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Machine Translation: From Real Users to Research

6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, USA, September 28-October 2, 2004, Proceedings

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Robert E. Frederking

    1. Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

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  2. Kathryn B. Taylor

    1. Intelligence Technology Innovation Center, Washington, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3265)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Case Study: Implementing MT for the Translation of Pre-sales Marketing and Post-sales Software Deployment Documentation at Mycom International

    • Jeffrey Allen
    Pages 1-6

  3. A Speech-to-Speech Translation System for Catalan, Spanish, and English

    • Victoria Arranz, Elisabet Comelles, David Farwell, Climent Nadeu, Jaume Padrell, Albert Febrer et al.
    Pages 7-16

  4. Multi-align: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Techniques to Improve Alignments for Adaptable MT

    • Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr, Nizar Habash
    Pages 17-26

  5. A Modified Burrows-Wheeler Transform for Highly Scalable Example-Based Translation

    • Ralf D. Brown
    Pages 27-36

  6. Designing a Controlled Language for the Machine Translation of Medical Protocols: The Case of English to Chinese

    • Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield, Xiaohong Wu
    Pages 37-47

  7. Normalizing German and English Inflectional Morphology to Improve Statistical Word Alignment

    • Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon
    Pages 48-57

  8. System Description: A Highly Interactive Speech-to-Speech Translation System

    • Mike Dillinger, Mark Seligman
    Pages 58-63

  9. A Fluency Error Categorization Scheme to Guide Automated Machine Translation Evaluation

    • Debbie Elliott, Anthony Hartley, Eric Atwell
    Pages 64-73

  10. Online MT Services and Real Users’ Needs: An Empirical Usability Evaluation

    • Federico Gaspari
    Pages 74-85

  11. Counting, Measuring, Ordering: Translation Problems and Solutions

    • Stephen Helmreich, David Farwell
    Pages 86-93

  12. Feedback from the Field: The Challenge of Users in Motion

    • L. Hernandez, J. Turner, M. Holland
    Pages 94-101

  13. The Georgetown-IBM Experiment Demonstrated in January 1954

    • W. John Hutchins
    Pages 102-114

  14. Pharaoh: A Beam Search Decoder for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Models

    • Philipp Koehn
    Pages 115-124

  15. The PARS Family of Machine Translation Systems for Dutch System Description/Demonstration

    • Edward A. Kool, Michael S. Blekhman, Andrei Kursin, Alla Rakova
    Pages 125-129

  16. Rapid MT Experience in an LCTL (Pashto)

    • Craig Kopris
    Pages 130-133

  17. The Significance of Recall in Automatic Metrics for MT Evaluation

    • Alon Lavie, Kenji Sagae, Shyamsundar Jayaraman
    Pages 134-143

  18. Alignment of Bilingual Named Entities in Parallel Corpora Using Statistical Model

    • Chun-Jen Lee, Jason S. Chang, Thomas C. Chuang
    Pages 144-153

  19. Weather Report Translation Using a Translation Memory

    • Thomas Leplus, Philippe Langlais, Guy Lapalme
    Pages 154-163

  20. Keyword Translation from English to Chinese for Multilingual QA

    • Frank Lin, Teruko Mitamura
    Pages 164-176
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The previous conference in this series (AMTA 2002) took up the theme “From Research to Real Users”, and sought to explore why recent research on data-driven machine translation didn’t seem to be moving to the marketplace. As it turned out, the ?rst commercial products of the data-driven research movement were just over the horizon, andintheinterveningtwoyearstheyhavebeguntoappearinthemarketplace. Atthesame time,rule-basedmachinetranslationsystemsareintroducingdata-driventechniquesinto the mix in their products. Machine translation as a software application has a 50-year history. There are an increasing number of exciting deployments of MT, many of which will be exhibited and discussed at the conference. But the scale of commercial use has never approached the estimates of the latent demand. In light of this, we reversed the question from AMTA 2002, to look at the next step in the path to commercial success for MT. We took user needs as our theme, and explored how or whether market requirements are feeding into research programs. The transition of research discoveries to practical use involves te- nicalquestionsthatarenotassexyasthosethathavedriventheresearchcommunityand research funding. Important product issues such as system customizability, computing resource requirements, and usability and ?tness for particular tasks need to engage the creativeenergiesofallpartsofourcommunity,especiallyresearch,aswemovemachine translation from a niche application to a more pervasive language conversion process. Thesetopicswereaddressedattheconferencethroughthepaperscontainedinthesep- ceedings, and even more speci?cally through several invited presentations and panels.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Robert E. Frederking

  • Intelligence Technology Innovation Center, Washington, USA

    Kathryn B. Taylor

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