MT Summit III

July 1-4, 1991, Washington, D.C.

Program

 

[Some presentations published later (1993) in “Progress in machine translation” edited Sergei Nirenburg]

Monday, July 1: Executive briefings

Introduction to MT: issues and survey – John Hutchins (University of East Anglia, UK), Harold Somers (UMIST, UK)

How Your Organization Can Use MT – Zenshiro Kawasaki (Hitachi Ltd., Japan), Joann Ryan (SYSTRAN, USA) [published 1993 – Kawasaki, Ryan]

Knowledge-Based MT – Jaime Carbonell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Sergei Nirenburg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

MT: The Japanese Experience – Makoto Nagao (Kyoto University, Japan) [published 1993]

 

TUESDAY, JULY 2                                                                             •

Opening address: General chairman, J.G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Greetings: M. Nagao, Kyoto University. Japan; C. Rohrer, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Session 1

An Architecture Sketch of Eurotra-II – Jörg Schütz (IAI, Germany), Gregor Thurmair (Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Germany), Roberto Cencioni (CEC, Luxembourg)

Advances in Machine Translation Research in IBM – Mori Rimon (IBM, Israel), Pilar Martinez (IBM, Spain), Michael McCord (IBM, USA), Ulrike Schwall (IBM, Germany)

Session 2     Panel Discussion: The MT User Experience

             Chair: Muriel Vasconcellos. Pan American Health Organization, USA

              Panel: Bernard Scott, Logos, USA Rob Billingsley. Defense Technical Information Center, USA; John Chandioux, J. Chandioux Experts-Concils. Canada; Hideki Tanaka, NHK, Japan.

Demonstrations: Live and taped machine translation systems

Session 3    Panel Discussion: Building the Customer Base

            Chair: Howard Teicher, TTI Inc., USA

            Panel: Michel Gainet, United Nations; Muriel Jerome-O'Keeffe, CACI Inc., USA; Edith Losa, Stromberg-Carlson Inc., USA; Maria Martinez-Perez, IBM, Spain; Sue Walker-Toledo, Netrofogic Inc., USA; Michael Zarechnak, Georgetown University, USA

Session 4

Ultra: A Multi-lingual Machine Translator – David Farwell, Yorick Wilks (New Mexico State University, USA)

Capturing Language-Specific Semantic Distinctions in Interlingua-based MT – Jim Barnett, Inderjeet Mani, Elaine Rich, Chinatsu Aone, Kevin Knight, Juan C. Martinez (Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, USA)

ArchTran: A Corpus-based Statistics-oriented English-Chinese Machine Translation System  – Shu-Chuan Chen, Jong-Nae Wang (Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan, ROC), Jing-Shtn Chang, Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ROC)

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 3

Session 5    Panel Discussion: International Perspectives on MT

            Chair: Joseph Clark, U.S. Department of Commerce

Panel: Jan-Michael Czermak, Ministry for Research & Technology, Germany [published 1993]; Deanna Hammond, American Translators Association, USA; Nicholas Ostler, Touche Ross Management Consultants, UK; Donald Walker, Bell Communications Research. USA: Charles Wayne. Department of Defense, USA; Kousoke Yamamoto, Ministry of International Trade & Industry, Japan.

 

Session 6

The METAL System – Thomas Schneider (Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Germany)

Applying an Experimental MT System to a Realistic Problem – P.  Bouillon. K. Boeseleldt (1SSCO, Switzerland)

Automation of Bilingual Lexicon Compilation  – Arturo Trujillo (University of Cambridge, UK), David A. Plowman (University of Cambridge. UK; currently Harlequin Limited. UK)

Poster Session (Cabinet Room)

An Efficient Interlingua Translation System for Multi-lingual Document Production –Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg 3rd, Jaime Carbonell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

MT Application For The Translation Agency – Keizou Sakurai (International Business Service, Japan) Masahiko Ozeki, Yoshiyuki Nishihara (NEC, Japan)

Multi-lingual Sentence Generation from the PIVOT interlingua – Akitoshi Okumura, Kazunori Muraki, Susumu Akamine (NEC, Japan)

                     EJ/JE Machine Translation System ASTRANSAC — Extensions toward Personalization – Hideki Hirakawa, Hiroyasu Nogami, Shin-ya Amano (Toshiba, Japan)

The Translator's Workbench: An Environment for Mufti-Lingual Text Processing and Translation – Marianne Kugler, Gerd Heyer, Ralf Kese, Beate von Kleist-Retzow, Günter Winkelmann (Triumph-Adier, Germany)

Translation Accuracy and Translation Efficiency – Wanying Jin (New Mexico State University, USA)

Toward High Performance Machine Translation: Preliminary Results from Massively Parallel Memory-Based Translation on SNAP – Hiroaki Kitano (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Dan Moldovan, Seungho Cha (University of Southern California, USA)

Toward an MT System without Pre-Editing: Effects of a New Method in ALT-J/E – Satoru Ikehara, Satoshi Shirai, Akio Yokoo, Hiromi Nakaiwa (NTT, Japan)

The KIELIKONE Machine Translation Workstation – H. Jäppinen, L. Kulikov. A. Ylä-Rotiala (SITRA Foundation, Finland) [expanded in 1993]

Connectionist and Symbolic Processing in Speech-to-Speech Translation: The JANUS System – A.M. Jain, A.E. McNair, A. Waibel, H. Saito, A.G. Hauptmann, J. Tebelskis (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

 

Session 7   Panel Discussion: Where do Translators Fit into Machine Translation

Chair: Alex Gross, Cross-Cultural Research Projects, USA

Panel: Claude Bedard. Traductix Translation Consulting. Canada; Harald Hille. United Nations; Martin Kay, Xerox Corp & Stanford University, USA; Fred Klein (translator & editor), USA; Sergei Nirenburg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Session 8  Panel Discussion: Evaluation of MT Systems

Chair: Margaret King, ISSCO, Switzerland

Panel: Doris Albisser, Union Bank of Switzerland; Sture Allen, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Ulrich Heid, University of Stuttgart, Germany; Yorick Wilks, New Mexico State University, USA. [Albisser’s paper expanded in 1993]

THURSDAY, JULY 4                                                                       •

Session 9  Panel Discussion: At The Forefront of MT Research [not available]

  Chair:Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

   Panel: Christian Boitet, University of Grenoble, France; Peter Brown, IBM, USA; Akira Kurematsu, ATR, Japan; Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Masaru Tomita, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Session 10  Panel Discussion: Applications of MT Technologies

  Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  Panel: Rod Johnson, IDSiA, Switzerland; Richard Kittredge, University of Montreal, Canada; Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Hiroshi Uchida, Fujitsu, Japan; Steven Weinstein, Reuters, UK; Yorick Wilks, New Mexico State University, USA

 

 

[Conference reports in MT News International  no. 1, January 1992; and in MT News International no.2, May 1992]