Research Track - Alignment Plus Symbolic Techniques

• Multi-Align: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Techniques to Improve Alignments for Adaptable MT - Necip Fazil Ayan
  
• Normalizing German and English Inflectional Morphology to Improve Statistical Word Alignment - Simon Corston-Oliver

User's Track - Operational Requirements

• Feedback from the Field: The Challenge of Users in Motion - Luis Hernandez, Army Research Lab
  
• On-line MT Services and Real User's Needs: an Empirical Usability Evaluation - Federico Gaspari, UMIST

System Descriptions/ Demos

• DeText: Multilingual Semantic Concept Detection Using Relationship Analysis - Howard J. Bender, Any Language Communications, Inc.
  
• The PARS Family of Machine Translation Systems for Dutch - Edward Kool, Lingvistica b.v.

Research Track - Evaluation

• The Contributions of End Users to the TransType2 Project - Elliott Macklovich
  
• The Significance of Recall in Automatic Metrics for MT Evaluation - Alon Lavie, CMU
  
• A fluency error categorisation scheme to guide automated machine translation evaluation - Debbie Elliott
  
• Investigation of Intelligibility Judgements - Flo Reeder
  

Q&A will follow presentations

User's Track - MT in a Commercial Setting

• Machine translation of a large online repository of product support articles - Steve Richardson, Microsoft Corp.
  
• Maintenance Issues for Machine Translation Applications - Nestor Rychtyckyj, Ford Motor Co.

- Case Study

• MT at the State Department - Glenn Johnson

System Descriptions/ Demos

• Rapid MT Experience in a Less Commonly Taught Language (Pashto), Craig Kopris, Apptek.
  
• A Highly Interactive Speech-to-Speech Translation System - Mike Dillinger and Mark Seligman, Spoken Translation, Inc.
  

User's Track - Controlled Language

• Designing a Controlled Language for the Machine Translation of Medical Protocols: the Case of English to Chinese - Silvaine Cardey, Centre L. Tesniere

Research Track - Phrase Extraction

• Extraction of Name and Transliteration in Monolingual and Parallel Corpora - Tracy Lin
  
• Alignment of Bilingual Named Entities in Parallel Corpora Using Statistical Model - Chun-Jen Lee
  

System Descriptions/ Demos

• MTM Linguasoft - Myriam Siftar
  
• MultiCorpora R&D, Inc.
  
• CLS
  

Keynote: "Foreign Language Tools and Machine Translation -- Critical Enablers in Meeting the Intelligence Challenge"
Larry Brisky, Program Manager, Foreign Language Activities, Office of the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production

Georgetown Pioneers Panel Discussion

Early History of MT - Lessons Learned
Tony Brown, Christine Montgomery, Muriel Vasconcellos, Michael Zarechnak

Moderator:  Inderjeet Mani, Georgetown University

Research and Deployment Showcase

An opportunity to see MT Prototypes from university groups as well as working MT systems that have been integrated into multifunctional "solutions". Showcase systems will be available continuously for demonstration during the showcase.

Deployed system incorporating MT - From

• Arabic Document Exploitation - Mohomine
• Arabic Now - Northrop Grumann/U.S. Gov't
• ArborScript - NovoDynamics
• CAST - MITRE/DARPA
• Compadre - SpeechGear
• Converser - Spoken Translation
• Cybertrans - DOD
• DHDS (document eploitation) - CACI/ NGIC
• DLIPS - Northrop Grumman/NASIC
• eViTAP - Virage/DARPA
• FALCON - ARL
• FLRC - MITRE/DOD/LASER
• Geonode, TRIM, China Clipper - MITRE
• MAPS and Translator Aids - NVTC/DARPA
• MiTAP - Mitre/DARPA
• Task-Based MT Evaluation - ARL/CASL
  

Research System/Program - From

• LOGON - Oslo University
• TDG-DRB - CMU
• TransType2 - University of Montréal
• MASTOR - IBM

Walking Tour of Historic Georgetown

Transportation to Union Station for Banquet Attendees

Research Track - Interlingua Design

• Interlingual Annotation for MT Development - A Progress Report - Flo Reeder

- Learning Rules

• Error analysis of Two Types of Grammar for the Purpose of Automatic Rule Refinement - Ariadna Font Llitjos
  
• A Structurally Diverse Minimal Corpus for Eliciting Structural Mappings between Languages - Katharina Probst

Research Track - SMT Decoding/ Alignment

• Improving Domain-Specific Word Alignment with a General Bilingual Corpus - Hua Wu
  
• Pharaoh: A Beam Search Decoder for Phrase-Based SMT - Philipp Koehn

- Keyword Translation

• Keyword Translation from English to Chinese for Multilingual Question Answering- Frank Lin

System Description/Demos

• Apptek
  
• Language Weaver
  
• Sakhr, USA

Panel Discussion: Students of translation and Students of CL/NLP

Moderator: Elliott Macklovich, Univ. of Montreal/RALI
Panelists: Luis Cerezo Ceballos, Georgetown U.; Ed Kenschaft, Univ. of Maryland; Thomas Leplus, Univ. of Montréal; Irina Smirnova, Univ. of Ottawa; Adam Wooten, Monterey Inst. Of International Studies

Research Track - Symbolic MT Theory

• Counting, Measuring, Ordering: Translation Problems and Solutions - Steve Heimreich
  

- Symbolic MT - Specific Language Pairs

• An Experiment on Japanese-Uighur Machine Translation and Its Evaluation - Muhtar Mahsut
  
• A Super-Function Based Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation System for Business - Xin Zhao

• A Modified Burrows-Wheeler Transform for Highly Scalable Example-Based Translation - Ralf Brown
  
• Weather Report Translation using a Translation Memory - Thomas Leplus

Lexical Data Exchange Standards

• Integrating a Standard for MT Lexical Data Exchange: Comments on Implementing OLIF - Susan McCormick

System Description/Demos

• Cybertrans - Dave Savignac
  
• A Speech-to-Speech Translation System for Catalan, Spanish and English - Victoria Arranz