Machine Translation : From Real Users to Research - 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2004), Washington, DC, USA, September 28 - October 2, 2004 - Proceedings

by Frederking, Robert E.; Taylor, Kathryn B.

• ISBN13: 9783540233008
• ISBN10: 3540233008
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, held in Washington, DC, USA, in September/October 2004. The 30 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers address all current issues in machine translation ranging from theoretical and methodological topics to applications in various contexts and evaluation and analysis of user needs and systems.

Table of Contents

Case Study: Implementing MT for the Translation of Pre-sales Marketing and Post-sales Software Deployment Documentation at Mycom International	1	(6)
Jeffrey Allen
A Speech-to-Speech Translation System for Catalan, Spanish, and English	7	(10)
Victoria Arranz
Elisabet Comelles
David Farwell
Climent Nadeu
Jaume Padrell
Albert Febrer
Dorcas Alexander
Kay Peterson
Multi-Align: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Techniques to Improve Alignments for Adaptable MT	17	(10)
Necip Fazil Ayan
Bonnie J. Dorr
Nizar Habash
A Modified Burrows-Wheeler Transform for Highly Scalable Example-Based Translation	27	(10)
Ralf D. Brown
Designing a Controlled Language for the Machine Translation of Medical Protocols: The Case of English to Chinese	37	(11)
Sylviane Cardey
Peter Greenfield
Xiaohong Wu
Normalizing German and English Inflectional Morphology to Improve Statistical Word Alignment	48	(10)
Simon Corston-Oliver
Michael Gamon
System Description: A Highly Interactive Speech-to-Speech Translation System	58	(6)
Mike Dillinger
Mark Seligman
A Fluency Error Categorization Scheme to Guide Automated Machine Translation Evaluation	64	(10)
Debbie Elliott
Anthony Hartley
Eric Atwell
Online MT Services and Real Users' Needs: An Empirical Usability Evaluation	74	(12)
Federico Gaspari
Counting, Measuring, Ordering: Translation Problems and Solutions	86	(8)
Stephen Helmreich
David Farwell
Feedback from the Field: The Challenge of Users in Motion	94	(8)
L. Hernandez
J. Turner
M. Holland
The Georgetown-IBM Experiment Demonstrated in January 1954	102	(13)
W. John Hutchins
Pharaoh: A Beam Search Decoder for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Models	115	(10)
Philipp Koehn
The PARS Family of Machine Translation Systems for Dutch System Description/Demonstration	125	(5)
Edward A. Kool
Michael S. Blekhman
Andrei Kursin
Alla Rakova
Rapid MT Experience in an LCTL (Pashto)	130	(4)
Craig Kopris
The Significance of Recall in Automatic Metrics for MT Evaluation	134	(10)
Alon Lavie
Kenji Sagae
Shyamsundar Jayaraman
Alignment of Bilingual Named Entities in Parallel Corpora Using Statistical Model	144	(10)
Chun-Jen Lee
Jason S. Chang
Thomas C. Chuang
Weather Report Translation Using a Translation Memory	154	(10)
Thomas Leplus
Philippe Langlais
Guy Lapalme
Keyword Translation from English to Chinese for Multilingual QA	164	(13)
Frank Lin
Teruko Mitamura
Extraction of Name and Transliteration in Monolingual and Parallel Corpora	177	(10)
Tracy Lin
Jian-Cheng Wu
Jason S. Chang
Error Analysis of Two Types of Grammar for the Purpose of Automatic Rule Refinement	187	(10)
Ariadna Font Llitjos
Katharina Probst
Jaime Carbonell
The Contribution of End-Users to the TransType2 Project	197	(11)
Elliott Macklovitch
An Experiment on Japanese-Uighur Machine Translation and Its Evaluation	208	(9)
Muhtar Mahsut
Yasuhiro Ogawa
Kazue Sugino
Katsuhiko Toyama
Yasuyoshi Inagaki
A Structurally Diverse Minimal Corpus for Eliciting Structural Mappings Between Languages	217	(10)
Katharina Probst
Alon Lavie
Investigation of Intelligibility Judgments	227	(9)
Florence Reeder
Interlingual Annotation for MT Development	236	(10)
Florence Reeder
Bonnie Dorr
David Farwell
Nizar Habash
Stephen Helmreich
Eduard Hovy
Lori Levin
Teruko Mitamura
Keith Miller
Owen Rambow
Advaith Siddharthan
Machine Translation of Online Product Support Articles Using a Data-Driven MT System	246	(6)
Stephen D. Richardson
Maintenance Issues for Machine Translation Systems	252	(10)
Nestor Rychtyckyj
Improving Domain-Specific Word Alignment with a General Bilingual Corpus	262	(10)
Hua Wu
Haifeng Wang
A Super-Function Based Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation System for Business Users	272	(11)
Xin Zhao
Fuji Ren
Stefan Voß
Author Index	283