http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mtsummit.html
Call for Participation:
It's not too late to register for the conference or reserve a room
at the Catamaran Resort in San Diego! Detailed program now available -
reproduced below. Contact, hotel, and registration information appear
at the end of this bulletin.
Overview: The following schedule gives an overview of the conference and
related events:
Tuesday, 28 October: 12-hour excursion to Ensenada;
all-day workshops on Interlinguas/Data Interchange Standards
Wednesday, 29 October: 3-hour tutorials in morning and afternoon;
registration;
opening of exhibits 6:30 p.m.
reception, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Thursday, 30 October: Plenary and parallel sessions, 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.;
exhibits, 10:00-5:30 p.m.;
boat cruise, 6:00-7:30 p.m.;
beach luau, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, 31 October: Plenary and parallel sessions, 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.;
exhibits, 10:00-5:30 p.m.;
boat to banquet leaves at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, 1 November: Plenary and parallel sessions, 9:00a.m.-5:30 p.m.;
exhibits, 10:30-3:00 p.m.
Detailed Program:
29 October
9:00-12:00
TUTORIAL: A Gentle Introduction to MT: Theory and Current Practice
E. HOVY, ISI
TUTORIAL: Making MT Work for You
M. LEÓN, PAHO
14:001-17:00
TUTORIAL: MT Evaluation: Old, New, and Recycled Methods
J. WHITE, PRC
TUTORIAL: Post-editing MT
K. SPALINK, Internationalization and Translation Services, Inc.
18:30-19:30
50TH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION!
30 October
8:30-8:45
OPENING SESSION
M. VASCONCELLOS & W. S. BENNETT
8:45-9:45
KEYNOTE: MT and The Net: Into the 21st Century
T. PEDTKE, NAIC
9:45-10:15
PLENARY SESSION: First Steps in Mechanical Translation
J. HUTCHINS, East Anglia
10:15-10:30
BREAK
10:30-12:30
PANEL: Pioneers of Machine Translation
Moderator: M. VASCONCELLOS
A. BOOTH, P. TOMA, R. HELLER, V. YNGVE
I. MELCUK, C. MONTGOMERY
12:30-13:30
LUNCH
13:30-14:00
IAMT Six Years After
M. NAGAO, Kyoto Univ.
A Real-Time MT System for Translating Broadcast Captions
E. NYBERG, CMU
14:00-15:00
MT from the Production Perspective
M. FLANAGAN, CompuServe
F. BRUCKERT, Logos
(Parallel Session)
Users' Experiences: SAP and MT
D. GRASMICK, SAP & C. PYNE
15:00-15:15
BREAK
15:15-16:15
Using MT in a Corporate Setting
L. CREMERS, Océ
C. KAMPRATH, Caterpillar
(Parallel Session)
Common Formats of User Dictionary for MT Systems
SHINICHIRO KAMEI, NEC
JEIDA's Bilingual Corpus and Other Corpora for NLP Research in
Japan
H. ISAHARA
16:15-17:15
R&D for Commercial MT
G. THURMAIR, GMS
L. GERBER, SYSTRAN
(Parallel Session)
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: CompuServe
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: Globalink
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: ALIS Technologies
18:00-19:30
STERNWHEELER CRUISE
19:30-22:00
LUAU on the beach
31 October
9:00-9:45
PLENARY SESSION: Current State of MT
H. SOMERS, UMIST
9:45-10:00
BREAK
10:00-11:30
The Shape of Commercial MT Systems
T. LÜCK, Logos
D. GACHOT, SYSTRAN
H. HAGERTY, B. GARR, J. O'HARA , Globalink
(Parallel Session)
PARS/U for Windows
M. BLEKHMAN, Ukraine
Multi-lingual Spoken Dialog Translation System
H. MIMA, O. FURUSE & H. IIDA, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications
Research Laboratories
>From METAL to T1 Systems and Components for Machine
Translation Applications
U. SCHWALL, GMS
11:30-13:00
LUNCH
13:00-14:00
MT R&D in Asia
H. TANAKA, Tokyo Institute of Technology
K-Y. SU, BDC
(Parallel Session)
MT from an Everyday User’s Point of View
A. BECH, Lingtech AS
Translating Scientific Texts Using MT and MAT Systems
O. BEZHANOVA, Ukraine
14:00-15:00
Production MT in the Public Agencies
D. THEOLOGITIS, EC
J. ROSS, FBIS
(Parallel Session)
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: Logos Corporation
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: LANT
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: Trados
15:30-16:00
BREAK
16:00-17:00
IAMT GENERAL ASSEMBLY
18:00
BANQUET
1 November
9:00-9:30
PLENARY SESSION: Whither MT?
B. MAEGAARD, CST
9:30-10:30
MT R&D IN NORTH AMERICA
E. HOVY, ISI
E. MACKLOVITCH, Montréal
(Parallel Session)
SYSTRAN MT Dictionary Development
J. YANG, SYSTRAN
MT as a commercial service: three case studies
T. LEWIS, Hook & Hatton Ltd
10:30-10:45
BREAK
10:45-11:45
What Do Users Need from MT Systems?
E. WESTFALL, MCS
M. MARUBIO, Logos
(Parallel Session)
Java and its role in Natural Language Processing and Machine
Translation
T. READ, Granada
End-to-end Evaluation in VERBMOBIL I
R. NÜBEL, IAI
11:45-13:00
LUNCH
13:00-14:00
MT R&D in Europe
P. QUARTIER, Lotus
R. HAVENITH, EC
(Parallel Session)
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: STYLUS
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: PAHO
14:00-15:00
The MT Market Perspective
B. MILLER, MCS
C. BRACE, LIM
(Parallel Session)
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: DIPLOMAT
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: MULTIDOC
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: ESTEAM
SYSTEM PRESENTATION: SYSTRAN
15:00-16:00
BREAK
16:00-16:30
CLOSING SESSION: S. NIRENBURG, NMSU
16:30-16:45
FINAL REMARKS
Site and Accommodations:
The Catamaran Resort Hotel. The special conference rates are
US$ 99.00 for an interior garden view and
US$ 109.00 for a view of the bay or ocean.
Participants should make their reservations directly with the
Catamaran-in the U.S.: +1 800/288-0770; from Canada: 800/233-
8172; from elsewhere: +1 619/488-1081; fax: +1 619/488-1619.
Neither space nor rates can be guaranteed after 28 September, so
make your reservation early!
Get There for Less!
Conventions in America, the Summit's official travel agency,
offers discounts on American Airlines and Alamo Rent A Car and
lowest available fares on any airline. Call +1 800/929-4242 in
the United States and Canada or +1 619/453-3686 from elsewhere;
fax +1 619/453-7976; or e-mail flycia@scitravel.com. Be sure to
mention Group #547.
Additional Information:
Complete registration packets were mailed at the beginning of
June to members of AAMT, AMTA, and EAMT, including the
preliminary program flier, hotel registration form, and assorted
other fliers. If you are not a member of one of the regional
associations, you may obtain this packet by contacting the MT
Summit VI Registrar: phone/fax: +1 703/716-0912; e-mail:
AMTA@clark.net. You may also register on-line at this Website.
Coordinates:
General Chair
Muriel Vasconcellos
President, IAMT
Phone: +1 619/272-3360
Fax: +1 619/272-3361
E-mail: MurielVasconcellos@
compuserve.com
Program Chair
Winfield Scott Bennett
Logos Corporation
Phone: +1 201/398-8710 x 104
Fax: +1 201/398-6102
E-mail: wsben@ibm.net
Local Arrangements Chair
Laurie Gerber
Systran Software
Phone: +1 619/459-6700 x 119
Fax: +1 619/459-8487
E-mail: lgerber@systransoft.com
Exhibits Coordinator
Kim Belvin
Phone: +1 619/481-8446
Fax: +1 619/350-8613
E-mail: kbelvin@ucsd.edu
Registrar
Deborah Becker
AMTA/IAMT Focal Point
Phone/fax: +703/716-0912
E-mail: AMTA@clark.net