MT News International
Newsletter of the International Association for
Machine Translation
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[Issues 1-18 edited by John Hutchins, issues 19-26 edited by Muriel Vasconcellos, issues 27-34 edited by Laurie Gerber, issue
35 edited by Jay Marciano]
Issue no. 1: January 1992 [PDF, 228KB]. Contents: MT
Summit III in Washington, July 1991 [report] -- John Hutchins; Evaluators'
Forum, Les Rasses, Switzerland, April 1991 [report]
-- Margaret King; 1991 Nordic Computational Linguistics Conference
focuses on MT -- Joseph Pentheroudakis; MT Workshop in Taiwan, May 1991
[report] -- Makoto Nagao; MT Vendors Exhibit at the ATA; Translating and
the Computer 13, November 1991 [report] -- John Hutchins; MMT '91
Beijing [report] -- Hirosato Nomura; U.S.
Commerce Department Meets with MT Vendors and Developers -- Joseph E.
Pentheroudakis; JTEC Report on Japanese Machine Translation; JEIDA Survey
of MT projects; European Meeting of Experts Discuss Policy in Language
Technology; Electronic Dictionary Research Institute -- Narumi Chiba; Centre
for the International Cooperation for Computerization -- Yoshinori Teramoto; A letter to the editor -- Claude Bédard
Issue no. 2, May 1992 [PDF, 175KB]. Contents: MT World
'92 [report of conference in Tokyo]; MT Goes Live [report from MT Summit III
conference]; Penang Conference on Computational Linguistics [report]; NSF Hears
about Knowledge-Based MT; Is MT profitable? a round
table discussion. Part 1 [from JAMT]; The first MT
conference, 1952 -- John Hutchins
Issue no. 3, September 1992 [PDF, 205KB]. Contents: TMI
in Montreal, 25-27 June 1992 [report] -- John Hutchins; MT at COLING '92
[report] -- Steve Richardson; Second International Workshop on
Fundamental Research for the Future Generation of Natural Language Processing
(FGNLP) [report] -- Sofia Ananiadou; The
Strategic Role of Evaluation in Natural Language Processing and Speech
Technology, Edinburgh, 30 April - 2nd May, 1992 [report] -- Margaret King; DARPA's Boston MT Party [August 1992, report] -- Peter
Brown and Eduard Hovy; Eurotra
[progress report] -- Doug Arnold; EUROLANG [progress report] -- B.Seite and T.Schneider;
Caterpillar Project at CMU [progress report]; CompuServe Investigates
Machine Translation -- Cole Harrison; German MT Users' Group -- Tom
C. Gerhardt; ATA commissions study on MT for PCs -- Muriel Vasconcellos
Issue no. 4, January 1993 [PDF, 283KB]. Contents: MT
Seminar for Translators in San Diego [report] -- Joann Ryan; MT Showcase
at the Evaluation Workshop [report] -- John Benoit and Joseph
Pentheroudakis; Salford Colloquium on Translation
[report] -- John Hutchins; Translating and the Computer 14 [report] -- John
Hutchins; German MT Users Circle meets in Saarbrücken
[report] -- Tom Gerhardt and John Hutchins; CSK Corporation -- Akira
Takagi; Project Babel-R -- Laurence Jacqmin; IBS
Corporation - user of a Japanese-English system -- Keizou
Sakurai; IAMT/AMTA Holds a Workshop on MT Evaluation [San Diego, November
1992: report]; MT evaluation symposium at MT World '92 [report]; The Automatic
Evaluation of Computer Generated Text -- Henry Thompson and Chris Brew; JEIDA
report on Evaluation Methodology -- John Hutchins; JTEC Panel Reports on
MT in Japan -- Joseph Pentheroudakis; META issue on MT -- Dominique Estival
Issue no. 5, May 1993 [PDF, 218KB]. Contents: Building
Lexicons for Machine Translation [conference report] -- Clare R. Voss; Machine
Translation and the Lexicon [conference report] -- Petra Steffens and John
Hutchins; Technology and Language in Europe 2000 [report] -- John
Hutchins; EACL-93, Utrecht, 21-23 April 1993 [report] -- John Hutchins; News
from the Confederation of Independent States -- Evgenii
Lovtskii; PANGLOSS developments -- Eduard Hovy; JEIDA publishes MT survey results -- John
Hutchins; JEIDA Machine Translation Evaluation Methodology -- Hirosato Nomura and John Hutchins; EAGLES
take off in Europe; The first MT patents -- John Hutchins
Issue no. 6, September 1993 [PDF, 295KB]. Contents: MT
Summit IV Features "International Cooperation for Global
Communication" [report] -- Muriel Vasconcellos
and John Hutchins; TMI-93 continues the 'rationalist-empiricist' debate
[report] -- John Hutchins; Translation Fair '93 [conference in
Issue no. 7, January 1994 [PDF, 223KB]. Contents:
Francophone Conference on MT held in Montreal 30 September, 1-2 October 1993
[report] -- John Hutchins; Workshop on Very Large Corpora, 22 June 1994
[report] -- Ken Church; Summer School on Computational Linguistics in
Bulgaria, 4-10 September 1993 [report] -- Ruslan
Mitkov; AMTA Takes a Close Look at "Text and
MT", 5 October 1993 [report] -- Muriel Vasconcellos;
Seminar on Matching Up MT Users and MT Environments, 6 October 1993
[report] -- Karen Spalink; Translating and the
Computer 15, 18-19 November 1993 [report] -- John Hutchins; Japan-US
Workshop on Machine Aided Translation, 22-24 November 1994 [report] -- Eduard
Hovy; Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim
Symposium, 6-7 December 1993 [report]; A multipurpose linguistic processor
under development in Moscow -- Igor M.Boguslavsky
and Leonid L.Iomdin; The U.S. patent system and
MT technology -- Leighton Chong; How Lingvistica
'93 MT Systems are Used (1991-1993) -- Michael Blekhman
Issue no. 8, May 1994 [PDF, 230KB]. Contents: Danish
patent system based on Eurotra experience -- Colin
Brace; Machine Translation Research in
Issue no. 9, September 1994 [PDF, 265KB]. Contents: Globalink and MicroTac Sign
Acquisition Agreement; CompuServe MT Service Goes Live -- Mary Flanagan; Kielikone System Goes into Operation; Sietec's
Metal (Also) Does Russian -- Klaus Schubert; MT Showcase at AAAI-94
[report] -- Joseph Pentheroudakis; Arabic MT Tops AACNA Agenda -- Paul
Roochnik; MT Workshop in Limerick [report] -- John
Hutchins; Language Engineering Convention, Paris 6-7 July 1994 [report]
International Workshop on Sharable Natural Language Resources, Nara, 10-11
August 1994; China National Software and Service Corporation -- Guan Weizhong; Proposal for a Differentiated Text-Related
Machine Translation Evaluation Methodology -- Karin Spalink;
A Marketing Machine [on Globalink] -- Colin
Brace; Multilingual MT and the Post-editing Bottleneck -- Evgeny Lovtsky; Evaluation
of Integrated Translation Systems -- Uwe Reinke; Paul L. Garvin (1919-1994): Obituary -- Christine
A. Montgomery
Issue no.10,
January 1995 [PDF, 309KB]. Contents: AMTA Holds its First Conference
[Columbia City, October 1994: report] -- Kevin Knight; International
Workshop on "Machine Translation & Translation Theory", 14-16
September 1994, Hildesheim [report] -- Susanne Heizmann;
Fourth International Summer School "Contemporary topics in
Computational linguistics" (with emphasis on Machine Translation), 1-6
September 1994, Tuzlata, Bulgaria [report] -- Ruslan Mitkov; Translating
and the Computer 16, 10-11 November 1994, London [report] -- John Hutchins; Machine
Translation: Ten Years On, 12-14 November 1994, Cranfield,
U.K. [report] -- John Hutchins; Summer School on Computers and
Translation, 5-8 July, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain); The LISA Forum,
Mountain View California, November 7-8, 1994 [report] -- Michael Anobile; MT at ANLP-94; MT at other Recent Conferences;
Recent US Patents, 1986-1994 [relating to MT]; Intergraph MT System Available
on CompuServe; Globalink on CompuServe
Issue no. 11, May 1995 [PDF, 286KB]. Contents: Globalink Available on Minitel;
ALEP -- Advanced Language Engineering Platform; The LISA Showcase; TERMISTI
Research Centre -- Thierry J.van Steenberghe; The Integration of Linguistic and Domain
Specific Knowledge: CAT2 within ANTHEM -- O.Streiter
and A.Schmidt-Wigger; "The whisky was
invisible", or Persistent myths of MT -- John Hutchins; Translation
strategy -- Michael Blekhman
Issue no. 12, October 1995 [PDF, 323KB]. Contents: MT
Summit V held in Luxembourg, 10-13 July 1995 [report] -- John Hutchins; TMI-95
in Leuven, Belgium, 5-7 July 1995 [report] -- John Hutchins; Third
Workshop on Very Large Corpora, 30 June 1995 [report] -- Ken Church; Recent
Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'95), 14-16 September 1995
[report] -- Nicolas Nicolov; Second ALEP User
Group Workshop, 18-19 July 1995 [report] -- Jörg
Schütz; CompuServe Launches Document Translation
Service; Globalink to Provide Netscape Clients with
On-Line Language Translation; MT Users and Usage: Europe and the Americas -- Colin
Brace, Muriel Vasconcellos, and L. Chris Miller; Commercially
Available PC-Based MT Products -- compiled by L. Chris Miller; Survey
Report: Korya Eiwa
100-dollar commodity has expanded the market -- Sadao
Hoshino; Machine Translation and the Office Automation -- Key-Sun Choi; Human-quality Fluency in Machine Translation! -- Bruce
Wydner; Ovum publishes Globalisation
report
Issue no. 13, February 1996 [PDF, 195KB]. Contents:
Michael Tacelosky Leaves Globalink;
Translating and the Computer 17, London, 9-10 November 1995 [report] -- John
Hutchins; Second Language Engineering Convention, London, 16-18 October
1995 [report] -- John Hutchins; Software Localisation
in Ireland - SLIG '95 [conference report] -- Reinhard
Schaeler; Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim
Symposium, Seoul, 4-6 December 1995 [report] -- Ruslan
Mitkov; Globalink
Launches On-Line Professional Translator Service; Localisation
Resources Centre in Ireland planned for 1996; Ovum's Translation Tools Report
[part 1] -- Colin Brace
Issue no. 14, June 1996 [PDF, 231KB]. Contents: Systran Receives $10 Million Contract from the National Air
Intelligence Center; Current applications in Europe -- Paul Hearn; Developments
at the European Commission -- Dorothy Senez; Conferences
in Leuven and Dublin [CLAW, 26-27 March 1996; Unity in Diversity? 9-11 May
1996]; ALPAC: the (in)famous report -- John Hutchins; Ovum's Report on
Translation Technology Products: part II -- Jackie Murgida;
Melby on MT semantics [Review of] Alan K. Melby: The possibility of language… 1995. -- Klaus
Schubert
Issue no. 15, October 1996 [PDF, 240KB]. Contents: Two
MT systems at the Olympics: Meteo Translates US
weather reports [and] Globalink Joins Forces with
Discovery Channel; Transparent Language Inc. Acquires Transcend from Intergraph
Corporation; Canadian Government Licenses Globalink
Software; EAMT Machine Translation Workshop, 29-30 August 1996, Vienna [report]
-- John Hutchins; Terminology and Knowledge Engineering (TKE'96) 4th
International Congress, 26-28 August 1996, Vienna, Austria -- John Hutchins;
NLP conference at Moncton University, 4-6 June 1996; News from the European
Commission: Machine Translation User Survey -- Dorothy Senez
; European Research and Development in Machine Translation -- Jörg Schütz; A Machine
Translation System for Minority Languages -- John Gareth Evans; TREE: TRans European Employment [multilingual service];
Multilingual Evaluation Tool from TSNLP -- Lorna Balkan
Issue no. 16, February/March 1997 [PDF, 237KB].
Contents: Major Management Shake-Up at Globalink;
AMTA-96: Biennial AMTA Conference at
Issue no. 17, June/July 1997 [PDF, 184KB]. Contents:
Lernout & Hauspie Acquires GMS; METEO celebrates 20 years service; Eduard Hovy, President of AMTA [profile]; Globalink
and Uni-Verse Create Multilingual Chat Room with
Real-Time Translation; Real-Time Chat Language-Translation System from Intermedia Inc.; EAMT Workshop, Copenhagen, 21-22 May 1997
[report] -- John Hutchins; Evaluation of Translation Tools for Localisation: LRC Workshop, Dublin, 17 April 1997 [report]
-- Reinhard Schäler;
OTELO User Group Meeting, Dublin, 16 and 17 December 1996; Arbeitskreis "Maschinelle Übersetzung", 7 February 1997 [Luxembourg: report] -- John
Hutchins; European Language Resources Association; Report from the European
Commission -- Dorothy Senez; Using PARS and Polyglossum to Translate Technical Texts from Russian into
English: Experience of a Professional Translator -- Olga Bezhanova
Issue no. 18, October/November 1997 [PDF, 284KB].
Contents: Microsoft to Acquire a 20 Percent Share in TRADOS; TMI-97 meets in
Santa Fe, 23-25 July 1997 [report] -- John Hutchins; The Spoken Language
Translation Workshop: ACL/EACL-97, 11 July 1997, Madrid [report] -- Steven Krauwer, Doug Arnold, Walter Kasper, Manny Rayner, Harold Somers; Recent Advances in Natural
Language Processing (RANLP'97), 11-13 September 1997 [report] -- Kalina Bontcheva; The
LISA Forum, Asia: Software Localization Professionals Focus on Emerging Asian
Markets, Beijing, China, 6-8 August 1997; Projects at the Computing Research
Laboratory, NMSU -- Stephen Helmreich; The
MULTIDOC Project: MULTI-lingual product DOCumentation
-- Jörg Schütz
Issue no.19, June 1998 [PDF, 1365KB]
Contents: AppTek Joins Lernout & Hauspie; Systran Partners with AltaVista; Globalink
Launches Real-Time Internet Service; Globalink Engine
Supports Yellow Pages Online; Globalink Nominated for
Smithsonian Award; IAMT Creates Award: Nagao First Recipient; MT Summit VI –
Marks Milestone [report] – Muriel Vasconcellos;
MT Summit VI: An Opinionated View – Elliott Macklovitch;
Three New Products from Systran
Issue no.20, October 1998 [PDF, 1162KB]. Contents: L&H Buys Globalink, Other MT Companies; Instant Translations Support
Junior Summit ’98; SYSTRAN Enterprise: Intranet/LAN Software; Déjà Vu 2.1 Translation Memory; Perfect Japanese-English “Translate, Sesame!”,
“This, Japanese-English!”; “Transit” from Star; Déjà Vu: A Translator’s View – Peter Kjelsen;
The MT Market: A European Perspective – Colin
Brace; A View From the Americas – L.Chris Miller;
Coling-ACL’98 Attracts Large Turnout [report]; AMTA-98 Looks at MT [report]
Issue no.21, February 1999 [PDF, 1252KB]. Contents: AMTA Launches
Certification Initiative – Muriel Vasconcellos; L&H Readies Internet Translation in
Multiple Languages; Logos-USA Gets New Headquarters; AMTA-98 Covers “MT and the
Information Soup” – Gary A.Coen; AMTA-98: A True Milestone – Virginia Teller; Test Yourself! – Elliott Macklovitch;
Translating and the Computer 20,
Issue no.22 (vol.8, no.1), July 1999 [PDF,
1213KB]. Contents: Compendium of Translation Software Now Available to Members;
Systran, Infoseek Launch GO
Network Translation Service; L&H iTranslator
Service Now on Internet; Accent LanguageWare Offers
Free Internet MT; NL-Translex to Develop MT for
Dutch; Transparent Language Announces Desktop Translator for Documents, E-mail,
Web Pages; LanguageForce Launches Internet Product, UTStarGate; Warren Weaver Memorandum: 50th Anniversary of
Machine Translation – John Hutchins; EAMT-99:
MT in Eastern Europe [report] – Colin
Brace; “New Languages are Not “Virgin Languages”: EAMT-99 Workshop from the Eastern Point of View – Vladislav Kubon; One Web, One Language: UNL – Jörg Schütz; What
Do Users Need From MT Systems? – Edith
Westfall; Mary Flanagan Founds New Business: Maverick Translation
Solutions; In Memoriam: Gary G. Erickson (1940-1998)
Issue no.23 (vol.8, no.2), September 1999 [PDF,
961KB] Contents: DARPA Announces Major Foreign Language Initiative: “TIDES”;
SYSTRAN/Berlitz Launch Fykk
Translation Services on the Internet; e-Lingo + Yupi.com Announce Services For
Spanish Speakers; ALPNET Acquires EP Electronic Publishing; L&H Intros New
products for European Market; SDLX – Patrick
Powell; Address by W.John Hutchins: On Assuming the Presidency of
IAMT, MT Summit VII, Singapore, September 16, 1999; Compendium of Translation
Software: members asked to contribute.
Issue no.24 (vol.8, no.3), Spring 2000 [PDF,
1323KB] Contents: MT Summit VII attracts attendees to Singapore [report] – Eduard Hovy;
Netscape incorporates Alis Technologies in its
browser; LanguageWare.net rolls out multilingual e-business solutions;
Uniscape.com offers on-line translation; LanguageForce
launches UTStarGate; L&H offers Simply
Translating deluxe; GlobalSight introduces
multilingual Ambassador; LTC Organiser adds flexible
report module; Corel upgrades its localization tools; Personal Translator 2000
Office Plus – Heather Morgan and Bob Clark; Muriel Vasconcellos Receives IAMT Award of Honor – Eduard Hovy; A
Chat with John Hutchins, Incoming IAMT President – Colin Brace; Laurie’s Links – Laurie
Gerber
Issue no.25 (vol.9, no.1), Summer 2000 [PDF,
1070KB] Contents: AMTA-2000 gets ready for “Information Future” in the new
millennium; Jun-ichi Tsujii
assumes presidency of Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation; SYSTRAN
teams up with OracleMobile.com; Copernic 2000 search
tool using Alis Gist-in-Time; Language partners opens
European office; Transparent Language providing translation for J&R
e-commerce site, email at Siecor; L&H Power
Translator adds text-to-speech, works inside MS Office; Alis
connector brings easy link to Lotus environments; EAMT 2000 Workshop looks at
resources for MT development [report] – Jaro Lajovic; Compendium of Translation Software now in
print, on-line; AMTA Postediting SIG gets new lease
on life; The IAMT Certification Initiative – John Hutchins; Laurie’s Links – Laurie
Gerber
Issue no.26 (vol.9, no.2), Winter 2000-2001
[PDF,1619KB] Contents: EAMT hosts MT Summit VIII in
historic European cultural capital; AMTA-2000: ¡Muy bien! [report] – Elliott
Macklovitch; The user’s perspective [report on
AMTA-2000] – Laurie Gerber; L&H
restructuring advances apace; Logos Corporation merges with global words;
Language Partners open London office; Smart Link offers on-line services; IBM
about to unveil WebSphere Translation Server; WorldLingo translation offered by Microsoft; MIT2 develops
tools for Haitian Creole; In memoriam Eric Adolphson
(1958-2000); Laurie’s links – Laurie
Gerber
Issue no.27 (vol.9, no.3), Spring 2001 [PDF, 1512KB]
Contents: Lionbridge Enters Agreement to buy Mendez
from L&H; L&H status still unclear; SDL plc Acquires TranscendRT; Mendez integrates translation capabilities
into Microsoft Word 2002 and Office XP; Polish now on-line from Ectaco; new on-line service based on Reverso;
Newstran: Translation of Online News Sources;
Hands-On Evaluation Workshops: A Report on a Continuing Series – Flo Reeder; NAACL 2001 Conference
Promotes MT [report] – Carol Van Ess-Dykema; Introducing Elliott Macklovitch;
New MTNI Editor – Laurie Gerber; Laurie’s Links – Laurie Gerber
Issue no.28 (vol.10, no.1), Summer 2001 [PDF, 1187KB]
Contents: Bowne edges out Lionbridge in final auction
of Mendez; Autodesk Implements Localized Tech Support with SYSTRAN; LogoMedia partners with Lingvistica;
TSRALI – A Valuable Web Resource for Translators from the University of
Montreal; Carnegie Mellon “Pocket” Translator; Breakthrough in Interspecies
Communication!; Alis integrates IBM WebSphere translation; SDL Localization Suite; IBM WebSphere Transcoding Publisher;
ACL-EACL 2001 [report] – Pierre Isabelle; Workshop on Human Language Technology and
Knowledge Management [report] – Mark T.Maybury;
A Chat with Mike Anobile,
Managing Director of LISA; Censorship and Online Translation; Laurie’s Links –
Laurie Gerber; SYSTRAN Personal for Linux
Issue no.29 (vol.11, no.2), December 2001
[PDF, 1633KB] Contents: Apptek Founders Buy Back
Company; The End of Logos Corporation; Professor Nagao Re-elected as President
of Kyoto University; Lionbridge and Sail Labs Form
Alliance; LanguageForce Now Glossa?;
SYSTRAN Acquires Aurora; US Globalization Survey; SDL Lands Clients with
Enterprise Translation Server; U.S. Social Security Administration to Test WebSphere; Sakhr Brings Arabic
Online with Two New Services; Oki Electric Pilots Collaborative MT User
Community; MT in Multinational Customer Support; MT Summit VIII [report] – Junichi
Tsujii; Example-Based MT [workshop report] – Andy
Way; MT Evaluation [workshop report] – Andrei Popescu-Belis;
Teaching MT Workshop [report] – Francis Bond and Harry Somers;
Data-Driven MT Workshop Assembles Researchers from Different Venues – Jessie
Pinkham; ATA Postediting Workshop – Walter
Hartmann; HT Evaluation at ATA; A Chat with SDL International; A Chat with
Young Researchers [Kathrin Probst and Ying Zhang];
Introducing Bente Maegaard; Laurie’s Links – Laurie Gerber
Issue no.30 (vol.11, no.3), March 2002 [PDF,
1996KB] Contents: 5th AMTA Conference – From Research to Real Users; SDL
Acquires ALPNET and Language Partners; EUROMAP: Promoting language Technology;
International Journal of Translation MT Issue; PAL – Professional Association
for Localization; New MT Compendium!; ASLIB – 23rd Translating and Computer
Conference [report] – Federico Gaspari; MT2010
– Roadmap workshop at MT Summit VIII [report] – Steven Krauwer;
CICLing-2002: Pyramids, Butterflies, and Computational Linguistics [report] – Alexander
Gelbukh; PACLIC 16 [report] – Yong-Beom Kim; European SAE J2450 Meeting – Translation
Quality Metric – Jörg Schütz;
A Chat with Michael Quinlan; A Chat with Jaap van der Meer; Introducing Junichi Tsujii;
MT Users Corner: A User’s Desiderata, part 1 – Jackie Murgida;
Book review: Early years in machine translation [edited by] W.John
Hutchins – Maghi King
Issue no. 31 (vol. 11, no.1), Winter
2002 [PDF, 515KB]. Contents: The Changing Business Landscape -- Laurie
Gerber; The "GILT" Professional Community -- Laurie Gerber; AMTA
2002: From Research to Real Users [report] -- Laurie Gerber; Human
Language Technology 2002 [conference report] -- Kurt Godden; 9th
Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation
[TMI-2002, Keihanna, Japan]: Direction in MT Research
[report] -- Teruko Mitamura; TMI-02 Conference
Summary -- Laurel Fais; Roadmap Workshop at
TMI-02 [report] -- Laurel Fais; International
Conference on Translation Technology [Barcelona, April 2002] -- Joseba Abaitua; Survey on
Research and Development of Machine Translation in Asian Countries [conference
report] -- Thepchai Supnithi
and Virach Sornlertlamvanich;
Fluent Machines [new MT company] -- David Clements; A chat with IAMT
President Eduard Hovy; The Beginnings of the IAMT:
Four Stories -- The nuts and bolts of IAMT -- Muriel Vasconcellos;
The beginnings of IAMT -- Makoto Nagao; Editing MTNI, 1992-1997 --
John Hutchins; The seeds of IAMT -- Veronica Lawson; Empirical Methods
for Exploiting Parallel Texts, by I. Dan Melamed …
MIT Press, 2000 [review] -- Graham Russell
Issue no. 32 (vol. 11, no.2), Spring 2003 [PDF, 478KB]
Contents: Word Magic Software Launches in the
Issue no. 33 (vol. 11, no.3), Autumn 2003 [PDF, 719KB]
Contents: GTI Launches TranslateTV; CrossLanguage to Focus on Business MT Implementation -- Karen
Spalink; Phraselator --
Not Quite MT but Very Successful; Surprise Language Project Develops
Hindi/English Translator; LangTech 2002, September
2002, Berlin, Germany [report] -- Bente Maegaard, Hans Uszkoreit
and Michael Huch; EAMT-CLAW 03, Dublin City
University, Dublin, Ireland, May 2003 [report] -- Andy Way; A Chat with
Steve Richardson of Microsoft; An Interview with Gregor Thurmair of Comprendium; From the Garage to the Attic: An Insider's
View of Entrepreneurial MT: part 2: nuts and Bolts -- David Clements; How
Should We Define Data-Driven MT?; MT Users' Desiderata, part II -- Jackie Murgida; Data-Driven MT Grows Up -- Laurie Gerber
Issue no. 34 (vol. 12, no.1), Winter 2003 [PDF, 540KB]
Contents: Machine Translation Meets New Orleans: MT Summit IX, October 2003
[report] -- Jaro Lajovic;
In memoriam Antonio Zampolli -- Maghi King; FreeTranslation
Now Offers Human Services; AAMT 2003, June 2003, Tokyo Japan [conference
report]; The Localization Community Considers MT: Localization World, October
2003, Seattle, Washington, USA [report]; CICLing
2003, February 2003, Mexico City, Mexico [conference report] -- Alexander Gelbukh; A chat with Dr. Heyan
Huang, founder and CEO of HuaJian Technology;
Diversity, cooperation and understanding (address of new IAMT president at MT
Summit IX, 2003) -- Jun'ichi Tsujii; From the Garage to the Attic: An insider's View
of Entrepreneurial MT: part 3: hitting the road -- David Clements
Issue no.35, March 2005 [PDF, 419KB]
Contents: EAMT 2005, Budapest, Hungary, 30-31 May 2005 [conference report]; Dr.
Nagao receives 2005 Japan prize; MT Summit X, 12-16 September 2005, Phuket, Thailand; Tsunami and MT Summit; Latest Compendium
now available; New versions from Language Engineering Co.; Language Weaver
releases version 3.0; Tweddle chooses post-edited MT
process from SDL; Systran Premium Professional 5.0
wins award; Translation Automation User Group formed; Two perspectives on the
AMTA 2004 conference: From an AMTA veteran – Roderick Holland, From a
first-time attendee – Laurel Wagers; MT featured at annual meeting of
AAAS [conference report] – Laurie Gerber; MT Summit 10 workshops: calls
for papers.