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AMTA-2004
The 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
Georgetown University, Washington DC
September 28 - October 2, 2004
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Research Papers:

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Multi-Align: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Techniques to  Improve Alignments for Adaptable MT Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie Dorr, Nizar Habash (University of Maryland)
A Modified Burrows-Wheeler Transform for Highly Scalable Example-Based Translation Ralf D. Brown (CMU/LTI)
Normalizing German and English inflectional morphology to improve statistical word alignment Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon (Microsoft Research)
A Fluency Error Categorisation Scheme to Guide Automated Machine Translation Evaluation Debbie Elliott, Anthony Hartley, Eric Atwell (University of Leeds, UK)
Error analysis of Two Types of Grammar for the Purpose of Automatic Rule Refinement Ariadna Font Llitjos, Katharina Probst, Jaime G. Carbonell (CMU/LTI)
Counting, Measuring, Ordering: Translation Problems and Solutions Stephen Helmreich, David Farwell (NMSU/CRL)
Pharaoh: A Beam Search Decoder for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Models Philipp Koehn (MIT)
Weather Report Translation using a Translation Memory Philippe Langlais, Thomas Leplus, Guy Lapalme(Université de Montréal/RALI, Canada)
The Significance of Recall in Automatic Metrics for MT Evaluation Alon Lavie (CMU/LTI)
Alignment of Bilingual Named Entities in Parallel Corpora Using Statistical Model Chun-Jen Lee (Telecommunication Labs., Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., Taiwan), Jason S. Chang (Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Keyword Translation from English to Chinese for Multilingual QA Frank Lin, Teruko Mitamura (CMU/LTI)
Extraction of Name and Transliteration in Monolingual and Parallel Corpora Tracy Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), Jian-Cheng Wu, Jason S. Chang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
The Contribution of End Users to the TransType2 Project Elliott Macklovitch (Université de Montréal/RALI, Canada)
An Experiment on Japanese-Uighur Machine Translation and Its Evaluation Muhtar Mahsut (Nagoya University, Japan)
A structurally diverse minimal corpus for eliciting structuralmappings between languages Katharina Probst (CMU/LTI)
Investigation of Intelligibility Judgments Florence Reeder (MITRE Corporation/George Mason University)
Interlingual Annotation for MT Development Florence Reeder (MITRE Corporation), Bonnie Dorr(University of Maryland), David Farwell (NMSU/CRL), Nizar Habash (University of Maryland), Stephen Helmreich (NMSU/CRL), Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI), Lori Levin, Teruko Mitamura(CMU/LTI), Keith Miller (MITRE Corporation), Owen Rambow, Advaith Siddharthan (Columbia University)
Improving Domain-Specific Word Alignment with a General Bilingual Corpus Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang (Toshiba (China) Research and Development Center)
A Super-Function Based Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation System for Business Users Xin Zhao, Fuji Ren (University of Tokushima, Japan), Stefan Voss (University of Hamburg, Germany)


Research Paper Program Committee:

Chair: Robert Frederking (CMU/LTI)

Arendse Bernth (IBM Research)
Christian Boitet (GETA, CLIPS, IMAG, UJF, Grenoble)
Ralf Brown (CMU/LTI)
Michael Carl (IAI, Univ. of Saarbruecken)
Colin Cherry (Univ. of Alberta)
Bill Dolan (Microsoft Research)
Bonnie Dorr (Univ. of Maryland)
Stephen Helmreich (NMSU/CRL)
Graeme Hirst (Univ. of Toronto)
Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI)
Pierre Isabelle (XRCE)
Richard Kittredge (Univ. de Montréal & CoGenTex)
Kevin Knight (USC/ISI)
Alon Lavie (CMU/LTI)
Lori Levin (CMU/LTI)
Elliott Macklovitch (RALI/Univ. de Montréal)
Bente Maegaard (CST, Univ. of Copenhagen)
Daniel Marcu (USC/ISI)
Michael McCord (IBM Research)
Dan Melamed (NYU)
Teruko Mitamura (CMU/LTI)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen)
Franz Och (Google, Inc.)
Boyan Onyshkevych (US Department of Defense)
Patrick Pantel (USC/ISI)
Jessie Pinkham (Univ. of Chicago)
Fred Popowich (Axonwave Software Inc.)
Katharina Probst (CMU/LTI)
Steve Richardson (Microsoft Research)
Graham Russell (RALI/Univ. de Montréal)
Harold Somers (UMIST)
Eiichiro Sumita (ATR)
Beth Sundheim (SPAWAR Systems Center)
Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft Research)
Andy Way (Dublin City Univ.)
John White (Northrop Grumman IT)
Kenji Yamada (USC/ISI)
Jin Yang (SYSTRAN)
Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research)

User and System Papers:

Title Author
A Speech-to-Speech Translation System for Catalan, Spanish and English Victoria Arranz, Elisabet Comelles, David Farwell, Climent Nadeu, Jaume Padrell (TALP Research Centre) Albert Febrer  (Applied Technologies on Language and Speech), Dorcas Alexander, Kay Peterson  (Carnegie Mellon University)
DeText: Multilingual Semantic Concept Detection Using Relationship Analysis Howard J. Bender (Any Language Communications, Inc.)
Designing a Controlled Language for the Machine Translation of Medical Protocols: The Case of English to Chinese Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield, Xiaohong Wu (Centre L. Tesniere)
A Highly Interactive Speech-to-Speech Translation System Mike Dillinger, Mark Seligman (Spoken Translation, Inc.)
On-line MT Services and Real Users’ Needs: an Empirical Usability Evaluation Federico Gaspari (Centre for Computational Linguistics - UMIST)
Feedback from the Field: The Challenge of Users in Motion L. Hernandez, J. Turner, M. Holland (Army Research Laboratory)
The PARS Family of Machine Translation Systems for Dutch Edward Kool, Michael Blekhman (Lingvistica b.v.), Andrei Kursin (Lingvistica '98 Inc.), Alla Rakova (Lingvistica b.v.)
Rapid MT Experience in an LCTL (Pashto) Craig Kopris (Applications Technology, Inc.)
Machine translation of online product support articles using a data-driven MT system Stephen D. Richardson (Microsoft Research)
Maintenance Issues for Machine Translation Systems Nestor Rychtyckyj (Ford Motor Company)


User Paper Program Committee:

Chair: Dr. Kathryn Taylor

Dr. Michelle Vanni (Army Research Laboratory)
Dr. Catherine Ball (National Science Foundation)
Joel Ross (BASIS Technologies)
Dr. Patricia O'Neill-Brown

Submission Guidelines:

For those authors whose papers have been accepted, the Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag.

The Authors Instructions are on the following site:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

For any questions, please contact the approriate member of the Organizing Committee.

 



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