-text see Bilingual corpora

Book reviews

(1999) Alex Gross: Two German books about machine translation. Translation Journal, vol. 3, no.3, July 1999. 4pp. [PDF, 101KB]

(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]

(1998) Derek Lewis: [review of] Colin Hayes: Breaking down the language barriers (Aslib, 1998). In: Machine Translation Review, issue 8: October 1998; pp.35-37. [PDF]

(1996) Colin Brace: Ovum's translation tools report [part 1]. In: MT News International no.13, February 1996.

(1996) Jackie Murgida: Ovum's report on translation technology products, part II. In: MT News International no.14, June 1996.

(1996) Inderjeet Mani: [review of] Machine translation and the lexicon [ed.by] Petra Steffens (Springer Verlag, 1995). Computational Linguistics 22 (2), pp. 271-273 [PDF, 240KB]

(1996) Klaus Schubert: Melby on MT semantics: [review of] Alan K.Melby: The possibility of language... 1995. In: MT News International no.14, June 1996.

(1995) Bonnie J. Dorr: [review of] Compositional translation [by] M.T.Rosetta (pseud.) (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994). Computational Linguistics 21 (4), pp. 582-589 [PDF, 597KB]

(1995) Susanne Heizmann: [review of] Machine translation: an introductory guide [by] D.Arnold et al. (NCC Blackwell, 1994). Computational Linguistics 21 (4), pp. 577-578 [PDF, 131KB]

(1995) Derek Lewis: [review of] Doug Arnold et al.: Machine translation: an introductory guide (NCC/Blackwell, 1994). In: Machine Translation Review, issue 1: April 1995; pp. 32-33.

(1995) Tsuyoshi Morimoto: [review of] Verbmobil: a translation system for face-to-face dialog [by] Martin Kay et al. (CSLI, 1994). Computational Linguistics 21 (2), pp. 272-273 [PDF, 303KB]

(1995) Catharine Scott: [review of] W.John Hutchins and Harold L.Somers: An introduction to machine translation (Academic Press, 1992). In: Machine Translation Review, issue 2: October 1995; pp.35-36.

(1995) Nigel Ward: [review of] Speech-to-speech translation: a massively parallel memory-based approach [by] Hiroaki Kitano (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994). Computational Linguistics 21 (4), pp. 590-592 [PDF, 242KB]

(1994) Daniel Radzinski: [review of] Machine translation: a view from the lexicon [by] Bonnie Jean Dorr (MIT Press, 1992). Computational Linguistics 20 (4), pp. 670-676 [PDF, 507KB]

(1994) The good (and the bad) news about machine translation. [review: Arnold et al. Machine translation: an introductory guide]. Language Industry Monitor, issue no.19, January-February 1994; p.16. [PDF, 80KB]

(1993) Steven Lytinen: [review of] Machine translation: a knowledge-based approach [by] Sergei Nirenburg et al. (Morgan Kaufmann, 1992); and of: The KBMT project: a case study in knowledge-based machine translation, [ed.by] Kenneth Goodman and Sergei Nirenburg (Morgan Kaufmann, 1991). Computational Linguistics 19 (1), pp. 207-209 [PDF, 196KB]

(1993) Gudrún Magnúsdóttir: [review of] An introduction to machine translation [by] W.John Hutchins and Harold L.Somers (Academic Press, 1992). Computational Linguistics 19 (2), pp. 383-384 [PDF, 122KB]

(1993) Victor Sadler: [review of] Lexical acquisition: exploiting on-line resources to build a lexicon [ed. by] Uri Zernik (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991). Computational Linguistics 19 (1), pp. 214-216 [PDF, 206KB]

(1990) Dominique Estival: [review of] Machine translation: how far can it go? [by] Makoto Nagao (Oxford University Press, 1989). Computational Linguistics 16 (3), pp. 182-184 [PDF, 358KB]

Books on MT

(1994) D. Arnold, L. Balkan, R. Lee Humphreys, S. Meijer, [&] L. Sadler: Machine translation: an introductory guide. Manchester/Oxford: NCC Blackwell.viii, 240pp. [HTML, and Postscript]

(1992) W.John Hutchins & Harold L.Somers: An introduction to machine translation. London: Academic Press. xxi, 362pp. [PDF]

Case-based methods

(1996) Bróna Collins, Pádraig Cunningham, & Tony Veale: An example-based approach to 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.1-13 [PDF, 259KB]

(1992) Hiroshi Nomiyama: Machine translation by case generalization. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 714-720. [PDF, 381KB]

(1992) Hideo Watanabe: A similarity-driven transfer system. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 770-776. [PDF, 406KB]

Case grammar

(1999) Timothy Baldwin & Hozumi Tanaka: Argument status in Japanese verb sense disambiguation. 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. 196-206 [PDF, 239KB]

(1999) Timothy Baldwin, Francis Bond & Ben Hutchinson: A valency dictionary architecture 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. 207-217 [PDF, 261KB]

(1999) Hiromi Nakaiwa & Kayo Seki: Automatic addition of verbal semantic attributes to a Japanese-to-English valency transfer dictionary. 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. 185-195 [PDF, 231KB]

(1997) Kazunori Muraki, Shin’ichiro Kamei, & Shinichi Doi: A left-to-right breadth-first algorithm for subcategorization frame selection of Japanese verbs. 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.168-175. [PDF, 160KB]

(1996) Naoyuki Nomura & Kazunori Muraki: An empirical architecture for verb sucategorization frame: a lexicon for a real-world scale Japanese-English interlingual MT. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 640-645. [PDF, 573KB]

(1992) Geert Adriaens & Gert de Braekeleer: Converting large on-line valency dictionaries for NLP applications: from PROTON descriptions to METAL frames. Coling-92: Proceedings of the Fifteenth [i.e. Fourteenth] International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, 23-28/8/1992; pp. 1182-1186. [PDF, 443KB]

(1992) Masahiko Ishikawa & Ryoichi Sugimura: Natural language analysis using a network model - Modification Deciding Network 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.55-66. [PDF, 232KB]

Categorial grammar

(1998) Daniel D. Sleator & Davy Temperley: Parsing English with a link grammar. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 8: October 1998; pp.15-34. [PDF]

(1994) Barbara Gawrońska, Christer Johansson, Anders Nordner, & Caroline Willners: Interpreting compounds for machine translation. Coling 1994: the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1994, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 45-50. [PDF, 498KB]

(1961) W. Smoke & E. Dubinsky: A program for the machine translation of natural languages. Mechanical Translation, vol. 6, November 1961; pp.2-10. [PDF, 233KB]

Chart parsing

(1999) Martin Kay: Chart 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. 9-14. [PDF, 189KB]

(1997) Arturo Trujillo: Determining internal and external indices for chart generation. 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.143-150. [PDF, 370KB]

(1997) Jan W.Amtrup: Layered charts for speech 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.192-199. [PDF, 185KB]

(1996) Osamu Furuse & Hitoshi Iida: Incremental translation utilizing constituent boundary patterns. Coling 1996: the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Proceedings, August 5-9, 1996, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen; pp. 412-417. [PDF, 561KB]

(1995) Jan W. Amtrup: Chart-based incremental transfer in machine translation. 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.188-195 [PDF, 198KB]

(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]

Closely related languages

(1990) Alla Bémová & Vladislav Kuboň: Czech-to-Russian transducing dictionary. Coling-90: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 20-25 August 1990; ed. Hans Karlgren; vol.3, pp. 314-316. [PDF, 261KB]

Cognates

(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) Michel Simard, George F. Foster, & Pierre Isabelle: Using cognates to align