Machine Translation Archive

Index of Languages

Publications 2000-2004

Languages M to Z

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Malayalam

(2000) L. Sobha & B.N.Patnaik: VASISTH - an ellipsis resolution algorithm for Indian languages. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 5pp. [PDF, 987KB]

Maltese

(2004) Michael Rosner: Machine translation and human translators. The Sunday Times (Malta), 25 April 2004.

Norwegian

(2000) Pernilla Danielsson & Katarina Mühlenbock: Small but efficient: the misconception of high-frequency words in Scandinavian translation. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.158-168. [go to publisher details]

Norwegian to English

(2004) Stephan Oepen, Helge Dyvik, Jan Tore Lønning, Erik Velldal, Dorothee Beerman, John Carroll, Dan Flickinger, Lars Hellan, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Paul Meurer, Torbjørn Nordgård & Victoria Rosén: Som å kapp-ete med trollet? -- Towards MRS-based Norwegian-English machine translation; TMI-2004: proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; pp.11-20. [PDF, 227KB]

Panjabi see Punjabi

Pashto

(2004) Craig Kopris: Rapid MT experience in an LCTL (Pashto). Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 130-133. [go to publisher details]

Pashto to English

(2004) Kristin Precoda, Horacio Franco, Ascander Dost, Michael Frandsen, John Fry, Andreas Kathol, Colleen Ritchie, Susanne Riehemann, Dimitra Vergyri, & Jing Zheng: Limited-domain speech-to-speech translation between English and Pashto. HLT-NAACL 2004: Human Language Technology conference and North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting, May 2-7, 2004, The Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, USA; demonstration paper, 4pp. [PDF, 57KB]

(2003) Horacio Franco, Jing Zheng, Kristin Precoda, Federico Cesari, Victor Abrash, Dimitra Vergyri, Anand Ventataraman, Harry Bratt, Colleen Richey & Ace Sarich: Development of phrase translation systems for handheld computers: from concept to field. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European  Conference on  Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.373-376; abstract [PDF, 34KB]

Persian

(2003) Ali Farghaly & Jean Senellart: Intuitive coding of the Arabic lexicon. MT Summit IX -- workshop: Machine translation for semitic languages, New Orleans, USA, 23 September 2003 [PDF, 168KB]

(2000) Rémi Zajac, Steve Helmreich, & Karine Megerdoomian: Black-box/glass-box evaluation in Shiraz. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop proceedings: Evaluation of machine translation, Athens, Greece, 29 May 2000; pp. 13-20. [PDF, 693KB]

Persian to English

(2000) Jan W. Amtrup, Karine Megerdoomian, & Rémi Zajac: Rapid development of translation tools: application to Persian and Turkish Coling 2000 in Europe: the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July -4 August 2000; pp.982-986 [PDF,.508KB]

Philippine languages see Cebuano, English to Tagalog, Tagalog to English

Polish

(2001) Barbara Gawronska: PolVerbNet: an experimental database for Polish verbs. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 121-126. [PDF, 255KB]

(2001) Mirosław Gajer: Towards a fully-automatic high-quality machine translation for unrestricted text.  In: Machine Translation Review, issue 12: December 2001; pp.24-35.

(2000) Barbara Gawronska & Hannah Duczak: Understanding politics by studying weather: a cognitive approach to representation of Polish verbs of motion, appearance, and existence. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.147-157. [go to publisher details]

Polish to English

(2003) Eugene Gulak, Nadiya Byezhanova, Michael S.Blekhman, Alla Rakova, & Andrei Kursin: Polish translation software by Lingvistica’98 Inc. International Journal of Translation 15 (1), Jan-June 2003; pp.115-124. [PDF, 135KB]

(2000) Krzysztof Jassem, Filip Graliński, & Grzegorz Krynicki: POLENG - adjusting a rule-based Polish-English machine translation system by means of text corpus analysis Fifth EAMT Workshop "Harvesting existing resources", May 11 - 12, 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia; pp.47-50. [PDF, 143KB]

Polish to French

Portuguese to Chinese

(2004) Wong Fai, Tang Chi Wai, Dong Ming Chui, Mao Yu Hang, & Li Yi Ping: Example-based machine translation based on translation corresponding tree representation. Proceedings of The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04) Asian Symposium on Natural Language Processing to Overcome Language Barriers 31-38. Hainan Island, China; pp.31-38. [PDF, 334KB]

(2004) Fai Wong, Dong Cheng Hu, Yu Hang Mao, Ming Chui Dong: A flexible example annotation schema: translation corresponding tree representation. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 178KB]

(2004) Wong Fai, Hu Dong Cheng, Mao Yu Hang, Tang Chi Wai, & Dong Ming Chui: Application of translation corresponding tree (TCT) annotation schema in example-based machine translation.  LREC-2004. Workshop, 25th May 2004: The amazing utility of parallel and comparable corpora; pp. 42-45. [PDF, 474KB]

(2000) António Ribeiro, Gabriel Lopes, & João Mexia: A self-learning method of parallel texts alignment. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.30-39. [go to publisher details]

Portuguese to English (see also Brazilian Portuguese to English)

(2004) Julia Aymerich: Machine translation in practice at PAHO. Tutorial notes, at AMTA 2004: Sixth biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, September 28, 2004, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA [PDF of PPT presentation, 2391KB]

(2000) Diana Santos: The  translation network: a model for a fine-grained description of translations [abstract]. In: Jean Véronis (ed.) Parallel text processing: alignment and use of translation corpora. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000; pp. 169-186.

Portuguese to Spanish

(2004) Julia Aymerich: Machine translation in practice at PAHO. Tutorial notes, at AMTA 2004: Sixth biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, September 28, 2004, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA [PDF of PPT presentation, 2391KB]

Portuguese to UNL

(2004) Catarina Ribeiro, Ricardo Santos, Rui Pedro Chaves, & Palmira Marrafa: Semi-automatic UNL dictionary generation using WordNet.PT.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.279-282. [PDF, 344KB]

(2002) Ronaldo Teixeira Martins, Lúcia Helena Machado Rino, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, & Osvaldo Novais Oliveira Jr.: The UNL distinctive features: inferences from a NL-UNL enconverting task. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop: First international workshop on UNL, other interlinguas and their applications, Las Palmas Canary Islands, 27 May 2002; pp.8-13. [PDF, 58KB]

Punjabi

Punjabi to English

(2000) Sukhdave Singh, Tony McEnery, & Paul Baker: Building a parallel corpus of English/Panjabi [abstract]. In: Jean Véronis (ed.) Parallel text processing: alignment and use of translation corpora. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000; pp. 335-346.

Pushto see Pashto

Romanian to English

(2004) Ana-Maria Barbu: Simple linguistic methods for improving a word alignment algorithm. JADT 2004: 7es Journées internationals d’Analyse statistique des Données Textuelles, 10-12 mars 2004, Louvain La Neuve, Belgique; pp.88-98. [PDF, 89KB]

(2004) Ana-Maria Barbu: A word alignment system based on a translation equivalence extractor. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.2195-2198. [PDF, 388KB]

(2003) Herve Dejean, Eric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte & Kenji Yamada: Reducing parameter space for word alignment HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF, 42KB]

(2003) Dan Tufis, Ana-Maria Barbu, & Radu Ion: TREQ-AL: a word alignment system with limited language resources HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF, 164KB]. [A new version describing the TREQ-AL system after bug fixes is also available [PDF, 53KB]

(2003) Rada Mihalcea & Ted Pedersen: An evaluation exercise for word alignment HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada.[PDF, 131KB]

(2003) Bridget Thomson McInnes & Ted Pedersen: The Duluth word alignment system HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF,52KB]

(2003) Bing Zhao & Stephan Vogel: Word alignment based on bilingual bracketing HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF, 56KB]

Russian

(2004) Jiri Hana, Anna Feldman & Chris Brew: A resource-light approach to Russian morphology: tagging Russian using Czech resources. [EMNLP 2004] Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 91KB]

(2001) Anthony Hartley, Donia Scott, John Bateman & Danail Dochev: AGILE - a system for multilingual generation of technical instructions. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 145-150. [PDF, 384KB]

(2000) Natalia V.Loukachevitch & Boris V.Dobrov: Thesaurus-based structural thematic summary in multilingual information systems. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 11: December 2000; pp.14-28. [PDF]

Russian to English

 (2004) W. John Hutchins: The Georgetown-IBM experiment demonstrated in January 1954. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 102-114.

(2001) Larissa Beliaeva: Machine translation methods, text structure and translator work. International Journal of Translation 13 (1-2), Jan-Dec 2001; pp.119-146. [PDF, 217KB]

(2001) Igor Bolshakov & Alexander Gelbukh: A large database of collocations and semantic references: interlingual applications.  International Journal of Translation 13 (1-2), Jan-Dec 2001; pp.167-187. [PDF, 292KB]

(2000) Jim Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salgado, & Sergei Nirenburg: The week at a glance - cross-language cross-document information extraction and translation Coling 2000 in Europe: the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July -4 August 2000; pp. 1007-1010 [PDF,.297KB]

(2000) John Hutchins: Gilbert W.King and the USAF Translator. In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.171-176.

(2000) Lew R. Micklesen: Erwin Reifler and machine translation at the University of Washington. In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.21-38.

(2000) Christine A. Montgomery: Is FAHQ(M)T possible? Memories of Paul L.Garvin and other MT colleagues. In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.97-110.

(2000) Anthony G. Oettinger: Machine translation at Harvard. In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.73-86.

(2000) Peter Toma: From Serna to Systran. In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.135-145.

(2000) Michael Zarechnak: The early days of GAT-SLC. In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.111-128.

Russian to French

(2000) Christian Boitet: Bernard Vauquois’ contribution to the theory and practice of building MT systems: a historical perspective. In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.331-348.

Semitic languages

(2003) Nizar Habash: Semitic linguistic phenomena and variations. MT Summit IX -- workshop: Machine translation for semitic languages, New Orleans, USA, 23 September 2003 [PDF from PPT, 500KB]

Serbian to English

 (2004) Maja Popović & Hermann Ney: Towards the use of word stems and suffixes for statistical machine translation.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1585-1588. [PDF, 534KB]

Sinhala

(2002) Ruvan Weerasinghe: Bootstrapping the lexicon building process for machine translation between 'new' languages. Machine translation: from research to real users: 5th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2002, Tiburon, CA, October 2002; ed. Stephen D. Richardson (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2002); pp. 177-186. [go to publisher details]

Slavic languages

(2004) Andrzej Nedoma & Jurek Nedoma: Problems of CAT tools related to translations into central and eastern European languages. Translating and the Computer 26: proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 18-19 November 2004, London. (London: Aslib, 2004); 19pp. [PDF, 144KB]

(2002) Charles Schafer & David Yarowsky: Inducing translation lexicons via diverse similarity measures and bridge languages. Coling-2002: Sixth Conference on Natural Language Learning 2002 (CoNLL-2002), 31 August 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 8pp. [PDF, 361KB]

Slovenian

(2004) Darinka Verdonik, Matej Rojc, & Zdravko Kačič: Creating Slovenian language resources for development of speech-to-speech translation components.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1399-1402. [PDF, 753KB]

Slovenian to English

(2000) Tomaš Erjavec: Slovene-English datasets for MT Fifth EAMT Workshop "Harvesting existing resources", May 11 - 12, 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia. [PDF, 104KB]

Spanish

(2004) Victoria Arranz, Núria Castell, Josep Maria Crego, Jesús Giménez, Adrià de Gispert, & Patrick Lambert: Bilingual connections for trilingual corpora: an XML approach.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1459-1462. [PDF, 674KB]

(2003) Remedios Ruiz Cascales & Richard F.E.Sutcliffe: A specification and validating parser for simplified technical Spanish Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003; pp.35-44. [PDF, 133KB]

(2003) Xavier Carreras, Luís Màrquez & Luís Padró: Named entity recognition for Catalan using Spanish resources. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.43-50 [PDF, 431KB]

(2003) David Conejero, Jesus Gimenez, Victoria Arranz, Antonio Bonafonte, Neus Pascual, Nuria Castell, & Asunción Moreno: Lexica and corpora for speech-to-speech translation: a trilingual approach. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European  Conference on  Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.1593-1596; abstract [PDF, 34KB]

(2003) Wim Peters: Metonomy as a cross-lingual phenomenon. ACL 2003 Workshop on the Lexicon and Figurative  Language, July 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 9pp. [PDF, 37KB]

(2002) Eneko Agirre, Mikel Lersundi, & David Martinez: A multi-lingual approach to disambiguate prepositions and case suffixes; ACL-2002 SIGLEX/SENSEVAL workshop on Word Sense Disambiguation "Recent successes and future directions", July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp. 1-8 [PDF, 166KB]

(2001) Takako Aikawa, Maite Melero, Lee Schwartz & Andi Wu : Generation for multilingual MT. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 9-14. [PDF, 210KB]

(2001) Guillermo Barrutieta, Joseba Abaitua & Josuha Díaz: Gross-grained RST through XML metadata for multilingual document generation. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 39-42. [PDF, 151KB]

(2000) R. Muñoz, M. Saiz-Noeda, A. Suárez, & M. Palomar: Semantic approach to bridging reference resolution. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 8pp. [PDF, 1750KB]

(2000) Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Manuel Palomar, & David Farwell: NLP system oriented to anaphora resolution. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 7pp. [PDF, 1564KB]

(2000) Estela Saquete & Patricio Martínez-Barco: Grammar specification for the recognition of temporal expressions. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 7pp. [PDF, 1397KB]

(2000) Michel Simard: Multilingual text alignment: aligning three or more versions of a text [abstract]. In: Jean Véronis (ed.) Parallel text processing: alignment and use of translation corpora. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000; pp. 49-67.

Spanish to Basque

(2003) Daniel Ortíz, Ismael García-Varea, Francisco Casacuberta, Antonio Lagarda, & Jorge González: On the use of statistical machine-translation techniques within a memory-based translation system (AMETRA) MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.299-306. [PDF, 88KB]

(2000) Arantxa Diaz de Ilarraza, Aingeru Mayor, & Kepa Sarasola: Reusability of wide-coverage linguistic resources in the construction of a multilingual machine translation system. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 9pp. [PDF, 1599KB]

(2000) Arantza Casillas, Joseba Abaitua & Raquel Martínez: DTD-driven bilingual document generation. INLG’2000 : Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, 12-16 June 2000; pp.32-38. [PDF, 586KB]

Spanish to Catalan

(2004) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz & Mikel L. Forcada: Cooperative unsupervised training of the part-of-speech taggers in a bidirectional machine translation system; TMI-2004: proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; pp.135-144. [PDF, 92KB]

(2004) Victoria Arranz, Elisabet Comelles, David Farwell, Climent Nadeu, Jaume Padrell, Albert Febrer, Dorcas Alexander, & Kay Peterson: A speech-to-speech translation system for Catalan, Spanish, and English. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 7-16. [go to publisher details]

(2003) Salvador Climent, Joaquim Moré & Antoni Oliver: Building an environment for unsupervised automatic email translation Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003 [PDF, 274KB]

(2003) Lluís Màrquez, Adrià de Gispert, Xavier Carreras, & Lluís Padró: Low-cost named entity classification for Catalan: exploiting multilingual resources and unlabeled data.  ACL 2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 80KB]

(2003) Jesús Tomás, Josep Àngel Mas, & Francisco Casacuberta: A quantitative method for machine translation evaluation. EACL 2003: Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluation Initiatives in Natural Language Processing: are evaluation methods, metrics and resources reusable? April 14th 2003, Budapest, Hungary; pp.27-34. [PDF, 6570KB]

(2002) Toni Badia, Gemma Boleda, Carme Colominas, Agnès González, Mireia Garmendia, Martí Quixal: BancTrad: a web interface for integrated access to parallel annotated corpora. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop: Language resources for translation work and research, Las Palmas Canary Islands, 27 May 2002; pp.15-19. [PDF, 106KB]

(2002) Alicia Garrido-Alenda, Mikel L. Forcada and Rafael C. Carrasco: Incremental construction and maintenance of morphological analysers based on augmented letter transducers TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002. [PDF, 171KB]

(2001) R. Canals-Marote, A. Esteve-Guillén, A. Garrido-Alenda, M.I. Guardiola-Savall, A. Iturraspe-Bellver, S. Montserrat-Buendia, S. Ortiz-Rojas, H. Pastor-Pina, P.M. Pérez-Antón & M.L. Forcada: The Spanish<>Catalan machine translation system interNOSTRUM. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 73-76. [PDF, 196KB]

(2001) Alberto Sanchis, David Picó, Joan Miquel del Val, Ferran Fabregat, Jesús Tomás, Moisés Pastor, Francisco Casacuberta & Enrique Vidal: A morphological analyser for machine translation based on finite-state transducers. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.305-309. [PDF, 48KB]

(2000) Raül Canals, Anna Esteve, Alicia Garrido, M.Isabel Guardiola, Amaia Iturraspe-Bellver, Sandra Montserrat, Pedro Pérez-Antón, Sergio Ortiz, Hermínia Pastor, & Mikel L.Forcada: interNOSTRUM: a Spanish-Catalan machine translation system. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 11: December 2000; pp.29-34. [PDF]

(2000) Mikel L.Forcada: interNOSTRUM: a Spanish-Catalan machine translation system. International Journal for Language and Documentation 6, August/September 2000; pp.19-21. [PDF, 2570KB]

Spanish to English

(2004) Julia Aymerich: Machine translation in practice at PAHO. Tutorial notes, at AMTA 2004: Sixth biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, September 28, 2004, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA [PDF of PPT presentation, 2391KB]

(2005) Michael S.Blekhman, Olga Bezhanova, & Marina Byezhanova: Comparative analysis of the translation quality produced by three MT systems. International Journal of Translation 17 (1-2), Jan-Dec 2005; pp.39-85. [PDF, 236KB]

(2004) Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Jaime G. Carbonell, & Peter J. Jansen: Developing language resources for a transnational digital government system. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.945-948. [PDF, 271KB]

(2004) Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Ralf D.Brown, Jaime G.Carbonell, Peter J. Jansen, & Jae Dong Kim: Challenges in using an example-based MT system for a transnational digital government project 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp.33-42. [PDF, 216KB ]

(2004) Josep M.Crego, José B.Marino, & Adria de Gispert: Finite-state-based and phrase-based statistical machine translation. Interspeech 2004 – ICSLP 8th International  Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004; pp.37-40; abstract [PDF, 73KB]

(2004) Mike Dillinger & Mark Seligman: System description: speech-to-speech translation system. Machine translation: from real users to research: 6th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2004, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 2, 2004; ed. Robert E.Frederking and Kathryn B.Taylor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004); pp. 58-63. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Adrià de Gispert, José B. Mariño & Josep M. Crego: Phrase-based alignment combining corpus cooccurrences and linguistic knowledge. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2004], September 30 – October 1, 2004, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 107-114 [PDF, 178KB]

(2004) Maja Popović & Hermann Ney: Towards the use of word stems and suffixes for statistical machine translation.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1585-1588. [PDF, 534KB]

(2003) Ricardo Argüello Mántica: Inside a high-quality English-Spanish MT engine. International Journal of Translation 15 (1), Jan-June 2003; pp.43-70. [PDF, 164KB]

(2003) Olga Bezhanova: Analysis of the translation quality of the WordMagic EnglishÛSpanish Interpreter Professional. International Journal of Translation 15 (1), Jan-June 2003; pp.71-79. [PDF, 35KB]

(2003) Nizar Habash: Matador: a large-scale Spanish-English GHMT system MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 173KB]

(2003) Nizar Habash: Matador: Spanish-English GHMT MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 129KB]

(2003) Arul Menezes & Stephen D. Richardson: A best-first alignment algorithm for automatic extraction of transfer mappings from bilingual corpora. In: Michael Carl & Andy Way (eds.) Recent advances in example-based machine translation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pp.421-442.

(2003) Francisco Nevado, Francisco Casacuberta, & Enrique Vidal: Parallel corpora segmentation using anchor words. 7th EAMT Workshop, "Improving machine translation through other language technology tools", 13 April 2003, Budapest, Hungary; pp. 33-40 [PDF, 382KB]

(2002) Francisco Casacuberta, Enrique Vidal, & Juan Miguel Vilar: Architectures for speech-to-speech translation; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp.39-44 [PDF, 114KB]

(2002) Adria de Gispert & José B.Mariño: Using x-grams for speech-to-speech translation. ICSLP 2002, Interspeech 2002:7th International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, September 16-20, 2002, Denver, Colorado, USA; pp.1885-1888; abstract [PDF, 65KB]

(2002) Jessie Pinkham & Martine Smets: Machine translation without a bilingual dictionary. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp.146-156. [PDF, 215KB]

(2001) Julia Aymerich: Generation of noun-noun compounds in the Spanish-English machine translation system SPANAM®.  MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 33-37. [PDF, 196KB]

(2001) Olga Bezhanova: Software for processing Spanish: products by Word Magic Software.  International Journal of Translation 13 (1-2), Jan-Dec 2001; pp.159-166. [PDF, 35KB]

(2001) Nizar Habash & Bonnie Dorr: Large scale language independent generation using thematic hierarchies. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 139-144. [PDF, 256KB]

(2001) Marjorie León: SPANAM® and ENGSPAN® for Windows 2000: an MT pioneer keeps up with technology. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.203-206. [PDF, 134KB]

(2001) Arul Menezes & Stephen D.Richardson: A best-first alignment algorithm for automatic extraction of transfer mappings from bilingual corpora. ACL-EACL 2001 workshop "Data-driven machine translation", July 7, 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.39-46. [PDF, 84KB]

(2001) M.Pastor-i-Gadea, A.Sanchis, F.Casacuberta, & E.Vidal: EuTrans: a speech-to-speech translator prototype. Eurospeech 2001 Scandinavia: 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2nd Interspeech Event, Aalborg, Denmark, September 3-7, 2001; pp.2385-2388; abstract [PDF, 54KB]

(2001) Stephen Richardson, William Dolan, Arul Menezes, & Jessie Pinkham: Achieving commercial-quality translation with example-based methods. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.293-298. [PDF, 187KB]

(2000) Jim Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salgado, & Sergei Nirenburg: The week at a glance - cross-language cross-document information extraction and translation Coling 2000 in Europe: the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July -4 August 2000; pp. 1007-1010 [PDF,.297KB]

(2000) Marjorie León: A new look for the PAHO MT system. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.219-222. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Yevgeny Ludovik & Ron Zacharski: 'MT and topic-based techniques to enhance speech recognition systems for professional translators' Coling 2000 in Europe: the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July -4 August 2000; pp. 1061-1065 [PDF,.382KB]

(2000) Jesús Peral & Antonio Ferrández: An application of the interlingua system ISS for Spanish-English pronominal anaphora generation. NAACL-ANLP 2000 Workshop: Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP, Seattle, May 2000; pp. 42-51 [PDF, 733KB]

Spanish to Galician

(2003) Antonio Sayáns Gómez & Elena Villar Conde: The functionality of a tool bar for postedition in machine translation between languages with linguistic interference: the Spanish-Galician case MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.118-124. [PDF, 354KB]

(2001) Inés Diz Gamallo: The importance of MT for the survival of minority languages: Spanish-Galician MT system MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 89-92. [PDF, 142KB]

Swedish

(2000) Pernilla Danielsson & Katarina Mühlenbock: Small but efficient: the misconception of high-frequency words in Scandinavian translation. Envisioning machine translation in the information future: 4th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2000, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October 2000; ed. John S. White (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000); pp.158-168. [go to publisher details]

Swedish to English

(2004) Per Weijnitz, Eva Forsbom, Ebba Gustavii, Eva Pettersson, & Jörg Tiedemann: MT goes farming: comparing two machine translation approaches on a new domain.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.2043-2046. [PDF, 296KB]

(2003) Pernilla Danielsson: Units of meaning in translation – how to make real use of corpus evidence. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 15pp. [PDF, 71KB]

(2003) Anna Sågvall Hein, Eva Forsbom, Per Weijnitz, Ebba Gustavii, & Jörg Tiedemann: MATS -- a glass box machine translation system. MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp. 491-493. [PDF, 116KB]

(2003) Jörg Tiedemann: Combining clues for word alignment. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.339-346 [PDF, 433KB]

(2002) Anna Sågvall Hein, Eva Forsbom, Jörg Tiedemann, Per Weijnitz, Ingrid Almqvist, Leif-Jöran Olsson, & Sten Thaning: Scaling up an MT prototype for industrial use – databases and data flow. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.1759-1766. [PDF, 116KB]

(2000) Jörg Tiedemann: Extracting phrasal terms using bitext. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop on Terminology Resources and Computation, Athens, Greece, 29 May 2000; 7pp. [PDF, 160KB]

Swedish to German

(2004) Martin Volk & Yvonne Samuelsson: Bootstrapping parallel treebanks. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora, August 29th 2004, Geneva, Switzerland; 7pp. [PDF, 192KB]

Tagalog to English

(2003) Imelda P.de Castro: The Philippine Style Chat – instant messenger translation system. Translating and the Computer 25: proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 20-21 November 2003, London. (London: Aslib, 2003); 11pp. [PDF, 177KB]

Tamil to English

(2001) Ulrich Germann: Building a statistical machine translation system from scratch: how much bang for the buck can we expect? ACL-EACL 2001 workshop "Data-driven machine translation", July 7, 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.63-70. [PDF, 84KB]

Tamil to UNL

(2002) T.Dhanabalan, K.Saravanan, & T.V.Geetha: Tamil to UNL enconverter. ICUKL-2002: International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language, 25th-29th November 2002, Goa, India, organised by UNDL Foundation and Indian Institute of  Technology Bombay; 15pp. [PDF, 127KB]

Thai

(2001) Tanapong Potipiti, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, & Kanokwut Thanadkran: Towards an intelligent multilingual keyboard system. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 4pp. [PDF, 65KB]

(2000) Tanapong Potipiti, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, & Thatsanee Charoenporn: Towards building a corpus-based dictionary for non-word-boundary languages. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop on Terminology Resources and Computation, Athens, Greece, 29 May 2000; 5pp. [PDF, 56 KB]

Thai to English

(2004) Tanja Schultz, Dorcas Alexander, Alan W.Black, Kay Peterson, Sinaporn Suebvisai, & Alex Waibel: A Thai speech translation system for medical dialogs. HLT-NAACL 2004: Human Language Technology conference and North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting, May 2-7, 2004, The Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, USA; demonstration paper, 2pp. [PDF, 122KB]

(2002) Thepchai Supnithi, Virach Sornlertlamvanich & Thatsanee Charoenporn: A cross system machine translation; Coling-2002 workshop "Machine translation in Asia", 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 169KB]

Turkish

(2001) Rajmund Piotrowski, Yuri Romanov, Yuri Tovmach, Natalia Zaitseva, & Michael Blekhman: Dictionary organization in Linguistic Automaton for oriental languages.  International Journal of Translation 13 (1-2), Jan-Dec 2001; pp.105-118. [PDF, 108KB]

Turkish to English

(2003) Ilyas Cicekli & H.Altay Güvenir: Learning translation templates from bilingual translation examples. In: Michael Carl & Andy Way (eds.) Recent advances in example-based machine translation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pp.255-286.

(2000) Jan W. Amtrup, Karine Megerdoomian, & Rémi Zajac: Rapid development of translation tools: application to Persian and Turkish Coling 2000 in Europe: the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July -4 August 2000; pp.982-986 [PDF,.508KB]

Turkish to Tatar

(2002) Kemal Altintas & Ilyas Cicekli: A machine translation system between a pair of closely related languages. Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2002), Orlando, Florida, 2002 (CRC Press); pp.192-196.  [PDF, 204KB]

UNL to French

(2002) Etienne Blanc, Gilles Sérasset, & WangJu Tsai: Structural and lexical transfer from an UNL graph to an equivalent natural language dependency tree. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop: First international workshop on UNL, other interlinguas and their applications, Las Palmas Canary Islands, 27 May 2002; pp.14-18. [PDF, 53KB]

(2000) Etienne Blanc: From the UNL hypergraph to GETA’s multilevel tree. MT2000: machine translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium: international conference at the University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000, organised by the British Computer Society. [London: BCS]; 9pp. [PDF, 1671KB]

Urdu

(2003) Ali Farghaly & Jean Senellart: Intuitive coding of the Arabic lexicon. MT Summit IX -- workshop: Machine translation for semitic languages, New Orleans, USA, 23 September 2003 [PDF, 168KB]

(2002) Miriam Butt & Tracy Holloway King: Urdu and the parallel grammar project. Coling-2002: Asian Language Resources and International Standardization, August 2002, Taipei, Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 121KB]

Urdu to English

Vietnamese

(2003) Viet Bac Le, Brigitte Bigi, Laurent Besacier, & Eric Castelli: Using the web for fast language model construction in minority languages. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European  Conference on  Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.3117-3120; abstract [PDF, 34KB]

Vietnamese to English

(2003) Dinh Dien & Hoang Kiem: POS-tagger for English Vietnamese bilingual corpus HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF, 202KB]