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Subject: AMTA-94: Final Program
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 02:05:16 GMT
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 TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS FOR CROSSING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER

                First Conference of the
    ASSOCIATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AMERICAS

                    Columbia Inn
                 Columbia, Maryland
                 October 5-8,  1994

Sponsored in part by Globalink, Inc., and Logos Corporation


For registration information, please contact Jane Zorrilla,
AMTA-94 registrar (fax: (407) 624-2703, phone: (407) 624-8211).


WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER
===================
Tutorials:

9:00-noon
   - Choosing an MT System
      Karin Spalink, Claudia Gdaniec, Marjorie Leon,
      Veronica Lawson, Muriel Vasconcellos
   - Intellectual Property Rights and MT
      Leighton Chong

2:00-5:00 pm:
   - MT in the 1990s
      Muriel Vasconcellos
   - Interlingual MT
      Sergei Nirenburg, David Farwell, and Boyan Onyshkevych

7:00-9:00 Welcoming Reception

THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER
===================
 9:00--9:05  Opening
      Muriel Vasconcellos
 9:05--9:50 Keynote: Partnerships in Machine Translation
      Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University
 9:50-10:35  Invited Talk: The Current Status of Machine
     Translation in Europe
      Maghi King, ISSCO, University of Geneva

10:35-11:00  Break

11:00-12:30 (parallel sessions A and B)
  (A) PANEL 1:
   Is MT Research Doing Any Good?

  (B) SPECIALIZED APPLICATIONS:
   - Demo: SPANAM (tm) and ENGSPAN (tm)
      Marjorie Leon and Julia Aymerich

   - Demo: CompuServe: Machine Translation on CompuServe Forums
      Mary Flanagan

   - Demo: The Klingon Machine Translation Project: The Klingon
     Language Analyzer
      d'Armond Speers

12:30--1:30  Lunch

 1:30--3:30 (parallel sessions A and B)
  (A) ISSUES IN EVALUATION:
   - The ARPA MT Evaluation Methodologies: Evolution, Lessons,
     and Future Approaches
      John S. White, Theresa A. O'Connell, Francis E. O'Mara

   - Technical Evaluation of MT Systems from the Developer's
     Point of View: Exploiting Test-Sets for Quality Evaluation
      H. Isahara, H. Uchino, S. Ogino, T. Okunishi,
      S. Kinoshita, S. Shibata, T. Sugio, Y. Takayama, S. Doi,
      T. Nagano, M. Narita, H. Nomura

   - Error Classification for MT Evaluation
     Mary Flanagan

   - PaTrans - An MT System: Development and Implementation of
     and Experiences from an MT-system
      Viggo Hansen

  (B) GENERAL SYSTEMS:
   - Demo: SIETEC: The METAL System
      Lutz Graunitz

   - Demo: Globalink, Inc.: Power Translator
      Tom Knupp

   - Demo: Logos Corporation: Logos Intelligent Translation
     System
      Winfield Scott Bennett

   - Demo: SYSTRAN: Demonstration and Company Profile
      Stephen Dakis

 3:30--4:00  Break

 4:00--5:30
  Panel 2
   The Role of MT Evaluation

  Evening: Harbor Cruise (depart Columbia Inn at 6:00 pm;
   return at 10:00 pm)


FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER
=================
 9:00-10:30 (parallel sessions A and B)
  (A) TRANSLATABILITY:
   - The Logos Translatability Index
      Claudia Gdaniec

   - Internationalization and Translatability
      David Kumhyr, Carla Merrill, Karin Spalink

   - Using Bi-textual Alignment for Translation Validation: the
     TransCheck system
      Elliott Macklovitch

  (B) SPEECH TRANSLATION:
   - An Adaptation of Lexical Conceptual Structures to
     Multilingual Processing in an Existing Text Understanding
     System
      Bonnie Glover Stalls, Robert Belvin, Alfredo Arnaiz,
      Christine Montgomery, Robert Stumberger

   - Demo: Language Systems, Inc.: Machine-Aided Voice
     Translation (MAVT): Advanced Development Model
      Christine Montgomery, Bonnie Glover Stalls, Robert
      Stumberger, Naicong Li, Robert Belvin, Alfredo Arnaiz,
      Susan Hirsh Litenatsky

   - Demo: ATR: Transfer-Driven Machine Translation
      Osamu Furuse

10:30-11:00  Break

11:00-12:30 (parallel sessions A and B)
  (A) PANEL 3:
   The Economics of MT

  (B) PANGLOSS:
   - Integrating Translations from Multiple Sources within the
     PANGLOSS Mark III Machine Translation System
      Robert Frederking, Sergei Nirenburg, David Farwell, Steven
      Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Kevin Knight, Stephen Beale,
      Constantine Domashnev, Donalee Attardo, Dean Grannes, Ralf
      Brown

   - PANGLYZER: Spanish Language Analysis System
      David Farwell, Steven Helmreich, Wanying Jin, Mark Casper,
      Jim Hargrave, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Fuliang Weng

   - Demo: PANGLOSS
      Jaime Carbonell, David Farwell, Robert Frederking, Steven
      Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Kevin Knight, Lori Levin, Tom
      McGinnis, Sergei Nirenburg

12:30--1:30  Lunch

 1:30--3:00 (parallel sessions A and B)
  (A) PANEL 4:
   The Voices of Experience: MT in Operational Settings

  (B) KNOWLEDGE-BASED MT:
   - Interlingua vs. Transfer? Knowledge Sharing Across Projects
      Nadia Mesli

   - Representing Text Meaning for Multilingual Knowledge-Based
     Machine Translation
      Lynn Carlson, Elizabeth Cooper, Ronald Dolan, Steven
      Maiorano

   - Demo: KANT: Knowledge-Based, Accurate Natural Language
     Translation
      Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Jaime Carbonell

 3:00--3:30 (parallel sessions A and B)
   (A) Q & A on PC-Based MT: Commercial PC-Based Machine
    Translation Software Packages
      L. Chris Miller

   (B) Demo: LogoVista E to J
      John Richards

 3:30--4:00  Break

 4:00--5:00 (parallel sessions A and B)
  (A) SUBLANGUAGES:
   - Reengineering Linguistic Resources for Machine Translation
     in Medical Applications
      G. Deville, E. Herbigniaux, P. Mousel and G. Thienpont

   - Towards Text-Based Machine Translation
      Joerg Schuetz and Baerbel Ripplinger

  (B) FRONT-END EDITING SYSTEMS:
   - Carnegie Group, Inc.: ClearCheck Demonstration
      Peggy Andersen
   - Demo Smart Systems
      John Smart

 5:00--6:00  AMTA Business Meeting, Ellicott Room

  Evening:    Banquet (Depart Columbia Inn at 6:30;
      return at 10:00)


SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER
===================
 9:00-10:30 (parallel sessions A and B)
  (A) USING STATISTICS:
   - Aligning Noisy Parallel Corpora Across Language Groups:
     Word Pair Feature Matching by Dynamic Time Warping
      Pascale Fung and Kathleen McKeown

   - Using Partially Aligned Parallel Text and Part-of-Speech
     Information in Word Alignment
      Jyun-Sheng Chang and Huey-Chyun Chen

   - Integrating Knowledge Bases and Statistics in MT
      Kevin Knight, Ishwar Chander, Matthew Haines, Vasileios
      Hatzivassiloglou, Eduard Hovy, Masayo Iida, Steve K. Luk,
      Akitoshi Okumura, Richard Whitney, Kenji Yamada

  (B) RESOURCES 1: GRAMMAR
   - Korean to English Translation Using Synchronous TAGs
      D. Egedi, M. Palmer, H.S. Park, A. Joshi

   - Complex Verb Transfer Phenomena in the SLT System
      Bjorn Gamback and Ivan Bretan

   - A Parameter-Based Message-Passing Parser for MT of
     Korean and English
      Dekang Lin, Bonnie Dorr, Jye-hoon Lee, and Sungki Suh

10:30-11:00  Break

11:00-12:30 (parallel sessions A and B)
  (A) VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE:
   - Stylistic Choice in Machine Translation
      Chrysanne DiMarco

   - A Hybrid Approach to Multilingual Text Processing:
     Information Extraction and Machine Translation
      Chinatsu Aone, Hatte Blejer, Mary Ellen Okurowski and
      Carol Van Ess-Dykema

   - From Machine Translation to Automatic Spoken Language
     Interpretation
      Dieter Huber

  (B) RESOURCES 2: LEXICON
   - Lexicon-to-Ontology Concept Association Using a Bilingual
     Dictionary
      Akitoshi Okumura and Eduard Hovy

   - The Case for a MT Developers' Tool with a Two-Component
     View of the Interlingua
      Bonnie Dorr and Clare Voss

   - Learning an English-Chinese Lexicon from a Parallel Corpus
      Dekai Wu and Xuanyin Xia

12:30--1:30  Lunch

 1:30--3:00
  Panel 5: Future Directions in MT

 3:00--3:15  Break

 3:15--4:00  Invited Talk: Past, Present, and Future of MT
  Developments
     John Hutchins, University of East Anglia

 4:00--4:05  Close

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Registration fees:

Conference:

Active Member, AMTA:    $150.00
Assoc. Member, AMTA:    $200.00
Member of EAMT or AAMT: $200.00
Nonmember:              $220.00

Tutorials:

Active or corp/inst member, AMTA: $95.00
Others:                  $120.00

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The Site

  Situated on 10 wooded acres along the shore of Lake Kittamaqundi, the Columbia Inn offers opportunities for recreation and is also close to first-class restaurants and entertainment.
   Participants should make their reservations directly with the Columbia Inn (Wincopin Circle, Columbia, Maryland 21044, 800/638-2817 or 410/730-3900).

