Papers and Presentations accepted for AMTA 2008
Title	Author(s)	Organization(s)
Can MT really help the Department of Defense?	Nicholas Bemish	Defense Intelligence Agency
The Triple-Advantage Factor of MT: Cost, Time-to-Market, and FAUT	Will Burgett & Julie Chang	Intel Corporation
Bringing humans into the loop: Localization with MT at Traslán	Declan Groves	Traslán Translation Technology
Machine Translation 2008: Science meets Solution	Mark Tapling	Language Weaver
MT for the Second Billion Internet Users	Dion Wiggins	Asia Online
Spanish-to-Basque MultiEngine Machine Translation for a Restricted Domain	Iñaki Alegria, Arantza Casillas, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Jon Igartua, Gorka Labaka, Mikel Lersundi, Aingeru Mayor & Kepa Sarasola	University of the Basque Country
Exploiting Document-Level Context for Data-Driven Machine Translation	Ralf Brown	Carnegie-Mellon
Shallow-Syntax Phrase-Based Translation: Joint versus Factored String-to-Chunk Models	Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico, Daniele Pighin & Nicola Bertoldi	Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Discriminative, Syntactic Language Modeling through Latent SVMs	Colin Cherry & Chris Quirk	Microsoft Research
Translation universals: do they exist? A corpus-based NLP study of convergence and simplification	Gloria Corpas Pastor, Ruslan Mitkov, Naveed Afzal, & Viktor Pekar	University of Málaga/University of Wolverhampton/OUP
Computing multiple weighted reordering hypotheses for a phrase-based statistical machine translation system	Marta R. Costa-jussà & José A. R. Fonollosa	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Overcoming Vocabulary Sparsity in MT Using Lattices	Steve DeNeefe, Ulf Hermjakob & Kevin Knight	University of Southern California/ISI
Toward the Evaluation of Machine Translation Using Patent Information	Atsushi Fujii, Masao Utiyama, Mikio Yamamoto & Takehito Utsuro	University of Tsukuba
Automatic Learning of Morphological Variations for Handling Out-of-Vocabulary Terms in Urdu-English MT	Nizar Habash & Hayden Metsky	Columbia University
A Generalized Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation	Yanqing He & Chengqing Zong	Chinese Academy of Sciences
A truly multilingual, high coverage, accurate, yet simple, subsentential alignment method	Adrien Lardilleux & Yves Lepage	Université de Caen
Large-scale Discriminative n-gram Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation	Zhifei Li & Sanjeev Khudanpur	Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
Are Multiple Reference Translations Necessary? Investigating the Value of Paraphrased Reference Translations in Parameter Optimization	Nitin Madnani, Philip Resnik, Bonnie J. Dorr & Richard Schwartz	University of Maryland
Integrating a Phrase-based SMT Model and a Bilingual Lexicon for Semi-Automatic Acquisition of Technical Term Translation Lexicons	Yohei Morishita, Takehito Utsuro & Mikio Yamamoto	University of Tsukuba
Linguistically-motivated Tree-based Probabilistic Phrase Alignment	Toshiaki Nakazawa & Sadao Kurohashi	Univeristy of Tokyo/Kyoto University
Parsers as language models for statistical machine translation	Matt Post & Daniel Gildea	University of Rochester
A Statistical Analysis of Automated MT Evaluation Metrics for Assessments in Task-Based MT Evaluation	Calandra R. Tate	Army Research Laboratory
Wider Pipelines: N-Best Alignments and Parses in MT Training	Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Noah A. Smith & Stephan Vogel	Carnegie-Mellon University
Improving English-to-Chinese Translation for Technical Terms using Morphological Information	Xianchao Wu, Naoaki Okazaki, Takashi Tsunakawa & Jun'ichi Tsujii	University of Tokyo
Mining the Web for Domain-Specific Translations	Jian-Cheng Wu, Peter Wei-Huai Hsu, Chiung-Hui Tseng & Jason S. Chang	National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan
Two-Stage Translation: A Combined Linguistic and Statistical Machine Translation Framework	Yushi Xu & Stephanie Seneff	MIT/CSAIL
Improving Syntax-Driven Translation Models by Re-structuring Divergent and Non-isomorphic Parse Tree Structures	Vamshi Ambati & Alon Lavie	Carnegie Mellon/LTI
Using Bilingual Chinese-English Word Alignments to Resolve PP-attachment Ambiguity in English	Victoria Fossum & Kevin Knight	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Combination of Machine Translation Systems via Hypothesis Selection from Combined N-Best Lists	Almut Silja Hildebrand & Stephan Vogel	Carnegie Mellon/InterACT
The Value of Machine Translation for the Professional Translator	Elina Lagoudaki	Imperial College London
Diacritization as a Machine Translation and Sequence Labeling Problem	Tim Schlippe, ThuyLinh Nguyen & Stephan Vogel	Carnegie Mellon/InterACT
Multi-Source Translation Methods	Lane Schwartz	University of Minnesota
Machine Translation for Triage and Exploitation of Massive Text Data	James E. Andrews & Kristen Summers	National Ground Intelligence Center
Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN)	Michael Blench	Public Health Agency of Canada
Large-scale deployment of statistical machine translation at Microsoft	Andreas Bode & Chris Wendt	Microsoft
Sharing User Dictionaries Across Multiple Systems with UTX-S	Francis Bond, Seiji Okura, Yuji Yamamoto, Toshiki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Michael Kato, Miwako Shimazu, Tsugiyoshi Suzuki	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, et al.
Many-to-Many Multilingual Medical Speech Translation on a PDA	Pierrette Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Maria Georgescul, Sonia Halimi, Beth Ann Hockey, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Yukie Nakao, Manny Rayner, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander & Nikos Tsourakis	University of Geneva/ISSCO, et al.
MT errors in Chinese-to-English MT systems	Shin Chang-Meadows	CTWG
Foreign Media Collaboration Framework (FMCF)	Garin Clint	Northrop Grumman
Working with the US Government: Information Resources	Jennifer DeCamp	MITRE
The Language Technology Resource Center	Jennifer DeCamp	MITRE
Reliable Innovation: A Tecchie's Travels in the Land of Translators	Alain Désilets, Louise Brunette, Christiane Melançon, & Geneviève Patenaude	National Reseach Council of Canada, Université du Québec en Outaouais
Automated Machine Translation Improvement Through Post-Editing Techniques: Analyst and Translator Experiments	Jennifer Doyon, Christine Doran, C. Donald Means, & Domenique Parr	Abraxas Corp / MITRE
Lessons Learned on Transitioning MT from Research to Users	Lee Ann Dudney	PNNL
User-centered MT Development and Implementation	Kathleen Egan, Francis Kubala & Allen Sears	TSWG
Identifying Common Challenges for Human and Machine Translation: A Case Study from the GALE Program	Lauren Friedman & Stephanie Strassel	Linguistic Data Consortium
Automatic Translation of Court Judgments	Fabrizio Gotti, Guy Lapalme, Elliott Macklovitch, & Atefeh Farzindar	Laboratoire RALI
Designing and executing MT workflows through the Kepler Framework	Reginald Hobbs & Clare Voss	ARL
ClipperRSS: A Light-Weight Prototype for the Cross-language Exploitation of Syndicated Feeds	Rod Holland & Brenden Keyes	MITRE
Trends in automated translation in today’s global business	Sophie Hurst	SDL International
MT for Indonesian and Tagalog	Brianna Laugher & Ben MacLeod	ToggleText
Real-time translation of IM Chat	Robert Levin	Transclick
TransSearch: What are translators looking for?	Elliott Macklovitch, Guy Lapalme & Fabrizio Gotti	Université de Montréal/Laboratoire RALI
Connecting Consumers to User Generated Content with Machine Translation	Daniel Marcu	Language Weaver
Human vs. Machine: Competition or Collaboration?	Daniel Marcu	Language Weaver
MT API Standards	Marianna Martindale	CAMT
The GALE/MADCAT Program	Joe Olive	DARPA
The Use of Machine-generated Transcripts during Human Translation	Allison L. Powell & Allison Blodgett	CNRI/CASL
Meeting Army Foreign language Requirements with the Aid of Machine Translation	Cecil MacPherson, Devin Rollis, Irene Zehmisch	USAIC/Fort Huachuca
Hybrid Machine Translation Applied to Media Monitoring	Hassan Sawaf, Braddock Gaskill & Michael Veronis	AppTek
Artificial Cognitive MT Post-Editing Intelligence	Jörg Schütz	Bioloom Group
Machine Translation for Analysis and Investigation	Kristen Summers	CACI
Embedding Technology at the front end of the Human Translation Workflow: An NTSC Vision	Carol Van Ess-Dykema, Helen G. Gigley, Stephen Lewis & Emily Vancho Bannister	National Virtual Translation Center
The Asia Online Automated Translation Platform	Kirti Vashee	Asia Online
Applicability of Resource-based Machine Translation to Airplane Manuals	Eiko Yamamoto, Akira Terada, & Hitoshi Isahara	Kobe University
Applications of MT during Olympic Games 2008	Chengqing Zong, Heyan Huang & Shuming Shi	Chinese Academy of Sciences/Hugian Group