MT Summit IV

“International Cooperation for Global Communication”

July 20-22, 1993

Kobe, Japan

Proceeedings

1. Keynote Speech

Nagao, Makoto (International Association for Machine Translation)

"Machine Translation: What have we to do?".................................................................................................... 3

2. Invited Speech

Hutchins, John (University of East Anglia)

"Latest Developments in Machine Translation Technology:

Beginning a New Era in MT Research".............................................................................................................. 11

Vasconcellos, Muriel (International Association for Machine Translation)

"The Present State of Machine Translation Usage Technology;

Or: How Do I Use Thee? Let Me Count the Ways".......................................................................................... 35

Yokoi, Toshio (Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Ltd.)

"From Electronic Dictionaries to Very Large-Scale Knowledge Bases"........................................................ 47

3. Big Project

Chiba, Seibi (Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Ltd.)

"The Electronic Dictionary Project - Current Status and Future Plans"........................................................ 65

Funaki, Susumu (Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization)
"Multi-lingual Machine Translation (MMT) Project"...................................................................................... 73

Ahmad Zaki Abu Bakar (Malaysian National Institute of Translation)

"Utilization of Machine Translation".................................................................................................................. 79

Morimoto, Tsuyoshi (ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Laboratories)

Kurematsu, Akira (University of Electro-Communications)

"Automatic Speech Translation at ATR"........................................................................................................... 83

Rolling, Loll (E.C. Commission)

"E.C. Language Projects"...................................................................................................................................... 97

Takebayashi, Yoichi (Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Ltd.)

"EDR Electronic Dictionary".............................................................................................................................. 117

Wahlster, Wolfgang (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)

"Verbmobil: Translation of Face-To-Face Dialogs"....................................................................................... 127

Wilks, Yorick (University of Sheffield)

"Corpora and Machine Translation"................................................................................................................ 137

Yasuhara, Hiroshi (Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Ltd.)

"An Example-Based Multilingual MT System in a Conceptual Language"............................................... 147

Uchida, Hiroshi (Fujitsu Laboratories)

Zhu, Meiying (Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization)

"Interlingua for Multilingual Machine Translation"...................................................................................... 157

4. Panel Discussion

The Future of Machine Translation Technology

Boitet, Christian (ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories)
"Practical Speech Translation Systems will Integrate Human Expertise, Multimodal
Communication, and Interactive Disambiguation"......................................................................................... 173

Isabelle, Pierre (Canadian Workplace Automation Research Center)

"Machine-Aided Human Translation and the Paradigm Shift".................................................................... 177

Low, Hwee-Boon (National University of Singapore)

"Some Lessons Learnt by a New Comer"........................................................................................................ 181

Nirenburg, Sergei (Carnegie Mellon University)

"A Direction of MT Development"................................................................................................................... 189

Rohrer, Christian (Universitaet Stuttgart)

"The Future of MT Technology"...................................................................................................................... 195

Tsujii, Junichi (University of Manchester)

"After Linguistics-based MT"........................................................................................................................... 197

Evaluation Method of Machine Translation

King, Margaret [Chairperson] (University of Geneva)

"Panel on Evaluation: MT Summit IV Introduction"................................................................................... 201

Nomura, Hirosato (Kyushu Institute of Technology)

"Strategy for Machine Translation Evaluation"............................................................................................. 205

Rolling, Loll (E.C. Commission)

"Panel Contribution on MT Evaluation".......................................................................................................... 209

Vasconcellos, Muriel (International Association for Machine Translation)

"Evaluation Method of Machine Translation"............................................................................................... 211

Yokoyama, Shoichi (Yamagata University)

"Evaluation Method of Machine Translation: from the Viewpoint of Natural Language

Processing"........................................................................................................................................................... 215

International Cooperation

Rolling, Loll (E.C. Commission)

"Panel on International Cooperation".............................................................................................................. 221

Yang, Tianxing (Ministry of Electronics Industry, P.R.C.)

"The R&D Activities of MT in China"............................................................................................................. 223

[Conference report in MT News International no. 6, September 1993]