Machine Translation Archive

Index to linguistic categories, features, grammars and processes

Publications 2000-2004

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Adjectives

(2001) Taiichi Hashimoto, Kosuke Nishidate, Kiyoaki Shirai, Takenobu Tokunaga & Hozumi Tanaka: Decision lists for determining adjective dependency in Japanese. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 151-156. [PDF, 133KB]

Ambiguity preservation (see also Disambiguation)

(2000) Kevin Knight & Irene Langkilde: Preserving ambiguities in generation via automata intersection. 17th National conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2000) July 30- August 3, 2000, Austin,Texas. [PDF, 149KB]

Anaphora resolution

(2004) R. Florian, H.Hassan, A. Ittycheriah, H.Jing, K.Kambhatla, X.Luo, N.Nicolov, & S.Roukos: A statistical model for multilingual entity detection and tracking. 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; pp.1-8. [PDF, 132KB]

(2004) Agnès Tutin, Meriam Haddara, Ruslan Mitkov, & Constantin Orasan: Annotation of anaphoric expressions in an aligned bilingual corpus.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.267-270. [PDF, 524KB]

(2002) Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Enrique Torrejon, Dave Svoboda, Annelen Brunner and Kathryn Baker: Pronominal anaphora resolution in the KANTOO multilingual machine translation system. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp. 115-129. [PDF, 112KB]

(2002) R.Muñoz, R.Mitkov, M.Palomar, J.Peral, R.Evans, L.Moreno, C.Orasan, M.Saiz-Noeda, A.Ferrández, C.Barbu, P.Martínez-Barco, & A.Suárez: Bilingual alignment of anaphoric expressions. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.2088-2093. [PDF, 76KB]

(2001) Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Enrique Torrejon, David Svoboda & Kathryn Baker: Pronominal anaphora resolution in KANTOO English-to-Spanish machine translation system. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.235-239. [PDF, 171KB]

(2001) Shigeko Nariyama: Multiple argument ellipses resolution in Japanese. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.241-245. [PDF, 167KB]

(2000) Catalina Barbu & Ruslan Mitkov: Evaluation environment for 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]; 8pp. [PDF, 1772KB]

(2000) David Farwell & Stephen Helmreich: An interlingual-based approach to reference resolution. NAACL-ANLP 2000 Workshop: Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP, Seattle, May 2000; pp. 1-11 [PDF, 809KB]

(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) 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]

(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) 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]

(2000) Hristo Tanev & Ruslan Mitkov: LINGUA – a robust architecture for text processing and anaphora resolution in Bulgarian. 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, 1780KB]

Annotation and features

(2004) Robert S.Belvin, Susanne Riehemann, & Kristin Precoda: A fine-grained evaluation method for speech-to-speech translation using concept annotations. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1427-1430. [PDF, 765KB]

(2004) Luisa Bentivogli, Pamela Forner, & Emanuele Pianta: Evaluating cross-language annotation transfer in the MultiSemCor corpus. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 66KB]

(2004) Martin Čmejrek, Jan Cuřin, Jiři Havelka, Jan Hajič, & Vladislav Kuboň: Prague Czech-English dependency treebank: syntactically annotated resources for machine translation . LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1597-1600. [PDF, 292KB]

(2004) Martin Čmejrek, Jan Cuřín, & Jiří Havelka: Prague Czech-English dependency treebank: any hopes for a common annotation scheme? HLT/NAACL 2004: Frontiers in Corpus Annotation, Proceedings of the Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts, May 6, 2004; 8pp. [PDF, 230KB]

(2004) Stephen Helmreich, David Farwell, Florence Reeder, Keith Miller, Bonnie Dorr, Nizar Habash, Eduard Hovy, Lori Levin, Owen Rambow, & Advaith Siddharthan: Interlingual annotation of multilingual text corpora. HLT/NAACL 2004: Frontiers in Corpus Annotation, Proceedings of the Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts, May 6, 2004; 8pp. [PDF, 126KB]

(2004) Paul Kingsbury, Nianwen Xue, & Martha Palmer: Propbanking in parallel.  LREC-2004. Workshop, 25th May 2004: The amazing utility of parallel and comparable corpora; pp. 34-37. [PDF, 305KB]

(2004) Nadia Mana, Roldano Cattoni, Emanuele Pianta, Franca Rossi, Fabio Pianesi, & Susanne Burger: The Italian NESPOLE! Corpus: a multilingual database with interlingua annotation in tourism and medical domains. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1467-1470. [PDF, 753KB]

(2004) Florence Reeder, Bonnie Dorr, David Farwell, Nizar Habash, Stephen Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Lori Levin, Teruko Mitamura, Keith Miller, Owen Rambow, & Advaith Siddharthan: Interlingual annotation for MT development. 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. 236-245. [go to publisher details]

(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]

(2004) Agnès Tutin, Meriam Haddara, Ruslan Mitkov, & Constantin Orasan: Annotation of anaphoric expressions in an aligned bilingual corpus.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.267-270. [PDF, 524KB]

(2004) M. Vanni, C.R.Voss, & C. Tate: Ground truth, reference truth & “omniscient truth” – parallel phrases in parallel texts for MT evaluation.  LREC-2004. Workshop, 25th May 2004: The amazing utility of parallel and comparable corpora; pp. 10-13. [PDF, 352KB]

(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]

(2003) Hiroshi Kanayama & Hideo Watanabe: Multilingual translation via annotated hub language MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.202-207. [PDF, 167KB]

(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) Stephanie Strassel, Alexis Mitchell, & Shudong Huang: Multilingual resources for entity extraction. ACL 2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 138KB]

(2002) Mosleh H.Al-Adhaileh, Tang Enya Kong, & Zaharin Yusoff: A synchronization structure of SSTC and its applications in machine translation; Coling-2002 workshop "Machine translation in Asia", 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 8pp. [PDF, 272KB]

(2002) Chang Baobao, Zhang Huarui, Yu Shiwen, & Kang Shiyong: Bilingual corpus construction and its management for Chinese-English machine translation. In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.31-41.

(2002) Dien Dinh: Building a training corpus for word sense disambiguation in English-to-Vietnamese machine translation; Coling-2002 workshop "Machine translation in Asia", 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 281KB]

(2002): Hideo Watanabe, Katashi Nagao, Michael C. McCord & Arendse Bernth: An annotation system for enhancing quality of natural language processing. Coling 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 26-30 August 2002 [PDF, 202KB]

(2001) George Wilson, Inderjeet Mani, Beth Sundheim, & Lisa Ferro: A multilingual approach to annotating and extracting temporal information. ACL 2001 Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Information Processing, July 2001, Toulouse, France; 7pp. [PDF, 49KB]

 (2000) Susanne Burger, Karl Weilhammer, Florian Schiel, &  Hans G. Tillmann: Verbmobil data collection and annotation. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp. 537-549. [abstract]

 (2000) Erhard W. Hinrichs, Julia Bartels, Yasuhiro Kawata, Valia Kordoni & Heike Telljohann: The Tübingen treebanks for spoken German, English, and Japanese. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp. 550-574. [abstract]

Artificial languages

(2001) Marcos Franco Sabarís, José Luis Rojas Alonso, C. Dafonte & B. Arcay: Multilingual authoring through an artificial language. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 99-102. [PDF, 138KB]

Aspect

(2003) Anna Kupść: Two approaches to aspect assignment in an English-Polish machine translation system 7th EAMT Workshop, "Improving machine translation through other language technology tools", 13 April 2003, Budapest, Hungary; pp. 17-24 [PDF, 297KB]

(2001) Masaki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Qing Ma, & Hitoshi Isahara: Using a support-vector machine for Japanese-to-English translation of tense, aspect, and modality. ACL-EACL 2001 workshop "Data-driven machine translation", July 7, 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.111-119. [PDF, 230KB]

(2001) Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt: Unifying tense, aspect and modality across languages. ACL 2001 Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Information Processing, July 2001, Toulouse, France; 8pp. [PDF, 61KB]

 (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.

Case grammar and case frames

(2004) Sanae Fujita & Francis Bond: An automatic method of creating valency entries using plain bilingual dictionaries; TMI-2004: proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; pp.55-64. [PDF, 147KB]

(2004) Sanae Fujita & Francis Bond: A method of creating new bilingual valency entries using alternations.  Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.47-54. [PDF, 176KB]

(2003) Ondřej Bojar: Towards automatic extraction of verb frames. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, no.79/80, 2003; 21pp. [PDF, 390KB]

(2003) Francis Bond & Sanae Fujita: Evaluation of a method of creating new valency entries MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 108KB]

(2002) Timothy Baldwin and Francis Bond: Alternation-based lexicon reconstruction. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002. [PDF, 187KB]

(2002) Hans C. Boas: Bilingual FrameNet dictionaries for machine translation. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.1364-1371. [PDF, 123KB]

(2002) Sanae Fujita and Francis Bond: A method of adding new entries to a valency dictionary by exploiting existing lexical resources. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002. [PDF, 179KB]

(2002) Sanae Fujita & Francis Bond: Extending the coverage of a valency dictionary; Coling-2002 workshop "Machine translation in Asia", 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 180KB]

(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]

(2000) Uzzi Ornan & Israel Gutter: Machine translation by semantic features. 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, 1471KB]

Closely related languages

(2004) Petr Homola & Vladislav Kubon: A translation model for languages of accessing countries 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp. 90-97. [PDF, 231KB]

(2003) Jan Hajič, Petr Homola, Vladislav Kuboň: A simple multilingual machine translation system MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 204KB]

(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]

(2002) Lukasz Dębowski, Jan Hajič, & Vladislav Kuboň: Testing the limits – adding a new language to an MT system. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, no.78, 2002; 7pp. [PDF, 208KB]

(2001) Michael Paul: Translation knowledge recycling for related languages. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.265-268. [PDF, 223KB]

(2001) Jesús Tomás & Francisco Casacuberta: Monotone statistical translation using word groups. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.357-361. [PDF, 56KB]

(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]

(2000) Jan Hajič, Jan Hric, & Vladislav Kuboň: Machine translation of very close languages.  ANLP-NAACL-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing and 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp.7-12. [PDF, 527KB]

(2000) Jan Hajič, Jan Hric, & Vladislav Kuboň: ČESÍLKO – an MT system for closely related languages. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Demonstration notes, 3-6 October 2000; pp.7-8 [PDF, 187KB]

(2000) Carole Tiberius & Lynne Cahill: Incorporating metaphonemes in a multilingual lexicon. 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.1126-1130. [PDF, 405KB]

(2000) Lluís de Yzaguirre, Marta Ribas, Jordi Vivaldi, & M.Teresa Cabré: Some technical aspects about aligning near languages. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Athens, Greece, 31 May – 2 June 2000; pp. 545-548. [PDF, 2276KB]

Cognates

(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]

(2003) Grzegorz Kondrak, Daniel Marcu, & Kevin Knight: Cognates can improve statistical translation models HLT-NAACL 2003: conference combining Human Language Technology conference series and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference series,  May 27 – June 1,  2003, Edmonton, Canada; 3pp. [PDF, 28KB]

(2003) Gina-Anne Levow: Issues in pre- and post-translation document expansion: untranslatable cognates and missegmented words IRAL 2003: Sixth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages,  July 7,  2003, Sapporo, Japan; 7pp. [PDF, 139KB]

(2001) Gideon S.Mann & David Yarowsky: Multipath translation lexicon induction via bridge languages.  [NAACL-2001] Language Technologies 2001: the Second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2-7 June 2001; 8pp. [PDF, 181KB]

(2001) António Ribeiro, Gaël Dias, Gabriel Lopes & João Mexia: Cognates alignment. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.287-292. [PDF, 70KB]

Collocations see Multiword expressions

Compositionality

(2004) Feifan Liu, Qianli Jin, Jun Zhao & Bo Xu: Bilingual chunk alignment based on interactional matching and probabilistic latent semantic indexing.  First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.416-425. [abstract]

Compound nouns see Nouns and noun phrases

Context-free grammars

(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]

(2000) Marc Dymetman & Frédéric Tendeau: Context-free grammar rewriting and the transfer of packed linguistic representations 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. 1016-1020 [PDF,.515KB]

Controlled languages

 (2004) Tod Allman & Stephen Beale: An environment for quick ramp-up multi-lingual authoring. International Journal of Translation 16 (1), Jan-June 2004; pp.73-85. [PDF, 142KB]

(2004) Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield, & Xiahong Wu: Designing a controlled language for the machine translation of medical protocols: the case of English to Chinese. 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. 37-47. [go to publisher details]

 (2004) Federico Gaspari: Controlled language, web usability and machine translation services on the Internet. International Journal of Translation 16 (1), Jan-June 2004; pp.41-54. [PDF, 70KB]

(2004) Nano Gough & Andy Way: Example-based controlled translation 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp.73-81. [PDF, 155KB]

(2004) Manu Herbigniaux: Measurement of gains in computer-assisted ASP-mode translation process within EC-funded applied research project CATI.  Proceedings of the 7th Annual Research Colloquium of the UK Special Interest Group for Computational Linguistics [CLUK-2004], Birmingham, UK, 6-7 January 2004; 7pp. [PDF, 171KB]

(2004) Sharon O’Brien: Machine translatability and post-editing effort: how do they relate? 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); 31pp. [PDF, 38KB]

 (2004) Celia Rico & Enrique Torrejón: Controlled translation as a new translation scenario: training the future user. 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); 24pp. [PDF, 141KB]

(2004) Johann Roturier: Assessing the set of controlled language rules: can they improve the performance of commercial machine translation systems? 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); 14pp. [PDF, 178KB]

(2003) proceedings of the conference: Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003 [HTML]

(2003) Nano Gough &  Andy Way: Controlled generation in example-based machine translation MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 45KB]

(2003) Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita & Yuji Matsumoto: Automatic construction of machine translation knowledge using translation literalness. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.155-162 [PDF, 397KB]

(2003) Aurélien Max: Multi-language machine translation through interactive document normalization. 7th EAMT Workshop, "Improving machine translation through other language technology tools", 13 April 2003, Budapest, Hungary; pp. 25-32 [PDF, 424KB]

(2003) Teruko Mitamura, Kathryn Baker, David Svoboda, & Eric Nyberg: Source language diagnostics for MT MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.254-260. [PDF, 55KB]

(2003) Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura & Willem-Olaf Huijsen: Controlled language for authoring and translation. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.245-281.

(2003) Reinhard Schäler, Andy Way & Michael Carl: EBMT in a controlled environment. In: Michael Carl & Andy Way (eds.) Recent advances in example-based machine translation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pp.83-114.

(2003) Svetlana Sheremetyeva: Natural language analysis of patent claims. ACL 2003: Proceedings of workshop “Patent corpus processing”, Sapporo, Japan, 7-12 July 2003; 8pp. [PDF, 201KB]

(2003) Andy Way: EAMT-CLAW 03, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, May 2003.  In: MT News International no.33, Autumn 2003. [PDF]

(2003) Yao Ziyuan: Introduction to the Babelcode project. December 13, 2003 [private, preliminary version]. [PDF, 141KB]

(2002) Michael Carl, Andy Way, & Reinhard Schäler: Toward a hybrid integrated translation environment. 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. 11-20. [go to publisher details]

(2002) John Freivalds: The lessons from agribusiness. Language International 14 (5), October 2002; pp.16-19. [PDF, 907KB]

(2002) Christian Lieske, Christine Thielen, Melanie Wells, & Andrew Bredenkamp: Controlled authoring at SAP. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 15pp. [PDF, 256KB]

(2002) Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Kathy Baker, Peter Cramer, Jeongwoo Ko, David Svoboda, & Michael Duggan: The KANTOO MT system: controlled language checker and lexical maintenance tool. 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. 244-247. [go to publisher details]

(2002) Enrique Torrejón & Celia Rico: Controlled translation: a new teaching scenario tailor-made for the translation industry Sixth EAMT Workshop "Teaching machine translation", November 14-15, 2002, UMIST, Manchester, England; pp.107-116. [PDF, 192KB]

(2002) Taro Watanabe, Mitsuo Shimohata, & Eiichiro Sumita: Statistical machine translation on paraphrased corpora. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.1954-1957. [PDF, 133KB]

(2001) S.Schachtl & A.Fraser-Tillmann: TopTrans: interactive machine translation. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 13pp. [PDF, 177KB]

(2000) Jeff Allen: Controlled language – changing faces . International Journal for Language and Documentation 3, January 2000; pp.20-21. [PDF, 1549KB]

(2000) Jeffrey Allen: Giving the machine equal time. Language International 12 (3), June 2000; pp.24-25, 44-45. [PDF, 1026KB]

(2000) Ingrid Almqvist & Anna Sågvall Hein: A language checker of controlled language and its integration in a documentation and translation workflow. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 18pp.  [PDF, 171KB]

(2000) Bob Clark: Controlled language comes of age: a report on the Third International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications, 29-30 April 2000, Westin Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington. International Journal for Language and Documentation 5, June 2000; pp.18-19. [PDF, 405KB]

(2000) Bob Clark: Interview with Eric Nyberg. International Journal for Language and Documentation 5, June 2000; pp.28-29. [PDF, 1804KB]

(2000) Lou Cremers: A recipe for redesign. Language International 12 (5), October 2000; pp.26-27. [PDF, 510KB]

(2000) Geoffrey Kingscott: Smart profile: John M.Smart – a profile of the man whose company wants to create a “global language” for the 21st century. International Journal for Language and Documentation 5, June 2000; pp.26-27. [PDF, 1629KB]

(2000) Else Mogensen: Orwellian linguistics. Language International 12 (5), October 2000; pp.28-31. [PDF, 921KB]

(2000) Dawn Murphy: Keeping translation technology under control. In: Machine Translation Review, issue 11: December 2000; pp. 11-13. [PDF]

(2000) Walter Hartmann: Machine translation, the road ahead. AMTA 2000 pre-conference workshop “Machine translation in practice: from old guard to new guard”, Cuernavaca,Mexico, October10,  2000 . 7p. [PDF, 103KB]

Correlational grammar

(2000) Ernst von Glasersfeld: Silvio Ceccato and the correlational grammar. In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.313-324.

Dependency relations

(2004) Eneko Agirre, Aitziber Atutxa, Koldo Gojenola, & Kepa Sarasola: Exploring portability of syntactic information from English to Basque. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.47-50. [PDF, 270KB]

(2004) Anthony Aue, Arul Menezes, Bob Moore, Chris Quirk & Eric Ringger: Statistical machine translation using labeled semantic dependency graphs; TMI-2004: proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; pp.125-134. [PDF, 127KB]

(2004) Martin Čmejrek, Jan Cuřin, Jiři Havelka, Jan Hajič, & Vladislav Kuboň: Prague Czech-English dependency treebank: syntactically annotated resources for machine translation . LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1597-1600. [PDF, 292KB]

(2004) Martin Čmejrek, Jan Cuřín, & Jiří Havelka: Prague Czech-English dependency treebank: any hopes for a common annotation scheme? HLT/NAACL 2004: Frontiers in Corpus Annotation, Proceedings of the Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts, May 6, 2004; 8pp. [PDF, 230KB]

(2004) Jan Cuřin, Martin Čmejrek, Jiří Havelka & Vladislav Kuboň: Building a parallel bilingual syntactically annotated corpus. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.168-176. [abstract]

(2004) Yuan Ding & Martha Palmer: Synchronous dependency insertion grammars: a grammar formalism for syntax based statistical MT. Coling’04 workshop: Proceedings Recent Advances in Dependency Grammar, August 28, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland; 8pp. [PDF, 135KB]

(2004) Yuan Ding & Martha Palmer: Automatic learning of parallel dependency treelet pairs. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.233-243. [abstract]

(2004) Mark Dras & Chung-hye Han: Non-contiguous tree parsing; TMI-2004: proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; pp.30-39. [PDF, 82KB]

(2004) Daniel Gildea:  Dependencies vs constituents for tree-based alignment. EMNLP-2004: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 97KB]

(2004) Dekang Lin: A path-based transfer model for machine translation. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 6pp. [PDF, 201KB]

(2004) Yajuan Lü & Ming Zhou: Collocation translation acquisition using monolingual corpora. ACL 2004: 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 21-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; pp.167-174. [PDF, 95KB]

(2004) Sylwia Ozdowska: Identifying correspondences between words: an approach based on a bilingual syntactic analysis of French/English parallel corpora. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.55-62. [PDF, 213KB]

(2004) Mark Pedersen, Domenyk Eades, Samir K.Amin & Lakshmi Prakash: Relative clauses in Hindi and Arabic: a Paninian dependency grammar analysis. Coling’04 workshop: Proceedings Recent Advances in Dependency Grammar, August 28, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland; 8pp. [PDF, 115KB]

(2004) Wei Wang & Ming Zhou: Improving word alignment models using structured monolingual corpora. EMNLP-2004: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 209KB]

(2003) Martin Čmejrek, Jan Cuřín &Jiří Havelka: Czech-English dependency-based machine translation. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.83-90 [PDF, 404KB]

(2003) Yuan Ding, Daniel Gildea, & Martha Palmer: An algorithm for word-level alignment of parallel dependency trees MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 242KB]

(2003) Jason Eisner: Learning non-isomorphic tree mappings for machine translation ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 89KB]

(2003) Hideo Watanabe, Sadao Kurohashi & Eiji Aramaki: Finding translation patterns from paired source and target dependency structures. In: Michael Carl & Andy Way (eds.) Recent advances in example-based machine translation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pp. 397-420.

(2002) Hiyan Alshawi & Shona Douglas: Speech translation performance of statistical dependency transduction and semantic similarity transduction; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp. 31-38 [PDF, 92KB]

(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]

(2002) Martin Čmejrek, Jan Cuřín & Jiří Havelka: Czech-English dependency-based machine translation: data preparation for the starting up experiments. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, no.78, 2002; 16pp. [PDF, 289KB]

(2002) Bonnie J.Dorr, Lisa Pearl, Rebecca Hwa, & Nizar Habash: DUSTer: a method for unraveling cross-language divergences for statistical word-level alignment. 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. 31-43. [go to publisher details]

(2002) Hongzhao He & Jianfeng Gao: NTCIR-3 CLIR experiments at MSRA. NTCIR Workshop 3: Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, Automatic Text Summarization and Question Answering, October 8-10, 2002, Tokyo, Japan; 7pp. [PDF, 196KB]

(2001) Taiichi Hashimoto, Kosuke Nishidate, Kiyoaki Shirai, Takenobu Tokunaga & Hozumi Tanaka: Decision lists for determining adjective dependency in Japanese. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 151-156. [PDF, 133KB]

(2000) Hiyan Alshawi, Srinivas Bangalore, & Shona Douglas: Learning dependency translation models as collections of finite-state head transducers. Computational Linguistics 26 (1), pp.45-60 [PDF, 978KB]

(2000) Chung-hye Han, Benoit Lavoie, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Richard Kittredge, Tanya Korelsky, Nari Kim, & Myunghee Kim: Handling structural divergences and recovering dropped arguments in a Korean/English machine translation 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.40-53. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Benoit Lavoie, Richard Kittredge, Tanya Korelsy, & Owen Rambow: A framework for MT and multilingual NLG systems based on uniform lexico-structural processing. ANLP-NAACL-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing and 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp. 60-67. [PDF, 527KB]

(2000) Hideo Watanabe, Sadao Kurohashi, & Eiji Aramaki: Finding structural correspondences from bilingual parsed corpus for corpus-based 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. 906-912 [PDF,.701KB]

(2000) KaorouYamamoto & Yuji Matsumoto: Acquisition of phrase-level bilingual correspondence using dependency structure 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. 933-939 [PDF,.592KB]

Dialects and registers

(2004) Pu-Jen Cheng, Yi-Cheng Pan, Wen-Hsiang Lu, & Lee-Feng Chien: Creating multilingual translation lexicons with regional variations using web corpora.  ACL 2004: 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 21-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; pp. 534-541. [PDF, 283KB]

Dialogue

(2004) Robert S.Belvin, Win May, Shrikanth Narayanan, Panayiotis Georgiou, & Shadi Ganjavi: Creation of a doctor-patient dialogue corpus using standardized patients. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.187-190. [PDF, 480KB]

(2004) Hervé Blanchon, Christian Boitet & Laurent Besacier: Spoken dialogue translation systems evaluation: results, new trends, problems and proposals. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2004], September 30 – October 1, 2004, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 95-102 [PDF, 360KB]

(2004) Hervé Blanchon: HLT modules scalability within the NESPOLE! Project. Interspeech 2004 – ICSLP 8th International  Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004; pp.1641-1644; abstract [PDF, 72KB]

(2004) Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Improving statistical machine translation in the medical domain using the Unified Medical Language System. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 81KB]

(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]

(2004) Toshiyuki Takezawa & Genichiro Kikui: A comparative study on human communication behaviors and linguistic characteristics for speech-to-speech translation.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1589-1592. [PDF, 585KB]

(2004) Voice ideas – Automating the Tower of Babel. [On research by Yuqing Gao at IBM]  Speech Technology, November/December 2004.

(2003) Toshiyuki Takezawa & Genichiro Kikui: Collecting machine-translation-aided bilingual dialogues for corpus-based speech translation. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European  Conference on  Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.2757-2760; abstract [PDF, 34KB]

(2002) Sherri Condon & Keith Miller: Sharing problems and solutions for machine translation of spoken and written interaction; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp. 93-100 [PDF, 66KB]

(2002) Erica Costantini, Susanne Burger, & Fabio Pianesi: NESPOLE!’s multilingual and multimodal corpus. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.165-170. [PDF, 84KB]

(2002) Takayuki Nakata, Takahiro Ikeda, Shinichi Ando, & Akitoshi Okumura: Topic detection based on dialogue history; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp.9-14 [PDF, 111KB]

(2002) Akitoshi Okumura, Ken-ichi Iso, Shin-ichi Doi, Kiyoshi Yamabana, Ken Hanazawa, & Takao Watanabe: An automatic speech translation system for travel conversation. HLT 2002: Human Language Technology Conference: proceedings of the second international conference on human language technology research, March 24-27, 2002, San Diego, California; ed. Mitchell Marcus [San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann for DARPA]; pp. 411-412. [PDF, 127KB]

(2002) Fumiaki Sugaya, Toshiyuki Takezawa, Genichiro Kikui, & Seiichi Yamamoto: Proposal of a very-large-corpus acquisition method by cell-formed registration. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.326-328. [PDF, 32KB]

(2002) Chengqing Zong, Bo Xu, & Taiyi Huang: Interactive Chinese to English speech translation based on dialogue management; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp. 61-68 [PDF, 266KB]

(2001) Susanne Burger, Laurent Besacier, Paolo Coletti, Florian Metze, & Céline Morel: The Nespole! VoIP dialogue database. Eurospeech 2001 Scandinavia: 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2nd Interspeech Event, Aalborg, Denmark, September 3-7, 2001; pp.2043-2046 [PDF,84KB]; abstract [PDF, 81KB]

(2001) H. Ney, F.J.Och, & S.Vogel: The RWTH system for statistical translation of spoken dialogues. HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 7pp. [PDF, 166KB]

 (2000) Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); xii, 677pp. [contents], [abstracts]

(2000) Jan Alexandersson, Peter Poller, Michael Kipp, & Ralf Engel: Multilingual summary generation in a speech-to-speech translation system for multilingual dialogues. INLG'2000 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, 12-16 June 2000; pp.148-155. [PDF, 670KB]

 (2000) Raymond S.Flournoy & Christopher Callison-Burch: Reconciling user expectations and translation technology to create a useful real-world application. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 8pp.  [PDF, 106KB]

(2000) Lori Levin, Donna Gates, Alon Lavie, Fabio Pianesi, Dorcas Wallace, Taro Watanabe, & Monika Woszczyna: Evaluation of a practical interlingua for task-oriented dialogue. NAACL-ANLP 2000 Workshop: Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP, Seattle, May 2000; pp. 18-23 [PDF, 408KB]

 (2000) Wolfgang Wahlster: Mobile speech-to-speech translation of spontaneous dialogs: an overview of the final Verbmobil system. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp.3-21. [abstract]

(2000) Hua Wu, Taiyi Huang, Chengqing Zong,& Bo Xu: Chinese generation in a spoken dialogue translation system 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. 1141-1145 [PDF,.398KB]

(2000) Setsuo Yamada, Eiichiro Sumita, & Hideki Kashioka: Translation using information on dialogue participants.  ANLP-NAACL-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing and 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp.37-43. [PDF, 582KB]

Discourse

(2003) Kurt Eberle: Coordination, incorporation and dynamic semantic representation in transfer Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003 [PDF, 176KB]

(2003) Bassam Haddad & Mustafa Yaseen: Towards semantic composition of Arabic: a λ-DRT based approach. MT Summit IX -- workshop: Machine translation for semitic languages, New Orleans,USA, 23 September 2003 [PDF, 162KB]

 (2003) Natalia Zaitseva: Matrix-and-frame methods as a means of structural and semantic systematization of terminological vocabulary. International Journal of Translation 15 (1), Jan-June 2003; pp.87-105. [PDF, 360KB]

(2002) Amitabha Mukerjee, M.Chandra Sekhar Reddy, Anand Sukhakar, Rajesh Rajsekhar, & Vikrant Kumar: UNL as intermediary for generating graphical simulations of NL discourse. 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; 12pp. [PDF,  660KB]

(2002) Deepak Sharma, K.Vikram, Manav Ratan Mital, Amitabha Mukerjee & Achla M.Raina: An integrated discourse semantic model for bilingual corpora. 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; 16pp. [PDF,  645KB]

(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]

(2001) Kurt Eberle: FUDR-based MT, head switching and the lexicon. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 93-98. [PDF, 210KB]

 (2000) Anton Batliner, Jan Buckow, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth, & Volker Warnke: The prosody module. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp.106-121. [abstract]

 (2000) Johan Bos & Julia Heine: Discourse and dialog semantics for translation. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp 336-347. [abstract]

(2000) Rodolfo Delmonte, Dario Bianchi, & Emanuele Pianta: Generating from a discourse model. 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]; 10pp. [PDF, 2145KB]

(2000) Stephen Helmreich & David Farwell: Text meaning representation as a basis for representation of text interpretation. 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.179-188. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Daniel Marcu, Lynn Carlson, & Maki Watanabe: The automatic translation of discourse structures. [NAACL 2000] 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: proceedings of the conference, April 29-May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA; pp.9-17. [PDF,

(2000) Mari Olsen, David Traum, Carol Van Ess-Dykema, Amy Weinberg, & Ron Dolan: Telicity as a cue to temporal and discourse structure in Chinese-English machine translation. NAACL-ANLP 2000 Workshop: Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP, Seattle, May 2000; pp. 34-41 [PDF, 654KB]

Ellipsis

(2003) Shigeko Nariyama: Resolving 'incognito' ellipsis: treatment for constructions that disguise ellipsis MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.261-268. [PDF, 39KB]

(2002) Shigeko Nariyama: Grammar for ellipsis resolution in Japanese. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp.135-145. [PDF, 30KB]

(2001) Shigeko Nariyama: Multiple argument ellipses resolution in Japanese. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.241-245. [PDF, 167KB]

(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]

Grammar formalisms see also: Case grammar, Categorial grammar, Context-free grammar, Definite Clause Grammar, Fulcrum approach, Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Struture Grammar,  Left Associative Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Meaning-text model, Montague grammar, Principles and parameters, Transduction grammars, Transformational-generative grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar, Unification grammar

(2004) Yuan Ding & Martha Palmer: Synchronous dependency insertion grammars: a grammar formalism for syntax based statistical MT. Coling’04 workshop: Proceedings Recent Advances in Dependency Grammar, August 28, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland; 8pp. [PDF, 135KB]

(2004) I. Dan Melamed, Giorgio Satta, & Benjamin Wellington: Generalized multitext grammars.  ACL 2004: 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 21-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; pp. 661-668. [PDF, 156KB]

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

(2000) Benoit Lavoie, Richard Kittredge, Tanya Korelsy, & Owen Rambow: A framework for MT and multilingual NLG systems based on uniform lexico-structural processing. ANLP-NAACL-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing and 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp. 60-67. [PDF, 527KB]

Grammars and grammar acquisition

 (2004) Tod Allman & Stephen Beale: An environment for quick ramp-up multi-lingual authoring. International Journal of Translation 16 (1), Jan-June 2004; pp.73-85. [PDF, 142KB]

(2004) Ariadna Font Llitjós, Katharina Probst, & Jaime Carbonell: Error analysis of two types of grammar for the purpose of automatic rule refinement. 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. 187-196. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Jonas Kuhn: Experiments in parallel-text based grammar induction. ACL 2004: 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 21-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; pp.470-477. [PDF, 99KB]

(2004) John Lee & Stephanie Seneff: Translingual grammar induction. Interspeech 2004 – ICSLP 8th International  Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004; pp.365-368; abstract [PDF, 51KB]

(2004) Dekang Lin: A path-based transfer model for machine translation. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 6pp. [PDF, 201KB]

(2004) Katharina Probst & Alon Lavie: A structurally diverse minimal corpus for eliciting structural mappings between languages. 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. 217-226. [go to publisher details]

(2003) Michael Carl & Philippe Langlais: Tuning general translation knowledge to a sublanguage Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003 [PDF, 229KB]

(2003) Michael Carl: Inducing translation grammars from bracketed alignments. In: Michael Carl & Andy Way (eds.) Recent advances in example-based machine translation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pp. 339-361.

(2003) Nizar Habash & Bonnie Dorr: CatVar: a database of categorial variations for English MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 170KB]

(2003) Nizar Habash & Bonnie Dorr: A categorial variation database for English HLT-NAACL 2003: conference combining Human Language Technology conference series and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference series,  May 27 – June 1,  2003, Edmonton, Canada; pp.17-23 [PDF, 302KB]

(2003) Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita, & Yuji Matsumoto: Feedback cleaning of machine translation rules using automatic evaluation ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 62KB]

(2003) K.C.Siu, Helen M.Meng, & C.C.Wong: Example-based bi-directional Chinese-English machine translation with semi-automatically induced grammars. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European  Conference on  Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.2801-2804; abstract [PDF, 34KB]

(2002) Prachya Boonkwan & Asanee Kawtrakul: Plaesarn: machine-aided translation tool for English-to-Thai; Coling-2002 workshop "Machine translation in Asia", 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan ; 7pp. [PDF, 218KB]

(2002) Paul C. Davis & Chris Brew: Stone soup translation. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002. [PDF, 120KB]

(2002) Benoit Lavoie, Michael White, & Tanya Korelsky: Learning domain-specific transfer rules: an experiment with Korean to English translation; Coling-2002 workshop "Machine translation in Asia", 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 43KB]

(2002) Katharina Probst and Lori Levin: Challenges in automated elicitation of a controlled bilingual corpus. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp.157-167. [PDF, 173KB]

(2001) Michael Carl: Inducing probabilistic invertable translation grammars from aligned texts.  ACL-EACL 2001 Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), July 2001, Toulouse, France; 7pp. [PDF, 160KB]

(2001) Michael Carl: Inducing translation grammars from bracketed alignments MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001. Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation. [PDF, 197KB]

(2001) A. Guessoum & R. Zantout: Semi-automatic evaluation of the grammatical coverage of machine translation systems. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 133-138. [PDF, 55KB]

(2001) Benoit Lavoie, Michael White, & Tanya Korelsky: Inducing lexico-structural transfer rules from parsed bi-texts. ACL-EACL 2001 workshop "Data-driven machine translation", July 7, 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.17-24. [PDF, 60KB]

(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) Mark-Jan Nederhof: Approximating context-free by rational transduction for example-based MT. ACL-EACL 2001 workshop "Data-driven machine translation", July 7, 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.25-32. [PDF, 96KB]

(2001) Katharina Probst, Ralf Brown, Jaime Carbonell, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin & Erik Peterson: Design and implementation of controlled elicitation for machine translation of low-density languages MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001. Towards a Road Map for MT [PDF, 90KB]

(2001) David Yarowsky, Grace Ngai, & Richard Wicentowski: Inducing multilingual text analysis tools via robust projection across aligned corpora.  HLT-2001: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001; 4pp. [PDF, 161KB]

(2000) Ulrich Callmeier, Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger, Rob Malouf, & Stephan Oepen: Scalable grammar software for computational linguists: building, testing, and running grammars large and small. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Demonstration notes, 3-6 October 2000; pp.38-39 [PDF, 175KB]

(2000) Michael Carl: Extracting invertible translations from pre-aligned texts.  LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop on Terminology Resources and Computation, Athens, Greece, 29 May 2000; 6pp. [PDF, 321KB]

(2000) Marc Dymetman & Frédéric Tendeau: Context-free grammar rewriting and the transfer of packed linguistic representations 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. 1016-1020 [PDF,.515KB]

(2000) Hiroshi Echizen-ya, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi, & Koji Tochinai: Effectiveness of layering translation rules based on transition networks in machine translation using inductive learning with genetic algorithms. 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, 1596KB]

(2000) Christos Malavazos & Stelios Piperidis: Application of analogical modelling to example-based machine 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. 516-522 [PDF,.665KB]

(2000) Adam Meyers, Michiko Kasaka, & Ralph Grishman: Chart-based transfer rule application in machine 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. 537-543 [PDF,.585KB]

(2000) Svetlana Sheremetyeva & Sergei Nirenburg: Towards a universal tool for NLP resource acquisition. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Athens, Greece, 31 May – 2 June 2000; pp. 761-768. [PDF, 80KB]

Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar

(2002) Ian Marshall and Éva Sáfár: Sign language generation using HPSG. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp.105-114. [PDF, 229KB]

(2002) Deepak Sharma, K.Vikram, Manav Ratan Mital, Amitabha Mukerjee & Achla M.Raina: An integrated discourse semantic model for bilingual corpora. 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; 16pp. [PDF,  645KB]

(2000) Tilman Becker & Patrice Lopez: The application of HPSG-to-TAG compilation techniques. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp.497-506. [abstract]

(2000) Dan Flickinger, Ann Copestake & Ivan A. Sag: HPSG analysis of English. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp.254-263. [abstract]

(2000) Stefan Müller & Walter Kasper: HPSG analysis of German.  In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp.238-253. [abstract]

(2000) Melanie Siegel: HPSG analysis of Japanese. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp.264-279. [abstract]

(2000) Hans Uszkoreit, Dan Flickinger, Walter Kasper, & Ivan A. Sag: Deep linguistic analysis with HPSG. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp. 216-237. [abstract]

Idioms

(2000) Kyonghi Moon & Jong-Hyeok Lee: Representation and recognition method for multi-word translation units in Korean-to-Japanese MT system 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. 544-550 [PDF,.598KB]

Illocutions in MT

(2004) Hiroshi Kanayama, Tetsuya Nasukawa, & Hideo Watanabe: Deeper sentiment analysis using machine translation technology. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 323KB]

Inflection

(2001) Sonja Nießen & Hermann Ney: Toward hierarchical models for statistical machine translation of inflected languages. ACL-EACL 2001 workshop "Data-driven machine translation", July 7, 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.47-54. [PDF, 62KB]

Interrogatives and questions

(2003) Nicola Ueffing & Hermann Ney: Using POS information for statistical machine translation into morphologically rich languages. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.347-354 [PDF, 384KB]

Language identification

(2002) Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Kornel Laskowski, Alicia Tribble, & Alex Waibel: Improvements in non-verbal cue identification using multilingual phone strings; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp. 101-108 [PDF, 107KB]

(2002) Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Kornel Laskowski, Alicia Tribble,& Alex Waibel: Speaker, accent, and language identification using multilingual phone strings. HLT 2002: Human Language Technology Conference: proceedings of the second international conference on human language technology research, March 24-27, 2002, San Diego, California; ed. Mitchell Marcus [San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann for DARPA]; pp. 125-131. [PDF, 130KB]

(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]

Latent semantic analysis

(2003) Katri A. Clodfelder: An LSA implementation against parallel texts in French and English HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF, 119KB]

Lexical Functional Grammar

(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]

(2003) Andy Way: Translating with examples: the LFG-DOT models of translation. In: Michael Carl & Andy Way (eds.) Recent advances in example-based machine translation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pp.443-472.

(2002) J. Gabriel Amores: Teaching MT with Xepisteme Sixth EAMT Workshop "Teaching machine translation", November 14-15, 2002, UMIST, Manchester, England. [PDF, 178KB]

(2001) Andy Way: Solving headswitching translation cases in LFG-DOT. Proceedings of the LFG conference, University of Hong Kong, 25-27 June 2001 [Stanford University, CSLI Publications, 2001]; pp.305-323. [PDF, 142KB]

(2000) Marc Dymetman & Frédéric Tendeau: Context-free grammar rewriting and the transfer of packed linguistic representations 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. 1016-1020 [PDF,.515KB]

(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]

Linguistics and MT

(2004) Martin Kay: Arabic script-based languages deserve to be studied linguistically. Coling 2004: Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, August 28, 2004; 1pp. [PDF, 13KB]

(2003) Paul Bennett: The relevance of linguistics for machine translation. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.143-160.

(2000) Maurice Gross: Early MT in France. In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.325-330.

(2000) Hubert Lehmann: Practical machine translation and linguistic theory. In: Manfred Klenner and Henriëtte Visser (eds.) Computational linguistics for the new millennium: divergence or synergy? Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 21-22 July 2000. Festschrift in honour of Peter Hellwig on the occasion of his 60th birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002); pp. 73-82. [PDF, 44KB]

Meaning-text model

(2004) Igor Boguslavsky, Leonid Iomdin, & Victor Sizov: Multilinguality in ETAP-3: reuse of lexical resources. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.7-14. [PDF, 582KB]

(2000) Igor Boguslavsky, Nadezhda Frid, Leonid Iomdin, Leonid Kreidlin, Irina Sagalova, & Viktor Sizov: Creating a Universal Networking Language module within an advanced NLP system 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. 83-89 [PDF,.548KB]

(2000) Igor A. Mel’čuk: Machine translation and formal linguistics in the USSR. In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.1205-226.

Metonomy

(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]

Minimal Recursion Semantics

(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]

Minority languages

(2004) Patrick A.V.Hall: Localising nations, saving languages: moving from Unicode to language engineering. 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); 12pp. [PDF, 172KB]

(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]

(2003) Harold Somers: Translation technologies and minority languages. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.87-103.

(2002) Jaime Carbonell, Katharina Probst, Erik Peterson, Christian Monson, Alon Lavie, Ralf Brown, & Lori Levin: Automatic rule learning for resource-limited MT. 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. 1-10. [go to publisher details]

(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]

(2001) Katharina Probst, Ralf Brown, Jaime Carbonell, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin & Erik Peterson: Design and implementation of controlled elicitation for machine translation of low-density languages MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001. Towards a Road Map for MT [PDF, 90KB]

 (2000) Jeff Allen: What about statistical MT? International Journal for Language and Documentation 7, October/November 2000; pp.41-42. [PDF, 826KB]

(2000) Anthony McEnery, Paul Baker, Rob Gaizauskas, & Hamish Cunningham: EMILLE: building a corpus of South Asian 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]; 9pp. [PDF, 2172KB]

Modality

(2002) Masaki Murata, Masao Utiyama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Qing Ma and Hitoshi Isahara: Correction of errors in a modality corpus used for machine translation using machine-learning. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp.125-134. [PDF, 106KB]

(2001) Masaki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Qing Ma, & Hitoshi Isahara: Using a support-vector machine for Japanese-to-English translation of tense, aspect, and modality. ACL-EACL 2001 workshop "Data-driven machine translation", July 7, 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.111-119. [PDF, 230KB]

(2001) Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt: Unifying tense, aspect and modality across languages. ACL 2001 Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Information Processing, July 2001, Toulouse, France; 8pp. [PDF, 61KB]

Monologues

(2002) Hideki Kashioka: Translation unit concerning timing of simultaneous translation. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.142-146. [PDF, 44KB]

(2002) Shigeki Matsubara, Akira Tagaki, Nobuo Kawaguchi, & Yasuyoshi Inagaki: Bilingual spoken monologue corpus for simultaneous machine interpretation research. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.153-159. [PDF, 108KB]

(2002) Hideki Tanaka, Stephen Nightingale, Hideki Kashioka, Kenji Matsumoto, Masamchi Nishiwaki, Tadashi Kumano, & Takehiko Maruyama: Speech to speech translation system for monologues – data driven approach. ICSLP 2002, Interspeech 2002:7th International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, September 16-20, 2002, Denver, Colorado, USA; pp.1717-1720; abstract [PDF, 50KB]

Multiword expressions see also Nouns and Noun phrases, Prepositional phrases, Verbs and verb phrases]

(2004) Timothy Baldwin & Takaaki Tanaka: Translation by machine of complex nominals: getting it right. Second ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing. Proceedings of the workshop, 26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; pp.24-31. [PDF, 127KB]

(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) Yajuan Lü & Ming Zhou: Collocation translation acquisition using monolingual corpora. ACL 2004: 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 21-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; pp.167-174. [PDF, 95KB]

(2003) Hua Wu & Ming Zhou: Synonymous collocation extraction using translation information ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 139KB]

(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]

Names (named entities)

(2004) Bogdan Babych & Anthony Hartley: Disambiguating translation strategies in MT using automatic named entity recognition 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp. 18-25. [PDF, 243KB ]

(2004) Donghui Feng, Yajuan Lv, & Ming Zhou: A new approach for English-Chinese named entity alignment. EMNLP-2004: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 207KB]

(2004) R. Florian, H.Hassan, A. Ittycheriah, H.Jing, K.Kambhatla, X.Luo, N.Nicolov, & S.Roukos: A statistical model for multilingual entity detection and tracking. 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; pp.1-8. [PDF, 132KB]

(2004) Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong & Wai Lam: Phoneme-based transliteration of foreign names for OOV problem. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.110-119. [abstract]

(2004) Isao Goto, Naoto Kato, Terumasa Ehara, & Hideki Tanaka: Back transliteration from Japanese to English using target English context. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 276KB]

(2004) Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel & Alex Waibel: Toward named entity extraction and translation in spoken language translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2004], September 30 – October 1, 2004, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 131-137 [PDF, 393KB]

(2004) Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Improving name entity translation combining phonetic and semantic similarities. 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;

(2004) Tadashi Kumano, Hideki Kashioka, Hideki Tanaka & Takahiro Fukusima: Acquiring bilingual named entity translations from content-aligned corpora. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.177-186. [abstract]

(2004) Chun-Jen Lee, Jason S. Chang, & Thomas C. Chuang: Alignment of bilingual named entities in parallel corpora using statistical model. 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. 144-153. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Tracy Lin, Jian-Cheng Wu, & Jason S. Chang: Extraction of name and transliteration in monolingual and parallel corpora. 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. 177-186. [go to publisher details]

(2003) Bogdan Babych & Anthony Hartley: Improving machine translation quality with automatic named entity recognition 7th EAMT Workshop, "Improving machine translation through other language technology tools", 13 April 2003, Budapest, Hungary; pp. 1-8 [PDF, 313KB]

(2003) Oliver Bender, Franz Josef Och & Hermann Ney: Maximum entropy models for named entity recognition. HLT-NAACL 2003: proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2003), Edmonton, Canada, May 31 – June 1, 2003; 4pp. [PDF, 73KB]

(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) Hsin-Hsi Chen, Changhua Yang, & Ying Lin: Learning formulation and transformation rules for multilingual named entities. ACL 2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 285KB]

(2003) Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Automatic extraction of named entity translingual equivalence based on multi-feature cost minimization ACL-2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp.. [PDF, 262KB]

(2003) Akio Kobayashi, Franz J.Och, & Hermann Ney: Named entity extraction from Japanese broadcast news. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European  Conference on  Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.1125-1128; abstract [PDF, 33KB]

(2003) Tadashi Kumano, Hideki Kashioka, Hideki Tanaka, & Takahiro Fukusima: Construction and analysis of Japanese-English broadcast news corpus with named entity tags ACL-2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp.. [PDF, 56KB]

(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) Robert C.Moore: Learning translations of named-entity phrases from parallel corpora. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.259-266 [PDF, 377KB]

(2003) Kuniko Saito & Masaaki Nagata: Multi-language named-entity recognition system based on HMM. ACL 2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 353KB]

(2003) Stephanie Strassel, Alexis Mitchell, & Shudong Huang: Multilingual resources for entity extraction. ACL 2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 138KB]

(2003) Paola Virga & Sanjeev Khudanpur: Transliteration of proper names in cross-language information retrieval ACL-2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 119KB]

(2002) Yaser Al-Onaizan & Kevin Knight: Named entity translation. HLT 2002: Human Language Technology Conference: proceedings of the second international conference on human language technology research, March 24-27, 2002, San Diego, California; ed. Mitchell Marcus [San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann for DARPA]; pp. 122-124. Extended abstract. [PDF, 148KB]

(2002) Yaser Al-Onaizan & Kevin Knight: Translating named entities using monolingual and bilingual resources; ACL-2002: 40th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp.400-408 [PDF, 186KB]

(2002) Fei Huang & Alex Waibel: An adaptive approach to named entity extraction for meeting applications. HLT 2002: Human Language Technology Conference: proceedings of the second international conference on human language technology research, March 24-27, 2002, San Diego, California; ed. Mitchell Marcus [San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann for DARPA]; pp. 165-170. [PDF, 137KB]

(2002) Kenji Matsumoto & Hideki Tanaka: Automatic alignment of Japanese and English newspaper articles using an MT system and a bilingual company name dictionary. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.480-484. [PDF, 252KB]

(2002) Hee-Cheol Seo, Sang-Bum Kim, Baeg-Il Kim, Hae-Chang Rim & Sang-Zoo Lee: KUNLP system for NTCIR-3 English-Korean cross-language information retrieval. NTCIR Workshop 3: Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, Automatic Text Summarization and Question Answering, October 8-10, 2002, Tokyo, Japan; 7pp. [PDF, 124KB]

(2001) Marisa Jiménez: Generation of named entities. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.175-179. [PDF, 177KB]

(2001) Florence Reeder, Keith Miller, Jennifer Doyon & John White: The naming of things and the confusion of tongues: an MT metric. MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001. Workshop on MT Evaluation; pp.55-59. [PDF, 80KB]

(2001) Benjamin K. Tsou & Oi Yee Kwong: Evaluating Chinese-English translation systems for personal name coverage MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001. Towards a Road Map for MT [PDF, 197KB]

(2000) Jim Cowie, Sergei Nirenburg, Hugo Molina-Salgado: Generating personal profiles. 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, 1479KB]

(2000) Lynette Hirschman, Florence Reeder, John D.Burger, & Keith Miller: Name translation as a machine translation evaluation task. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop proceedings: Evaluation of machine translation, Athens, Greece, 29 May 2000; pp. 21-28?. [PDF, 189KB]

(2000) Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Paul McFetridge, Devlan Nicholson, & Janine Toole: Pre-processing closed captions for machine translation; ANLP/NAACL 2000 workshop: Embedded machine translation systems, May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington, [USA]; pp. 38-45 [PDF,752KB]

Nouns and noun phrases

(2004) Timothy Baldwin & Takaaki Tanaka: Translation by machine of complex nominals: getting it right. Second ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing. Proceedings of the workshop, 26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; pp.24-31. [PDF, 127KB]

(2004) Sisay Fissaha Adafre: Formal analysis of some aspects of Amharic noun phrases 9th EAMT Workshop, "Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications", 26-27 April 2004, Malta; pp. 43-52. [PDF, 198KB]

(2004) Lee Schwartz & Takako Aikawa: Multilingual corpus-based approach to the resolution of English –ing.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.959-962. [PDF, 301KB]

 (2003) Philipp Koehn: Noun phrase translation. Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School, University of Southern California… December 2003; xiii, 105pp. [PDF, 656KB]

(2003) Phillip Koehn & Kevin Knight: Feature-rich statistical translation of noun phrases ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 83KB]

(2003) Philipp Koehn & Kevin Knight: Empirical methods for compound splitting. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.187-193 [PDF, 337KB]

(2003) Robert C.Moore: Learning translations of named-entity phrases from parallel corpora. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.259-266 [PDF, 377KB]

(2003) Takaaki Tanaka & Timothy Baldwin: Translation selection for Japanese-English noun-noun compounds MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.378-385. [PDF, 107KB]

(2003) Takaaki Tanaka & Timothy Baldwin: Noun-noun compound machine translation: a feasibility study on shallow parsing  ACL-2003:  Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp.. [PDF, 125KB]

(2002) Ralf Brown: Corpus-driven splitting of compound words. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002. [PDF, 95KB]

(2002) Yunbo Cao & Hang Li: Base noun phrase translation using Web data and the EM algorithm. Coling 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 26-30 August 2002 [PDF, 206KB]

(2002) Philipp Koehn & Kevin Knight: Learning a translation lexicon from monolingual corpora. Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition: Proceedings of the Workshop of the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX), July 2002, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,USA; pp.9-16 [PDF, 187KB]

(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) Taiichi Hashimoto, Kosuke Nishidate, Kiyoaki Shirai, Takenobu Tokunaga & Hozumi Tanaka: Decision lists for determining adjective dependency in Japanese. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 151-156. [PDF, 133KB]

(2000) Gael Dias, Sylvie Guilloré & José Gabriel Pereira Lopes: Extracting textual associations in part-of-speech tagged corpora. Fifth EAMT Workshop "Harvesting existing resources", May 11 - 12, 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia. [PDF, 99KB]

(2000) Kyonghi Moon & Jong-Hyeok Lee: Representation and recognition method for multi-word translation units in Korean-to-Japanese MT system 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. 544-550 [PDF,.598KB]

Paraphrasing

(2004) Bill Dolan, Chris Quirk, & Chris Brockett: Unsupervised construction of large paraphrase corpora: exploiting massively parallel news sources. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 107KB]

(2004) Chris Quirk, Chris Brockett, & William Dolan: Monolingual machine translation for paraphrase generation. EMNLP-2004: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 127KB]

(2004) Mitsuo Shimohata, Eiichiro Sumita, & Yuji Matsumoto: Building a paraphrase corpus for speech translation.  LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1407-1410. [PDF, 672KB]

(2003) Kanayama Hiroshi: Paraphrasing rules for automatic evaluation of translation into Japanese. ACL 2003 International Workshop on Paraphrasing, July 11, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 6pp. [PDF, 59KB]

(2003) Bo Pang, Kevin Knight, & Daniel Marcu: Syntax-based alignment of multiple translations: extracting paraphrases and generating new sentences HLT-NAACL 2003: conference combining Human Language Technology conference series and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference series,  May 27 – June 1,  2003, Edmonton, Canada; 8pp. [PDF, 91KB]

(2002) Kazutaka Takao, Kenji Imamura, & Hideki Kashioka: Comparing and extracting paraphrasing words with 2-way bilingual dictionaries. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.1016-1022. [PDF, 72KB]

(2002) Taro Watanabe, Mitsuo Shimohata, & Eiichiro Sumita: Statistical machine translation on paraphrased corpora. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.1954-1957. [PDF, 133KB]

Phonology and phonetics

(2004) Slaven Bilac & Hozumi Tanaka: A hybrid back-transliteration system for Japanese.  Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 999KB]

(2004) Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong & Wai Lam: Phoneme-based transliteration of foreign names for OOV problem. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.110-119. [abstract]

(2004) Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Improving name entity translation combining phonetic and semantic similarities. 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;

(2003) Yuqing Gao: Coupling vs. unifying: modeling techniques for speech-to-speech translation. Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 8th European  Conference on  Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003; pp.365-368; abstract [PDF, 33KB]

(2002) Wei-Hao Lin & Hsin-Hsi Chen: Backward machine transliteration by learning phonetic similarity. Coling-2002: 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2002), August 2002, Taipei, Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 2093KB]

 (2002) Jong-Hoon Oh & Key-Sun Choi: An English-Korean transliteration model using pronunciation and contextual rules. Coling-2002: Asian Language Resources and International Standardization, August 2002, Taipei, Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 91KB]

(2002) Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Kornel Laskowski, Alicia Tribble, & Alex Waibel: Improvements in non-verbal cue identification using multilingual phone strings; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp. 101-108 [PDF, 107KB]

(2000) Carole Tiberius & Lynne Cahill: Incorporating metaphonemes in a multilingual lexicon. 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.1126-1130. [PDF, 405KB]

Postpositions

(2002) Hiroshi Kanayama: An iterative algorithm for translation acquisition of adpositions. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp.85-95. [PDF, 268KB]

Pragmatics in MT

(2004) Eiji Aramaki, Sadao Kurohashi, Hideki Kashioka & Hideki Tanaka: Example-based machine translation without saying inferable predicate. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.206-215. [abstract]

(2003) David Farwell & Stephen Helmreich: Pragmatics-based translation and MT evaluation. "Towards systematizing MT evaluation": a workshop on machine translation evaluation at the MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 27 September 2003; pp.21-27. [PDF, 156KB]

(2001) David Farwell & Stephen Helmreich: Towards pragmatics-based machine translation MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001. Towards a Road Map for MT [PDF, 28KB]

(2000) Setsuo Yamada, Eiichiro Sumita, & Hideki Kashioka: Translation using information on dialogue participants.  ANLP-NAACL-2000: proceedings of the Sixth conference on Applied Natural Language Processing and 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 29 – May 4, 2000, Seattle, Washington; pp.37-43. [PDF, 582KB]

Prepositional phrases

(2004) Eneko Agirre, Aitziber Atutxa, Koldo Gojenola, & Kepa Sarasola: Exploring portability of syntactic information from English to Basque. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.47-50. [PDF, 270KB]

(2003) Lee Schwartz, Takako Aikawa, & Chris Quirk: Disambiguation of English PP attachment using multilingual aligned data MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.330-337. [PDF, 98KB]

Prepositions

(2004) Nano Gough & Andy Way: Robust large-scale EBMT with marker-based segmentation; TMI-2004: proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; pp.95-104. [PDF, 94KB]

(2002) Nano Gough, Andy Way, & Mary Hearne: Example-based machine translation via the Web. 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. 74-83. [go to publisher details]

(2002) Hiroshi Kanayama: An iterative algorithm for translation acquisition of adpositions. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp.85-95. [PDF, 268KB]

Principles and parameters

(2001) Hai Doan-Nguyen: Generation of Vietnamese for French-Vietnamese and English-Vietnamese machine translation. ACL 2001 Eighth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, July 2001, Toulouse, France; 10pp. [PDF, 209KB]

Pronouns

(2002) Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Enrique Torrejon, Dave Svoboda, Annelen Brunner and Kathryn Baker: Pronominal anaphora resolution in the KANTOO multilingual machine translation system. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp. 115-129. [PDF, 112KB]

(2001) Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Enrique Torrejon, David Svoboda & Kathryn Baker: Pronominal anaphora resolution in KANTOO English-to-Spanish machine translation system. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.235-239. [PDF, 171KB]

(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]

Pronunciation

 (2000) Matthias Eichner, Matthias Wolff,& Rüdiger Hoffmann: Data driven generation of pronunciation dictionaries. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp.95-105. [abstract]

Punctuation

(2004) Thomas C.Chuang, Jian-Cheng Wu, Tracy Lin, Wen-chie Shei & Jason S.Chang: Bilingual sentence alignment based on punctuation statistics and lexicon. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.224-232. [abstract]

Sentiment

(2004) Hiroshi Kanayama, Tetsuya Nasukawa, & Hideo Watanabe: Deeper sentiment analysis using machine translation technology. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 323KB]

 (2000) Anton Batliner, Richard Huber, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth, Jörg Spilker, & Kerstin Fischer: The recognition of emotion. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp.122-130. [abstract]

Sign languages

(2004) Matt Huenerfauth: A multi-path architecture for machine translation of English texts into American Sign Language animation. 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 – Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop. 6pp. [PDF, 272KB]

(2004) Matt Huenerfauth: Spatial and planning models of ASL classifier predicates for 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.65-74. [PDF, 190KB]

(2004) Emiko Suzuki, Mariko Horikoshi, & Kyoko Kakihana: Bilingual sign language dictionary for learning a second sign language without learning the target spoken language. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.93-96. [PDF, 1015KB]

(2003) Ian Marshall & Éva Sáfár: A prototype text to British Sign Language (BSL) translation system ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 204KB]

(2002) Ian Marshall & Éva Sáfár: Sign language generation using HPSG. TMI-2002 conference, Keihanna, Japan, March 13-17, 2002; pp.105-114. [PDF, 229KB]

Simplification

(2000) Else Mogensen: Orwellian linguistics. Language International 12 (5), October 2000; pp.28-31. [PDF, 921KB]

Speech acts

(2003) Lori Levin, Chad Langley, Alon Lavie, Donna Gates, Dorcas Wallace, & Kay Peterson: Domain specific speech acts for spoken language translation. Proceedings of 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL-2003), Sapporo, Japan, July 2003; 10pp. [PDF, 103KB]

(2002) Lori Levin, Donna Gates, Dorcas Wallace, Kay Peterson, Alon Lavie, Fabio Pianesi, Emanuele Pianta, Roldano Cattoni, & Nadia Mana: Balancing expressiveness and simplicity in an interlingua for task based dialogue; ACL-2002 workshop "Speech-to-speech translation",11 July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; pp. 53-60 [PDF, 131KB]

Spelling checkers

(2004) Martin Reynaert: Multilingual text induced spelling correction. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.117-124. [PDF, 239KB]

Sublanguage [see also Domain restriction and specification]

(2003) Michael Carl & Philippe Langlais: Tuning general translation knowledge to a sublanguage Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003 [PDF, 229KB]

(2003) Harold Somers: Sublanguage. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.283-295.

Synonyms

(2004) Charles Schafer & David Yarowsky: Exploiting aggregate properties of bilingual dictionaries for distinguishing senses of English words and inducing English sense clusters. ACL 2004: 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the interactive poster and demonstration sessions, 21-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 4pp. [PDF, 199KB]

(2003) Hua Wu & Ming Zhou: Optimizing synonym extraction using monolingual and bilingual resources. ACL 2003 International Workshop on Paraphrasing, July 11, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 142KB]

(2003) Hua Wu & Ming Zhou: Synonymous collocation extraction using translation information ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 139KB]

(2002) Mitsuo Shimohata & Eiichiro Sumita: Identifying synonymous expressions from a bilingual corpus for example-based machine translation; Coling-2002 workshop "Machine translation in Asia", July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; 6pp. [PDF, 1324KB]

Temporal expressions

(2001) George Wilson, Inderjeet Mani, Beth Sundheim, & Lisa Ferro: A multilingual approach to annotating and extracting temporal information. ACL 2001 Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Information Processing, July 2001, Toulouse, France; 7pp. [PDF, 49KB]

(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]

Tense

(2001) Mari Olsen, David Traum, Carol van Ess-Dykema & Amy Weinberg: Implicit cues for explicit generation: using telicity as a cue for tense structure in a Chinese to English MT system. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp.259-264. [PDF, 185KB]

(2001) Masaki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Qing Ma, & Hitoshi Isahara: Using a support-vector machine for Japanese-to-English translation of tense, aspect, and modality. ACL-EACL 2001 workshop "Data-driven machine translation", July 7, 2001, Toulouse, France; pp.111-119. [PDF, 230KB]

(2001) Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt: Unifying tense, aspect and modality across languages. ACL 2001 Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Information Processing, July 2001, Toulouse, France; 8pp. [PDF, 61KB]

(2000) Mari Olsen, David Traum, Carol Van Ess-Dykema, Amy Weinberg, & Ron Dolan: Telicity as a cue to temporal and discourse structure in Chinese-English machine translation. NAACL-ANLP 2000 Workshop: Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP, Seattle, May 2000; pp. 34-41 [PDF, 654KB]

 (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.

(2000) Michael Schiehlen: Granularity effects in tense 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. 712-718 [PDF,.568KB]

Terminology

(2004) Michael Carl, Ecaterina Rascu, & Johann Haller: Using weighted abduction to align term variant translations in bilingual texts. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1973-1976. [PDF, 294KB]

(2004) Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa, & Jong-Hyeok Lee : Term extraction from Korean corpora via Japanese. Coling 2004, CompuTerm 2004: 3rd International Workshop on Computational Technology, Proceedings of the Workshop, 29th August 2004, Geneva, Switzerland; 8pp. [PDF, 107KB]

(2004) Heather Fulford & Joaquín Granell Zafra: The uptake of online tools and web-based language resources by freelance translators: implications for translator training, professional development, and research. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training, 28th August, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp. 50-57. [PDF, 70KB]

(2004) Le An Ha: Co-training applied in automatic term extraction. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Research Colloquium of the UK Special Interest Group for Computational Linguistics [CLUK-2004], Birmingham, UK, 6-7 January 2004; 7pp. [PDF, 115KB]

(2004) Nestor Rychtyckyj: Maintenance issues for machine translation systems. 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. 252-261. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Li Shao & Hwee Tou Ng: Mining new word translations from comparable corpora. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 305KB]

(2004) Dan Tufiş: Term translations in multilingual corpora: discovery and consistency check. LREC-2004: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004; pp.1981-1984. [PDF, 749KB]

(2003) Galia Angelova: Structuring terminology: between lexicons and domain knowledge representation. In: Wolfgang Menzel & Cristina Vertan (eds.) Natural Language Processing between Linguistic Inquiry and System Engineering. Iaşi: Editura Universităţii “Alexandru Oan Cuza”, 2003; pp.1-7. [PDF, 110KB]

(2003) Sylvia Ball: Joined-up terminology – the IATE system enters production. 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); 17pp. [PDF, 583KB]

(2003) Lynne Bowker: Terminology tools for translators. In: Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator’s guide (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003); pp.49-65.

(2003) Bob McCallum: Streamlining multilingual content delivery for large organizations: case studies in enterprise linguistic asset management. 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); 20pp. [PDF, 260KB]

(2003) Anja Ruetten: Computer-based information management for conference interpreters, or How will I make my computer act like an infallible information butler? 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); 12pp. [PDF, 54KB]

(2003) Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, & Shunsuke Uemura: Bilingual terminology acquisition from comparable corpora and phrasal translation to cross-language information retrieval ACL-2003: 41st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 61KB]

(2003) Jean Senellart, Jin Yang, & Anabel Rebollo: SYSTRAN intuitive coding technology MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003; pp.346-353. [PDF, 445KB]

(2003) Gregor Thurmair: Making term extraction tools usable Controlled language translation, EAMT-CLAW-03, Dublin City University, 15-17 May 2003; pp.170-179. [PDF, 213KB]

(2003) Natalia Zaitseva: Matrix-and-frame methods as a means of structural and semantic systematization of terminological vocabulary. International Journal of Translation 15 (1), Jan-June 2003; pp.87-105. [PDF, 360KB]

(2002) Bob Clark: E-term + TM = AM. Can translation memory and authoring memory go hand-in-hand? Language International 14 (4), August 2002; pp.21-25. [PDF, 823KB]

(2002) Michael Carl & Philippe Langlais: An intelligent terminology database as a pre-processor for statistical machine translation; Coling-2002: Second international workshop on computational terminology (COMPUTERM 2002), 31 August 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 216KB]

(2002) Lawrence Cheung, Tom Lai, Robert Luk, Oi Yee Kwong, King Kui Sin, & Benjamin K.Tsou: Some considerations on guidelines for bilingual alignment and terminology extraction; Coling-2002: First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 5pp. [PDF, 177KB]

(2002)  Aman Chiu & Björn Jernudd: Chinese IT terminology management in Hong Kong.  In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.92-114.

(2002) Marianne Dabbadie, Widad Mustafa El Hadi, & Ismail Timimi: Terminological enrichment for non-interactive MT evaluation. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.1878-1884. [PDF, 63KB]

(2002) Lee Gillam, Khurshid Ahmad, David Dulby, & Christopher Cox: Knowledge exchange and terminology interchange: the role of standards. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 22pp. [PDF, 277KB]; presentation by Lee Gillam [with minor defects], 40 slides [PDF of PPT, 389KB]

(2002) Mathias Heyn: Scalable language technology . Presented at Translating and the Computer 24: the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002; 19slides [PDF of PPT presentation, 700KB]

(2002) Oi Yee Kwong, Benjamin K.Tsou, Tom B.Y.Lai, Robert W.P.Luk, Lawrence Y.L.Cheung, & Francis C.Y.Chik: Alignment and extraction of bilingual legal terminology from context profiles; Coling-2002: Second international workshop on computational terminology (COMPUTERM 2002), 31 August 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 224KB]

(2002) Philippe Langlais: Improving a general-purpose statistical translation engine by terminological lexicons; Coling-2002: Second international workshop on computational terminology (COMPUTERM 2002), 31 August 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 133KB]

(2002) Christian Lieske, Christine Thielen, Melanie Wells, & Andrew Bredenkamp: Controlled authoring at SAP. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 15pp. [PDF, 256KB]

(2002) Véronique Sauron: Tearing out the terms: evaluating terms extractors. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 18pp. [PDF, 142KB]

(2002) Charlotte Tu & Björn Jernudd: Terminological problems and language management for Internet language professionals in Hong Kong. In: Chan Sin-wai (ed.) Translation and Information Technology (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002); pp.115-129.

(2002) Antonio S.Valderrábanos, Alexander Belkis, & Luis Iraola: TExtractor: a multilingual terminology extraction tool. HLT 2002: Human Language Technology Conference: proceedings of the second international conference on human language technology research, March 24-27, 2002, San Diego, California; ed. Mitchell Marcus [San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann for DARPA]; pp. 393-398. [PDF, 247KB]

(2001) Ulrich Boehme & Svetlana Svetova: An integrated solution: applying PROMT machine translation technology, terminology mining, and the TRADOS TWB translation memory to SAP content translation. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 49-52. [PDF, 161KB]

(2001) Jennifer A. Brundage: Machine translation - evolution not revolution. MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Proceedings, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001; pp. 59-62. [PDF, 1236KB]

(2001) Hodong Lee & Jong C.Park: Automatic augmentation of translation dictionary with database terminologies in multilingual query interpretation. ACL 2001 Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management, July 2001, Toulouse, France; 10pp. [PDF, 108KB]

(2001) D.Rummel & S.Ball: The IATE project – towards a single terminological database for the European Union. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 28pp. [PDF, 551KB]

(2001) C.Sestier: eTermino Q&A – multilingual internet terminology assistant. Translating and the Computer 23: papers from the Aslib conference held on 29 & 30 November 2001 (London: Aslib, 2001); 9pp. [PDF, 165KB]

(2000) Ingeborg Blank: Terminology extraction from parallel technical texts [abstract]. In: Jean Véronis (ed.) Parallel text processing: alignment and use of translation corpora. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000; pp. 237-252.

(2000) Sarah Carroll: Introducing the TRADOS workflow development. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 20pp.  [PDF, 96KB]

(2000) David Chambers: Automatic bilingual terminology extraction: a practical approach. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 19pp.  [PDF, 383KB]

(2000) Éric Gaussier, David Hull, & Salah Aït-Mokhtar: Term alignment in use: machine-aided human translation [abstract]. In: Jean Véronis (ed.) Parallel text processing: alignment and use of translation corpora. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000; pp. 253-274.

(2000) Toru Hisamitsu, Yoshiki Niwa, Shingo Nishioka, Hirofumi Sakurai, Osamu Imaichi, Makoto Iwayama, & Akihiko Takano: Term extraction using a new measure of term representativeness.  LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshop on Terminology Resources and Computation, Athens, Greece, 29 May 2000; 8pp. [PDF, 224KB]

(2000) Sun Le, Jin Youbing, Du Lin, & Sun Yufang: Automatic extraction of English-Chinese term lexicons from noisy bilingual corpora. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Athens, Greece, 31 May – 2 June 2000; pp. 751-755. [PDF, 128KB]

(2000) Susan M.McCormick: Exchanging lexical and terminological data with OLIF2. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 7pp.  [PDF, 49KB]

(2000) Uwe Reinke: Towards a closer integration of termbases, translation memories and parallel corpora: a translation-oriented view. In: IAI Working Paper no.36, 2000; 14pp. [PDF, 216KB]

(2000) François Rossi: Profile of a multilingual documentation specialist: Sam Dassoon interviews Professor Sue Ellen Wright. International Journal for Language and Documentation 7, October/November 2000; pp.15-16, 42. [PDF, 1987KB]

(2000) Sayori Shimohata: An empricial method for identifying and translating technical terminology 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. 782-788 [PDF,.513KB]

(2000) Gr.Thurmair: TQPro: quality tools for the translation process. Translating and the Computer 22: proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference… 16-17 November 2000 (London: Aslib, 2000); 7pp.  [PDF, 56KB]

(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]

(2000) Špela Vintar: Extracting terminological collocations from a parallel corpus. Fifth EAMT Workshop "Harvesting existing resources", May 11 - 12, 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia; pp.21-30. [PDF, 132KB]

Thesaurus method (see also Treebanks)

(2003) Sabine Ploux & Hyungsuk Ji: A model for matching semantic maps between languages (French/English, English/French). Computational Linguistics 29 (2), pp.155-178. [PDF, 4506KB]

(2002) You-Jin Chung, Sin-Jae Kang, Kyong-Hi Moon, & Jong-Hyeok Lee: Word sense disambiguation in a Korean-to-Japanese MT system using neural networks; Coling-2002 workshop "Machine translation in Asia", 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 497KB]

(2002) Magnus Sahlgren, Preben Hansen & Jussi Karlgren: English-Japanese cross-lingual query expansion using random indexing of aligned bilingual text data. NTCIR Workshop 3: Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, Automatic Text Summarization and Question Answering, October 8-10, 2002, Tokyo, Japan; 5pp. [PDF, 82KB]

(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]

(2000) Yorick Wilks: Margaret Masterman.  In: W.John Hutchins (ed.) Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000); pp.279-297.

Transduction grammars

 (2000) Dekai Wu: Bracketing and aligning words and constituents in parallel text using stochastic inversion transduction grammars [abstract]. In: Jean Véronis (ed.) Parallel text processing: alignment and use of translation corpora. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000; pp. 139-167.

Transliteration

(2004) Slaven Bilac & Hozumi Tanaka: A hybrid back-transliteration system for Japanese.  Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 999KB]

(2004) Slaven Bilac & Hozumi Tanaka: Improving back-transliteration by combining information sources. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.216-223. [abstract]

(2004) Donghui Feng, Yajuan Lv, & Ming Zhou: A new approach for English-Chinese named entity alignment. EMNLP-2004: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 8pp. [PDF, 207KB]

(2004) Atsushi Fujii & Tetsuya Ishikawa: Cross-language IR at University of Tsukuba: automatic transliteration for Japanese, English and Korean. Proceedings of NTCIR-4, Tokyo, 2-4 June 2004; 8pp. [PDF, 377KB]

(2004) Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong & Wai Lam: Phoneme-based transliteration of foreign names for OOV problem. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.110-119. [abstract]

(2004) Isao Goto, Naoto Kato, Terumasa Ehara, & Hideki Tanaka: Back transliteration from Japanese to English using target English context. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 276KB]

(2004) Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Improving name entity translation combining phonetic and semantic similarities. 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;

(2004) Jin-Shea Kuo & Ying-Kuei Yang: Constructing transliteration lexicons from web corpora. ACL 2004: 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the interactive poster and demonstration sessions, 21-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; 4pp. [PDF, 127KB]

(2004) Li Haizhou, Zhang Min, & Su Jian: A joint source-channel model for machine translation. ACL 2004: 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 21-26 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain; pp.159-166. [PDF, 228KB]

(2004) Tracy Lin, Jian-Cheng Wu, & Jason S. Chang: Extraction of name and transliteration in monolingual and parallel corpora. 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. 177-186. [go to publisher details]

(2004) Kiyonori Ohtake, Youichi Sekiguchi, & Kazuhide Yamamoto: Detecting transliterated orthographic variants via two similarity metrics. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 177KB]

(2004) Zhang Min, Li Haizhou & Su Jian: Direct orthographical mapping for machine transliteration. Coling 2004: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23-27 August 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Proceedings; 7pp. [PDF, 204KB]

(2003) Hsin-Hsi Chen, Changhua Yang, & Ying Lin: Learning formulation and transformation rules for multilingual named entities. ACL 2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 285KB]

(2003) Isao Goto, Naoto Kato, Noriyoshi Uratani & Terumasa Ehara: Transliteration considering context information based on the maximum entropy method MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003 [PDF, 270KB]

(2003) Kui Lam Kwok & Qiang Deng: GeoName: a system for back-transliterating pinyin place names. HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Analysis of Geographic References, May 27 – June 1, 2003, Edmonton, Canada; 5pp. [PDF, 88KB]

(2003) Chun-Jen Lee & Jason S. Chang: Acquisition of English-Chinese transliterated word pairs from parallel-aligned texts using a statistical machine transliteration model HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop, "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond", 31 May 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF, 344KB]

(2003) Paola Virga & Sanjeev Khudanpur: Transliteration of proper names in cross-language information retrieval ACL-2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition, July 12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 119KB]

(2002) Yaser Al-Onaizan & Kevin Knight: Machine transliteration of names in Arabic text; ACL-2002 workshop "Computational approaches to Semitic languages", July 2002, Philadelphia, USA; 13pp. [PDF, 245KB]

(2002) Wei-Hao Lin & Hsin-Hsi Chen: Backward machine transliteration by learning phonetic similarity. Coling-2002: 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2002), August 2002, Taipei, Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 2093KB]

(2002) Jong-Hoon Oh & Key-Sun Choi: An English-Korean transliteration model using pronunciation and contextual rules. Coling-2002: Asian Language Resources and International Standardization, August 2002, Taipei, Taiwan; 7pp. [PDF, 91KB]

(2002) Keita Tsuji, Beatrice Daille, & Kyo Kageura: Extracting French-Japanese word pairs from bilingual corpora based on transliteration rules. LREC-2002: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 27 May – 2 June 2002; pp.499-502. [PDF, 120KB]

(2000) Sung Young Jung, Sung Lim Hong, & Eunok Paek: An English to Korean transliteration model of extended Markov window 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. 383-389 [PDF,.531KB]

(2000) Byung-Ju Kang & Key-Sun Choi: Automatic transliteration and back-transliteration by decision tree learning. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Athens, Greece, 31 May – 2 June 2000; pp. 1135-1141. [PDF, 115KB]

(2000) Byung-Ju Kang & Key-Sun Choi: English-Korean automatic transliteration/back-transliteration system and character alignment. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Demonstration notes, 3-6 October 2000; pp.17-18 [PDF, 117KB]

Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG)

 (2000) Tilman Becker & Patrice Lopez: The application of HPSG-to-TAG compilation techniques. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp.497-506. [abstract]

(2000) Karin Kipper & Martha Palmer: Representation of actions as an interlingua. NAACL-ANLP 2000 Workshop: Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP, Seattle, May 2000; pp. 12-17 [PDF, 747KB]

Unification grammar

(2003) Bassam Haddad & Mustafa Yaseen: Towards semantic composition of Arabic: a lambda-DRT based approach. MT Summit IX -- workshop: Machine translation for semitic languages, New Orleans,USA, 23 September 2003 [PDF, 162KB]

(2002) Gábor Prószéky & László Tihanyi: MetaMorpho: a pattern-based machine translation system. Translating and the Computer 24: proceedings from the Aslib conference held on 21-22 November 2002 (London: Aslib, 2002); 7pp. [PDF, 74KB]

(2001) Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt: Unifying tense, aspect and modality across languages. ACL 2001 Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Information Processing, July 2001, Toulouse, France; 8pp. [PDF, 61KB]

(2000) Ulrich Callmeier, Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger, Rob Malouf, & Stephan Oepen: Scalable grammar software for computational linguists: building, testing, and running grammars large and small. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Demonstration notes, 3-6 October 2000; pp.38-39 [PDF, 175KB]

(2000) Hoda O.M.Mokhtar, Nevin M.Darwish, & Ahmed A.Rafea: An automated system for English-Arabic translation of scientific texts (SEATS). 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, 1096KB]

Unknown words

(2004) Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong & Wai Lam: Phoneme-based transliteration of foreign names for OOV problem. First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004; pp.110-119. [abstract]

(2001) K.L.Kwok: NTCIR-2 Chinese, cross language retrieval experiment using PIRCS. NTCIR Workshop 2: Proceedings of the Second NTCIR Workshop on Research in Chinese & Japanese Text retrieval and Text Summarization, March 7-9, 2001, Tokyo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 202KB]

(2000) Hans Ulrich Block, Stefanie Schachtl, & Manfred Gehrke: Adapting a large scale MT system for spoken language. In: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.) Verbmobil: foundations of speech-to-speech translation. (Berlin: Springer, 2000); pp. 394-410. [abstract]

Verbs and verb phrases

(2004) Sanae Fujita & Francis Bond: A method of creating new bilingual valency entries using alternations.  Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.47-54. [PDF, 176KB]

(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) Munpyo Hong, Young-Kil Kim, Sang-Kyu Park, & Young-Jik Lee: Semi-automatic construction of Korean-Chinese verb patterns based on translation equivalency. Coling 2004: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources (MLR2004), August 28th 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland; pp.87-92. [PDF, 108KB]

(2003) Ondřej Bojar: Towards automatic extraction of verb frames. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, no.79/80, 2003; 21pp. [PDF, 390KB]

(2003) Nicola Ueffing & Hermann Ney: Using POS information for statistical machine translation into morphologically rich languages. EACL 2003: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Proceedings; pp.347-354 [PDF, 384KB]

(2002) Changhyun Kim, Munpyo Hong, Yinxia Huang, Young Kil Kim, Sung Il Yang, Young Ae Seo, & Sung-Kwon Choi: Korean-Chinese machine translation based on verb patterns. 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. 94-103. [go to publisher details]

(2002) Dong-il Kim, Zheng Cui, Jinji Li, & Jong-Hyeok Lee: A knowledge based approach to identification of serial verb construction in Chinese-to-Korean machine translation system; Coling-2002: First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, 1 September 2002, Taipei,Taiwan; 5pp. [PDF, 536KB]

(2001) Keiko Horiguchi: Information-based machine translation. [NAACL-2001] Language Technologies 2001: the Second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2-7 June 2001; 8pp. [PDF,  105KB]

(2001) Vivian Tsang & Suzanne Stevenson: Automatic verb classification using multilingual resources. ACL-EACL 2001 Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), July 2001, Toulouse, France; 8pp. [PDF, 139KB]

(2000) Bonnie J. Dorr, Gina-Anne Levow, & Dekang Lin: Building a Chinese-English mapping between verb concepts for multilingual applications. 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.1-12. [go to publisher details]

(2000) Bonnie J. Dorr, Gina-Anne Levow, Dekang Lin, & Scott Thomas: Chinese-English semantic resource construction. LREC-2000: Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Athens, Greece, 31 May – 2 June 2000; pp. 757-760. [PDF, 31KB]

(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]

(2000) Karin Kipper and Martha Palmer: Representation of actions as an interlingua. NAACL-ANLP 2000 Workshop: Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP, Seattle, May 2000; pp. 12-17 [PDF, 747KB]

Written forms

(2000) Jeff Allen: The risks of spelling variation and reform. International Journal for Language and Documentation 4, April 2000; pp.41-42. [PDF, 589KB]

(2000) Byung-Ju Kang & Key-Sun Choi: English-Korean automatic transliteration/back-transliteration system and character alignment. ACL-2000: 38th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Demonstration notes, 3-6 October 2000; pp.17-18 [PDF, 117KB]