Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Technical Papers

   1. Building a Chinese-English Mapping Between Verb Concepts for Multilingual Applications

      • Bonnie J. Dorr, Gina-Anne Levow, Dekang Lin

      Pages 1-12

   2. Applying Machine Translation to Two-Stage Cross-Language Information Retrieval

      • Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa

      Pages 13-24

   3. Mixed-Initiative Translation of Web Pages

      • Michael Fleming, Robin Cohen

      Pages 25-29

   4. A Self-Learning Method of Parallel Texts Alignment

      • António Ribeiro, Gabriel Lopes, João Mexia

      Pages 30-39

   5. Handling Structural Divergences and Recovering Dropped Arguments in a Korean/English Machine Translation System

      • Chung-hye Han, Benoit Lavoie, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Richard Kittredge, Tanya Korelsky et al.

      Pages 40-53

   6. A Machine Translation System from English to American Sign Language

      • Liwei Zhao, Karin Kipper, William Schuler, Christian Vogler, Norman Badler, Martha Palmer

      Pages 54-67

   7. Oxygen: A Language Independent Linearization Engine

      • Nizar Habash

      Pages 68-79

   8. Information Structure Transfer: Bridging the Information Gap in Structurally Different Languages

      • Margo Budzikowska

      Pages 80-88

   9. The Effect of Source Analysis on Translation Confidence

      • Arendse Bernth, Michael C. McCord

      Pages 89-99

   10. Contemplating Automatic MT Evaluation

       • John S. White

       Pages 100-108

   11. How Are You Doing? A Look at MT Evaluation

       • Michelle Vanni, Florence Reeder

       Pages 109-116

   12. Recycling Annotated Parallel Corpora for Bilingual Document Composition

       • Arantza Casillas, Joseba Abaitua, Raquel Martinez

       Pages 117-126

   13. Combining Invertible Example-Based Machine Translation with Translation Memory Technology

       • Michael Carl

       Pages 127-136

   14. What’s Been Forgotten in Translation Memory

       • Elliott Macklovitch, Graham Russell

       Pages 137-146

   15. Understanding Politics by Studying Weather: A Cognitive Approach to Representation of Polish Verbs of Motion, Appearance, and Existence

       • Barbara Gawronska, Hanna Duczak

       Pages 147-157

   16. Small but Efficient: The Misconception of High- Frequency Words in Scandinavian Translation

       • Pernilla Danielsson, Katarina Mühlenbock

       Pages 158-168

   17. Challenges in Adapting an Interlingua for Bidirectional English-Italian Translation

       • Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Krzysztof Czuba, Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg

       Pages 169-178

   18. Text Meaning Representation as a Basis for Representation of Text Interpretation

       • Stephen Helmreich, David Farwell

       Pages 179-188

3. System Descriptions

   1. MT-Based Transparent Arabization of the Internet TARJIM.COM

      • Achraf Chalabi

      Pages 189-191

Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future When the organizing committee of AMTA-2000 began planning, it was in that brief moment in history when we were absorbed in contemplation of the passing of the century and the millennium. Nearly everyone was comparing lists of the most important accomplishments and people of the last 10, 100, or 1000 years, imagining the radical changes likely over just the next few years, and at least mildly anxious about the potential Y2K apocalypse. The millennial theme for the conference, “Envisioning MT in the Information Future,” arose from this period. The year 2000 has now come, and nothing terrible has happened (yet) to our electronic infrastructure. Our musings about great people and events probably did not ennoble us much, and whatever sense of jubilee we held has since dissipated. So it may seem a bit obsolete or anachronistic to cast this AMTA conference into visionary themes.

• Automated Translation
• Computational Linguistics
• Knowledge Representation
• Multilingual Documents
• Natural Language Processing
• Statistical Language Processing
• Translat
• Translation
• Translation Environments
• machine translation

• Litton PRC, McLean, USA

  John S. White

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