October 28-31, 1998
The Sheraton Bucks County Hotel
Langhorne, Pennsylvania
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html
>>>>>Updated Announcement<<<<<
**NEW>> Conference Program Schedule Included!
**NEW>> New Tutorial Added on Ontological Semantics!
**NEW>> New Workshop Added on Chinese Treebank construction!
**NEW>> "MT in the Corporate Setting" Workshop cancelled
Conference organized by
AMTA - Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas is pleased to
convene its third conference in the biennial series, to be held at
the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel in Langhorne, PA, on 28-31 October,
with tutorials and welcoming reception on Wednesday, October 28, and
pre-conference workshops scheduled for Tuesday October 27th.
Following on the success of last year's MT Summit, which commemorated
the 50th anniversary of machine translation, AMTA invites all who are
interested in any aspect of Machine Translation--developers,
researchers, users, and watchers--to attend the conference in October.
At AMTA-98 we will focus on the multilingual aspects of the diverse
language technologies being used increasingly on the web: Information
Retrieval, Text Summarization, Speech Recognition, and so on. As
usual, the conference will feature invited speakers, panel discussions,
papers by researchers and developers, workshops, tutorials, and more.
Participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations, AAMT in Asia
and EAMT in Europe, is strongly encouraged. And people working in
related areas, such as information retrieval and summarization, are
very welcome to attend.
The full program and registration details are available at
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html
BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM
Featured Speakers
The international business of MT:
Gaston Bastiaens (Lernout & Hauspie)
Intergrating MT with other technologies:
Louis Monier (AltaVista Inc.)
Situating MT in the Information Soup!
Gary Strong (National Science Foundation)
MT-Related technologies:
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research) -- Information Retrieval
Jaime Carbonnell (Carnegie Mellon University)
-- Multilingual Text Summarization
The future of the lexicon:
Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Dan Melamed (West Group)
Panels
1. Breaking the Quality Ceiling (moderator: David Farwell)
2. The Forgotten Majority: Neglected Languages (moderator:
Laurie Gerber)
3. A Seal of Approval for MT Systems (moderator: Eduard Hovy)
Research Papers
See list of accepted papers.
Tutorials
Participants may choose from a number of tutorials to be held in the
morning and the afternoon of Wednesday, 28 October.
***NOTE: NEW TUTORIAL JUST ADDED on Ontological Semantics***
1. Survey of Methodological Approaches to MT -- Harold Somers, UMIST
2. Multilingual Text Summarization -- Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
3. Speech-to-speech Translation -- Monika Woszczyna, CMU
4. MT Evaluation: Old, New and Recycled -- John White, PRC
5. Survey of Language Learning Technologies -- Patricia O'Neill-Brown,
US Dept of Commerce
6. Multilingual Text Retrieval -- Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox/Grenoble
7. **NEW**
Ontological Semantics for Knowledge Based MT -- Sergei Nirenburg,
CRL/NMSU
System Demonstrations
Demonstrations will be given both in a theater-style setting as part
of the regular program and on tabletops, where non-commercial systems
will be presented on an announced schedule. Demonstrations will occur
in parallel with the research paper sessions.
Exhibits
In addition to the scheduled demonstrations, vendor booths will showcase
commercial products on an ongoing basis throughout the conference. If
you would like to exhibit, please fill in the form obtainable via the
web at
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/amta98/exhibitregistration.html
which contains the registration and booth application form.
Alternatively, please contact:
Kimberly K. Belvin
AMTA-98 Exhibits Coordinator
659 Dell St.
Solana Beach, CA 92074
tel: 619-481-8446
fax: 619-350-8613
email: kbelvin@ucsd.edu
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Three pre-conference workshops will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday,
October 27 and 28, from 9:00-5:00:
Tuesday, October 27
1. Second SIG-IL Workshop on Interlinguas and Interlingual Approaches to MT
Organizer: Stephen Helmreich, CRL/NMSU
Contact: Stephen Helmreich (shelmrei@crl.nmsu.edu)
**NOTE** MT in the Corporate Setting WORKSHOP CANCELLED
Wednesday, October 28
2. Embedded MT: Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Systems with an
MT Component
Organizers: Clare Voss, ARL; Tapas Kanungo, University of Maryland;
Ann Brodeen, ARL
Contact: Clare Voss (voss@arl.mil)
3. Chinese Treebank Construction
Organizer: Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
Contact: Martha Palmer (mpalmer@linc.cis.upenn.edu)
RELATED EVENTS
- Wednesday: Welcoming reception in Exhibit Area (complementary)
- Friday: Banquet at the University of Pennsylvania's Palladium Restaurant
- Saturday: Optional tour of historic downtown Philadelphia area:
Independence Mall, Liberty Bell, etc.
ACCOMMODATIONS
The Sheraton Bucks County Hotel, Langhorne, PA.
Conveniently located in an area renowned for its beauty, history and
culture, the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel offers easy access to
Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey. Just off I-95 and Route 1,
northeast of Philadelphia, it is minutes away from planes, trains and
turnpikes, right in the heart of Berenstein Bears countryside. Guests
are surrounded by unique shopping, sightseeing and entertainment
opportunities including Sesame Place, Peddler's Village, and the
Franklin Mills Mall, and minutes away from historic New Hope. Atlantic
City and the Pennsylvania Dutch country are easy day trips.
This recently built, colonial style hotel has 187 rooms. Accommodations
include luxurious suites for corporate lodging and entertaining, and an
executive floor. Spacious guest rooms are soundproof and feature
individually controlled air conditioning, direct two-line touch-tone
phones, cable TV with remote control, and coffee makers. The elegant
hospitality is complete with valet parking, a hair salon for men and
women, valet service, gift shop, video game room, fully-equipped spa
with indoor pool, state-of-the-art exercise equipment, jacuzzi, steam
room and sauna. Further information is available from
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html
TRAVEL
Air travel is available to Philadelphia from all major North American
airports and from many international ones.
Shuttles from airport to hotel:
First Class Airport Transportation Co. runs special rates from the
Philadelphia Aiport to the Sheraton ($23 each one-way for 1 person,
$17.50 each one-way for two people, and $12.50 each one-way for more
than three persons).
Regional rail:
For those coming in by train, the R5 runs from 30th Street Station in
Philadelphia to Langhorne, PA. It costs $4.50 (peak) / $3.75 (off-peak)
one-way. For more information call Septa at 215-580-7800. Tickets
are also always on sale at the station. The approximate costs to take
an Amtrak train (1-way) are:
- Washington DC to Trenton, unreserved $53 ($59 Fri. or Sun.)
- New York City to Trenton, unreserved $27 ($33 Fri. or Sun.)
REGISTRATION FORM
A copy of the AMTA-98 registration form is posted on the Web at
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html
Alternatively, please contact
Debbie Becker
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 300
Washington, DC 20004
USA
Tel/fax: +1-703-716-0912
Email: amta@clark.net
ORGANIZERS
Conference Chair
Eduard Hovy
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
USA
Tel: +1-310-822-1511 ext. 731
Fax: +1-310-823-6714
Email: hovy@isi.edu
Program Chairs
David Farwell Laurie Gerber
Computing Research Laboratory SYSTRAN Software, Inc.
New Mexico State University 7855 Fay Avenue
Box 3001/3CRL Suite 300
Las Cruces, NM 88003 La Jolla, CA 92037
USA USA
Tel: +1-505-646-5108 Tel: +1-619-459-6700
Fax: +1-505-646-6218 Fax: +1-619-459-8487
Email: david@crl.nmsu.edu Email: lgerber@systransoft.com
Local Arrangements Chair Exhibits Coordinator
Martha Palmer Kimberly Kellogg Belvin
Department of Computer Science 659 Dell Street
University of Pennsylvania Solana Beach, CA 92075
200 S. 33rd Street USA
Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: +1-619-481-8446
USA Fax: +1-619-350-8613
Tel: +1-215-898-2661 Email: kbelvin@ucsd.edu
Fax: +1-215-898-0587
Email: mpalmer@linc.cis.upenn.edu
AMTA Focal Point
Deborah Becker
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 300
Washington, DC 20004
USA
Tel/fax: +1-703-716-0912
Email: amta@clark.net
================ CONFERENCE PROGRAM ==================
Please see http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/amta98/program.html .
TUESDAY, 27 October
9:00 - 5:00
Workshop: Interlinguas and Interlingual Approaches to MT
WEDNESDAY, 28 October
9:00 - 12:00
Tutorial: MT Evaluation -- John White, PRC
Tutorial: MT Approaches -- Harold Somers, UMIST
Tutorial: ICALL Techniques -- Patricia O'Neill-Brown, US Dept of Commerce
Tutorial: Ontological Semantics -- Sergei Nirenburg, CRL/NMSU
Workshop: Embedded MT
2:00 - 5:00
Tutorial: Multilingual IR -- Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Research Europe
Tutorial: Speech-to-Speech MT -- Monica Woszczyna, CMU
Tutorial: Multilingual Summarization -- Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
Tutorial: Chinese Treebank Workshop -- Martha Palmer, U. of Pennsylvania
Workshop: Embedded MT (continued)
6:00 - 8:00
WELCOME RECEPTION
Exhibits
THURSDAY, 29 October
8:45 - 9:00
OPENING REMARKS
Eduard Hovy, Conference Chair
Martha Palmer, Local Arrangements Chair
David Farwell & Laurie Gerber, Program Chairs
9:00 - 10:30
KEYNOTE 1
The International Business of MT
Gaston Bastiaens, Lernout & Hauspie
10:30 - 11:00
BREAK
Exhibits
11:00 - 12:30
ROOM A: PANEL 1: THE FORGOTTEN MAJORITY: NEGLECTED LANGUAGES
Moderator: Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Software Inc.
Panelists:
Scott Bennett, LOGOS Inc.
Denis Gachot, SYSTRANS Software Inc.
Sergei Nirenburg, CRL/NMSU
John O'Hara, Globalink Inc.
Harold Somers, UMIST
Peter Wilkniss, CATANAL Project
ROOM B: TECHNICAL PAPERS
A Modular Approach to Spoken Language Translation for Large Domains -
M. Wosczcyna, M. Broadhead, D. Gates, M. Gavalda, A. Lavie, L. Levin,
& A. Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University
Enhancing Automatic Acquisition of the Thematic Structure in a Large-Scale
Lexicon for Mandarin - M. Olsen, B. Dorr, S. Thomas, U. of Maryland
Ordering Translation Templates by Assigning Confidence Factors -
Zeynep Öz & Ilyas Cicekli, Bilkent University
12:30 - 2:00 - LUNCH - Exhibits
2:00 - 3:30
ROOM A: INVITED PRESENTATIONS: MT-Related Language Technologies
Multilingual Information Retrieval - Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Europe
Multilingual Text Summarization - Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon U.
ROOM B: SYSTEM DEMOS
Alis Translation Solutions Application: Multilingual Search and Query
Expansion - N. Cote, Alis Technologies Inc.
SYSTRAN Enterprise -
Christian Raby, SYSTRAN Software Inc.
Integrating Tools with the Translation Process -
Edith Westfall, TRADOS Corporation
3:30 - 4:00
BREAK
Exhibits
4:00 - 5:30
ROOM A: TECHNICAL PAPERS
Quality and Robustness in MT--a Balancing Act -
Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf & Michael Dorna, University of Stuttgart
Parallel Strands: A Preliminary Investigation into Mining the Web for
Bilingual Text - Philip Resnik, U. of Maryland
An English-to-Turkish Interlingual MT System -
Dilek Hakkani, Gökhen Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent University;
Teruko Mitamura, & Eric Nyberg, Carnegie Mellon University
Rapid Prototyping of Domain-Specific Machine Translation Systems -
Martha Palmer & Owen Rambow, University of Pennsylvania
ROOM B: TECHNICAL PAPERS
Time-Constrained Machine Translation -
Janine Toole, Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Dan Fass & Paul McFetridge,
Simon Fraser University
An Evaluation of the Multi-Engine MT Architecture -
Christopher Hogan & Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University
An Ontology-Based Approach to Parsing Turkish Sentences -
Murat Temizsoy & Ilyas Cicekli, Bilkent University
Monolingual Translator Workstation -
Guy Bashkansky, IBM-Haifa; Uzzi Ornan, Technion
6:00 - 7:00
AMTA General Membership Meeting
FRIDAY, 30 October
9:00-10:30
ROOM A: TECHNICAL PAPERS
Fast Document Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval -
Scott McCarley & Salim Roukos, IBM
Machine Translation in Context -
Kurt Godden, General Motors
Easy English: Addressing Structural Ambiguity -
Arendse Bernth, IBM
Multi-Subject Constructions in the Multilingual MT System CAT2 -
Munpyo Hong, IAI, Saarbrücken
ROOM B: TECHNICAL PAPERS
A Multilingual Procedure for Dictionary-Based Sentence Alignment -
Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman, NYU; Michiko Kosaka, Monmouth U.
Taxonomy and Semantic Processing from the Perspective of Machine Readable
Dictionaries - Jason Chang, Mathis Chen, National Tsing Hua University;
Sue Ker, Soochow University
Can Simultaneous Interpretation Help Machine Translation -
Dan Loehr, Georgetown University
Sentence Analysis Using a Concept Lattice -
Lebelo Serutla & Derrick Kourie, University of Pretoria
ROOM C: TECHNICAL PAPERS
Evaluating Language Technologies: The MULTIDOC Approach to Taming the
Knowledge Soup - Jörg Schütz & Rita Nübel, IAI, Saarbrücken
Integrating Query Translation and Document Translation in a Cross-Language
Information Retrieval System - Guo-Wei Bian & Hsin-Hsi Chen, National
Taiwan University
When Stalhandski Becomes Steelglove: A Corpus Based Study of Names in
Parallel Text - Pernilla Danielsson & Katarina Mühlenbock, Göteborg U.
10:30 - 11:00
BREAK
Exhibits
11:00 - 12:30
ROOM A: PANEL 2: A SEAL OF APPROVAL FOR MT SYSTEMS
Moderator: Eduard Hovy, USC/Information Sciences Institute
Panelists:
John Hutchins, University of East Anglia
Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen
L. Chris Miller, MCS, Washington
Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Reba Rosenbluth, SYSTRAN Software, Inc.
Muriel Vasconcellos
John White, Litton PRC
ROOM B: SYSTEM DEMOS
EMIS: A Multilingual Information System -
Bärbel Ripplinger, IAI, Saarbrücken
An Open Transfer Translation -
Jorge Kinoshita, Universidade de São Paulo
TransEasy: A Chinese-English MT System Based on Hybrid Approach -
Liu Qun, Chinese Academy of Science; Yu Shiwen, Peking University
Sakhr Arabic-English Computer-Aided Translation System -
Achraf Chalabi, Sakhr Software Inc.
ROOM C: TECHNICAL PAPERS
SYSTRAN on AltaVista: A User Study of Real-Time MT on the Internet -
Jin Yang & Elke Lange, SYSTRAN Software Inc.
Making Semantic Interpretation Parser Independent -
Ulrich Germann, USC/Information Sciences Institute
Implementing MT in the Greek Public Sector: A Users' Survey -
Athanassia Fourla & Olga Yannoutsou, Inst. for Language and Speech
Processing, Greece
Statistical Approach for Korean Analysis: A Method Based on Structural
Patterns - Nari Kim, University of Pennsylvania
12:30 - 2:00
LUNCH
Exhibits
2:00 - 3:30
KEYNOTE 2
Integrating MT with Other Technologies
Louis Monier, AltaVista Inc.
3:30 - 4:00
BREAK
Exhibits
4:00 - 5:30
ROOM A: INVITED PRESENTATIONS: The Future of the Lexicon
Empirical Methods for MT Lexicon Development - Dan Melamed, West Group
A Statistical View on Bilingual Lexicon Extraction: From Parallel Corpora
to Non-Parallel Corpora - Pascale Fung, Hong Kong U. of Science & Tech
ROOM B: TECHNICAL PAPERS
Twisted Pair Grammar: Support for Rapid Development of MT for Low
Density Languages - Douglas Jones, US Department of Defense
A Thematic Hierarchy for Efficient Generation from Lexical-Conceptual
Structure - Bonnie Dorr, Nizar Habash & David Traum, U. of Maryland
The LMT Transformational System -
Micheal McCord & Arendse Bernth, IBM
Finding the Right Words: An Analysis of Not-Translated Words in Machine
Translation - Florence Reeder & Dan Loehr, The Mitre Corporation
ROOM C: TECHNICAL PAPERS
Predicting What MT is Good for: User Judgements and Task Performance -
Kathryn Taylor & John White, Litton PRC & FIDUL
Reusing Translated Terms to Expand a Multilingual Thesaurus -
Rocio Guillen, California State University at San Marcos
Spicing Up the Information Soup: Machine Translation and the Internet -
Steve McLaughlin & Ulrike Schwall, Lernout & Hauspie
Revision of Morphological Analysis Errors through Person Name Construction
Model - Hiroyuki Shinnou, Ibaraki University
7:00
BANQUET
SATURDAY, 31 October
9:00 - 10:25
ROOM A: TECHNICAL PAPERS
Lexical Choice and Syntactic Generation in a Transfer System: Transformations
in the New LMT English-German System - Claudia Gdaniec, IBM
Translation with Finite-State Devices -
Kevin Knight & Yaser Al-Onaizan, USC/Information Sciences Institute
Lexical Selection for Cross-Language Applications: Combining LCS with WordNet -
Bonnie Dorr & Maria Katsova, University of Maryland
Improving Translation Quality by Manipulating Sentence Length -
Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Systems Inc.; Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
ROOM B: SYSTEM DEMOS
Demo of Alis Translation Solutions: Overview -
N. Cote, Alis Technologies Inc.
Logos8 System Description -
Brigitte Orliac, LOGOS Inc.
SYSTRANET Online Translation Services -
Laurent Pontegnier, SYSTRAN Software Inc.
10:25 - 10:45
BREAK
Exhibits
10:45 - 12:10
ROOM A: PANEL 3: BREAKING THE QUALITY CEILING
Moderator: David Farwell, Computing Research Laboratory, NMSU
Panelists:
John Chandioux, Chandioux Consultants
Ron Fournier, Lexi-tech Inc.
Sergei Nirenburg, Computing Research Laboratory, NMSU
Harold Somers, UMIST
ROOM B: TECHNICAL PAPERS
Machine Translation among Languages with Transitivity Divergences Using
the Causal Relation in the Interlingual Lexicon - Yukiko Alam, San
Francisco State University
A Comparative Study of Query and Document Translation for Cross-Language
Information Retrieval - Douglas Oard, University of Maryland
Lexicons as Gold: Mining, Embellishment and Reuse -
Keith Miller & David Zajic, The Mitre Corporation
12:10 - 1:15
LUNCH
Last Chance to Visit Exhibits!
1:15 - 2:45
KEYNOTE 3
Situating MT in the Information Technology Soup!
Gary Strong, NSF
2:45 - 3:00
CLOSING REMARKS
Eduard Hovy, Conference Chair
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Eduard Hovy
email: hovy@isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute
tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731 4676 Admiralty Way
fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html