Main Conference

Wednesday, September 24

8h45-9h	International Ballroom Welcoming Remarks: Eduard Hovy, General Chair Elliott Macklovitch, Program Chair Florence Reeder, Local Arrangements Chair
9h-10h	Invited Speaker: Donald Barabé, Translation Bureau, Public Works and Government Services Canada "Soaring Demand, Shrinking Supply in Translation: How We Plan to Make Ends Meet"
10h-10h30	Break
	International Ballroom	Grand Ballroom	Bayou II/IV
10h30-12h	Statistical MT-1 The CMU Statistical MT System; S. Vogel et al. Syntax-based Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation; E. Charniak et al. Improving Translation Models by Applying Asymmetric Learning; S. Yamada et al.	Lexical Issues-1 Lexical Knowledge Representation with Contextonyms; H. Ji et al. Collocation Extraction for MT; B. Orliac & M. Dillinger Automatic Extraction of Bilingual Collocations Using Recursive Chain-link-type Learning; H. Echizenya et al.	System Presentations-1 LTC Communicator; P. Nozay & A. Rinsche SYSTRAN Review Manager; J-C. Costa & C. Panissod An Integrated System for Source Language Checking, Analysis and Term Management; E. Nyberg et al.
12h-13h30	Lunch
13h30-15h	Evaluation-1 Experimental Comparison of MT Evaluation Methods: Red vs Bleu; Y. Akiba et al. The Limits of N-gram Translation Evaluation Metrics; C. Culy & S. Riehemann A Novel String-to-string Distance Measure with Applications to MT Evaluation; G. Leusch et al	User Studies Testing Prompt: The Development of a Rapid Post-Editing Service at CLS; C. Hyland Customizing Complex Lexical Entries for High-Quality MT; R. Zajac et al. Identification of Divergence for English to Hindi EBMT; D. Gupta & N. Chatterjee.	System Presentations-2 MATS - A Glass Box Machine Translation System; A. Sågvall Hein et al. Translation of Words in Context; E. Wehrli Matador: Online Spanish-English GHMT; N. Habash
15h-15h30	Break
15h30-17h	EBMT Reducing Boundary Friction using Translation Fragment Overlap; R. Brown et al. Controlled Generation in EBMT; N. Gough & A. Way Statistical MT Techniques within Memory-based Translation System (AMETRA); D. Ortíz et al.	Lexical Issues-2 SYSTRAN Intuitive Coding Technology; J. Senellart et al. Evaluation of A Method of Creating New Valency Entries; F. Bond & S. Fujita A Hybrid Approach to Deriving Selectional Preferences; A. Bernth & M. McCord	System Presentations-3 Implementation of Collaborative Translation Environment: Yakushite Net; T. Murata et al. MultiTrans; D. Gervais Scalability in MT Systems; E. Maier & A. Clarke

Thursday, September 25

9h-10h	International Ballroom Invited Speaker: Akitoshi Okumura, NEC Corporation, Japan "Development of Speech Translation for Hand-held Devices"
10h-10h30	Break
	International Ballroom	Grand Ballroom	Bayou II/IV
10h30-12h	Statistical MT-2 An Algorithm for Word-level Alignment of Parallel Dependency Trees; Y. Ding et al. Confidence Measures for Statistical Machine Translation; N. Ueffing et al. Example-based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation; T. Watanabe & E. Sumita	Speech Translation Example-based Rough Translation for Speech-to-speech Translation; M. Shimohata et al. Communicative Strategies … in a Speech-to-Speech Translation System; S. Burger et al. Evaluating Commercial Spoken Language Translation Software; H.Somers & Y. Sugita	System Presentations-4 Foreign Language Resource Centre; J. DeCamp CatVar: A Database of Categorial Variations for English; N. Habash & B. Dorr Practical MT System Allowing Complex Patterns; M. Kitamura & T. Murata
12h-13h30	Lunch
13h30-15h	Evaluation-2 Evaluation of Machine Translation and its Evaluation; J. Turian, L. Shen, I.Dan Melamed Correlating Automated and Human Assessments of MT Quality; D. Coughlin An Experiment in Comparative Evaluation: humans vs. computers; A. Popescu-Belis	Japanese Analysis Resolving ‘Incognito’ Ellipsis; S. Nariyama Transliteration Considering Context Information Based on the Maximum Entropy Method; I. Goto et al. Translation Selection for Japanese-English Noun-Noun Compounds; T. Tanaka & T. Baldwin	System Presentations-5 A System for Japanese/ English/ Korean Multilingual Patent Retrieval; M. Makita et al. Word Order Transfer in English-to-Vietnamese Machine Translation; D. Dien et al. AnglaHindi: An English to Hindi Machine-Aided Translation System; R.M.K. Sinha & A. Jain
15h-15h30	Break
15h30-17h	Resources Auto. Predicate Argument Structure Analysis of the Penn Chinese Treebank; N. Xue & S. Kulick Acquisition of Bilingual MT Lexicons from OCRed Dictionaries; B. Karagol-Ayan et al. Building a Parallel Corpus for Monologue with Clause Alignment; H. Kashioka et al.	Generation High quality MT using machine-learned sentence realization; M. Smets et al. Matador: A Large-Scale Spanish-English GHMT System; N. Habash Combining decision trees and transformation-based learning to correct transferred linguistic representations; S. Corston-Oliver & M. Gamon	System Presentations-6 The JHU 2003 Chinese-English Machine Translation System; W. Byrne et al. TransType2: A New Paradigm for Translation Automation; A.S. Valderrábanos et al. Language Weaver: The Next Generation of Machine Translation” B. Benjamin et al.
17h-18h	Grand Ballroom IAMT General Members Meeting

Friday, September 26

9h-10h	International Ballroom Invited Speaker: Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble "Multilingual Document Processing at XRCE"
10h-10h30	Break
	International Ballroom	Grand Ballroom	Bailey's
10h30-12h	Evaluation-3 Has machine translation improved? Some historical comparisons; J. Hutchins FEMTI: Creating and Using a Framework for MT Evaluation; M. King et al. A Fine-grained Evaluation Framework for MT System Development; N. Correa	English Analysis Disambiguation of English PP-Attachment using Multilingual Aligned Data; L. Schwartz et al. Source Language Diagnostics for MT; T. Mitamura et al. Word Sense Discovery Based on Sense Descriptor Dissimilarity; R. Rapp	Varia Multilingual Translation via Annotated Hub Language; H. Kanayama & H. Watanabe A Multi-Language Translation Example Browser; I. Goto et al. XML Machine Translation; J. Senellart et al.
12h-13h30	Lunch
13h30-15h	Translation Memory A Unified Statistical Model for Generalized Translation Memory System; J-X. Huang et al. A Simple Multilingual Machine Translation System; J. Hajic et al. Predictive Models of Performance in Multi-Engine Machine Translation; T. Nomoto	Rapid Deployment Rapid Response MT for Unexpected Languages; D. Oard & F. Och Statistical Machine Translation: Rapid Development with Limited Resources; G. Foster et al. Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Data-Oriented Translation; M. Hearne & A. Way	Asian Languages BTL: A Hybrid Model for English-Vietnamese Machine Translation; D. Dien et al. Long Sentences in a Sentence Pattern-based English-Korean MT System; Y-H. Roh et al. Translation of News Headlines; K. Ono
15h-15h30	Break
15h30-17h	International Ballroom Panel Discussion: “Have We Found the Holy Grail?”
17h-17h15	Closing Session: Eduard Hovy, General Chair