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Index of Types of MT systems

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Combination systems (see also Multi-engine systems)

(2009) Takako Aikawa & Achim Ruopp: Chained system: a linear combination of different types of statistical machine translation systems. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.184-189. [PDF, 229KB]

(2009) Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li & Aiti Aw: A comparative study of hypothesis alignment and its improvement for machine translation system combination. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.941-948. [PDF, 119KB]

(2009) Yi-Chang Chen & Chia-Ping Chen: A framework for machine translation output combination. ROCLING 2009: Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, Taichung, Taiwan, 2009; pp.309-317. [PDF, 342KB]

(2009) Nan Duan, Mu Li, Tong Xiao, & Ming Zhou: The feature subspace method for SMT system combination. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1096-1104. [PDF, 416KB]

(2009) Christian Federmann, Silke Theison, Andreas Eisele, Hans Uszkoreit, Yu Chen, Michael Jellinghaus, & Sabine Hunsicker: Translation combination using factored word substitution.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.70-74. [PDF, 100KB]

(2009) Yang Feng, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu, & Yajuan Lü: Lattice-based system combination for statistical machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1105-1113. [PDF, 161KB]

(2009) Adriŕ de Gispert, Sami Virpioja, Mikko Kurimo, & William Byrne: Minimum Bayes risk combination of translation hypotheses from alternative morphological decompositions.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.73-76. [PDF, 72KB]

(2009) Xiaodong He & Kristina Toutanova: Joint optimization for machine translation system combination. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1202-1211. [PDF, 337KB]

(2009) Kenneth Heafield, Greg Hanneman, & Alon Lavie: Machine translation system combination with flexible word ordering. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.56-60. [PDF, 104KB]

(2009) Almut Silja Hildebrand & Stephan Vogel: CMU system combination for WMT’09. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.47-50. [PDF, 101KB]

(2009) Maxim Khalilov & José A.R.Fonollosa: N-gram-based statistical machine translation versus syntax augmented machine translation: comparison and system combination.  EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.424-432. [PDF, 564KB]

(2009) Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov, & Hermann Ney: The RWTH system combination system for WMT 2009.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.51-55. [PDF, 173KB]

(2009) Chi-Ho Li, Xiaodong He, Yupeng Liu, & Ning Xi: Incremental HMM alignment for MT system combination. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.949-957. [PDF, 559KB]

(2009) Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Yang Feng, & Qun Liu: Joint decoding with multiple translation models. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.55-63. [PDF, 145KB]

(2009) Yong Zhao & Xiaodong He: Using n-gram based features for machine translation system combination.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.205-208. [PDF, 357KB]

(2009) NIST 2009 open machine translation evaluation (MT09). Official release of results: Combination tests . [NIST, 2009]; [HTML, 114KB]

(2008) Almut Silja Hildebrand & Stephan Vogel: Combination of machine translation systems via hypothesis selection from combined n-best lists. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.254-261 [PDF, 681KB]

Data-oriented translation (see also Example-based methods)

(2009) Daniel Galron, Sergio Penkale, Andy Way, & I.Dan Melamed: Accuracy-based scoring for DOT: towards direct error minimization for data-oriented translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.371-380. [PDF, 164KB]

(2009) Vincent Vandeghinste: Tree-based target language modeling. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.152-159. [PDF, 391KB]

(2007) Rens Bod: Unsupervised syntax-based machine translation: the contribution of discontiguous phrases. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.51-56 [PDF, 87KB]

(2007) John Tinsley, Ventsislav Zhechev, Mary Hearne, & Andy Way: Robust language pair-independent sub-tree alignment. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.467-474 [PDF, 1310KB]

(2006) Mary Hearne & Andy Way: Disambiguation strategies for data-oriented translation. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.59-68 [PDF, 164KB]

Direct translation approach

(2009) Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima’an, & Andy Way: A syntactified direct translation model with linear-time decoding. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1182-1191. [PDF, 163KB]

(2008) Gurpreet Singh Josan & Gurpreet Singh Lehal: A Punjabi to Hindi machine translation system. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Posters and demonstrations, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.157-160. [PDF, 190KB]

(2007) Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley, & Serge Sharoff: Translating from under-resourced languages: comparing direct transfer against pivot translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.29-35 [PDF, 197KB]

(2007) A.Cüneyd Tantuğ, Eşref Adali, & Kemal Oflazer: A MT system from Turkmen to Turkish employing finite state and statistical methods. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.459-465 [PDF, 399KB]

Example-based methods

(2009) Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way

(2009) Kathy Baker, Steven Bethard, Michael Bloodgood, Ralf Brown, Chris Callison-Burch, Glen Coppersmith, Bonnie Dorr, Wes Filardo, Kendall Giles, Anni Irvine, Mike Kayser, Lori Levin, Justin Martineau, Jim Mayfield, Scott Miller, Aaron Phillips, Andrew Philpot, Christine Piatko, Lane Schwartz, & David Zajic: Semantically informed machine translation (SIMT). Final report of the 2009 Summer Camp for Applied Language Exploration [John Hopkins University], November 2009; 152pp. [PDF, 5705KB]

(2009) Beth Ann Hockey & Manny Rayner: Using paraphrases of deep semantic representations to support regression testing in spoken dialogue systems. NAACL-HLT-2009: Software Engineering, Testing and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing (SETQA-NLP 2009), Proceedings of the Workshop, June 5, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.14-21. [PDF, 139KB]

(2009) Elena Irimia: EBMT experiments for the English-Romanian language pair. (IIS-2009) Recent Advances in Intelligent Information Systems, ed. M.A.Klopotek, A. Przepiórkowski, S.T. Wierzchon, K. Trojanowski, Kraków, Poland, June 15-18, 2009; pp.91-102. [PDF, 181KB]

(2009) Terence Lewis: Notes on a live demonstration [of the Trasy Dutch-English translation software]. Translating and the Computer 31, 19-20 November 2009, London; 7pp. [PDF, 362KB]

(2009) Jörg Tiedemann: Translating questions for cross-lingual QA. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.112-119. [PDF, 370KB]

(2009) Antal van den Bosch & Peter Berck: Memory based machine translation and language modeling. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 91, 2009; pp.17-26. [PDF, 565KB]  [presentation at MT Marathon 2009, 31426KB]

(2009) Fai Wong & Sam Chao: PCT: Portuguese-Chinese machine translation systems. International Conference on The Teaching of Computer-aided Translation, Chinese University, Hong Kong, 2009; 8pp. [PDF, 132KB]

(2008) Ralf D.Brown: Exploiting document-level context for data-driven machine translation. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.46-55. [PDF, 496KB]

(2008) Ahmed Hatem & Amin Nassar: Modified Dijstra-like search algorithm for English to Arabic machine translation system. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.66-71. [PDF, 562KB]

(2008) Young-Sook Hwang, YoungKil Kim, & SangKyu Park: Paraphrasing depending on bilingual context toward generalization of translation knowledge. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.327-334. [PDF, 952KB]

(2008) Hitoshi Isahara, Masao Utiyama, Eiko Yamamoto, Akira Terada, & Yasumori Abe: Application of resource-based machine translation to real business scenes. LREC 2008: 6th Language Reso urces and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 4pp. [PDF, 65KB]

(2008) Yves Lepage, Adrien Lardilleux, Julien Gosme, & Jean-Luc Manguin: The GREYC machine translation system for the IWSLT 2008 evaluation campaign. IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA; pp. 39-45. [PDF, 184KB]; presentation [PDF, 142KB]

(2008) Zhou-Jun Li, Wen-Han Chao, & Yue-Xin Chen: An example-based decoder for spoken language machine translation. IJCNLP 2008: Sixth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Proceedings of the workshop, 11-12 January 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.1-8. [PDF, 413KB]

(2008) Toshiaki Nakazawa & Sadao Kurohashi: Kyoto-U: syntactical EBMT system for NTCIR-7 patent translation task. Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 401-408. [PDF, 712KB]

(2008) John Tinsley, Yanjun Ma, Sylwia Ozdowska, & Andy Way: MaTrEx: the DCU MT system for WMT 2008. ACL-08: HLT. Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings, June 19, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (ACL WMT-08); pp.171-174. [PDF, 89KB]

(2008) Fai Wong & Kwok Kit Leung: The design of web based machine translation server based on grid infrastructure . The Fourth International Conference on Networked Computing and Advanced Information Management (NCM2008), Gyeongju, Korea, 2008; pp.713-718. [PDF, 226KB]

(2007) Vamshi Ambati & Rohini U: A hybrid approach to example based machine translation for Indian languages. ICON-2007: 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, IIIT Hyderabad, India, 4-6 January 2007; 6pp. [PDF, 619KB]

(2007) Kfir Bar, Y.Choueka, & N.Dershowitz: An Arabic to English example-based translation system. ICTIS 2007: Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium. Workshop on Arabic natural language processing, 3-5 April 2007, Fez, Morocco; pp. 355-359 [PDF, 165KB]

(2007) Wen-Han Chao & Zhou-Jun Li: NUDT machine translation system for IWSLT2007. IWSLT 2007: International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 15-16 October 2007, Trento, Italy. 4pp. [PDF, 135KB]; presentation by Boxing Chen [PDF, 308KB]

(2007) Ren Feiliang, Zhang Li, Hu Minghan, & Yao Tianshun: EBMT based on finite automata state transfer generation. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.65-74 [PDF, 362KB]; presentation [PDF, 342KB]

(2007) Hitoshi Isahara, Sadao Kurohashi, Jun’ichi Tsujii, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Kaji, & Shun’ichi Kikuchi: Development of a Japanese-Chinese machine translation system.  MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.263-267 [PDF, 161KB]

(2007) Zhanyi Liu, Heifeng Wang, & Hua Wu: Log-linear generation models for example-based machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.305-312 [PDF, 178KB]

(2007) Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Vassiliki Spilioti, Marina Vassiliou, & Olga Yannoutsou: An MT system embedding pattern knowledge.  METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 11 January 2007; 8pp. [PDF, 195KB]

(2007) Sara Morrissey, Andy Way, Daniel Stein, Jan Bungeroth, & Hermann Ney: Combining data-driven MT systems for improved sign language translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.329-336 [PDF, 189KB]

(2007) Makoto Nagao: An amorphous object must be cut by a blunt tool.  In: Khurshid Ahmad, Christopher Brewster, & Mark Stevenson (eds.): Words and intelligence II: essays in honor of Yorick Wilks (Dordrecht: Springer); pp. 153-158.

(2007) Aaron B.Phillips: Sub-phrasal matching and structural templates in example-based MT. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.163-170 [PDF, 295KB]

(2007) Aaron B. Phillips, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, & Ralf D. Brown: Improving example-based machine translation through morphological generalization and adaptation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.369-375 [PDF, 115KB]

(2007) Stephen Richardson: Microsoft machine translation: from research to real user. Invited talk at MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; 35pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 3535KB]

(2007) Sofianopoulos Sokratis, Spilioti Vassiliki, Vassiliou Marina, Yannoutsou Olga, & Markantonatou Stella: Demonstration of the Greek to English METIS-II system. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.199-205 [PDF, 295KB]

(2007) Nicolas Stroppa, Antal van den Bosch, & Andy Way: Exploiting source similarity for SMT using context-informed features. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.231-240 [PDF, 309KB]; presentation [PDF, 149KB]

(2007) Vincent Vandeghinste: Removing the distinction between a translation memory, a bilingual dictionary and a parallel corpus. Translating and the Computer 29. Proceedings of the twenty-ninth international conference on Translating and the Computer, 29-30 November 2007 (London: Aslib, 2007); 21pp. [PDF, 90KB]

(2007) Antal van den Bosch, Nicolas Stroppa, & Andy Way: A memory-based classification approach to marker-based EBMT.  METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 11 January 2007; 10pp. [PDF, 251KB]

(2007) Cristina Vertan: Example based machine translation for cross-lingual information retrieval. Tutorial at MT Summit XI, 10 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; abstract, 1p. [PDF, 83KB]; presentation, 112pp. [PDF of PPT slides, 6215KB]

(2007) Fai Wong, Mingchui Dong, Chiwai Tang, & Francisco Oliveira: Translation technologies of Portuguese to Chinese machine translation system: PCT Assistente. Proceedings of the 4th Chinese Digitization Forum (CDF), Jan. 24-26, 2007, Macau SAR, China; 11pp. [PDF, 186KB]

 (2006) Stephen Armstrong, Andy Way, Colm Caffrey, Marian Flanagan, Dorothy Kenny, & Minako O’Hagan: Improving the quality of automated DVD substitles via example-based machine translation. Translating and the Computer 28: proceedings of the Twenty-eighth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 16-17 November 2006, London. (London: Aslib, 2006); 13pp. [PDF, 159KB]

(2006) Stephen Armstrong, Colm Caffrey & Marian Flanagan: Translating DVD subtitles from English-German and English-Japanese using example-based machine translation. MuTra 2006 – Audiovisual Translation Scenarios: Conference Proceedings, Copenhagen, Denmark 13pp. [PDF, 98KB]

(2006) Stephen Armstrong, Colm Caffrey, Marian Flanagan, Dorothy Kenny, Minako O’Hagan & Andy Way: Translating DVD subtitles using example-based machine translation. MuTra, Copenhagen, May 2006; 24 slides [PDF of PPT, 226KB]

(2006) Colm Caffrey, Marian Flanagan, & Stephen Armstrong: Leading by example: automatic translation of subtitles using example-based machine translation. Languages and the Media Conference, Berlin, Germany, 2006; 34 slides. [PDF of PPT, 500KB]

(2006) Chunguang Chai, Jinhua Du, Wei Wei, Peng Liu, Keyan Zhou, Yanqing He, & Chengqing Zong: NLPR translation system for IWSLT 2006 evaluation campaign. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 91-94 [PDF, 114KB]

(2006) Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Ralf Brown & Jaime Carbonell: Spectral clustering for example based machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 41-44 [PDF, 63KB]

(2006) Gábor Hodász: Evaluation methods of a linguistically enriched translation memory system.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.2044-2047 [PDF, 365KB]

(2006) Philippe Langlais & Fabrizio Gotti: EBMT by tree-phrasing [abstract]. Machine Translation 20 (1),2006; pp.1-23.

(2006) Zhanyi Liu, Haifeng Wang, & Hua Wu: Example-based machine translation on tree-string correspondences and statistical generation [abstract]. Machine Translation 20 (1),2006; pp.25-41.

(2006) Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, & Paolo Tiberio: EXTRA: a system for example-based translation assistance [abstract]. Machine Translation 20 (3),2006; pp.167-197.

(2006) Sara Morrissey & Andy Way: Lost in translation: the problems of using mainstream MT evaluation metrics for sign language translation.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.91-98. [PDF, 465KB]

(2006) Toshiaki Nakazawa, Kun Yu, Daisuke Kawahara, & Sadao Kurohashi: Example-based machine translation based on deeper NLP. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 64-70  [PDF, 247KB]

(2006) Karolina Owczarzak, Bart Mellebeek, Declan Groves, Josef Van Genabith & Andy Way: Wrapper syntax for example-based machine translation.  AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.148-155 [PDF, 248KB]

(2006) Alicia Pérez, Inés Torres, Francisco Casacuberta, & Víctor Guijarrubia: A Spanish-Basque weather forecast corpus for probabilistic speech translation.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.99-102. [PDF, 227KB]

(2006) Christopher Quirk & Arul Menezes: Dependency treelet translation: the convergence of statistical and example-based machine translation? [abstract] Machine Translation 20 (1),2006; pp.43-65.

(2006) Reinhard Rapp & Carlos Martin Vide: Example-based machine translation using a dictionary of word pairs.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.1268-1273 [PDF, 352KB]

(2006) Alberto Simőes & José Joăo Almeida: Combinatory examples extraction for machine translation. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.27-32 [PDF, 130KB]

(2006) Nicolas Stroppa & Andy Way: MaTrEx: DCU machine translation system for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp.31-36  [PDF, 341KB]

(2006) Nicolas Stroppa, Declan Groves, Andy Way & Kepa Sarasola: Example-based machine translation of the Basque language. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.232-241 [PDF, 168KB]

(2006) Chi-Wai Tang, Fai Wong, Ka-Seng Leong, Ming-Chui Dong, & Yi-Ping Li; Application of translation corresponding tree (TCT) annotation schema for Chinese to Portuguese machine translation [abstract] . Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science (EPMESC-X) Aug. 21-23, 2006, Sanya, Hainan, China; p.315. [PDF, 669KB]

(2006) Pete Whitelock & Victor Poznanski: The SLE example-based translation system. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 111-115 [PDF, 109KB]

(2005) proceedings of Second Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, 16 September 2005. [HTML]

(2005) Eiji Aramaki, Sadao Kurohashi, Hideki Kashioka, & Naoto Kato: Probabilistic model for example-based machine translation. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.219-226. [PDF, 250KB]

(2005) Ralf D.Brown, Jae Dong Kim, Peter J.Jansen, & Jaime G.Carbonell: Symmetric probabilistic alignment. ACL-2005: Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts – Data-driven machine translation and beyond, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 29-30 June 2005; pp.87-90. [PDF, 109KB]

(2005) Michael Carl: A system-theoretical view of EBMT [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp.229-249.

(2005) Michael Carl & Andy Way: Introduction to special issue on example-based machine translation. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp.193-195. [see publication]

(2005) Ilyas Cicekli: Inducing translation templates with type constraints [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp.283-299.

(2005) Natalia Elita & Antonina Birladeanu: A first step in integrating an EBMT into the Semantic Web MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 12, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Machine Translation; pp.13-15. [PDF, 177KB]

(2005) Natalia Eliţa & Antonina Birladeanu: An application using example-based machine translation. International workshop: Modern approaches in translation technologies, Borovets, Bulgaria, 24 September 2005; p.9-11 [PDF, 159KB]

(2005) Declan Groves & Andy Way: Hybrid example-based SMT: the best of both worlds? ACL-2005: Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts – Data-driven machine translation and beyond, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 29-30 June 2005; pp.183-190. [PDF, 65KB]

(2005) Declan Groves & Andy Way: Hybrid data-driven models of machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp. 301-323.

(2005) Walther v. Hahn & Cristina Vertan: Challenges for the multilingual Semantic Web MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 12, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Machine Translation; pp.5-9. [PDF, 415KB]

(2005) John Hutchins: Example-based machine translation: a review and commentary [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp.197-211.

(2005) Jae Dong Kim, Ralf D. Brown, Peter J. Jansen, & Jaime G. Carbonell: Symmetric probabilistic alignment for example-based translation. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 153-159. [PDF, 63KB]

(2005) Sadao Kurohashi, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Kauffmann Alexis, & Daisuke Kawahara: Example-based machine translation pursuing fully structural NLP. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 6pp. [PDF, 219KB]

(2005) Yves Lepage & Etienne Denoual: ALEPH: an EBMT system based on the preservation of proportional analogies between sentences across langauges. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 388KB]

(2005) Yves Lepage & Etienne Denoual: Purest ever example-based machine translation: detailed presentation and assessment [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp.251-282.

(2005) Liu Zhanyi, Wang Haifeng & Wu Hua: Example-based machine translation based on TSC and statistical generation. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.25-32. [PDF, 476KB]

(2005) Makoto Nagao: An amorphous object must be cut by a blunt tool. International workshop: Modern approaches in translation technologies, Borovets, Bulgaria, 24 September 2005; p.1. [PDF, 92KB]

(2005) Sudip Kumar Naskar & Sivaji Bandyopadhyay: A phrasal EBMT system for translating English to Bengali. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.372-379. [PDF, 263KB]

(2005) Michael Paul, Takao Doi, Youngsook Hwang, Kenji Imamura, Hideo Okuma, & Eiichiro Sumita: Nobody is perfect: ATR’s hybrid approach to spoken language translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 120KB]

(2005) Cristina Vertan & Vanessa Espin Martin: Experiments with matching algorithms in example based machine translation. International workshop: Modern approaches in translation technologies, Borovets, Bulgaria, 24 September 2005; p.42-45 [PDF, 168KB]

(2005) Andy Way & Nano Gough: Controlled translation in an example-based environment: what do automatic evaluation metrics tell us? [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (1), 2005; pp.1-36.

(2005) Toon Witkam: A new road to automatic translation. [Utrecht: private publication, 26 November 2005]. 13pp. [PDF, 177KB]

(2005) Dekai Wu: MT model space: statistical versus compositional versus example-based machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp.213-227.

Hybrid systems [see also Combination systems, Multi-engine systems]

(2009) Peter Cahill, Jinhua Du, Andy Way, & Julie Carson-Berndsen: Using same-language machine translation to create alternative target sequences for text-to-speech synthesis. Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, UK; abstract [PDF]

(2009) Jaime Carbonell: How to combine paradigms for machine translation, Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 4pp. [PDF of PPT, 83KB]

(2009) Guillem Gascó & Joan Andreu Sánchez: UPV translation system for IWSLT 2009. IWSLT 2009: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, December 1-2, 2009; pp. 118-123. [PDF, 331KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 603KB]

(2009) Nizar Habash, Bonnie Dorr, & Christof Monz: Symbolic-to-statistical hybridization: extending generation-heavy machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 23 (1), February 2009; pp.23-63.

(2009) Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt: It’s all about the trees – towards a hybrid syntax-based MT system. Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Mrągowo, Poland, 12-14 October 2009; pp.219-226. [PDF, 125KB]

(2009) Satoshi Kamatani, Tetsuro Chino & Kazuo Sumita: Hybrid spoken language translation using sentence splitting based on syntax structure. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 57-64. [PDF, 167KB]

(2009) Gorka Labaka: EUSMT: incorporating linguistic information to statistical machine translation for a morphologically rich language. Its use in preliminary SMT-RBMT-EBMT hybridization. Summary of Dissertation submitted to the Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque Country, 2009; 80pp. [PDF, 1244KB]

(2009) Attila Novak: MorphoLogic’s submission for the WMT 2009 shared task.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.155-159. [PDF, 163KB]

(2009) Aaron B. Phillips & Ralf D. Brown: Cunei machine translation platform: system description. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way; pp.29-36. [PDF, 109KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 1356KB]

(2009) Johann Roturier: Deploying novel MT technology to raise the bar for quality: a review of key advantages and challenges. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 1-8. [PDF, 162KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 835KB]

(2009) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L. Forcada, & Andy Way: Hybrid rule-based – example-based MT: feeding Apertium with sub-sentential translation units. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way; pp.11-18. [PDF, 150KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 192KB]

(2009) Michel Simard & Pierre Isabelle: Phrase-based machine translation in a computer-assisted translation environment. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.120-127. [PDF, 68KB]

(2009) James Smith & Stephen Clark: EBMT for SMT: a new EBMT-SMT hybrid. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way; pp.3-10. [PDF, 144KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 564KB]

(2009) Ankit Srivastava, Sergio Penkale, Declan Groves, & John Tinsley: Evaluating syntax-driven approaches to phrase extraction for MT.  Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way; pp.19-28. [PDF, 250KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 329KB]

(2009) Hans Uszkoreit: Hybrid machine translation. Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 16pp. [PDF of PPT, 1407KB]

(2009) Gregor Thurmair: Comparing different architectures of hybrid machine translation systems. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.340-347. [PDF, 167KB]

(2009) Vincent Vandeghinste: Tree-based target language modeling. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.152-159. [PDF, 391KB]

(2009) Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang: Revisiting pivot language approach for machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.154-162. [PDF, 459KB]

(2009) Jin Yang, Satoshi Enoue, Jean Senellart, & Tristan Croiset: SYSTRAN Chinese-English and English-Chinese hybrid machine translation systems. CWMT 2009: the 5th China Workshop on Machine Translation, Nanjing, China, October 16-17, 2009; 8pp. [PDF, 158KB]

(2009) Yi Zhang, Rui Wang, & Stephan Oepen: Hybrid multilingual parsing with HPSG for SRL. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.31-36. [PDF, 115KB]

(2008) Dimitra Anastasiou: Identification of idioms by machine translation: a hybrid research system vs. three commercial systems.  EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.12-20. [PDF, 498KB]

(2008) Alain Désilets, Marta Stojanovic, Jean-François Lapointe, Rick Rose, & Aarthi Reddy: Evaluating productivity gains of hybrid ASR-MT systems for translation dictation. IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA; pp.158-165 [PDF, 421KB]; presentation [PDF, 548KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele: Hybrid architectures for machine translation. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 29 slides. [PDF, 1167KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Hybrid machine translation architectures within and beyond the EuroMatrix project. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.27-34. [PDF, 552KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hervé Saint-Amand, Michael Jellinghaus, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Using Moses to integrate multiple rule-based machine translation engines into a hybrid system. ACL-08: HLT. Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings, June 19, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (ACL WMT-08); pp.179-182. [PDF, 90KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Hybrid architectures for multi-engine machine translation. Translating and the Computer 30, 27-28 November 2008, London; 12pp. [PDF, 170KB]

(2008) Rauf Fatullayev, Ali Abbasov, & Abulfat Fatullayev: “DILMANC” is the 1st MT system for Azerbaijani. SLTC 2008: Second Swedish Language Technology Conference, November 20-21, 2008, Stockholm; pp.63-64. [PDF, 267KB]

(2008) Ahmed Hatem & Amin Nassar: Modified Dijstra-like search algorithm for English to Arabic machine translation system. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.66-71. [PDF, 562KB]

(2008) Michael Jellinghaus: A data-driven approach to deep machine translation. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 28 slides. [PDF, 405KB]

(2008) Brianna Laugher & Ben MacLeod: Machine translation for Indonesian and Tagalog. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.397-401. [PDF, 518KB]

(2008) Stephan Oepen: Grammar-based processing and re-usable hybrid MT – an experience report in the wilderness. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 32 slides. [PDF, 254KB]

(2008) Hassan Sawaf, Braddock Gaskill, & Michael Veronis: Hybrid machine translation applied to media monitoring. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.440-447. [PDF, 963KB]

(2008) John Tinsley, Yanjun Ma, Sylwia Ozdowska, & Andy Way: MaTrEx: the DCU MT system for WMT 2008. ACL-08: HLT. Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings, June 19, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (ACL WMT-08); pp.171-174. [PDF, 89KB]

(2008) Clare R.Voss, Matthew Aguirre, Jeffrey Micher, Richard Chang, Jamal Laoudi, & Reginald Hobbs: Boosting performance of weak MT engines automatically: using MT output to align segments & build statistical post-editors. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.192-201. [PDF, 506KB]

(2008) Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Xiaoguang Hu, Zhanyi Liu, Jianfeng Li, Dengjun Ren, & Zhengyu Niu: The TCH machine translation system for IWSLT 2008. IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA; pp.124-131 [PDF, 242KB]; presentation [PDF, 135KB]

(2008) Andy Way: Combining approaches to machine translation: the DCU experience [abstract only]. Invited talk at: MATMT 2008: Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation, Donostia-San Sebastian [Spain], February 14th 2008: Proceedings; p. 75.  [PDF, 268KB]

 (2008) About OpenMT project. MATMT 2008: Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation, Donostia-San Sebastian [Spain], February 14th 2008: Proceedings; p. 7.  [PDF, 74KB]

(2007) Vamshi Ambati & Rohini U: A hybrid approach to example based machine translation for Indian languages. ICON-2007: 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, IIIT Hyderabad, India, 4-6 January 2007; 6pp. [PDF, 619KB]

(2007) Michael Carl & Paul Schmidt: A modular architecture for separating hypothesis formation from hypothesis evaluation in data-driven machine translation.  METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 11 January 2007; 8pp. [PDF, 155KB]

(2007) Yu Chen, Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Eva Hasler, Michael Jellinghaus, & Silke Theison: Multi-engine machine translation with an open-source decoder for statistical machine translation.  ACL 2007: proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 23, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 193-196 [PDF, 96KB]

(2007) Andreas Eisele: Hybrid machine translation: combining rule-based and statistical MT systems. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007; 36pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 777KB]

(2007) Ariadna Font Llitjós & Stephan Vogel: A walk on the other side: adding statistical components to a transfer-based translation system. SSST, NAACL-HLT-2007 AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, 26 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.72-79 [PDF, 113KB]

(2007) Philipp Koehn: EuroMatrix – machine translation for all European languages. Invited talk at MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; 33pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 478KB]

(2007) Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Vassiliki Spilioti, Marina Vassiliou, & Olga Yannoutsou: An MT system embedding pattern knowledge.  METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 11 January 2007; 8pp. [PDF, 195KB]

(2007) Eric Nichols, Francis Bond, Darren Scott Appling, & Yuji Matsumoto: Combining resources for open source machine translation. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.134-143 [PDF, 404KB]; poster [PDF, 67KB]

(2007) Stephan Oepen, Erik Velldal, Jan Tore Lřnning, Paul Meurer, Victoria Rosén, & Dan Flickinger: Towards hybrid quality-oriented machine translation – on linguistics and probabilities in MT. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.144-153 [PDF, 328KB]

(2007) Stephen Richardson: Microsoft machine translation: from research to real user. Invited talk at MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; 35pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 3535KB]

(2007) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, & Mikel L. Forcada: Integrating corpus-based and rule-based approaches in an open-source machine translation system. METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 11 January 2007; 10pp. [PDF, 180KB]

(2007) Vincent Vandeghinste: Removing the distinction between a translation memory, a bilingual dictionary and a parallel corpus. Translating and the Computer 29. Proceedings of the twenty-ninth international conference on Translating and the Computer, 29-30 November 2007 (London: Aslib, 2007); 21pp. [PDF, 90KB]

(2007) Fai Wong, Mingchui Dong, Chiwai Tang, & Francisco Oliveira: Translation technologies of Portuguese to Chinese machine translation system: PCT Assistente. Proceedings of the 4th Chinese Digitization Forum (CDF), Jan. 24-26, 2007, Macau SAR, China; 11pp. [PDF, 186KB]

(2006) Jaime Carbonell: contribution to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”.  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 56KB]

(2006) Violetta Cavalli-Sforza & Alon Lavie: Hybrid machine translation: why and how? (introduction to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 64KB]

(2006) Chunguang Chai, Jinhua Du, Wei Wei, Peng Liu, Keyan Zhou, Yanqing He, & Chengqing Zong: NLPR translation system for IWSLT 2006 evaluation campaign. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 91-94 [PDF, 114KB]

(2006) J.González, A.L.Lagarda, J.R.Navarro, L.Eliodoro, A.Giménez, F.Casacuberta, J.M.de Val, & F.Fabregat: SisHiTra: a Spanish-to-Catalan hybrid machine translation system.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.69-73. [PDF, 158KB]

(2006) Declan Groves & Andy Way: Hybridity in MT: experiments on the Europarl corpus. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.115-124 [PDF, 461KB]

(2006) Nizar Habash, Bonnie Dorr & Christof Monz: Challenges in building an Arabic-English GHMT system with SMT components. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.56-65 [PDF, 116KB]

(2006) Nizar Habash: contribution to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”.  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 230KB]

(2006) Mary Hearne & Andy Way: Disambiguation strategies for data-oriented translation. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.59-68 [PDF, 164KB]

(2006) Philipp Koehn: Statistical machine translation and hybrid machine translation (contribution to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 300KB]

(2006) Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Vassiliki Spilioti, George Tambouratzis, Marina Vassiliou, & Olga Yannoutsou: Using patterns for machine translation. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.239-245 [PDF, 237KB]

(2006) Stefan Riezler & John T. Maxwell III: Grammatical machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 248-255 [PDF, 299KB]

(2006) Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang & John Lee: Combining linguistic and statistical methods for bi-directional English Chinese translation in the flight domain. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.213-222 [PDF, 152KB]

(2006) Stephanie Seneff: Combining interlingua with SMT (contribution to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 109KB]

(2006) Jean Senellart & John S. White: First strategies for integrating hybrid approaches into established systems (contribution to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 68KB]

(2006) Lucia Specia: A hybrid relational approach for WSD – first results. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop, Sydney, July 2006; pp.55-60. [PDF, 75KB]

(2006) Nicolas Stroppa & Andy Way: MaTrEx: DCU machine translation system for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp.31-36  [PDF, 341KB]

(2006) Vincent Vandeghinste, Ineka Schuurman, Michael Carl, Stella Markantonatou, & Toni Badia: METIS-II: machine translation for low-resource languages.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.1284-1289 [PDF, 409KB]

(2006) Ruiqiang Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Michael Paul, Hideo Okuma, Keiji Yasuda, Yves Lepage, Etienne Denoual, Daichi Mochihashi, Andrew Finch, & Eiichiro Sumita: The NiCT-ATR statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 83-90  [PDF, 176KB]

(2005) Declan Groves & Andy Way: Hybrid example-based SMT: the best of both worlds? ACL-2005: Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts – Data-driven machine translation and beyond, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 29-30 June 2005; pp.183-190. [PDF, 65KB]

(2005) Declan Groves & Andy Way: Hybrid data-driven models of machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp. 301-323.

(2005) Huang Heyan: Research & development of multi-lingual machine translation and applications. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit: invited paper [PDF of PPT presentation, 550KB]

(2005) Arul Menezes & Chris Quirk: Dependency treelet translation: the convergence of statistical and example-based machine-translation? MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Second Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation; pp.99-108. [PDF, 314KB]

(2005) Arul Menezes & Chris Quirk: Microsoft Research treelet translation system: IWSLT evaluation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 4pp. [PDF, 240KB]

(2005) Michael Paul, Takao Doi, Youngsook Hwang, Kenji Imamura, Hideo Okuma, & Eiichiro Sumita: Nobody is perfect: ATR’s hybrid approach to spoken language translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 120KB]

Interactive methods

(2009) Sergio Barrachina, Oliver Bender, Francisco Casacuberta, Jorge Civera, Elsa Cubel, Shahram Khadivi, Antonio Lagarda, Hermann Ney, Jesús Tomás, Enrique Vidal, & Juan-Miguel Vilar: Statistical approaches to computer-assisted translation. Computational Linguistics 35 (1), pp.3-28. [PDF, 252KB]

(2009) Nicolň Cesa-Bianchi & Gabriele Reverberi: Online learning for CAT applications.  SMART Workshop at EACL 2009, Barcelona, Spain, 13 May 2009. 27 slides. [PDF of PPT,

(2009) Philipp Koehn & Barry Haddow: Interactive assistance to human translators using statistical machine translation methods. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 73-80. [PDF, 217KB]

(2009) Philipp Koehn: A web-based interactive computer aided translation tool. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Software Demonstrations, Suntec, Singapore, 3 August 2009; pp.17-20. [PDF, 127KB]

(2009) Amba Kulkarni: Anusaaraka: an accessor cum machine translator [abstract]. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, 2-3 November 2009, Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Spain; ed. Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Francis M.Tyers; pp. 1.

(2009) Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Ismael García-Varea, & Francisco Casacuberta: Interactive machine translation based on partial statistical phrase-based alignments. [RANLP 2009] International conference: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Proceedings ed. Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov, Nikolai Nikolov, Borovets, Bulgaria, 14-16 September 2009; pp.330-336. [PDF, 275KB]

(2009) Omar F.Zaidan & Chris Callison-Burch: Feasibility of human-in-the-loop minimum error rate training. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.52-61. [PDF, 321KB]

(2008) Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Jorge Civera, Francisco Casacuberta, Enrique Vidal, & Hieu Hoang: Improving interactive machine translation via mouse actions. EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.485-494. [PDF, 148KB]

(2008) Mark Seligman & Mike Dillinger: Rapid portability among domains in an interactive spoken language translation system. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications, 23 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.40-47. [PDF, 129KB]

(2007) Ignacio Garcia: Power shifts in web-based translation memory [abstract]. Machine Translation 21 (1), March 2007; pp.55-68.

(2007) Behrang Mohit & Rebecca Hwa: Localization of difficult-to-translate phrases.  ACL 2007: proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 23, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 248-255 [PDF, 117KB]

(2007) Young-Ae Seo, Chang-Hyun Kim, Seong-Il Yang, & Young-gil Kim: Getting professional translation through user interaction. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.413-419 [PDF, 479KB]

(2006) Fırat Açıkgöz & Olcay Sert: Interlingual machine translation: prospects and setbacks. Translation Journal 10 (3), July 2006; 10pp. [PDF, 258KB]

(2006) Jorge Civera, Antonio L. Lagarda, Elsa Cubel, Francisco Casacuberta, Enrique Vidal, Juan M. Vilar, & Sergio Barrachina: A computer-assisted translation tool based on finite-state technology. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.33-40 [PDF, 139KB]

(2006) Paul Clough, Julio Gonzalo, & Jussi Karlgren: Multilingual interactive experiments with Flickr.  EACL-2006: Proceedings of the Workshop on New Text: Wikis and blogs and other dynamic text sources, April 4, 2006, Trento, Italy; pp.70-73. [PDF, 450KB]

(2006) Mike Dillinger & Mark Seligman: ConverserTM : highly interactive speech-to-speech translation for healthcare.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the  Workshop on Medical Speech Translation, 9 June 2006, New York, NY, USA; pp.40-43 [PDF, 71KB]

(2006) Saša Hasan, Shahram Khadivi, Richard Zens, & Hermann Ney: A flexible architecture for CAT applications. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.81-88 [PDF, 160KB]

(2006) Marcus Sammer, Kobi Reiter, Stephen Soderland, Katrin Kirchhoff & Oren Etzioni: Ambiguity reduction for machine translation: human-computer collaboration.  AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.193-202 [PDF, 247KB]

(2006) Mark Seligman & Mike Dillinger: Usability issues in an interactive speech-to-speech translation system for healthcare. HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the  Workshop on Medical Speech Translation, 9 June 2006, New York, NY, USA; pp.1-8 [PDF, 288KB]

(2006) Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang & John Lee: Combining linguistic and statistical methods for bi-directional English Chinese translation in the flight domain. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.213-222 [PDF, 152KB]

(2006) Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Richard Schwartz, Linnea Micciulla, & John Makhoul: A study of translation edit rate with targeted human annotation.  AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.223-231 [PDF, 185KB]

(2006) Jesús Tomás & Francisco Casacuberta: Statistical phrase-based models for interactive computer-assisted translation.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, July 2006; pp.835-841. [PDF, 358KB]

(2005) Igor M.Boguslavsky, Leonid L.Iomdin & Victor G.Sizov: Interactive enconversion by means of the Etap-3 system. In: Jesús Cardeńosa, Alexander Gelbukh, Edmundo Tovar (eds.): Universal Networking Language: advances in theory and applications (Mexico City: National Polytechnic Institute); pp.230-240 [abstract, PDF, 72KB]

(2005) Christian Boitet: Gradable quality translations through mutualisation of human translation and revision, and UNL-based MT and coedition. In: Jesús Cardeńosa, Alexander Gelbukh, Edmundo Tovar (eds.): Universal Networking Language: advances in theory and applications (Mexico City: National Polytechnic Institute); pp.395-412 [abstract, PDF, 41KB]

(2005) Christoph Neumann: A human-aided machine translation system for Japanese-English patent translation MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Patent Translation; pp.1-7. [PDF, 139KB]

(2005) Svetlana Sheremetyeva: Embedding MT for generating patent claims in English from a multilingual interface MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Patent Translation; pp.8-15. [PDF, 883KB]

(2005) Shoichi Yokoyama & Yuya Kaneda: Classification of modified relationships in Japanese patent sentences MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Patent Translation; pp.16-20. [PDF, 156KB]

(2005) Oliver Bender, Saša Hasan, David Vilar, Richard Zens, & Hermann Ney: Comparison of generation strategies for interactive machine translation. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 33-40. [PDF, 83KB]

(2005) Ariadna Font Llitjós, Jaime G. Carbonell, & Alon Lavie: A framework for interactive and automatic refinement of transfer-based machine translation. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 87-96. [PDF, 468KB]

(2005) Constantin Orasan, Ted Marshall, Robert Clark, Le An Ha, & Ruslan Mitkov: Building a WSD module within an MT system to enable interactive resolution in the user's source language. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 205-211. [PDF, 67KB]

(2005) Nicola Ueffing & Hermann Ney: Application of word-level confidence measures in interactive statistical machine translation. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 262-270. [PDF, 173KB]

Interlingua methods

(2009) Manny Rayner, Paula Estrella, Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi & Yukie Nakao: Using artificial data to compare the difficulty of using statistical machine translation in different language-pairs. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.300-307. [PDF, 169KB]

(2009) Khaled Shaalan, Azza Abdel Monem & Ahmed Rafea: Syntactic generation of Arabic in interlingua-based machine translation framework. CAASL-3 – Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages [at] MT Summit XII, August 26, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 8pp. [PDF, 574KB]

(2008) Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Yukie Nakao, Kyoko Kanzaki, Hitoshi Isahara, Nikos Tsourakis, Marianne Starlander, Beth Ann Hockey, & Manny Rayner: Developing non-European translation pairs in a medium-vocabulary medical speech translation system. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 8pp. [PDF, 122KB]

(2008) Pierrette Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Maria Georgescul, Sonia Halimi, Beth Ann Hockey, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Yukie Nakao, Manny Rayner, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander, & Nikos Tsourakis: Many-to-many multilingual medical speech translation on a PDA. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.314-323. [PDF, 666KB]

(2008) Denis Maurel: Prolexbase: a multilingual relational lexical database of proper names. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 5pp. [PDF, 145KB]

(2008) Rada Mihalcea & Chee Wee Leong: Toward communicating simple sentences using pictorial representations [abstract].  Machine Translation 22 (3), September 2008; pp.153-173.

(2008) Rajat Kumar Mohanty & Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Lexical resources for semantic extraction.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 5pp. [PDF, 148KB]

(2008) Rajat Mohanty, Sandeep Limaye, M.Krishna, & Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Semantic graph from English sentences. ICON-2008: 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, CDAC Pune, India, 20-22 December 2008; 10pp. [PDF, 173KB]

(2008) Azza Abdel Monem, Khaled Shaalan, Ahmed Rafea, & Hoda Baraka: Generating Arabic text in multilingual speech-to-speech machine translation framework [abstract]. Machine Translation 22 (4), December 2008; pp.205-258.

(2008) Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Beth Ann Hockey, & Yukie Nakao: Almost flat functional semantics for speech translation.  Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.713-720. [PDF, 96KB]

(2008) Yushi Xu & Stephanie Seneff: Two-stage translation: a combined linguistic and statistical machine translation framework. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.222-231 [PDF, 671B]

(2007) Rajat Kumar Mohanty, M. Krishna Prasad, Lakshmi Narayanaswamy, & Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Semantically relatable sequences in the context of interlingua based machine translation. ICON-2007: 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, IIIT Hyderabad, India, 4-6 January 2007; 8pp. [PDF, 925KB]

(2007) Caroline Lavecchia, Kamel Smaďli, & David Langlois: Building a bilingual dictionary from movie subtitles based on inter-lingual triggers. Translating and the Computer 29. Proceedings of the twenty-ninth international conference on Translating and the Computer, 29-30 November 2007 (London: Aslib, 2007); 19pp. [PDF, 139KB]

(2007) Smriti Singh, Mrugank Dalal, Vishal Vachhani, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, & Om P.Damani: Hindi generation from interlingua. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.421-428 [PDF, 206KB]

(2006) Iván Guzmán de Rojas: Experience with language implementations in ATAMIRI. Presented at the Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet, International Centre of Geneva, 9-11 May 2006; 7pp. [PDF, 61KB]

(2006) Nizar Habash, Clinton Mah, Sabiha Imran, Randy Calistri-Yeh, & Páraic Sheridan: Design, construction and validation of an Arabic-English conceptual interlingua for cross-lingual information retrieval. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.107-112 [PDF, 408KB]

(2006) Janna Khegai: Grammatical framework (GF) for MT in sublanguage domains. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.95-104 [PDF, 252KB]

(2006) Owen Rambow, Bonnie Dorr, David Farwell, Rebecca Green, Nizar Habash, Stephen Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Lori Levin, Keith J.Miller, Teruko Mitamura, Florence Reeder, & Advaith Siddharthan: Parallel syntactic annotation of multiple languages.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.559-564 [PDF, 286KB]

(2006) Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang & John Lee: Combining linguistic and statistical methods for bi-directional English Chinese translation in the flight domain. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.213-222 [PDF, 152KB]

(2006) Stephanie Seneff: Combining interlingua with SMT (contribution to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 109KB]

(2006) Khaled Shaalan, Azza Abdel Monem, Ahmed Rafea, & Hoda Baraka: Mapping interlingua representations to feature structures of Arabic sentences. The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT. International conference at the British Computer Society, London, 23 October 2006; pp.149-159. [PDF,278KB]

(2006) Chao Wang & Stephanie Seneff: High-quality speech translation in the flight domain. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1135; abstract [PDF, 72KB]

(2006) Toon Witkam: History and heritage of the DLT (Distributed Language Technology) project. [Utrecht: private publication, 2006]. 11pp. [PDF, 170KB]

(2005) Jesús Cardeńosa, Alexander Gelbukh, Edmundo Tovar (eds.): Universal Networking Language: advances in theory and applications (Research on Computing Science, 12). Mexico City: National Polytechnic Institute; 443pp. [full set of abstracts]

(2005) Mike Dillinger: Interlinguas and semantic roles. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 12, 2005, Tutorial Note. [PDF of PPT presentation, 1945KB]

(2005) Udo Hahn, Kornél Markó, & Stefan Schulz: Subword clusters as light-weight interlingua for multilingual document retrieval. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.17-24. [PDF, 143KB]

(2005) Huang Heyan: Research & development of multi-lingual machine translation and applications. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit: invited paper [PDF of PPT presentation, 550KB]

(2005) Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, & Stephen Beale: An NLP lexicon as a largely language-independent resource [abstract].  Machine Translation 19 (2), 2005; pp.139-173.

(2005) Rajat Kumar Mohanty, Anupama Dutta, & Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Semantically relatable sets: building blocks for representing semantics. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.101-108. [PDF, 157KB]

(2005) R. Mahesh K. Sinha: Integrating CAT and MT in AnglaBhart-II architecture. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 235-244. [PDF, 205KB]

Knowledge-based MT

(2005) Andreas Eisele: First steps towards multi-engine machine translation. ACL-2005: Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts – Data-driven machine translation and beyond, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 29-30 June 2005; pp. 155-158. [PDF, 43KB]

Multi-engine systems [see also Combination systems, Hybrid systems]

(2009) Yu Chen, Michael Jellinghaus, Andreas Eisele, Yi Zhang, Sabine Hunsicker, Silke Theison, Christian Federmann, & Hans Uszkoreit: Combining multi-engine translations with Moses.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.42-46. [PDF, 100KB]

(2009) Jinhua Du, Yifan He, Sergio Penkale, & Andy Way: MaTrEx: the DCU MT system for WMT 2009.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.95-99. [PDF, 402KB]

(2009) Jinhua Du, Yanjun Ma & Andy Way: Source-side context-informed hypothesis alignment for combining outputs from machine translation systems. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.230-27. [PDF, 277KB]

(2009) José A.R.Fonollosa, Maxim Khalilov, Marta R.Costa-jussŕ, José B.Marińo, Carlos A. Henríquez Q., Adolfo Hernández H., & Rafael E.Banchs: The TALP-UPC phrase-based translation system for EACL-WMT 2009. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.85-89. [PDF, 393KB]

(2009) Philipp Koehn, Alexandra Birch & Ralf Steinberger: 462 machine translation systems for Europe. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 65-72. [PDF, 204KB]

(2009) Maoxi Li, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou, & Chengqing Zong: The CASIA statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2009. IWSLT 2009: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, December 1-2, 2009; pp. 83-90. [PDF, 317KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 463KB]

(2009) Mu Li, Nan Duan, Dongdong Zhang, Chi-Ho Li, & Ming Zhou: Collaborative decoding: partial hypothesis re-ranking using translation consensus between decoders. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.585-592. [PDF, 354KB]

(2009) Yanjun Ma, Tsuyoshi Okita, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Jinhua Du, & Andy Way: Low-resource machine translation using MaTrEx: the DCU machine translation system for IWSLT 2009. IWSLT 2009: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, December 1-2, 2009; pp. 29-36. [PDF, 305KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 466KB]

(2009) Evgeny Matusov, Gregor Leusch, & Hermann Ney: Learning to combine machine translation systems.  In: Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman, & George Foster (eds.) Learning machine translation. (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2009); pp.257-276.

(2009) Jong-Hoon Oh, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, & Kentaro Torisawa: Machine transliteration using target-language grapheme and phoneme: multi-engine transliteration approach. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 7 August 2009; pp.36-39. [PDF, 92KB]

(2009) Antti-Veikko I.Rosti, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas, & Richard Schwartz: Incremental hypothesis alignment with flexible matching for building confusion networks: BBN system description for WMT09 system combination task. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.61-65. [PDF, 115KB]

(2009) Josh Schroeder, Trevor Cohn, & Philipp Koehn: Word lattices for multi-source translation.  EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.719-727. [PDF, 214KB]

(2009) Gregor Thurmair: Comparing different architectures of hybrid machine translation systems. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.340-347. [PDF, 167KB]

(2008) I.Alegria, A.Casillas, A.Diaz de Ilarraza, J.Igartua, G.Labaka, M.Lersundi, A.Mayor, K.Sarasola, X.Saralegi, & B.Laskurain: Mixing approaches to MT for Basque: selecting the best output from RBMT, EBMT and SMT. MATMT 2008: Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation, Donostia-San Sebastian [Spain], February 14th 2008: Proceedings; pp. 27-34. [PDF, 357KB]

(2008) Ińaki Alegria, Arantza Casillas, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Jon Igartua, Gorka Labaka, Mikel Lersundi, Aingeru Mayor, & Kepa Sarasola: Spanish-to-Basque multiengine machine translation for a restricted domain. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.37-45. [PDF, 575KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Hybrid machine translation architectures within and beyond the EuroMatrix project. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.27-34. [PDF, 552KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Hybrid architectures for multi-engine machine translation. Translating and the Computer 30, 27-28 November 2008, London; 12pp. [PDF, 170KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hervé Saint-Amand, Michael Jellinghaus, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Using Moses to integrate multiple rule-based machine translation engines into a hybrid system. ACL-08: HLT. Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings, June 19, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (ACL WMT-08); pp.179-182. [PDF, 90KB]

(2008) Xiaodong He, Mei Yang, Jianfeng Gao, Patrick Nguyen, & Robert Moore: Indirect HMM-based hypothesis alignment for combining outputs from machine translation systems.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.98-107. [PDF, 280KB]

(2008) Almut Silja Hildebrand & Stephan Vogel: Combination of machine translation systems via hypothesis selection from combined n-best lists. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.254-261 [PDF, 681KB]

(2008) Youssef Kadri & Jian-Yun Nie: A comparative study for query translation using linear combination and confidence measure. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.181-188. [PDF, 429KB]

(2008) Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas, & Richard Schwartz: Incremental hypothesis alignment for building confusion networks with application to machine translation system combination. ACL-08: HLT. Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings, June 19, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (ACL WMT-08); pp.183-186. [PDF, 61KB]

(2008) Simon Zwarts & Mark Dras: Choosing the right translation: a syntactically informed classification approach. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.1153-1160. [PDF, 194KB]

(2007) Yu Chen, Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Eva Hasler, Michael Jellinghaus, & Silke Theison: Multi-engine machine translation with an open-source decoder for statistical machine translation.  ACL 2007: proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 23, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 193-196 [PDF, 96KB]

(2007) Fei Huang & Kishore Papineni: Hierarchical system combination for machine translation. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 277-286. [PDF, 158KB]

(2007) Wolfgang Macherey & Franz Josef Och: An empirical study on computing consensus translations from multiple machine translation systems. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 986-995. [PDF, 169KB]

(2007) Jong-Hoon Oh & Hitoshi Isahara: Machine transliteration using multiple transliteration engines and hypothesis re-ranking. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.353-360 [PDF, 253KB]

(2007) Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Spyros Matsoukas, & Richard Schwartz: Improved word-level system combination for machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 312-319 [PDF, 135KB]

(2007) Antti-Veikko I.Rosti, Necip Fazil Ayan, Bing Xiang, Spyros Matsoukas, Richard Schwartz, & Bonnie J.Dorr: Combining outputs from multiple machine translation systems. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.228-235 [PDF, 129KB]

(2006) Evgeny Matusov, Nicola Ueffing, & Hermann Ney: Computing consensus translation from multiple machine translation systems using enhanced hypotheses alignment. EACL-2006: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, April 3-7, 2006; pp.33-40 [PDF, 91KB]

(2006) Bart Mellebeek, Karolina Owczarzak, Josef Van Genabith & Andy Way: Multi-engine machine translation by recursive sentence decomposition. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.110-118 [PDF, 145KB]

(2006) Michael Paul & Eiichiro Sumita: Exploiting variant corpora for machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 113-116 [PDF, 86KB]

(2005) Andreas Eisele: First steps towards multi-engine machine translation. ACL-2005: Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts – Data-driven machine translation and beyond, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 29-30 June 2005; pp. 155-158. [PDF, 43KB]

(2005) Shyamsundar Jayaraman & Alon Lavie: Multi-engine machine translation guided by explicit word matching.  ACL-2005: Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 2005; pp. 101-104. [PDF, 117KB]

(2005) Michael Paul, Eiichiro Sumita, & Seiichi Yamamoto: A machine learning approach to hypotheses selection of greedy decoding for SMT MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Second Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation; pp.117-124. [PDF, 424KB]

(2005) Menno van Zaanen & Harold Somers: DEMOCRAT: deciding between multiple outputs created by automatic translation. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.173-180. [PDF, 2578KB]

(2005) Shyamsundar Jayaraman & Alon Lavie: Multi-engine machine translation guided by explicit word matching. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 143-152. [PDF, 63KB]

Multilingual systems

(2009) Marianna Apidianaki: Data-driven semantic analysis for multilingual WSD and lexical selection in translation.  EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.77-85. [PDF, 364KB]

(2009) Anders Björkelund, Love Hafdell, & Pierre Nugues: Multilingual semantic role labeling.  CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.43-48. [PDF, 313KB]

(2009) Wanxiang Che, Zhenghua Li, Yongqiang Li, Yuhang Guo, Bing Qin, & Ting Liu: Multingual dependency-based syntactic and semantic parsing. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.49-54. [PDF, 633KB]

(2009) Andrea Gesmundo, James Henderson, Paola Merlo, & Ivan Titov: A latent variable model of synchronous syntactic-semantic parsing for multiple languages. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.37-42. [PDF, 120KB]

(2009) Gholamreza Haffari & Anoop Sarkar: Active learning for multlingual statistical machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.181-189. [PDF, 243KB]

(2009) Jan Hajič, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Richard Johansson, Daisuke Kawahara, Maria Antňnia Marti, Lluís Mŕrquez, Adam Meyers, Joakim Nivre, Sebastian Padó, Jan Štěpánek, Pavel Straňák, Mihai Surdeanu, Nainwen Xue, & Yi Zhang: The CoNLL-2009 Shared task: syntactic and semantic dependencies in multiple languages. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.1-18. [PDF, 220KB]

(2009) Chiori Hori, Sakriani Sakti, Michael Paul, Noriyuki Kimura, Yutaka Ashikari, Ryosuke Isotani, Eiichiro Sumita, & Satoshi Nakamura: Network-based speech-to-speech translation. IWSLT 2009: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, December 1-2, 2009; p. 168. [PDF, 286KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 485KB]

(2009) Mitesh M.Khapra, Sapan Shah, Piyush Kedia, & Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Projecting parameters for multilingual word sense disambiguation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.459-467. [PDF, 670KB]

(2009) A.Kumaran, K.Saravanan, Naren Datha, B.Ashok, & Vikram Dendi: WikiBABEL: a Wiki-style platform for creation of parallel data. Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Sofware Demonstrations, Suntec, Singapore, 3 August 2009; pp.29-32. [PDF, 769KB]

(2009) Adrien Lardilleux & Yves Lepage: Sampling-based multilingual alignment. [RANLP 2009] International conference: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Proceedings ed. Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov, Nikolai Nikolov, Borovets, Bulgaria, 14-16 September 2009; pp. 214-218. [PDF, 210KB]

(2009) Lianhau Lee, Aiti Aw, Thuy Vu, Sharifah Aljunied Mahani, Min Zhang, & Haizhou Li: MARS: multilingual access and retrieval system with enhanced query translation and document retrieval. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Software Demonstrations, Suntec, Singapore, 3 August 2009; pp.21-24. [PDF, 324KB]

(2009) Baoli Li, Martin Emms, Saturnino Luz, & Carl Vogel: Exploring multilingual semantic role labeling. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.73-78. [PDF, 140KB]

(2009) Kathleen McKeown: Query-focused summarization using text-to-text generation: when information comes from multilingual sources. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 6 August 2009; p.3. [PDF, 33KB]

(2009) Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, & Charles Nicholas: Translation corpus source and size in bilingual retrieval. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.25-28. [PDF, 177KB]

(2009) Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S.Weld, Michael Skinner & Jeff Bilmes: Compiling a massive, multilingual dictionary via probabilistic inference. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.262-270. [PDF, 704KB}

(2009) Ivan Meza-Ruiz & Sebastian Riedel: Multilingual semantic role labelling with Markov logic. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.85-90. [PDF, 150KB]

(2009) Roser Morante, Vincent Van Asch, & Antal van den Bosch: Joint memory-based learning of syntactic and semantic dependencies in multiple languages. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.25-30. [PDF, 108KB]

(2009) Karel Pala & Aleš Horák: Multilingual features of complex valency frames. (IIS-2009) Recent Advances in Intelligent Information Systems, ed. M.A.Klopotek, A. Przepiórkowski, S.T. Wierzchon, K. Trojanowski, Kraków, Poland, June 15-18, 2009; pp.41-49. [PDF, 145KB]

(2009) Bruno Pouliquen & Ralf Steinberger: Automatic construction of multilingual name dictionaries.  In: Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman, & George Foster (eds.) Learning machine translation. (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2009); pp.59-78.

(2009) Han Ren, Donghong Ji, Jing Wan, & Mingyao Zhang: Parsing syntactic and semantic dependencies for multiple languages with a pipeline approach. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.97-102. [PDF, 228KB]

(2009) Jan Rupnik: Multi-view CCA and regression CCA. SMART Workshop at EACL 2009, Barcelona, Spain, 13 May 2009. 26 slides. [PDF of PPT,2578KB]

(2009) Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, & Regina Barzilay: Unsupervised multilingual grammar induction. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.73-81. [PDF, 273KB]

(2009) Marianne Starlander & Paula Estrella: Relating recognition and translation quality with usability of two different versions of MedSLT. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.324-331. [PDF, 84KB]

(2009) Oscar Täckström: Multilingual semantic parsing with a pipeline of linear classifiers. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.103-108. [PDF, 103KB]

(2009) Yotaro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara, & Yuji Matsumoto: Multilingual syntactic-semantic dependency parsing with three-stage approximate max-margin linear models. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.103-108. [PDF, 727KB]

(2009) Eric Wehrli, Luka Nerima & Yves Scherrer: Deep linguistic multilingual translation and bilingual dictionaries.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.90-94. [PDF, 71KB]

(2009) Xiaohong Wu: Building a linguistic database for Chinese interrogative sentences.  ISMTCL: International Symposium on Data and Sense Mining, Machine Translation and Controlled Languages, and their application to emergencies and safety critical domains, July 1-3, 2009, Centre Tesničre, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France (Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2009); pp.260-268 [abstract]

(2009) Yi Zhang, Rui Wang, & Stephan Oepen: Hybrid multilingual parsing with HPSG for SRL. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.31-36. [PDF, 115KB]

(2009) Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen, Jun’ichi Kazama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, & Kentaro Torisawa: Multilingual dependency learning: exploiting rich features for tagging syntactic and semantic dependencies. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.61-66. [PDF, 364KB]

(2008) Sivaji Bandyopadhyay: Multilingual named entity recognition. IJCNLP 2008: Workshop on NER for South and South East Asian Languages, Proceedings of the workshop, 12 January 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.3-4. [PDF, 37KB]

(2008) Pierrette Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Maria Georgescul, Sonia Halimi, Beth Ann Hockey, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Yukie Nakao, Manny Rayner, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander, & Nikos Tsourakis: Many-to-many multilingual medical speech translation on a PDA. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.314-323. [PDF, 666KB]

(2008) Peter A. Chew & Ahmed Abdelali: The effects of language relatedness on multilingual information retrieval: a case study with Indo-European and Semitic languages. IJCNLP 2008: 2nd International Workshop on Cross-Lingual Information Access (CLIA) Proceedings of the workshop, 11 January 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.1-9. [PDF, 196KB]

(2008) Mohammad Daoud, Asanobu Kitamoto, Christian Boitet, & Mathieu Mangeot: CLIR-based collaborative construction of a multilingual terminological dictionary for cultural resources. Translating and the Computer 30, 27-28 November 2008, London; 15pp. [PDF, 516KB]

(2008) Yo Ehara & Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii: Multilingual text entry using automatic language detection. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.441-448. [PDF, 428KB]

(2008) Mohamad Ali Honarpisheh, Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani, & Ghassem Mirroshandel: A multi-document multi-lingual automatic summarization system. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.733-738. [PDF, 320KB]

(2008) Louis-Philippe Huberdeau, Sébastien Paquet, & Alain Désilets: The cross-lingual wiki engine: enabling collaboration across language barriers. Proc. WikiSym 2008, Sept.8-10, Porto, Portugal; 14pp. [PDF, 364KB]

(2008) Gareth J.F.Jones, Fabio Fantino, Eamonn Newman, & Ying Zhang: Domain-specific query translation for multilingual information access using machine translation augmented with dictionaries mined from Wikipedia. IJCNLP 2008: 2nd International Workshop on Cross-Lingual Information Access (CLIA) Proceedings of the workshop, 11 January 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.34-41. [PDF, 401KB]

(2008) Gerhard Kremer, Andrea Abel, & Marco Baroni: Cognitively salient relations for multilingual lexicography. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, 24 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.94-101. [PDF, 84KB]

(2008) Simon Mille & Leo Wanner: Multilingual summarization in practice: the case of patent claims. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.120-129. [PDF, 602KB]

(2008) Rajat Kumar Mohanty, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Sraddha Kalele, Prabhakar Pandey, Adita Sharma, & Mitesh Kopra: Synset based multilingual dictionary: insights, applications and challenges. GWC-2008: the Fourth Global WordNet conference, Szeged, Hungary, January 22-25, 2008; pp. 321-332. [PDF, 1245KB]

(2008) Carol Peters, Martin Braschler, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo, & Mark Sanderson: From research to application in multilingual information access: the contribution of evaluation.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 4pp. [PDF, 55KB]

(2008) Alexander E. Richman & Patrick Schone: Mining Wiki resources for multilingual named entity recognition. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 1-9. [PDF, 134KB]

(2008) Marianne Santaholma: Multilingual grammar resources in multilingual application development. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar Engineerings across Frameworks, 24 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.25-32. [PDF, 108KB]

(2008) Lane Schwartz: Multi-source translation methods. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.279-288 [PDF, 650KB]

(2008) Benjamin Snyder & Regina Barzilay: Unsupervised multilingual learning for morphological segmentation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 737-745. [PDF, 254KB]

(2008) Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Kergrit Robkop, & Hitoshi Isahara: KUI: self-organizing multi-lingual WordNet construction tool. GWC-2008: the Fourth Global WordNet conference, Szeged, Hungary, January 22-25, 2008; pp. 419-427. [PDF, 814KB]

(2008) Harshit Surana & Anil Kumar Singh: A more diserning and adaptable multilingual transliteration mechanism for Indian languages. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.64-71. [PDF, 393KB]

(2007) Eelco Mossel: Cross-lingual ontology-based document retrieval.  RANLP-2007: Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation for eLearning Environments, September 26th, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.  8pp. [PDF, 340KB]

(2007) Joakim Nivre: Data-driven dependency parsing across languages and domains: perspectives from the CoNLL 2007 Shared Task. IWPT 2007: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, June 23-24, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp.168-170. [PDF, 69KB]

(2007) Alicia Pérez, M.Inés Torres, M.Teresa González, & Francisco Casacuberta: Speech-input multi-target machine translation.  ACL 2007: proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 23, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 56-63 [PDF, 208KB]

(2007) Alicia Pérez, M.Inés Torres, M.Teresa González, & Francisco Casacuberta: An integrated architecture for speech-input multi-target machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.133-136 [PDF, 130KB]

(2007) Alla Rozovskaya & Richard Sproat: Multilingual word sense disambiguation: a comparative cross-linguistic study. ACL 2007: Proceedings of the Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing, June 29, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp.82-87. [PDF, 122KB]

(2007) Svetlana Sheremetyeva: On portability of resources for a quick ramp up of multilingual MT of patent claims. MT Summit XI Workshop on patent translation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.28-33. [PDF, 66KB]

(2007) Eric Wehrli: Fips, a “deep” linguistic multilingual parser. ACL 2007: proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, 28 June 2007; pp.120-127 [PDF, 102KB]

(2006) Giuseppe Attardi: Experiments with a multilanguage non-projective dependency parser. CoNLL-X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, New York City, June 2006; pp.166-170. [PDF, 104KB]

(2006) Sabine Buchholz & Erwin Marsi: CoNLL-X shared task on multilingual dependency parsing. CoNLL-X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, New York City, June 2006; pp.149-164. [PDF, 158KB]

(2006) Roldano Cattoni, Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, Boxing Chen, & Marcello Federico: A web-based demonstrator of a multi-lingual phrase-based translation system. EACL-2006: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Posters and demonstrations, Trento, Italy, April 5-6, 2006; pp.91-94 [PDF, 184KB]

(2006) Yuchang Cheng, Masayuki Asahara & Yuji Matsumoto: Multi-lingual dependency parsing at NAIST.  CoNLL-X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, New York City, June 2006; pp.191-195. [PDF, 192KB]

(2006) David Dinh, Dennis Chan & Jack Chen: A multi-lingual decision support prototype for the medical domain.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the  Workshop on Medical Speech Translation, 9 June 2006, New York, NY, USA; pp.53-56 [PDF, 247KB]

(2006) Iván Guzmán de Rojas: Experience with language implementations in ATAMIRI. Presented at the Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet, International Centre of Geneva, 9-11 May 2006; 7pp. [PDF, 61KB]

(2006) Richard Johansson & Pierre Nugues: Investigating multilingual dependency parsing. CoNLL-X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, New York City, June 2006; pp.206-210. [PDF, 75KB]

(2006) Ryan McDonald, Kevin Lerman, & Fernando Pereira: Multilingual dependency analysis with a two-stage discriminative parser. CoNLL-X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, New York City, June 2006; pp.216-220. [PDF, 79KB]

(2006) Maite Melero, Antoni Oliver, & Toni Badia: Automatic multilingual subtitling in the eTITLE project. Translating and the Computer 28: proceedings of the Twenty-eighth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 16-17 November 2006, London. (London: Aslib, 2006); 18pp. [PDF, 149KB]

(2006) Sebastian Riedel, Ruket Ҫakıcı, & Ivan Meza-Ruiz: Multi-lingual dependency parsing with incremental integer linear programming. CoNLL-X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, New York City, June 2006; pp.226-230. [PDF, 72KB]

(2006) Violeta Seretan & Eric Wehrli: Accurate collocation extraction using a multilingual parser. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.953-960. [PDF, 168KB]

(2006) Tohru Shimizu, Yutaka Ashikari, Eiichiro Sumita, Hideki Kashioka, & Satoshi Nakamura: Development of client-server speech translation system on a multi-lingual speech communication platform. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 213-216 [PDF, 215KB]

(2006) Lucia Specia, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Mark Stevenson, & Gabriela Castelo Branco Ribeiro: Multilingual versus monolingual WSD. EACL-2006: Proceedings of the Workshop on Making Sense of Sense: Bringing Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics Together, April 4, 2006, Trento, Italy; pp.33-40. [PDF, 116KB]

(2005) Najeh Hajlaoui & Christian Boitet: A “pivot” XML-based architecture for multilingual, multiversion documents: parallel monolingual documents aligned through a central correspondence descriptor and possible use of UNL. In: Jesús Cardeńosa, Alexander Gelbukh, Edmundo Tovar (eds.): Universal Networking Language: advances in theory and applications (Mexico City: National Polytechnic Institute); pp.309-325 [abstract, PDF, 85KB]

(2005) Huang Heyan: Research & development of multi-lingual machine translation and applications. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit: invited paper [PDF of PPT presentation, 550KB

(2005) Sophie Vandeputte: Multilingual websites: the European Schoolnet’s approach. In: Pascaline Merten (ed.) La traduction ŕ l’heure de la localisation: outils, méthodes et formation. Equivalences no.32/1, 2005; pp. 79-91. [PDF, 140KB]

Pattern matching methods (see also Example-based methods, Learning and training)

(2009) Tatiana Gornostay & Inguna Skadiņa: English-Latvian toponym processing: translation strategies and linguistic patterns. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.81-87. [PDF, 266KB]

(2009) Declan Groves & Dag Schmidtke: Identification and analysis of post-editing patterns for MT. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 429-436. [PDF, 304KB]

(2009) Gonzalo Iglesias, Adriŕ de Gispert, Eduardo R.Banga & William Byrne: Rule filtering by pattern for efficient hierarchical translation. EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.380-388. [PDF, 109KB]

(2009) Long Jiang, Shiquan Yang, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu, & Qingsheng Zhu: Mining bilingual data from the web with adaptively learnt patterns. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.870-878. [PDF, 306KB]

(2009) Jin’ichi Murakami, Masato Tokuhisa, & Satoru Ikehara: Statistical machine translation adding pattern-based machine translation in Chinese-English translation. IWSLT 2009: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, December 1-2, 2009; pp. 107-112. [PDF, 317KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 75KB]

(2009) Sina Zarrieß & Jonas Kuhn: Exploiting translational correspondences for pattern-independent MWE identification.  [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Multiword Expressions, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 6 August 2009; pp.23-30. [PDF, 132KB]

(2008) Takehashi Abekawa & Kyo Kageura: Constructing a corpus that indicates patterns of modification between draft and final translations by human translators. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 6pp. [PDF, 65KB]

(2008) Takeshi Abekawa & Kyo Kageura: What prompts translators to modify draft translations? An anlysis of basic modification patterns for use in the automatic notification of awkwardly translated text. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.241-248. [PDF, 393KB]

(2008) Adam David Lopez: Machine translation by pattern matching. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. 138pp. [PDF, 1171KB]

(2008) Adam Lopez: Tera-scale translation models via pattern matching. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.505-512. [PDF, 86KB]

(2008) Adam Lopez: Translation by pattern matching. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 109 slides. [PDF, 174KB]

(2008) Yu-Chun Wang, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, & Wen-Lian Hsu: Learning patterns from the web to translate named entities for cross language information retrieval.  IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.281-288. [PDF, 464KB]

(2008) Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu, & Sheng Li: Pivot approach for extracting paraphrase patterns from bilingual corpora. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 780-788. [PDF, 188KB]

(2007) Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Vassiliki Spilioti, Marina Vassiliou, & Olga Yannoutsou: An MT system embedding pattern knowledge.  METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 11 January 2007; 8pp. [PDF, 195KB]

(2007) Dong Zhou, Mark Truran, Tim Brailsford & Helen Ashman: NTCIR-6 experiments using pattern matched translation extraction. Proceedings of NTCIR-6 Workshop Meeting, May 15-18, 2007, Tokyo, Japan; pp.145-151. [PDF, 130KB]

(2006) Josep M. Crego, Adriŕ de Gispert, Patrik Lambert, Marta R. Costa-jussŕ, Maxim Khalilov, Rafael E.Banchs, José B.Marińo, & José A.R.Fonollosa: N-gram-based SMT system enhanced with reordering patterns.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 162-165 [PDF, 209KB]

(2006) Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Vassiliki Spilioti, George Tambouratzis, Marina Vassiliou, & Olga Yannoutsou: Using patterns for machine translation. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.239-245 [PDF, 237KB]

(2006) Hitomi Tohyama & Shigeki Matsubara: Collection of simultaneous interpreting patterns by using bilingual spoken monologue corpus. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.2564-2569 [PDF, 552KB]

(2005) Niladri Chatterjee, Shailly Goyal, Anjali Naithani: Resolving pattern ambiguity for English to Hindi machine translation using WordNet. International workshop: Modern approaches in translation technologies, Borovets, Bulgaria, 24 September 2005; p.18-25 [PDF, 245KB]

(2005) Mickel Grönroos & Ari Becks: Bringing intelligence to translation memory technology. Translating and the Computer 27: proceedings of the Twenty-seventh International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 24-25 November 2005, London. (London: Aslib, 2005); 11pp. [PDF, 80KB]

(2005) Christina Lioma & Iadh Ounis: Deploying part-of-speech patterns to enhance statistical phrase-based machine translation resources.  ACL-2005: Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts – Data-driven machine translation and beyond, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 29-30 June 2005; pp. 163-166. [PDF, 118KB]

(2005) Adam Lopez & Philip Resnik: Pattern visualization for machine translation output.  HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; Demonstration abstracts, pp. 12-13. [PDF, 160KB]

(2005) R. Mahesh K. Sinha & Anil Thakur: Divergence patterns in machine translation between Hindi and English. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.346-353. [PDF, 288KB]

(2005) Miki Sasaki & Toshiki Murata: A pattern-based machine translation system - Yakushite Net MT engine. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 7pp. [PDF, 112KB]

Pivot language systems

(2009) Yu Chen, Martin Kay, & Andreas Eisele: Intersecting multilingual data for faster and better statistical translations.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.128-136. [PDF, 159KB]

(2009) Nizar Habash & Jun Hu: Improving Arabic-Chinese statistical machine translation using English as pivot language. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.173-181. [PDF, 265KB]

(2009) Philipp Koehn, Alexandra Birch & Ralf Steinberger: 462 machine translation systems for Europe. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 65-72. [PDF, 204KB]

(2009) Yuval Marton, Chris Callison-Burch, & Philip Resnik: Improved statistical machine translation using monolingually-derived paraphrases. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.381-390. [PDF, 160KB]

(2009) Michael Paul, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita, & Satoshi Nakamura: On the importance of pivot language selection for statistical machine translation.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.221-224. [PDF, 114KB]

(2009) Rie Tanaka, Yohei Murakami, & Toru Ishida: Context-based approach for pivot translation services. IJCAI-09: Twenty-first International Joint conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pasadena, Californai, USA, 11-17 July 2009; pp.1555-1561. [PDF, 505KB]

(2009) Varga István & Yokoyama Shoichi: Bilingual dictionary generation for low-resourced language pairs. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.862-870. [PDF, 199KB]

(2009) Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang: Revisiting pivot language approach for machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.154-162. [PDF, 459KB]

(2008) see IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA.

(2008) Nicola Bertoldi, Madalina Barbaiani, Marcello Federico, & Roldano Cattoni: Phrase-based statistical machine translation with pivot languages.  IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA; pp.143-149 [PDF, 208KB]; presentation [PDF, 230KB]

(2008) Simon Carter, Christof Monz, & Sirvan Yahyaei: The QMUL system description for IWSLT 2008. IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA; pp.104-107. [PDF, 161KB]

(2008) Yu Chen, Andreas Eisele, & Martin Kay: Improving statistical machine translation efficiency by triangulation.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 6pp. [PDF, 122KB]

(2008) Maxim Khalilov, Maria R. Costa-jussŕ, Carlos A.Henríquez Q., José A.R.Fonollosa, Adolfo Hernández H., José B.Marińo, Rafael E. Banchs, Chen Boxing, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, & Haizhou Li: The TALP&I2R SMT systems for IWSLT 2008. IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA; pp.116-123 [PDF, 236KB]

(2008) Aurélien Max & Michael Zock: Looking up phrase rephrasings via a pivot language. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, 24 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.77-84. [PDF, 257KB]

(2008) Coşkun Mermer, Hamza Kaya, Ömer Farukhan Güneş, & Mehmet Uğur Doğan: The TÜBÍTAK-UEKAE statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2008. IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA; pp.138-142 [PDF, 239KB; presentation [PDF, 179KB]

(2008) Jessica Ramírez, Masayuki Asahara, & Yuji Matsumoto: Japanese-Spanish thesaurus construction using English as a pivot. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.473-480. [PDF, 787KB]

(2008) Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki, & Jun’ichi Tsujii: Building a bilingual lexicon using phrase-based statistical machine translation via a pivot language. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Posters and demonstrations, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.127-130. [PDF, 115KB]

(2008) Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki, & Jun’ichi Tsujii: Building bilingual lexicons using lexical translation probabilities via pivot languages. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 8pp. [PDF, 66KB]

(2008) Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Xiaoguang Hu, Zhanyi Liu, Jianfeng Li, Dengjun Ren, & Zhengyu Niu: The TCH machine translation system for IWSLT 2008. IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA; pp.124-131 [PDF, 242KB]; presentation [PDF, 135KB]

(2008) Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu, & Sheng Li: Pivot approach for extracting paraphrase patterns from bilingual corpora. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 780-788. [PDF, 188KB]

(2007) Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley, & Serge Sharoff: Translating from under-resourced languages: comparing direct transfer against pivot translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.29-35 [PDF, 197KB]

(2007) Trevor Cohn & Mirella Lapata: Machine translation by triangulation: making effective use of multi-parallel corpora. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 728-735 [PDF, 197KB]

(2007) Varga István & Yokoyama Shoichi: Japanese-Hungarian dictionary generation using ontology resources. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.483-490 [PDF, 167KB]

(2007) Vitaly Klyuev: OASIS at NTCIR-6: on-line query translation for Chinese-Japanese cross-lingual information retrieval. Proceedings of NTCIR-6 Workshop Meeting, May 15-18, 2007, Tokyo, Japan; pp.85-91. [PDF, 264KB]

(2007) Shankar Kumar, Franz Och, & Wolfgang Macherey: Improving word alignment with bridge languages. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 42-50. [PDF, 183KB]

(2007) Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Ayu Purwarianti, Toshiyuki Wakita, & Seiichi Nakagawa: Expanding Indonesian-Japanese small translation dictionary using a pivot language. ACL 2007: proceedings of demo and poster sessions, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 197-200 [PDF, 567KB]

(2007) Masao Utiyama & Hitoshi Isahara: A comparison of pivot methods for phrase-based statistical machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.484-491 [PDF, 495KB]

(2007) Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang: Pivot language approach for phrase-based statistical machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 856-863 [PDF, 205KB]

(2007) Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang: Pivot language approach for phrase-based statistical machine translation [abstract].  Machine Translation 21 (3), September 2007; pp.165-181.

(2006) Kisuh Ahn & Matthew Frampton: Automatic generation of translation dictionaries using intermediary languages. EACL-2006: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop, Trento, Italy, April 3, 2006; pp.41-44 [PDF, 278KB]

(2006) Andreas Eisele: Parallel corpora and phrase-based statistical machine translation for new language pairs via multiple intermediaries.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.845-848 [PDF, 329KB]

(2006) Adriŕ de Gispert & José B. Marińo: Catalan-English statistical machine translation without parallel corpus: bridging through Spanish.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.65-68. [PDF, 64KB]

(2005) Frederic C.Gey: How similar are Chinese and Japanese for cross-language information retrieval? Proceedings of NTCIR-5 Workshop Meeting, December 6-9, 2005, Tokyo, Japan; 4pp. [PDF, 343KB]

(2005) Kui-Lam Kwok, Sora Choi, Norbert Dinstl, & Peter Deng: NTCIR-5 Chinese, English, Korean cross-language retrieval experiments using PIRCS. Proceedings of NTCIR-5 Workshop Meeting, December 6-9, 2005, Tokyo, Japan; 8pp. [PDF, 455KB]

(2005) Tetsuji Nakagawa : NTCIR-5 CLIR experiments at Oki. Proceedings of NTCIR-5 Workshop Meeting, December 6-9, 2005, Tokyo, Japan; 6pp. [PDF, 303KB]

Proposed systems

(2009) Jaime Carbonell: New paradigms for machine translation. Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 35pp. [PDF of PPT, 462KB]

(2009) Hans Uszkoreit: Hybrid machine translation. Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 16pp. [PDF of PPT, 1407KB]

(2007) Hitoshi Isahara, Sadao Kurohashi, Jun’ichi Tsujii, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Kaji, & Shun’ichi Kikuchi: Development of a Japanese-Chinese machine translation system.  MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.263-267 [PDF, 161KB]

(2007) Philipp Koehn: EuroMatrix – machine translation for all European languages. Invited talk at MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; 33pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 478KB]

(2006) Evan Ratliff: Me translate pretty one day. Wired 14 (12), 2006; pp.210-213. [PDF, 32KB]

Rule-based methods (see also Interlingua methods, Transfer-based MT)

(2009) Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Francis M.Tyers (eds.): Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, 2-3 November 2009, Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Spain

(2009) Eneko Agirre, Aitziber Atutxa, Gorka Labaka, Mikel Lersundi, Aingeru Mayor, & Kepa Sarasola: Use of rich linguistic information to translate prepositions and grammatical cases to Basque. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.58-65. [PDF, 340KB]

(2009) Julia Aymerich & Hermes Camelo: The machine translation maturity model at PAHO. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 403-409. [PDF, 44KB]

(2009) Loic Dugast, Jean Senellart & Philipp Koehn: Selective addition of corpus-extracted phrasal lexical rules to a rule-based machine translation system. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.222-229. [PDF, 183KB]

 (2009) Raymond Flournoy & Christine Duran: Machine translation and document localization at Adobe: from pilot to production. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 425-428. [PDF, 123KB]

(2009) Daniel Grasmick: contribution to panel”Will there be a winner?” Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 3pp. [PDF of PPT, 402KB]

(2009) Maxim Khalilov & José A.R.Fonollosa: N-gram-based statistical machine translation versus syntax augmented machine translation: comparison and system combination.  EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.424-432. [PDF, 564KB]

(2009) Selçuk Köprü & Adnan Yazıcı: Lattice parsing to integrate speech recognition and rule-based machine translation.  EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.469-477. [PDF, 185KB]

 (2009) A.-L.Lagarda, V.Alabau, F.Casacuberta, R.Silva, & E.Díaz-de-Liańo: Statistical post-editing of a rule-based machine translation system. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.217-220. [PDF, 83KB]

(2009) Terence Lewis: Notes on a live demonstration [of the Trasy Dutch-English translation software]. Translating and the Computer 31, 19-20 November 2009, London; 7pp. [PDF, 362KB]

(2009) Jin’ichi Murakami, Masato Tokuhisa, & Satoru Ikehara: Statistical machine translation adding pattern-based machine translation in Chinese-English translation. IWSLT 2009: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, December 1-2, 2009; pp. 107-112. [PDF, 317KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 75KB]

(2009) Attila Novak: MorphoLogic’s submission for the WMT 2009 shared task.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.155-159. [PDF, 163KB]

(2009) Manny Rayner, Paula Estrella, Pierrette Bouillon, Beth Ann Hockey & Yukie Nakao: Using artificially generated data to evaluate statistical machine translation. ACL-IJCNLP 2009: Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2009), Proceedings of the workshop, 6 August 2009, Suntec, Singapore; pp.54-62. [PDF, 214KB]

(2009) Chakaveh Saedi, Mehrnoush Shamsfard, & Yasaman Motazedi: Automatic translation between English and Persian texts. CAASL-3 – Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages [at] MT Summit XII, August 26, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 8pp. [PDF, 1001KB]

(2009) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez & Mikel L.Forcada: Inferring shallow-transfer machine translation rules from small parallel corpora. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 34, pp. 605-635. [PDF, 706KB]

 (2009) Holger Schwenk, Sadaf Abdul-Rauf, Loďc Barrault, & Jean Senellart: SMT and SPE machine translation system for WMT’09.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.130-134. [PDF, 73KB]

(2009) Francis M.Tyers: Rule-based augmentation of training data in Breton-French statistical machine translation. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.213-217. [PDF , 227KB]

(2009) Francis M. Tyers & Kevin Donnelly: apertium-cy: a collaboratively-developed RBMT system for Welsh to English. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 91, 2009; pp.57-66. [PDF, 134KB]  [presentation at MT Marathon 2009, 1376KB]

(2009) Francis M.Tyers, Linda Wiechetek, & Trond Trosterud: Developing prototypes for machine translation between two Sámi languages. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.120-127. [PDF, 340KB]

(2009) Hans Uszkoreit: Hybrid machine translation. Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 16pp. [PDF of PPT, 1407KB]

(2009) Hans Uszkoreit: Will there be a winner? [contribution to panel]. Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 5pp. [PDF of PPT, 1626KB]

(2009) Eric Wehrli, Luka Nerima & Yves Scherrer: Deep linguistic multilingual translation and bilingual dictionaries.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.90-94. [PDF, 71KB]

(2009) Eric Wehrli, Violeta Seretan, Luka Nerima, & Lorenza Russo: Collocations in a rule-based MT system: a case study evaluation of their translation adequacy. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.128-135. [PDF, 375KB]

(2008) A.S.Andreyeva: Lexical-functional correspondences and their use in the system of machine translation ETAP-3. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, 24 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.64-72. [PDF,  164KB]

(2008) Prachya Boonkwan & Thepchai Supnithi: Memory-inductive categorical grammar: an approach to gap resolution in analytic-language translation. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.80-87. [PDF, 339KB]

(2008) Jonathan H. Clark, Robert Frederking, & Lori Levin: Inductive detection of language features via clustering minimal pairs: towards feature-rich grammars in machine translation.  Second ACL Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (ACL-08 SSST-2), Proceedings, 20 June 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp.78-86. [PDF, 246KB]

(2008) A. Diaz de Ilarraza, G. Labaka, & K. Sarasola: Statistical post-editing: a valuable method in domain adaptation of RBMT systems for less-resourced languages. MATMT 2008: Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation, Donostia-San Sebastian [Spain], February 14th 2008: Proceedings; pp. 35-40. [PDF, 364KB]

(2008) Loďc Dugast, Jean Senellart, & Philipp Koehn: Can we relearn an RBMT system? ACL-08: HLT. Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings, June 19, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (ACL WMT-08); pp.175-178. [PDF, 87KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele: Hybrid architectures for machine translation. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 29 slides. [PDF, 1167KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Hybrid machine translation architectures within and beyond the EuroMatrix project. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.27-34. [PDF, 552KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Hybrid architectures for multi-engine machine translation. Translating and the Computer 30, 27-28 November 2008, London; 12pp. [PDF, 170KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hervé Saint-Amand, Michael Jellinghaus, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Using Moses to integrate multiple rule-based machine translation engines into a hybrid system. ACL-08: HLT. Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings, June 19, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (ACL WMT-08); pp.179-182. [PDF, 90KB]

(2008) Petra Gieselmann: Architecture of the Lucy translation system. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 28 slides. [PDF, 225KB]

(2008) Petr Homola: A distributed database for mobile NLP applications. ACL-08: HLT. Workshop on Mobile Language Processing. Proceedings of the workshop, June 20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 27-28. [PDF, 71KB]

(2008) Tatsuya Izuha, Akira Kumano, & Yuka Kuroda: Toshiba rule-based machine translation system at NTCIR-7 PAT MT. Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 430-434. [PDF, 545KB]

(2008) Janne Bondi Johannessen, Torbjřrn Nordgĺrd, & Lars Nygaard: Evaluation of linguistics-based translation.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 7pp. [PDF, 249KB]

(2008) Brianna Laugher & Ben MacLeod: Machine translation for Indonesian and Tagalog. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.397-401. [PDF, 518KB]

(2008) Stephan Oepen: Grammar-based processing and re-usable hybrid MT – an experience report in the wilderness. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 32 slides. [PDF, 254KB]

(2008) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, & Mikel L.Forcada: Using target-language information to train part-of-speech taggers for machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 22 (1/2), March-June 2008; pp.29-66.

(2008) Nicola Ueffing, Jens Stephan, Evgeny Matusov, Loďc Dugast, George Foster, Roland Kuhn, Jean Senellart, & Jin Yang: Tighter integration of rule-based and statistical MT in serial system combination. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.913-920. [PDF, 205KB]

(2008) Clare R.Voss, Matthew Aguirre, Jeffrey Micher, Richard Chang, Jamal Laoudi, & Reginald Hobbs: Boosting performance of weak MT engines automatically: using MT output to align segments & build statistical post-editors. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.192-201. [PDF, 506KB]

(2007) Pierrette Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Marianne Starlander, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Marianne Santaholma, Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner, & Beth Ann Hockey: A bidirectional grammar-based medical speech translator. ACL 2007: Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar-based approaches to spoken language processing (SPEECHGRAM 2007), June 29, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp.41-48. [PDF, 216KB]

(2007) Loďc Dugast, Jean Senellart, & Philipp Koehn: Statistical post-editing on  SYSTRAN’s rule-based translation system.  ACL 2007: proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 23, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 220-223 [PDF, 128KB]

(2007) Yu Chen, Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Eva Hasler, Michael Jellinghaus, & Silke Theison: Multi-engine machine translation with an open-source decoder for statistical machine translation.  ACL 2007: proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 23, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 193-196 [PDF, 96KB]

(2007) Andreas Eisele: Hybrid machine translation: combining rule-based and statistical MT systems. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007; 36pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 777KB]

(2007) Eduard Hovy: Investigating why BLEU penalizes non-statistical systems. MT Summit XI Workshop: Automatic procedures in MT evaluation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, [Proceedings]; 10pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 265KB]

(2007) Xiaoguang Hu, Haifeng Wang, & Hua Wu: Using RBMT systems to produce bilingual corpus for SMT. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 287-295. [PDF, 131KB]

(2007) Pierre Isabelle, Cyril Goutte, & Michel Simard: Domain adaptation of MT systems through automatic post-editing.  MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.255-261 [PDF, 151KB]

(2007) Stephan Oepen, Erik Velldal, Jan Tore Lřnning, Paul Meurer, Victoria Rosén, & Dan Flickinger: Towards hybrid quality-oriented machine translation – on linguistics and probabilities in MT. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.144-153 [PDF, 328KB]

(2007) Anna Sĺgvall Hein: Rule-based and statistical machine translation with a focus on Swedish [abstract]. Invited talk at TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; 1p. [PDF, 15KB]

(2007) Michel Simard, Nicola Ueffing, Pierre Isabelle, & Roland Kuhn: Rule-based translation with statistical phrase-based post-editing. ACL 2007: proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 23, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 203-206 [PDF, 130KB]

(2007) Sylvain Surcin, Elke Lange, & Jean Senellart: Rapid development of new language pairs at SYSTRAN. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.443-449 [PDF, 114KB]

(2007) Ehara Terumasa: Rule based machine translation combined with statistical post editor for Japanese to English patent translation. MT Summit XI Workshop on patent translation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.13-18. [PDF, 355KB]

 (2007) Jernej Vicic: Rapid development of RBMT systems for related languages. Translating and the Computer 29. Proceedings of the twenty-ninth international conference on Translating and the Computer, 29-30 November 2007 (London: Aslib, 2007); 12pp. [PDF, 154KB]

(2006) Krzysztof Jassem & Kowalski Tomasz: An algorithm for extracting translation rules from scarce bilingual corpora. Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, vol.1: XXII Autumn Meeting of Polish Information Processing Society, November 6-10, 2006, Wisla, Poland; pp.67-73. [PDF, 368KB]

(2006) Gregor Thurmair: Using corpus information to improve MT quality. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Third International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research & Training (LR4Trans-III), Genoa, Italy, 28 May 2006; pp.45-48. [PDF, 371KB]

(2006) Jean Senellart & John S. White: First strategies for integrating hybrid approaches into established systems (contribution to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 68KB]

(2006) Jiang Zhu & Haifeng Wang: The effect of translation quality in MT-based cross-language information retrieval. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.593-600. [PDF, 110KB]

(2005) Zhu Jiang & Wang Haifeng: The effect of adding rules into the rule-based MT system. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.298-304. [PDF, 378KB]

(2005) Gábor Prószéky: An approach to machine translation via the rule-to-rule hypothesis. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 219-225. [PDF, 147KB]

(2005) Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Beth Ann Hockey, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, & Yukie Nakao: A methodology for comparing grammar-based and robust approaches to speech understanding. Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech: 9th European  Conference on  Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005; pp.1877-1880 [PDF, 52KB]; abstract [PDF, 55KB]

(2005) Dekai Wu: MT model space: statistical versus compositional versus example-based machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp.213-227.

Spoken language translation

(2009) see Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, December 1-2, 2009, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan

(2009) Nguyen Bach, Roger Hsiao, Matthias Eck, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Stephan Vogel, Tanja Schultz, Ian Lane, Alex Waibel, & Alan W.Black: Incremental adaptation of speech-to-speech translation. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009;  pp.149-152. [PDF, 111KB]

(2009) Sherri Condon, Gregory A.Sanders, Dan Parvaz, Alan Rubenstein, Christy Doran, John Aberdeen, & Beatrice Oshika: Normalization for automated metrics: English and Arabic speech translation. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 33-40. [PDF, 326KB]

 (2009) Jesús Giménez & Lluís Mŕrquez: On the robustness of syntactic and semantic features for automatic MT evaluation.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.250-258. [PDF, 171KB]

(2009) Olivier Hamon, Christian Fügen, Djamel Mostefa, Victoria Arranz, Muntsin Kolss, Alex Waibel, & Khalid Choukri: End-to-end evaluation in simultaneous translation. EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.345-353. [PDF, 106KB]

(2009) Beth Ann Hockey & Manny Rayner: Using paraphrases of deep semantic representations to support regression testing in spoken dialogue systems. NAACL-HLT-2009: Software Engineering, Testing and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing (SETQA-NLP 2009), Proceedings of the Workshop, June 5, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.14-21. [PDF, 139KB]

(2009) Satoshi Kamatani, Tetsuro Chino & Kazuo Sumita: Hybrid spoken language translation using sentence splitting based on syntax structure. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 57-64. [PDF, 167KB]

(2009) Vaughn Laganosky: United States Army machine foreign language translation (MFLT) requirements and capability. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 521-526. [PDF of PPT presentation, 4909KB]

(2009) Daniel Chung Yong Lim & Ian Lane: Language identification for speech-to-speech translation. Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, UK; abstract [PDF]

(2009) Khaled Shaalan, Azza Abdel Monem & Ahmed Rafea: Syntactic generation of Arabic in interlingua-based machine translation framework. CAASL-3 – Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages [at] MT Summit XII, August 26, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 8pp. [PDF, 574KB]

(2009) Marianne Starlander & Paula Estrella: Relating recognition and translation quality with usability of two different versions of MedSLT. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.324-331. [PDF, 84KB]

(2009) Jing Zheng, Necip Fazil Ayan, Wen Wang, & David Burkett: Using syntax in large-scale audio document translation. Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, UK; abstract [PDF]

(2008) see IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA.

(2008) Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Yukie Nakao, Kyoko Kanzaki, Hitoshi Isahara, Nikos Tsourakis, Marianne Starlander, Beth Ann Hockey, & Manny Rayner: Developing non-European translation pairs in a medium-vocabulary medical speech translation system. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 8pp. [PDF, 122KB]

(2008) Pierrette Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Maria Georgescul, Sonia Halimi, Beth Ann Hockey, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Yukie Nakao, Manny Rayner, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander, & Nikos Tsourakis: Many-to-many multilingual medical speech translation on a PDA. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.314-323. [PDF, 666KB]

(2008) Sherri Condon, Jon Phillips, Christy Doran, John Aberdeen, Dan Parvaz, Beatrice Oshika, Greg Sanders, & Craig Schlendoff: Applying automated metrics to speech translation dialogs.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 8pp. [PDF, 178KB]

(2008) Farzad Ehsani, Jim Kimzey, Elaine Zuber, Demitrios Master, & Karen Sudre: Speech to speech translation for nurse patient interaction. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications, 23 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.54-59. [PDF, 92KB]

(2008) David Ellis, Mathias Creutz, Timo Honkela, & Mikko Kurimo: Speech to speech machine translation: Biblical chatter from Finnish to English. IJCNLP 2008: Workshop on NLP for Less Privileged Languages. Proceedings of the workshop, 11 January 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.123-130. [PDF, 104KB]

(2008) Emil Ettelaie, Panayiotis G.Georgiou, & Shrikanth S.Narayanan: Mitigation of data sparsity in classifier-based translation. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications, 23 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.1-4. [PDF, 138KB]

(2008) Emil Ettelaie, Panayiotis G.Georgiou, & Shrikanth S.Narayanan: Towards unsupervised training of the classifier-based speech translator. Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008; pp.2739-2742; abstract [PDF, 58KB]

(2008) Marcello Federico: Recent advances in spoken language translation [abstract only]. Invited talk at: MATMT 2008: Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation, Donostia-San Sebastian [Spain], February 14th 2008: Proceedings; p. 73. [PDF, 266KB]

(2008) Olivier Hamon & Djamel Mostefa: An experimental methodology for an end-to-end evaluation in speech-to-speech translation. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 8pp. [PDF, 93KB]

(2008) Muntsin Kolss, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Stream decoding for simultaneous spoken language translation. Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008; pp.2735-2738; abstract [PDF, 58KB]

(2008) Kriste Krstovski, Michael Decerbo, Rohit Prasad, David Stallard, Shirin Saleem, & Premkumar Natarajan: A wearable headset speech-to-speech translation system. ACL-08: HLT. Workshop on Mobile Language Processing. Proceedings of the workshop, June 20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 10-12. [PDF, 117KB]

(2008) Chen-li Kuo & Allan Ramsay: Translating emphatic/contrastive focus from English to Mandarin Chinese [abstract]. Machine Translation 22 (4), December 2008; pp.181-203.

(2008) Zhou-Jun Li, Wen-Han Chao, & Yue-Xin Chen: An example-based decoder for spoken language machine translation. IJCNLP 2008: Sixth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Proceedings of the workshop, 11-12 January 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.1-8. [PDF, 413KB]

(2008) Azza Abdel Monem, Khaled Shaalan, Ahmed Rafea, & Hoda Baraka: Generating Arabic text in multilingual speech-to-speech machine translation framework [abstract]. Machine Translation 22 (4), December 2008; pp.205-258.

(2008) Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Alan W. Black, Tanja Schultz, & Robert Frederking: NineOneOne: recognizing and classifying speech for handling minority language emergency calls.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 4pp. [PDF, 95KB]

(2008) Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Alan W.Black, Tanja Schultz, Robert Frederking, & Jerry Weltman: Speech translation for triage of emergency phonecalls in minority languages. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications, 23 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.48-53. [PDF, 229KB]

(2008) Alexandre Patry & Philippe Langlais: MISTRAL: a statistical machine translation decoder for speech recognition lattices.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 6pp. [PDF, 265KB]

(2008) Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Beth Ann Hockey, & Yukie Nakao: Almost flat functional semantics for speech translation.  Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.713-720. [PDF, 96KB]

(2008) Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Farzad Ehsani, Marianne Starlander, Beth Ann Hockey, Jane Brotanek, & Lukas Biewald: A small-vocabulary shared task for medical speech translation. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications, 23 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.60-63. [PDF, 62KB]

(2008) Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Jane Brotanek, Glenn Flores, Sonia Halimi, Beth Ann Hockey, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Elisabeth Kron, Yukie Nakao, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander, & Nikos Tsourakis: The 2008 MedSLT system. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications, 23 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.32-35. [PDF, 209KB]

(2008) Hammam Riza & Oskar Riandi: Toward Asian speech translation system: developing speech recognition and machine translation for Indonesian language. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; 6pp. [PDF, 81KB]

(2008) Gregory A. Sanders, Sébastien Bronsart, Sherri Condon, & Craig Schlenoff: Odds of successful transfer of low-level concepts: a key metric for bidirectional speech-to-speech machine translation in DARPA’s TRANSTAC program.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 7pp. [PDF, 177KB]

(2008) Marianne Santaholma & Nikos Chatzichrisafis: A knowledge-modeling approach for multilingual Regulus lexica. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 5pp. [PDF, 156KB]

(2008) Tanja Schultz: Rapid language adaptation tools and technologies for multilingual speech processing systems. [abstract of] Invited talk at: First International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU-2008), Hanoi, Vietnam, 5-7 May 2008; 1p. [PDF, 51KB]

(2008) Mark Seligman & Mike Dillinger: Rapid portability among domains in an interactive spoken language translation system. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications, 23 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.40-47. [PDF, 129KB]

(2008) Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Shrikanth Narayanan, & Srinivas Bangalore: Enriching spoken language translation with dialog acts. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Short papers, June 16-17, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 225-228. [PDF, 383KB]

(2008) Vivek Kumar Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, & Shrikanth S.Narayanan: Factored translation models for enriching spoken language translation with prosody. Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008; pp.2723-2726; abstract [PDF, 60KB]

(2008) Marianne Starlander, Pierrette Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Manny Rayner, & Niks Tsourakis: Comparing two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT.  EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.176-181. [PDF, 521KB]

(2008) Brian A. Weiss, Craig Schlenoff, Greg Sanders, Michelle P.Steves, Sherri Condon, Jon Phillips, & Dan Parvaz: Performance evaluation of speech translation systems.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 8pp. [PDF, 123KB]

(2008) Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Thepchai Supnithi, & Krit Kosawat: Speech-to-speech translation activities in Thailand. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; 6pp. [PDF, 104KB]

(2008) Yushi Xu & Stephanie Seneff: Two-stage translation: a combined linguistic and statistical machine translation framework. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.222-231 [PDF, 671B]

(2007) proceedings of IWSLT 2007: International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 15-16 October 2007, Trento, Italy.

(2007) Vicente Alabau, Alberto Sanchis, & Francisco Casacuberta: Improving speech-to-speech translation using word posterior probabilities. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.9-14 [PDF, 87KB]

(2007) Nicola Bertoldi: Spoken language translation through confusion network decoding. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007; 32pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 499KB]

(2007) Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Manny Rayner, & Beth Ann Hockey: Adapting a medical speech to speech translation system (MedSLT) to Arabic. ACL 2007: proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources, Prague, Czech Republic, 28 June 2007; pp. 41-48 [PDF, 145KB]

(2007) Pierrette Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Marianne Starlander, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Marianne Santaholma, Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner, & Beth Ann Hockey: A bidirectional grammar-based medical speech translator. ACL 2007: Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar-based approaches to spoken language processing (SPEECHGRAM 2007), June 29, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp.41-48. [PDF, 216KB]

(2007) Roldano Cattoni, Nicola Bertoldi, & Marcello Federico: Punctuating confusion networks for speech translation. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2453-2456; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007) Khalid Choukri, Olivier Hamon, & Djamel Mostefa: MT evaluation & TC-STAR. MT Summit XI Workshop: Automatic procedures in MT evaluation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, [Proceedings]; 33pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 184KB]

(2007) Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Estimating phrase pair relevance for translation model pruning. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.159-165 [PDF, 157KB]

(2007) Daniele Falavigna, Nicola Bertoldi, Fabio Brugnara, Roldano Cattoni, Mauro Cettolo, Boxing Chen, Marcello Federico, Diego Giuliani, Roberto Gretter, Deepa Gupta, & Dino Seppi: The IRST English-Spanish translation system for European Parliament speeches. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2833-2836; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007) Christian Fügen & Muntsin Kolss: The influence of utterance chunking on machine translation performance. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2837-2840; abstract [PDF, 61KB]

(2007) Christian Fügen, Alex Waibel, & Muntsin Kolss: Simultaneous translation of lectures and speeches [abstract].  Machine Translation 21 (4) December 2007; pp.209-252.

(2007) Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa, & Khalid Choukri: End-to-end evaluation of a speech-to-speech translation system in TC-STAR. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.223-230 [PDF, 116KB]

(2007) Donghyeon Lee, Jonghoon Lee, & Gary Geunbae Lee: POSSLT: a Korean to English spoken language translation system. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Demonstration Program, pp.7-8 [PDF, 81KB]

(2007) Evgeny Matusov, Dustin Hillard, Mathew Magimai-Doss, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mari Ostendorf, & Hermann Ney: Improving speech translation with automatic boundary prediction. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2449-2452; abstract [PDF, 61KB]

(2007) Akitoshi Okumura: Human communication technology – development of speech translation for hand-held devices. Invited talk at MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; 16pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 518KB]

(2007) Alicia Pérez, M.Inés Torres, M.Teresa González, & Francisco Casacuberta: Speech-input multi-target machine translation.  ACL 2007: proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 23, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 56-63 [PDF, 208KB]

(2007) Alicia Pérez, M.Inés Torres, M.Teresa González, & Francisco Casacuberta: An integrated architecture for speech-input multi-target machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.133-136 [PDF, 130KB]

(2007) Kristin Precoda, Jing Zheng, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco, Colleen Richey, Andreas Kathol, & Sachin Kajarekar: IraqComm: a next generation translation system. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2841-2844; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007) Sharath Rao, Ian Lane, & Tanja Schultz: Improving spoken language translation by automatic disfluency removal: evidence from conversational speech transcripts. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.385-389 [PDF, 140KB]

(2007) Sharath Rao, Ian Lane, & Tanja Schultz: Optimizing sentence segmentation for spoken language translation. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2845-2848; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007)  S.Saleem, K.Subramanian, R.Prasad, David Stallard, Chia-Lin Kao, P.Natarajan, & R.Suleiman: Improvements in machine translation for English/Iraqi speech translation. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2445-2448; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007) Harold Somers: Medical spoken language translation: what do the users really need? Translating and the Computer 29. Proceedings of the twenty-ninth international conference on Translating and the Computer, 29-30 November 2007 (London: Aslib, 2007); 12pp. [PDF, 124KB]

(2007) David Stallard, Fred Choi, Chia-Lin Kao, Kriste Krstovski, P.Natarajan, R.Prasad, S.Saleem, & K.Subramanian: The BBN 2007 displayless English/Iraqi speech-to-speech translation system. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2817-2820; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007) Eiichiro Sumita, Tohru Shimizu, & Satoshi Nakamura: NICT-ATR speech-to-speech translation system. ACL 2007: proceedings of demo and poster sessions, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 25-28 [PDF, 97KB]

(2007) Yik-Cheung Tam, Ian Lane, & Tanja Schultz: Bilingual-LSA based LM adaptation for spoken language translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 520-527 [PDF, 162KB]

(2007) Yik-Cheung Tam, Ian Lane, & Tanja Schultz: Bilingual LSA-based adaptation for statistical machine translation [abstract].  Machine Translation 21 (4) December 2007; pp.187-207.

(2007) Yik-Cheung Tam & Tanja Schultz: Bilingual LSA-based translation lexicon adaptation for spoken language translation. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2461-2464; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007) Chao Wang & Stephanie Seneff: Automatic assessment of student translations for foreign language tutoring. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.468-475 [PDF, 124KB]

(2007) Richard Zens & Hermann Ney: Efficient phrase-table representation for machine translation with applications to online MT and speech translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.492-499 [PDF, 299KB]

(2006) proceedings of  International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan

(2006) proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2006 workshop: Medical Speech Translation, 9 June 2006, New York, NY, USA.  72pp. [PDF, 1403KB]; table of contents

(2006) Rafael Banchs, Antonio Bonafonte, & Javier Pérez: Acceptance testing of a spoken language translation system. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.2074-2079 [PDF, 262KB]

(2006) Srinivas Bangalore, Patrick Haffner, & Stephan Kanthak: Sequence classification for machine translation. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1722; abstract [PDF, 72KB]

(2006) A.Bonafonte, H.Höge, I.Kiss, A.Moreno, U.Ziegenhain, H.van den Heuvel, H.-U.Hain, X.S.Wang, M.N.Garcia: TC-STAR: specifications of language resources and evaluation for speech synthesis. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.311-314 [PDF, 272KB]

(2006) Lisa Cochran: Reaching across the language barrier.  Speech Technology, November/December 2006. [PDF, 86KB]

(2006) Emil Ettelaie, Panayiotis G.Georgiou, & Shrikanth Narayanan: Cross-lingual dialog model for speech to speech translation. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1858; abstract [PDF, 74KB]

(2006) Marcello Federico: [review of] Mark Johnson, Sanjeev P.Khudanpur, Mari Ostendorf and Roni Rosenfeld (eds.), Mathematical foundations of speech and language processing. Machine Translation 20 (3),2006; pp.223-225. [see publication]

(2006) Roger Hsiao, Ashish Venugopal, Thilo Köhler, Ying Zhang, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Andreas Zollmann, Stephan Vogel, Alan W,Black, Tanja Schultz, & Alex Waibel: Optimizing components for handheld two-way speech translation for an English-Iraqi Arabic system. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1712; abstract [PDF, 94KB]

(2006) Douglas Jones, Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, Martha Herzog, Michael Emonts, Sabine Atwell, James Dirgin, Neil Granoien, Sargon Jabri, Jurgen Sottung, Timothy Anderson, & Timothy Hunter: Toward an Interagency Language Roundtable based assessment of speech-to-speech translation capabilities. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.82-89 [PDF, 150KB]

(2006) Djamal Mostefa, Olivier Hamon, & Khalid Choukri: Evaluation of automatic speech recognition and speech language translation within TC-STAR: results from the first evaluation campaign.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.149-154 [PDF, 388KB]

(2006) Michael Paul: Overview of the IWSLT06 evaluation campaign. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp.1-15  [PDF, 134KB]

(2006) Javier Pérez & Antonio Bonafonte: GAIA: a common framework for the development of speech translation technologies.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.2560-2563 [PDF, 531KB]

(2006) Alicia Pérez, Inés Torres, Francisco Casacuberta, & Víctor Guijarrubia: A Spanish-Basque weather forecast corpus for probabilistic speech translation.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.99-102. [PDF, 227KB]

(2006) Jason Riesa, Behrang Mohit, Kevin Knight, & Daniel Marcu: Building an English-Iraqi Arabic machine translation system for spoken utterances with limited resources. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 2012; abstract [PDF, 80KB]

(2006) Koichiro Ryu, Shigeki Matsubara, & Yasuyoshi Inagaki: Simultaneous English-Japanese spoken language translation based on incremental dependency parsing and transfer. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, July 2006; pp.683-690. [PDF, 420KB]

(2006) Stephanie Seneff: Combining interlingua with SMT (contribution to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 109KB]

(2006) David Stallard, Fred Choi, Kriste Krstovski, Prem Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, & Shirin Saleem: A hybrid phrase-based/statistical speech translation system. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1732; abstract [PDF, 74KB]

(2006) Toshiyuki Takezawa & Tohru Shimizu: Performance improvement of dialog speech translation by rejecting unreliable utterances. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1100; abstract [PDF, 78KB]

(2006) Hitomi Tohyama & Shigeki Matsubara: Collection of simultaneous interpreting patterns by using bilingual spoken monologue corpus. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.2564-2569 [PDF, 552KB]

(2006) Henk van den Heuvel, Khalid Choukri, Christian Gollan, Asuncion Moreno, & Djamal Mostefa: TC-STAR: new langauge resources for ASR and SLT purposes. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.2570-2573 [PDF, 271KB]

(2006) Chao Wang & Stephanie Seneff: High-quality speech translation in the flight domain. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1135; abstract [PDF, 72KB]

(2006) Weizhong Zhu, Bowen Zhou, Charles Prosser, Pavel Krbec, & Yuqing Gao: Recent advances of IBM’s handheld speech translation system. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1590; abstract [PDF, 93KB]

(2006) Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, & Stefan Vogel: Bridging the inflection morphology gap for Arabic statistical machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 201-204 [PDF, 147KB]

(2005) proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

(2005) Victoria Arranz, Elisabet Comelles, & David Farwell: The FAME speech-to-speech translation system for Catalan, English, and Spanish. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.195-202. [PDF, 185KB]

(2005) Naoki Asanoma, Setsuo Yamada, Osamu Furuse, & Masahiro Oku: Building a conversation corpus by text derivation from "germ dialogs". 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 27-32. [PDF, 82KB]

(2005) Pierrette Bouillon, Manny Rayner, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Beth Ann Hockey, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander, Yukie Nakao, Kyoko Kanzaki, & Hitoshi Isahara: A generic multi-lingual open source platform for limited-domain medical speech translation. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 50-58. [PDF, 182KB]

(2005) Matthias Eck & Chiori Hori: Overview of the IWSLT 2005 Evaluation Campaign. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 22pp. [PDF, 256KB]

(2005) Emil Ettelaie, Sudeep Gandhe, Panayiotis Georgiou, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Shrikanth Narayanan, David Traum, & Robert Belvin: Transonics: a practical speech-to-speech translator for English-Farsi medical dialogues.  ACL-2005: Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 2005; pp. 89-92  [PDF, 352KB]

(2005) Ann Harrison: Machines not lost in translation. Wired News, March 9. [PDF, 85KB]

(2005) Andreas Kathol, Kristin Precoda, Dimitra Vergyri, Wen Wang, & Susanne Riehemann: Speech translation for low-resource languages: the case of Pashto. Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech: 9th European  Conference on  Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005; pp.2273-2276; abstract [PDF, 44KB]

(2005) Gianni Lazzari: Speech to speech translation. ELRA-HLT Evaluation Workshop, Malta, 1-2 December 2005; 110pp. [PDF from PPT, 1091KB]

(2005) Manny Rayner, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Pierrette Bouillon, Yukie Nakao, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Beth Ann Hockey, Marianne Santaholma, & Marianne Starlander: Japanese speech understanding using grammar specialization. HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; Demonstration abstracts, pp. 26-27. [PDF, 54KB]

(2005) Marianne Santaholma: Linguistic representation of Finnish in a limited domain speech-to-speech translation system. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 226-234. [PDF, 107KB]

(2005) Marianne Starlander, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Marianne Santaholma, Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, & Yukie Nakao: Practicing controlled language through a help system integrated into the medical speech translation system (MedSLT). MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.188-194. [PDF, 169KB]

(2005) Toshiyuki Takezawa, Keiji Yasuda, Masahide Mizushima, & Genichiro Kikui: Assessing degradation of spoken language translation by measuring speech recognizer's output against non-native speakers' listening capabilities. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.203-210. [PDF, 2073KB]

(2005) David Vilar, Evgeny Matusov, Saša Hasan, Richard Zens, & Hermann Ney: Statistical machine translation of European parliamentary speeches. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.259-266. [PDF, 214KB]

(2005) J. Žganec Gros, A. Mihelič, M. Žganec, F. Mihelič, S. Dobrišek, J. Žibert, Š. Vintar, T. Korošec, T. Erjavec, & M. Romih: Initial considerations in building a speech-to-speech translation system for the Slovenian-English language pair. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 288-293. [PDF, 531KB]

(2005) Chengqing Zong & Mark Seligman: Toward practical spoken language translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (2), 2005; pp.113-137.

Statistical MT

(2009) see Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, December 1-2, 2009, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan

(2009) see Proceedings of SSST-3: Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, ed. Dekai Wu and David Chiang, NAACL HLT 2009, Boulder, Colorado, June 5, 2009.

(2009) proceedings of Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation. Workshop at EACL 2009, Barcelona, Spain, 13 May 2009.

(2009) proceedings of Third Machine Translation Marathon, Prague, Czech Republic, 26-30 January 2009. 

(2009) see Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation: Proceedings of the Workshop, [held at EACL-2009], 30-31 March 2009, Athens, Greece.

(2009) Sadaf Abdul-Rauf & Holger Schwenk: Exploiting comparable corpora with TER and TERp. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, Suntec, Singapore, 6 August 2009; pp.46-54. [PDF, 186KB]

(2009) Sadaf Abdul-Rauf & Holger Schwenk: On the use of comparable corpora to improve SMT performance. EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.16-23. [PDF, 100KB]

(2009) Takako Aikawa & Achim Ruopp: Chained system: a linear combination of different types of statistical machine translation systems. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.184-189. [PDF, 229KB]

(2009) Andrei Alexandrescu & Katrin Kirchhoff: Graph-based learning for statistical machine translation. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.119-127. [PDF, 148KB]

(2009) Vamshi Ambati, Alon Lavie, & Jaime Carbonell: Extraction of syntactic translation models from parallel data using syntax from source and target languages. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.190-197. [PDF, 251KB]

(2009) Vamshi Ambati & Jaime Carbonell: Proactive learning for building machine translation systems for minority languages. NAACL-HLT-2009: Active Learning for Natural Language Processing (ALNLP-09), Proceedings of the workshop, June 5, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.58-61. [PDF, 101KB]

(2009) Jesús Andrés-Ferrer & Alfons Juan: A phrase-based hidden semi-Markov approach to machine translation. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.168-175. [PDF, 410KB]

(2009) Abhishek Arun, Chris Dyer, Barry Haddow, Phil Blunsom, Adam Lopez, & Philipp Koehn: Monte Carlo inference and maximization for phrase-based translation. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, June 4-5, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.102-110. [PDF, 167KB]

(2009) Nguyen Bach, Qin Gao, & Stephan Vogel: Source-side dependency tree reordering models and subtree movements and constraints. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 17-24. [PDF, 211KB]

(2009) Ibrahim Badr, Rabih Zbib, & James Glass: Syntactic phrase reordering for English-to-Arabic statistical machine translation.  EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.86-93. [PDF, 115KB]

(2009) Kathy Baker, Steven Bethard, Michael Bloodgood, Ralf Brown, Chris Callison-Burch, Glen Coppersmith, Bonnie Dorr, Wes Filardo, Kendall Giles, Anni Irvine, Mike Kayser, Lori Levin, Justin Martineau, Jim Mayfield, Scott Miller, Aaron Phillips, Andrew Philpot, Christine Piatko, Lane Schwartz, & David Zajic: Semantically informed machine translation (SIMT). Final report of the 2009 Summer Camp for Applied Language Exploration [John Hopkins University], November 2009; 152pp. [PDF, 5705KB]

(2009) Nicola Bertoldi, Barry Haddow, and Jean-Baptiste Fouet: Improved minimum error rate training in Moses. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 91, 2009; pp.7-16. [PDF, 194KB] [presentation at MT Marathon 2009, 120KB]

(2009) Phil Blunsom: Book review: Learning machine translation, [by] Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman, and George Foster (eds.). Computational Linguistics 35 (4), pp. 637-640 [PDF, 51KB]

(2009) Reza Bosagh Zadeh: Building strong multilingual aligned corpora. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.176-181. [PDF, 497KB]

(2009) Jamie Brunning, Adriŕ de Gispert & William Byrne: Context-dependent alignment models for statistical machine translation.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.110-118. [PDF, 226KB]

(2009) Nicola Cancedda: SMART final review meeting: introduction and overview, Luxembourg, 27 November 2009; 19 slides [PDF of PPT, 890KB]

(2009) Jaime Carbonell: New paradigms for machine translation. Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 35pp. [PDF of PPT, 462KB]

(2009) Marine Carpuat: One translation per discourse. NAACL-HLT-2009 (SEW-2009): Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions, Proceedings of the workshop, June 4, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.19-27. [PDF, 112KB]

(2009) Xavier Carreras & Michael Collins: Non-projective parsing for statistical machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.200-209. [PDF, 174KB]

(2009) Jing-Shin Chang & Sheng-Sian Lin: Improving translation fluency with search-based decoding and monolingual statistical machine translation model for automatic post-editing. ROCLING 2009: Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, Taichung, Taiwan, 2009; pp.195-207. [PDF, 590KB]

(2009) Boxing Chen, George Foster, & Roland Kuhn: Phrase translation model enhanced with association based features. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.25-32. [PDF, 158KB]

(2009) Han-Bin Chen, Jian-Cheng Wu & Jason S.Chang: Learning bilingual linguistic reordering model for statistical machine translation.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.254-262. [PDF, 333KB]

(2009) Yu Chen, Martin Kay, & Andreas Eisele: Intersecting multilingual data for faster and better statistical translations.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.128-136. [PDF, 159KB]

(2009) David Chiang, Kevin Knight, & Wei Wang: 11,001 new features for statistical machine translation. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.218-226. [PDF, 114KB]

(2009) Tagyoung Chung & Daniel Gildea: Unsupervised tokenization for machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.718-726. [PDF, 197KB]

(2009) Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla & Om P.Damani: Experiences with English-Hindi, English-Tamil and English-Kannada transliteration taks at NEWS 2009. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 7 August 2009; pp.44-47. [PDF, 110KB]

(2009) Josep M. Crego & François Yvon: Gappy translation units under left-to-right SMT decoding. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.66-73. [PDF, 551KB]

(2009) Steve DeNeefe & Kevin Knight: Synchronous tree adjoining machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.727-736. [PDF, 398KB]

(2009) John DeNero, Adam Pauls, & Dan Klein: Asynchronous binarization for synchronous grammars. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Short Papers, Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009; pp.141-144. [PDF, 183KB]

(2009) John DeNero: Estimation problems in machine translation (learning to translate). Presentation at Johns Hopkins University Summer School on Human Language Technology, June 12, 2009; 88 slides [PDF of PPT slides, 3496KB]

(2009) John DeNero, David Chiang, & Kevin Knight: Fast consensus decoding over translation forests. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.567-575. [PDF, 650KB]

(2009) Yonggang Deng & Bowen Zhou: Optimizing word alignment combination for phrase table training. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Short Papers, Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009; pp.229-232. [PDF, 132KB]

(2009) Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, Gorka Labaka, & Kepa Sarasola: Reordering on Spanish-Basque SMT. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 207-213. [PDF, 327KB]

(2009) Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, Gorka Labaka, & Kepa Sarasola: Relevance of different segmentation options on Spanish-Basque SMT. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.74-80. [PDF, 390KB]

(2009) Jinhua Du, Yanjun Ma & Andy Way: Source-side context-informed hypothesis alignment for combining outputs from machine translation systems. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.230-27. [PDF, 277KB]

(2009) Nan Duan, Mu Li, Tong Xiao, & Ming Zhou: The feature subspace method for SMT system combination. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1096-1104. [PDF, 416KB]

(2009) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, & James Hodson: Towards an effective toolkit for translators. Translating and the Computer 31, 19-20 November 2009, London; 13pp. [PDF, 111KB]

(2009) Jakob Elming & Nizar Habash: Syntactic reordering for English-Arabic phrase-based machine translation. Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workhop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, Athens, Greece, 31 March 2009; pp.69-77. [PDF, 155KB]

(2009) Mireia Farrús, Marta R.Costa-jussŕ, Marc Poch, Adolfo Hernández, & José B.Marińo: Improving a Catalan-Spanish statistical translation system using morphosyntactic knowledge. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.52-57. [PDF, 399KB]

(2009) Atefeh Farzindar: Automatic translation management system for legal texts. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 417-424. [PDF, 284KB]

(2009) Yang Feng, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu, & Yajuan Lü: Lattice-based system combination for statistical machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1105-1113. [PDF, 161KB]

(2009) Andrew Finch & Eiichiro Sumita: Bidirectional phrase-based statistical machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1124-1132. [PDF, 164KB]

(2009) Andrew Finch & Eiichiro Sumita: Transliteration by bidirectional statistical machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 7 August 2009; pp.52-56. [PDF, 84KB]

(2009) Raymond Flournoy & Christine Duran: Machine translation and document localization at Adobe: from pilot to production. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 425-428. [PDF, 123KB]

(2009) Michel Galley & Christopher D.Manning: Quadratic-time dependency parsing for machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.773-781. [PDF, 235KB]

(2009) Miguel García, Jesús Giménez & Lluís Mŕrquez: Enriching statistical translation models using domain-independent multilingual lexical knowledge base [abstract]. CICLING 2009: 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, March 1-7, 2009; 1p. [PDF, 19KB]

(2009) Nikesh Garera, Chris Callison-Burch & David Yarowsky: Improving translation lexicon induction from monolingual corpora via dependency contexts and part-of-speech equivalences. CoNLL-2009. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, June 4-5, 2009, Boulder, Colorado; pp.129-137. [PDF, 450KB]

(2009) Dmitriy Genzel, Klaus Macherey & Jakob Uszkoreit: Creating a high-quality machine translation system for a low-resource language: Yiddish. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 41-48. [PDF, 157KB]

(2009) Kevin Gimpel & Noah A.Smith: Feature-rich translation by quasi-synchronous lattice parsing. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.219-228. [PDF, 329KB]

(2009) Adriŕ de Gispert, Sami Virpioja, Mikko Kurimo, & William Byrne: Minimum Bayes risk combination of translation hypotheses from alternative morphological decompositions.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.73-76. [PDF, 72KB]

(2009) Jorge González & Francisco Casacuberta: GREAT: a finite-state machine translation toolkit implementing a grammatical inference approach for transducer inference (GIATI). Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Linguistic Aspects of Grammatical Inference, Athens, Greece, 30 March 2009; pp.24-32. [PDF, 125KB]

(2009) Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman, & George Foster (eds.) Learning machine translation. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2009; xii, 316pp.

 (2009) Yvette Graham, Josef van Genabith, & Anton Bryl: F-structure transfer-based statistical machine translation. Proceedings of the LFG09 conference, Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds.) CSLI Publications, 2009; pp.318-337. [PDF, 1227KB]

(2009) Yvette Graham & Josef van Genabith: An open source rule induction tool for transfer-based SMT. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 91, 2009; pp.37-46. [PDF, 321KB]

(2009) Francisco Guzman, Qin Gao & Stephan Vogel: Reassessment of the role of phrase extraction in PBSMT. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 49-56. [PDF, 131KB]

(2009) Nizar Habash: REMOOV: a tool for online handling of out-of-vocabulary words in machine translation. MEDAR 2009: 2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, 22-23 April 2009, Cairo, Egypt; pp.217-220. [PDF, 342KB]

(2009) Gholamreza Haffari & Anoop Sarkar: Active learning for multlingual statistical machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.181-189. [PDF, 243KB]

(2009) Gholamreza Haffari, Maxim Roy, & Anoop Sarkar: Active learning for statistical phrase-based machine translation. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.415-423. [PDF, 190KB]

(2009) Aria Haghighi, John Blitzer, John DeNero & Dan Klein: Better word alignments with supervised ITG models. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.306-314. [PDF, 301KB]

 (2009) Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, & Fernando Pereira: The unreasonable effectiveness of data. IEEE Intelligent Systems, March-April 2009; pp.8-12. [PDF, 376KB]

(2009) Xiwu Han, Hanzhang Li, & Tiejun Zhao: Train the machine with what it can learn – corpus selection for SMT. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, Suntec, Singapore, 6 August 2009; pp.27-33. [PDF, 184KB]

(2009) Rejwanul Haque, Sandipan Dandapat, Ankit Kumar Srivastava, Sudip Kumar Naskar & Andy Way: English-Hindi transliteration using context-informed PB-SMT: the DCU system for NEWS 2009. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 7 August 2009; pp.104-107. [PDF, 98KB]

(2009) Rejwanul Haque, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Yanjun Ma & Andy Way: Using supertags as source language context in SMT. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.234-241. [PDF, 247KB]

(2009) Christian Hardmeier & Martin Volk: Using linguistic annotations in statistical machine translation of film subtitles. In: Kristina Jokinen and Eckhard Bick (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2009), 15-16 May 2009, Odense, Denmark; pp.57-64. [PDF,  158KB]

(2009) Saša Hasan & Hermann Ney: Comparison of extended lexicon models in search and rescoring for SMT. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.17-20. [PDF, 167KB]

(2009) Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima’an, & Andy Way: A syntactified direct translation model with linear-time decoding. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1182-1191. [PDF, 163KB]

(2009) Xiaodong He & Kristina Toutanova: Joint optimization for machine translation system combination. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1202-1211. [PDF, 337KB]

(2009) Yifan He & Andy Way: Improving the objective function in minimum error rate training. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.238-245. [PDF, 82KB]

(2009) Zhongjun He, Yao Meng, Yajuan Lü, Hao Yu, & Qun Liu: Reducing SMT rule table with monolingual key phrase. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Short Papers, Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009; pp.121-124. [PDF, 120KB]

(2009) Gumwon Hong, Seung-Wook Lee & Hae-Chang Rim: Bridging morpho-syntactic gap between source and target sentences for English-Korean statistical machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Short Papers, Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009; pp.233-236. [PDF, 178KB]

(2009) Fei Huang: Confidence measure for word alignment. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.932-940. [PDF, 727KB]

(2009) Liang Huang, Hao Zhang, David Gildea & Kevin Knight: Binarization of synchronous context-free grammars. Computational Linguistics 35 (4), pp. 559-595 [PDF, 837KB]

(2009) Gonzalo Iglesias, Adriŕ de Gispert, Eduardo R.Banga & William Byrne: Hierarchical phrase-based translation with weighted finite state transducers. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.433-441. [PDF, 170KB]

(2009) Gonzalo Iglesias, Adriŕ de Gispert, Eduardo R.Banga & William Byrne: Rule filtering by pattern for efficient hierarchical translation. EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.380-388. [PDF, 109KB]

(2009) Tatsuya Ishisaka, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Masao Utiyama, & Eiichiro Sumita: Development of a Japanese-English software manual parallel corpus. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.254-259. [PDF, 87KB]

(2009) Frederick Jelinek: The dawn of statistical ASR and MT. [Paper given on receipt of the ACL’s Life-time Achievement Award in 2009] Computational Linguistics 35 (4), pp. 483-494 [PDF, 952KB]

(2009) Hongfei Jiang, Muyun Yang, Tiejun Zhao, Sheng Li & Bo Wang: A statistical machine translation model based on a syntactic synchronous grammar. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Short Papers, Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009; pp.125-128. [PDF, 514KB]

(2009) Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt: It’s all about the trees – towards a hybrid syntax-based MT system. Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Mrągowo, Poland, 12-14 October 2009; pp.219-226. [PDF, 125KB]

(2009) Matti Kääriäinen: Sinuhe – statistical machine translation using a globally trained conditional exponential family translation model. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1027-1036. [PDF, 159KB]

(2009) Maxim Khalilov & José A.R.Fonollosa: N-gram-based statistical machine translation versus syntax augmented machine translation: comparison and system combination.  EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.424-432. [PDF, 564KB]

(2009) Maxim Khalilov, José A.R.Fonollosa, & Mark Dras: A new subtree-transfer approach to syntax-based reordering for statistical machine translation. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.197-204. [PDF, 1078KB]

(2009) Kevin Knight & Philipp Koehn: Topics in statistical machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Tutorial abstracts, Suntec, Singapore, 2 August 2009; p.2. [PDF, 57KB]

(2009) Philipp Koehn: Statistical machine translation. Cambridge University Press.  xii, 433pp.

(2009) Philipp Koehn: 20 years of statistical machine translation.  Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 23pp. [PDF of PPT, 170KB]

(2009) Philipp Koehn: Panel on patent translation. “Real world challenges of patent translation”, MT Summit XII: Third Workshop on Patent Translation, August 30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 4pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 233KB]

(2009) Philipp Koehn: A process study of computer-aided translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 23 (4), November 2009; pp.241-263.

(2009) Philipp Koehn, Alexandra Birch & Ralf Steinberger: 462 machine translation systems for Europe. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 65-72. [PDF, 204KB]

(2009) Philipp Koehn & Barry Haddow: Interactive assistance to human translators using statistical machine translation methods. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 73-80. [PDF, 217KB]

(2009) Philipp Koehn: A web-based interactive computer aided translation tool. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Software Demonstrations, Suntec, Singapore, 3 August 2009; pp.17-20. [PDF, 127KB]

(2009) Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Chris Dyer & Franz Och: Efficient minimum error rate training and minimum Bayes-risk decoding for translation hypergraphs and lattices. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.163-171. [PDF, 342KB]

(2009) David Kurokawa, Cyril Goutte & Pierre Isabelle: Automatic detection of translated text and its impact on machine translation. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 81-88. [PDF, 118KB]

 (2009) Gorka Labaka: EUSMT: incorporating linguistic information to statistical machine translation for a morphologically rich language. Its use in preliminary SMT-RBMT-EBMT hybridization. Summary of Dissertation submitted to the Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque Country, 2009; 80pp. [PDF, 1244KB]

(2009) Patrik Lambert, Yanjun Ma, Sylwia Ozdowska & Andy Way: Tracking relevant alignment characteristics for machine translation. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.268-275. [PDF, 443KB]

(2009) Antoine Laurent, Paul Deléglise, & Sylvain Meignier: Grapheme to phonese conversion using an SMT system. Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, UK; abstract [PDF]

(2009) Abby Levenberg & Miles Osborne: Stream-based randomized language models for SMT. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.756-764. [PDF, 179KB]

(2009) Chi-Ho Li, Xiaodong He, Yupeng Liu, & Ning Xi: Incremental HMM alignment for MT system combination. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.949-957. [PDF, 559KB]

(2009) Mu Li, Nan Duan, Dongdong Zhang, Chi-Ho Li, & Ming Zhou: Collaborative decoding: partial hypothesis re-ranking using translation consensus between decoders. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.585-592. [PDF, 354KB]

(2009) Zhifei Li: Training and inference methods over translation forests [abstract]. CWMT 2009: the 5th China Workshop on Machine Translation, Nanjing, China, October 16-17, 2009; 1p. [PDF, 14KB]

(2009) Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Sanjeev Khudanpur, & Wren Thornton: Decoding Joshua: open source, parsing-based machine translation. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 91, 2009; pp.47-56. [PDF, 146KB]

(2009) Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Juri Ganitkevitch, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Lane Schwartz, Wren N.G.Thornton, Jonathan Weese, & Omar F.Zaidan: Demonstration of Joshua: an open source toolkit for parsing-based machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Software Demonstrations, Suntec, Singapore, 3 August 2009; pp.25-28. [PDF, 429KB]

(2009) Zhifei Li & Jason Eisner: First- and second-order expectation semirings with applications to minimum-risk training on translation forests. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.40-51. [PDF, 406KB]

(2009) Zhifei Li & Sanjeev Khudanpur: Efficient extraction of oracle-best translations from hypergraphs.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.9-12. [PDF, 112KB]

(2009) Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner, & Sanjeev Khudanpur: Variational decoding for statistical machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.593-601. [PDF, 217KB]

(2009) Yang Liu, Yajuan Lü & Qun Liu: Improving tree-to-tree translation with packed forests.  [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.558-566. [PDF, 151KB]

(2009) Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Yang Feng, & Qun Liu: Joint decoding with multiple translation models. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.55-63. [PDF, 145KB]

(2009) Yang Liu, Tian Xia, Xinyan Xiao, & Qun Liu: Weighted alignment matrices for statistical machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1017-1026. [PDF, 164KB]

(2009) Chi-kiu Lo & Dekai Wu: HKUST statistical machine translation experiments for CWMT 2009. CWMT 2009: the 5th China Workshop on Machine Translation, Nanjing, China, October 16-17, 2009; 5pp. [PDF, 85KB]

(2009) Adam Lopez: Introduction to statistical machine translation. Presentation given at MT Marathon 2009. [PDF of PPT slides, 15933KB]

(2009) Adam Lopez: Machine translation: models, search, and evaluation. Presentation at Johns Hopkins University Summer School on Human Language Technology, June 12, 2009; 187 slides [PDF of PPT slides, 8990KB]

(2009) Wei-Yun Ma & Kathleen McKeown: Where’s the verb? Correcting machine translation during question answering. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Short Papers, Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009; pp.333-336. [PDF, 170KB]

(2009) Yanjun Ma & Andy Way: Bilingually motivated domain-adapted word segmentation for statistical machine translation.  EACL-2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009; pp.549-557. [PDF, 325KB]

(2009) Yanjun Ma, Patrik Lambert & Andy Way: Tuning syntactically enhanced word alignment for statistical machine translation. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.250-257. [PDF, 488KB]

(2009) Yuval Marton, Chris Callison-Burch, & Philip Resnik: Improved statistical machine translation using monolingually-derived paraphrases. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.381-390. [PDF, 160KB]

(2009) Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I.Rosti, & Bing Zhang: Discriminative corpus weight estimation for machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.708-717. [PDF, 116KB]

(2009) Arne Mauser, Saša Hasan & Hermann Ney: Extending statistical machine translation with discriminative and trigger-based lexicon models. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.210-218. [PDF, 266KB]

(2009) Shachar Mirkin, Lucia Specia, Nicola Cancedda, Ido Dagan, Marc Dymetman, & Idan Szpektor: Source-language entailment modeling for translating unknown terms. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.791-799. [PDF, 152KB]

(2009) Behrang Mohit, Frank Liberato, & Rebecca Hwa: Language model adaptation for difficult to translate phrases. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.160-167. [PDF, 343KB]

(2009) Robert C.Moore & Chris Quirk: Less is more: significance-based n-gram selection for smaller, better language models. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.746-755. [PDF, 564KB]

(2009) Hwidong Na, Jin-Ji Li, Jungi Kim, & Jong-Hyeok Lee: Improving fluency by reordering target constituents using MST parser in English-to-Japanese phrase-based SMT. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.276-283. [PDF, 381KB]

(2009) Preslav Nakov & Hwee Tou Ng: Improved statistical machine translation for resource-poor languages using related resource-rich languages. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1358-1367. [PDF, 209KB]

(2009) Vinh Van Nguyen, Akira Shimazu, Minh Le Nguyen & Thai Phuong Nguyen: Improving a lexicalized hierarchical reordering model using maximum entropy. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 89-96. [PDF, 172KB]

(2009) Yizhao Ni, Craig J.Saunders, Sandor Szedmak, & Mahesan Niranjan: Handling phrase reorderings for machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009; pp.241-244. [PDF, 465KB]

(2009) Sara Noeman: Language independent transliteration system using phrase based SMT approach on substrings. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 7 August 2009; pp.112-115. [PDF, 185KB]

(2009) Sara Noeman: Transliteration using phrase based SMT approach on substrings.  MEDAR 2009: 2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, 22-23 April 2009, Cairo, Egypt; pp.199-204. [PDF, 348KB]

(2009) Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Ismael García-Varea, & Francisco Casacuberta: Interactive machine translation based on partial statistical phrase-based alignments. [RANLP 2009] International conference: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Proceedings ed. Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov, Nikolai Nikolov, Borovets, Bulgaria, 14-16 September 2009; pp.330-336. [PDF, 275KB]

(2009) Sylwia Ozdowska & Andy Way: Optimal bilingual data for French-English PB-SMT. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.96-103. [PDF, 224KB]

(2009) Alexandre Patry & Philippe Langlais: Prediction of words in statistical machine translation using a multilayer perceptron. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 101-111. [PDF, 337KB]

(2009) Michael Paul, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita, & Satoshi Nakamura: On the importance of pivot language selection for statistical machine translation.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.221-224. [PDF, 114KB]

(2009) Patrick Paul, Samuel Larkin, Ulrich Germann, Eric Joanis, & Roland Kuhn: PortageLive: delivering machine translation technology via virtualization. [Paper for technology showcase at] MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 7pp.. [PDF, 77KB]

(2009) Adam Pauls, John DeNero, & Dan Klein: Consensus training for consensus decoding in machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1418-1427. [PDF, 502KB]

(2009) Aaron B. Phillips & Ralf D. Brown: Cunei machine translation platform: system description. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way; pp.29-36. [PDF, 109KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 1356KB]

(2009) Martin Popel & Zdeněk Žabokrtský: Improving English-Czech tectogrammatical MT. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, no.92, December 2009; pp.115-134 [PDF, 265KB]

(2009) Michael Pust & Kevin Knight: Faster MT decoding through pervasive laziness.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.141-144. [PDF, 108KB]

(2009) Taraka Rama, Anil Kumar Singh, & Sudbeer Kolachina: Modeling letter-to-phoneme conversion as a phrase based statistical machine translation problem with minimum error rate training.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium, Boulder, Colorado, June 1, 2009;  pp.90-95. [PDF, 404KB]

(2009) Taraka Rama & Karthik Gali: Modeling machine transliteration as a phrase based statistical machine translation problem. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 7 August 2009; pp.124-127. [PDF, 95KB]

(2009) Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Hansraj Choudhary, Avishek Ghosh, & Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Case markers and morphology: addressing the crux of the fluency problem in English-Hindi SMT. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.800-808. [PDF, 221KB]

(2009) Sylvain Raybaud, Caroline Lavecchia, David Langlois, & Kamel Smaďli: Word- and sentence-level confidence measures for machine translation. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.104-111. [PDF, 305KB]

(2009) Manny Rayner, Paula Estrella, Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi & Yukie Nakao: Using artificial data to compare the difficulty of using statistical machine translation in different language-pairs. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.300-307. [PDF, 169KB]

(2009) Manny Rayner, Paula Estrella, Pierrette Bouillon, Beth Ann Hockey & Yukie Nakao: Using artificially generated data to evaluate statistical machine translation. ACL-IJCNLP 2009: Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2009), Proceedings of the workshop, 6 August 2009, Suntec, Singapore; pp.54-62. [PDF, 214KB]

(2009) Aarthi Reddy, Richard Rose, Hani Safadi, Samuel Larkin & Gilles Boulianne: Incorporating knowledge of source language text in a system for dictation of document translations. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 112-119. [PDF, 167KB]

(2009) Feiliang Ren, Muhua Zhu, Huizhen Wang, & Jingbo Zhu: Chinese-English organization name translation based on correlative expansion. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 7 August 2009; pp.143-151. [PDF, 123KB]

(2009) Zhixiang Ren, Yajuan Lü, Jie Cao, Qun Liu, & Yun Huang: Improving statistical machine translation using domain bilingual multiword expressions. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Multiword Expressions, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 6 August 2009; pp.47-54. [PDF, 170KB]

(2009) Sebastian Riedel & James Clarke: Revisiting optimal decoding for machine translation IBM Model 4. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.5-8. [PDF, 112KB]

(2009) Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, & Dekai Wu: Learning stochastic bracketing inversion transduction grammars with a cubic time biparsing algorithm. IWPT-09: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, 7-9 October 2009, Paris, France; pp. 29-32. [PDF, 126KB]

(2009) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez & Mikel L.Forcada: Inferring shallow-transfer machine translation rules from small parallel corpora. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 34, pp. 605-635. [PDF, 706KB]

(2009) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez & Andy Way: Marker-based filtering of bilingual phrase pairs for SMT. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.144-151. [PDF , 386KB]

(2009) Holger Schwenk & Jean Senellart: Translation model adaptation for an Arabic/French news translation system by lightly-supervised training. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.38-315. [PDF, 134KB]

(2009) Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan, Haizhou Li, & Philip Resnik: Topological ordering of function words in hierarchical phrase-based translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.324-332. [PDF, 504KB]

(2009) Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas & Ralph Weischedel: Effective use of linguistic and contextual information for statistical machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.72-80. [PDF, 122KB]

(2009) Michel Simard & Pierre Isabelle: Phrase-based machine translation in a computer-assisted translation environment. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.120-127. [PDF, 68KB]

(2009) James Smith & Stephen Clark: EBMT for SMT: a new EBMT-SMT hybrid. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way; pp.3-10. [PDF, 144KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 564KB]

(2009) Harold Somers, Sandipan Dandapat, & Sundip Kumar Naskar: A review of EBMT using proportional analogies. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way; pp.53-60. [PDF, 337KB]

(2009) Yan Song, Chunyu Kit, & Xiao Chen: Transliteration of name entity via improved statistical translation on character sequences. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, 7 August 2009; pp.57-60. [PDF, 446KB]

(2009) Ankit Srivastava, Sergio Penkale, Declan Groves, & John Tinsley: Evaluating syntax-driven approaches to phrase extraction for MT.  Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way; pp.19-28. [PDF, 250KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 329KB]

(2009) Ankit K.Srivastava & Andy Way: Using percolated dependencies for phrase extraction in SMT. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.316-323. [PDF, 91KB]

(2009) Sebastian Stüker, Laurent Besacier, & Alex Waibel: Human translations guided language discovery for ASR systems. Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, UK; abstract [PDF]

(2009) Sara Stymne: A comparison of merging strategies for translation of German compounds. Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Student Research Workshop, Athens, Greece, 2 April 2009; pp.61-69. [PDF, 111KB]

(2009) David Suendermann, Jackson Liscombe, Krishna Dayanidhi, & Roberto Pieraccini: Localization of speech recognition in spoken dialog systems: how machine translation can make our lives easier. Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, UK; abstract [PDF]

(2009) Jun Sun, Min Zhang, & Chew Lim Tan: A non-contiguous tree sequence alignment-based model for statistical machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.914-922. [PDF, 459KB]

(2009) Oscar Täckström: The impact of morphological errors in phrase-based statistical machine translation from English and German into Swedish. Proceedings of 4th Langauge and Technology Conference, November 6-8, Poznań, Poland; 5pp. [PDF, 126KB]

(2009) Rie Tanaka, Yohei Murakami, & Toru Ishida: Context-based approach for pivot translation services. IJCAI-09: Twenty-first International Joint conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pasadena, Californai, USA, 11-17 July 2009; pp.1555-1561. [PDF, 505KB]

(2009) Jörg Tiedemann: Character-based PSMT for closely related languages. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.12-19 [PDF, 399KB]

(2009) Jörg Tiedemann: Translating questions for cross-lingual QA. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.112-119. [PDF, 370KB]

(2009) John Tinsley & Andy Way: Automatically generated parallel treebanks and their exploitability in machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 23 (1), February 2009; pp.1-22.

(2009) John Tinsley, Mary Hearne, & Andy Way: Exploiting parallel treebanks to improve phrase-based statistical machine translation [abstract]. CICLING 2009: 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, March 1-7, 2009; 1p. [PDF, 21KB]

(2009) Nadi Tomeh, Nicola Cancedda, & Marc Dymetman: Complexity-based phrase-table filtering for statistical machine translation. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.144-151. [PDF, 215KB]

(2009) Roy Tromble & Jason Eisner: Learning linear ordering problems for better translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1007-1016. [PDF, 178KB]

(2009) Francis M.Tyers: Rule-based augmentation of training data in Breton-French statistical machine translation. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.213-217. [PDF , 227KB]

(2009) Francis M.Tyers, Linda Wiechetek, & Trond Trosterud: Developing prototypes for machine translation between two Sámi languages. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.120-127. [PDF, 340KB]

(2009) Hans Uszkoreit: Hybrid machine translation. Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 16pp. [PDF of PPT, 1407KB]

(2009) Hans Uszkoreit: Will there be a winner? [contribution to panel]. Translingual Europe 2009, May 13-14, Prague, Czech Republic; 5pp. [PDF of PPT, 1626KB]

(2009) Ashish Venugopal & Andreas Zollmann: Grammar based statistical MT on Hadoop: an end-to-end toolkit for large scale PSCFG based MT. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 91, 2009; pp.67-78. [PDF, 142KB]

(2009) Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Noah A.Smith, & Stephan Vogel: Preference grammars: softening syntactic constraints to improve statistical machine translation. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.37-45. [PDF, 212KB]

(2009) David Vilar & Hermann Ney: On LM heuristics for the cube growing algorithm. EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.242-249. [PDF, 459KB]

(2009) Andy Way & Hany Hassan: Statistical machine translation: trends & challenges. [Tutroial at] MEDAR 2009: 2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, 21 April 2009, Cairo, Egypt; 147pp. [PDF of PPT, 864KB]

(2009) Chris Wendt & Will Lewis: Pushing the quality of a customized SMT system using shared training data. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 450-456. [PDF of PPT presentation, 250KB]

(2009) Dekai Wu & Pascale Fung: Can semantic role labeling improve SMT? EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.218-225. [PDF, 1141KB]

(2009) Dekai Wu & Pascale Fung: Semantic roles for SMT: a hybrid two-pass model.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.13-16. [PDF, 286KB]

(2009) Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang: Revisiting pivot language approach for machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.154-162. [PDF, 459KB]

(2009) Tong Xiao, Mu Li, Dongdong Zhang, Jingbo Zhu, & Ming Zhou: Better synchronous binarization for machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.362-370. [PDF, 637KB]

(2009) Tong Xiao, Rushan Chen, Tianning Li, Muhua Zhu, Jingbo Zhu, Huizhen Wang & Feiliang Ren: NEUTrans: a phrase-based SMT system for CWMT2009. CWMT 2009: the 5th China Workshop on Machine Translation, Nanjing, China, October 16-17, 2009; 7pp. [PDF, 55KB]

(2009) Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw & Haizhou Li: Efficient beam thresholding for statistical machine translation. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 363-370. [PDF, 92KB]

(2009) Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw & Haizhou Li: A source dependency model for statistical machine translation. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 371-378. [PDF, 87KB]

(2009) Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw & Haizhou Li: A syntax-driven bracketing model for phrase-based translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.315-323. [PDF, 441KB]

(2009) Hao Xiong, Wenwen Xu, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu, & Qun Liu: Sub-sentence division for tree-based machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Short Papers, Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009; pp.137-140. [PDF, 126KB]

(2009) Peng Xu, Jaeho Kang, Michael Ringgard, & Franz Och: Using a dependency parser to improve SMT for subject-object-verb languages. NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.245-253. [PDF, 273KB]

(2009) Sirvan Yahyaei & Christof Monz: Decoding by dynamic chunking for statistical machine translation. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.160-167. [PDF, 127KB]

(2009) Fan Yang, Jun Zhao, & Kang Liu: A Chinese-English organization name translation system using heuristic web mining and asymmetric alignment. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.387-395. [PDF, 178KB]

(2009) Mei Yang & Jing Zheng: Toward smaller, faster, and better hierarchical phrase-based SMT. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Short Papers, Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009; pp.237-240. [PDF, 140KB]

(2009) Zdeněk Žabokrtský & Martin Popel: Hidden Markov tree model in dependency-based machine translation. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Short Papers, Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009; pp.145-148. [PDF, 154KB]

(2009) Mikhail Zaslavskiy, Marc Dymetman, & Nicola Cancedda: Phrase-based statistical machine translation as a traveling salesman problem. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.333-341. [PDF, 331KB]

(2009) Hui Zhang, Huashen Liang, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, & Chew Lim Tan: The forest-based tree sequence to string SMT system for CWMT-2009. CWMT 2009: the 5th China Workshop on Machine Translation, Nanjing, China, October 16-17, 2009; 7pp. [PDF, 184KB]

(2009) Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, & Chew Lim Tan: Fast translation rule matching for syntax-based statistical machine translation. EMNLP-2009: proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009; pp.1037-1045. [PDF, 262KB]

(2009) Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, Aiti Aw, Chew Lim Tan: Forest-based tree sequence to string  translation model. [ACL-IJCNLP-2009] Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009; pp.172-180. [PDF, 254KB]

(2009) Ying Zhang & Nguyen Bach: Virtual Babel: towards context-aware machine translation in virtual worlds. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp. 387-394. [PDF, 290KB]

(2009) Yuqi Zhang, Evgeny Matusov, & Hermann Ney: Are unaligned words important for machine translation? EAMT-2009: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, ed. Lluís Mŕrquez and Harold Somers, 14-15 May 2009, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; pp.226-233. [PDF, 388KB]

(2009) Bing Zhao & Shengyuan Chen: A simplex Armijo downhill algorithm for optimizing statistical machine translation decoding parameters.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.21-24. [PDF, 601KB]

(2009) Yong Zhao & Xiaodong He: Using n-gram based features for machine translation system combination.  NAACL HLT 2009. Human Language Technologies: the 2009 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado, May 31 - June 5, 2009; pp.205-208. [PDF, 357KB]

(2009) Jing Zheng, Necip Fazil Ayan, Wen Wang, & David Burkett: Using syntax in large-scale audio document translation. Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, UK; abstract [PDF]

(2009) Ali Zogheib: Genetic algorithm-based multi-word automatic language translation. (IIS-2009) Recent Advances in Intelligent Information Systems, ed. M.A.Klopotek, A. Przepiórkowski, S.T. Wierzchon, K. Trojanowski, Kraków, Poland, June 15-18, 2009; pp.751-760. [PDF, 141KB]

(2008) ACL-08: HLT. Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings, June 19, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (ACL WMT-08).

(2008) see IWSLT 2008: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 20-21 October 2008, Hawaii, USA.

(2008) proceedings of SSST-2: Second Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, David Chiang and Dekai Wu (editors), ACL-08: HLT, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 20 June 2008.

(2008) Tomoyosi Akiba, Kei Shimizu, & Atsushi Fujii: Statistical machine translation based passage retrieval for cross-lingual question answering. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.751-756. [PDF, 604KB]

(2008) A.Allauzen & H.Bonneau-Maynard: Training and evaluation of POS taggers on the French MULTITAG corpus. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 5pp. [PDF, 113KB]

(2008) Vamshi Ambati & Alon Lavie: Improving syntax driven translation models by re-structuring divergent and non-isomorphic parse tree structures. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.235-244 [PDF, 734KB]

(2008) Karunesh Arora, Michael Paul & Eiichiro Sumita: Translation of unknown words in phrase-based statistical machine translation for languages of rich morphology. First International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU-2008), Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, May 5-7, 2008; pp. 70-75. [PDF, 187KB]

(2008) Eleftherios Avramidis & Philipp Koehn: Enriching morphologically poor languages for statistical machine translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 763-770. [PDF, 685KB]

(2008) Necip Fazil Ayan, Jing Zheng, & Wen Wang: Improving alignments for better confusion networks for combining machine translation systems. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.33-40. [PDF, 228KB]

(2008) Toni Badia, Maite Melero, & Oriol Valentin: Rapid deployment of a new METIS language pair: Catalan-English. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 4pp. [PDF, 122KB]

(2008) Ibrahim Badr, Rabih Zbib, & James Glass: Segmentation for English-to-Arabic statistical machine translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Short papers., June 16-17, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 153-156. [PDF, 89KB]

(2008) Kalika Bali, Sankaran Baskaran, & A.Kumaran: A dependency treelet-based phrasal SMT: evaluation and issues in English-Hindi language pair.  ICON-2008: 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, CDAC Pune, India, 20-22 December 2008; 10pp. [PDF, 292KB]

(2008) Rafael E. Banchs & Haizhou Li: Exploring Spanish-morphology effects on Chinese-Spanish SMT. MATMT 2008: Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation, Donostia-San Sebastian [Spain], February 14th 2008: Proceedings; pp. 49-53. [PDF, 263KB]

(2008) Alberto Barrón-Cedeńo, Paolo Rosso, David Pinto, & Alfons Juan: On cross-lingual plagiarism analysis using a statistical model. ECAI 2008 Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship and Social Software Misuse, July 22, Patras, Greece; 5pp. [PDF, 132KB]

(2008) Nicola Bertoldi: A tutorial on the IRSTLM library. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 34 slides. [PDF, 401KB]

(2008) Alexandra Birch, Miles Osborne, & Philipp Koehn: Predicting success in machine translation.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.745-754. [PDF, 405KB]

(2008) Graeme Blackwood, Adriŕ de Gispert, Jamie Brunning, & William Byrne: Large-scale statistical machine translation with weighted finite state transducers. FSMNLP 2008: Seventh International Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, Ispra, Italy, 11-12 September 2009; 12pp. [PDF, 361KB]

(2008) Graeme Blackwood, Adriŕ de Gispert, & William Byrne: Phrasal segmentation models for statistical machine translation. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Posters and demonstrations, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.19-22. [PDF, 112KB]

(2008) Phil Blunsom & Miles Osborne: Probabilistic inference for machine translation.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.215-223. [PDF, 283KB]

(2008) Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, & Miles Osborne: A discriminative latent variable model for statistical machine translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 200-208. [PDF, 210KB]

 (2008) Ondřej Bojar: Exploiting linguistic data in machine translation. Doctoral thesis, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague 2008; 135pp. [PDF, 1045KB]

(2008) Ralf D.Brown: Exploiting document-level context for data-driven machine translation. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.46-55. [PDF, 496KB]

(2008) Chris Callison-Burch: Syntactic constraints on paraphrases extracted from parallel corpora. EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.196-205. [PDF, 187KB]

(2008) Nicola Cancedda: Shaping research from user requirements, and other exotic things. [Abstract of] Invited talk at: EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; p.4. [PDF, 449KB]

(2008) Michael Carl: Using log-linear models for selecting best machine translation output. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 8pp. [PDF, 255KB]

(2008) Maxine Carpuat & Dekai Wu: Evaluation of context-dependent phrasal translation lexicons for statistical machine translation. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 8pp. [PDF, 122KB]

(2008) Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico, Daniele Pighin, & Nicola Bertoldi: Shallow-syntax phrase-based translation: joint versus factored string-to-chunk models. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp. 56-64. [PDF, 176KB]

(2008) Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, & Haizhou Li: Regenerating hypotheses for statistical machine translation. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.105-112. [PDF, 99KB]

(2008) Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, & Haizhou Li: Exploiting n-best hypotheses for SMT self-enhancement. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Short papers, June 16-17, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 157-160. [PDF, 96KB]

(2008) Yu Chen, Andreas Eisele, & Martin Kay: Improving statistical machine translation efficiency by triangulation.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 6pp. [PDF, 122KB]

(2008) Colin Cherry: Cohesive phrase-based decoding for statistical machine translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 72-80. [PDF, 179KB]

(2008) Colin Cherry & Chris Quirk: Discriminative, syntactic language modeling through latent SVMs. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.65-74. [PDF, 609KB]

(2008) Ze-Jung Chuang & Yuen-Hsien Tseng: NTCIR-7 experiments in patent translation based on open-source statistical machine translation tools. Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 423-424. [PDF, 365KB]

(2008) Jorge Civera & Alfons Juan-Ciscar: Bilingual text classification using the IBM 1 translation model.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 4pp. [PDF, 77KB]

(2008) Marta R. Costa-jussŕ & José A.R.Fonollosa: Computing multiple weighted reordering hypotheses for a statistical machine translation phrase-based system. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.82-88. [PDF, 623KB]

(2008) Marta R.Costa-jussŕ, José A.R.Fonollosa, & Enric Monte: Using reordering in statistical machine translation based on recursive alignment block classification.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 6pp. [PDF, 96KB]

(2008) John DeNero, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, & Dan Klein: Sampling alignment structure under a Bayesian translation model.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.314-323. [PDF, 356KB]

(2008) Christopher Dyer, Smaranda Muresan, & Philip Resnik: Generalizing word lattice translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 1012-1020 . [PDF, 201KB]

(2008) Chris Dyer, Alex Mont, Aaron Cordova, & Jimmy Lin: SMT model building with MapReduce. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 91 slides. [PDF, 1850KB]

(2008) Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Communicating unknown words in machine translation.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 6pp. [PDF, 303KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele: Hybrid architectures for machine translation. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 29 slides. [PDF, 1167KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Hybrid machine translation architectures within and beyond the EuroMatrix project. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.27-34. [PDF, 552KB]

(2008) Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, & Yu Chen: Hybrid architectures for multi-engine machine translation. Translating and the Computer 30, 27-28 November 2008, London; 12pp. [PDF, 170KB]

(2008) Jakob Elming: Syntactic reordering integrated with phrase-based SMT. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.209-216. [PDF, 140KB]

(2008) Emil Ettelaie, Panayiotis G.Georgiou, & Shrikanth S.Narayanan: Mitigation of data sparsity in classifier-based translation. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications, 23 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.1-4. [PDF, 138KB]

(2008) Andrew Finch & Eiichiro Sumita: Phrase-based machine transliteration. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; 6pp. [PDF, 203KB]

(2008) Victoria Fossum & Kevin Knight: Using bilingual Chinese-English word alignments to resolve PP-attachment ambiguity in English. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.245-253 [PDF, 595KB]

(2008) Alex Fraser: Improved word alignments for statistical machine translation. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 28 slides. [PDF, 174KB]

(2008) Atsushi Fujii, Masao Utiyama, Mikio Yamamoto, & Takehito Utsuro: Toward the evaluation of machine translation using patent information.  AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.97-106. [PDF, 649KB]

(2008) Michel Galley & Christopher D.Manning: A simple and effective hierarchical phrase reordering model. EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.848-856. [PDF, 230KB]

(2008) Kuzman Ganchev, Joăo V. Graça, & Ben Taskar: Better alignments = better translations? ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 763-770. [PDF, 685KB]

(2008) Jorge González & Francisco Casacuberta: A finite-state framework for log-linear models in machine translation. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.41-46. [PDF, 514KB]

(2008) Jorge González & Francisco Casacuberta: Linguistic categorisation in machine translation using stochastic finite state transducers. MATMT 2008: Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation, Donostia-San Sebastian [Spain], February 14th 2008: Proceedings; pp. 55-62. [PDF, 321KB]

(2008) Fabrizio Gotti, Guy Lapalme, Elliott Macklovitch, & Atefeh Farzindar: Automatic translation of court judgments.  AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp. 370-379. [PDF, 1130KB]

(2008)  Nizar Habash & Hayden Metsky: Automatic learning of morphological variations for handling out-of-vocabulary terms in Urdu-English machine translation. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.107-116. [PDF, 551KB]

(2008) Nizar Habash: Four techniques for online handling of out-of-vocabulary words in Arabic-English statistical machine translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Short papers, June 16-17, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 57-60. [PDF, 81KB]

(2008) Saša Hasan, Juri Ganitkevitch, Hermann Ney, & Jesús Andrés-Ferrer:  Triplet lexicon models for statistical machine translation.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.372-381. [PDF, 181KB]

(2008) Saša Hasan & Hermann Ney: A multi-genre SMT system for Arabic to French. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 4pp. [PDF, 103KB]

(2008) Xiaodong He, Mei Yang, Jianfeng Gao, Patrick Nguyen, & Robert Moore: Indirect HMM-based hypothesis alignment for combining outputs from machine translation systems.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.98-107. [PDF, 280KB]

(2008) Yanqing He & Chengqing Zong: A generalized reordering model for phrase-based statistical machine translation. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.117-124. [PDF, 661KB]

(2008) Zhongjun He, Qun Liu, & Shouxun Lin: Improving statistical machine translation using lexicalized rule selection.  Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.321-328. [PDF, 134KB]

 (2008) Zhongjun He, Qun Liu, & Shouxun Lin: Partial matching strategy for phrase-based statistical machine translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Short papers, June 16-17, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 161-164. [PDF, 300KB]

(2008) Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, & Hal Daumé III: Name translation in statistical machine translation: learning when to transliterate. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 389-397. [PDF, 107KB]

(2008) Almut Silja Hildebrand & Stephan Vogel: Combination of machine translation systems via hypothesis selection from combined n-best lists. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.254-261 [PDF, 681KB]

(2008) Almut Silja Hildebrand, Kay Rottmann, Mohamed Noamany, Qin Gao, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Nguyen Bach, & Stephan Vogel: Recent improvements in the CMU large scale Chinese-English SMT system. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Short papers, June 16-17, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 77-80. [PDF, 117KB]

(2008) Hieu Hoang & Philipp Koehn: Design of the Moses decoder for statistical machine translation. ACL-08 HLT: Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing, June 20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp.58-65. [PDF, 137KB]

(2008) Reginald L.Hobbs & Clare R.Voss: Designing and executing machine translation workflows through the Kepler framework. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.380-389.  [PDF of PPT presentation, 1204KB]

(2008) Young-Sook Hwang, YoungKil Kim, & SangKyu Park: Paraphrasing depending on bilingual context toward generalization of translation knowledge. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.327-334. [PDF, 952KB]

(2008) Tatsuhiro Hyodo & Tomoyosi Akiba: Statistical machine translation based passage retrieval – experiment at NTCIR-7 IR4QA task. Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp.162-164. [PDF, 429KB]

(2008) Hitoshi Isahara, Masao Utiyama, Eiko Yamamoto, Akira Terada, & Yasumori Abe: Application of resource-based machine translation to real business scenes. LREC 2008: 6th Language Reso urces and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 4pp. [PDF, 65KB]

(2008) Masaki Itagaki & Takako Aikawa: Post-MT term swapper: supplementing a statistical machine translation system with a user dictionary.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 5pp. [PDF, 352KB]

(2008) Takeshi Ito, Tomoyosi Akiba, & Katunobu Itou: Effect of the topic dependent translation models for patent translation – experiment at NTCIR-7. Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 425-429. [PDF, 365KB]

(2008) Michael Jellinghaus: A data-driven approach to deep machine translation. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 28 slides. [PDF, 405KB]

(2008) Arnar Jensson, Koji Iwano, & Sadaoki Furui: Development of a speech recognition system for Icelandic using machine translated text. First International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU-2008), Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, May 5-7, 2008; pp. 18-21. [PDF, 116KB]

(2008) Long Jiang & Ming Zhou: Generating Chinese couplets using a statistical MT approach. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.377-384. [PDF, 284KB]

(2008) Andreas Kathol & Jing Zheng: Strategies for building a Farsi-English SMT system from limited resources. Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008; pp.2731-2734; abstract [PDF, 62KB]

(2008) Jason Katz-Brown & Michael Collins: Syntactic reordering in preprocessing for Japanese®English translation: MIT system description for NTCIR-7 patent translation task. Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 409-414. [PDF, 424KB]

(2008) Philipp Koehn: Introduction to statistical machine translation. 28 November 2008, Edinburgh University; 214 slides [PDF of PPT, 1273KB]

(2008) Philipp Koehn: Introduction to statistical machine translation. [Presented at] CWMT’2008: the 4th China Workshop on Machine Translation, November 28, 2008, Beijing; 214 slides [PDF of PPT, 1273KB]

(2008) Philipp Koehn & Chris Callison-Burch: Statistical machine translation. Course material, 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2008), Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany, 4-15 August 2008; 144 slides [PDF of PPT presentation, 4803KB]

(2008) Muntsin Kolss, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Stream decoding for simultaneous spoken language translation. Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008; pp.2735-2738; abstract [PDF, 58KB]

(2008) Hiroyuki Kumai, Hirohiko Sagawa, & Yasutsugu Morimoto: NTCIR-7 patent translation experiments at Hitachi.  Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 441-444. [PDF, 429KB]

(2008) Antonio L.Lagarda & Francisco Casacuberta: Applying boosting to statistical machine translation. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.88-96. [PDF, 631KB]

(2008) Caroline Lavecchia, David Langlois, & Kamel Smaili: Phrase-based machine translation based on simulated annealing. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 7pp. [PDF, 96KB]

(2008) Jonghoon Lee, Donghyeon Lee & Gary Geunbae Lee: A transformation-based sentence-splitting method for statistical machine translation. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; 6pp. [PDF, 195KB]

(2008) Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov, & Hermann Ney: Complexity of finding the BLEU-optimal hypothesis in a confusion network.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.839-847. [PDF, 255KB]

(2008) Jin-Ji Li, Hwi-Dong Na, Hankyong Kim, Chang-Hu Jin, & Jong-Hyeok Lee: The POSTECH statistical machine translation systems for NTCIR-7 patent translation task. Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 445-449. [PDF, 666KB]

(2008) Kai Li & Yuejie Zhang: Efficient statistical machine translation algorithm based on IBM model 4. Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 450-453. [PDF, 394KB]

(2008) Zhifei Li & Sanjeev Khudanpur: Large-scale discriminative n-gram language models for statistical machine translation. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.133-142. [PDF, 643KB]

(2008) Zhou-Jun Li, Wen-Han Chao, & Yue-Xin Chen: An example-based decoder for spoken language machine translation. IJCNLP 2008: Sixth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Proceedings of the workshop, 11-12 January 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.1-8. [PDF, 413KB]

(2008) Dekang Lin, Shaojun Zhao, Benjamin Van Durme, & Marius Paşca: Mining parenthetical translations from the web by word alignment. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 994-1002.

(2008) Qun Liu, Zhongjun He, Yang Liu, & Shouxun Lin: Maximum entropy based rule selection model for syntax-based statistical machine translation.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.89-97. [PDF, 916KB]

(2008) Adam Lopez: Statistical machine translation. ACM Computing Surveys 40 (3), art. 8, August 2008; pp. 1-49. [abstract, PDF, 12KB]

(2008) Adam David Lopez: Machine translation by pattern matching. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. 138pp. [PDF, 1171KB]

(2008) Adam Lopez: Tera-scale translation models via pattern matching. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.505-512. [PDF, 86KB]

(2008) Adam Lopez: Translation by pattern matching. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 109 slides. [PDF, 174KB]

(2008) Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Ignacio Thayer, & Jakob Uszkoreit: Lattice-based minimum error rate training for statistical machine translation.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.725-734. [PDF, 304KB]

(2008) Nitin Madnani, Philip Resnik, Bonnie J.Dorr, & Richard Schwartz: Are multiple reference translations necessary? Investigating the value of paraphrased reference translations in parameter optimization. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.143-152. [PDF, 655KB]

(2008) Yuval Marton & Philip Resnik: Soft syntactic constraints for hierarchical phrased-based translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 1003-1011. [PDF, 153KB]

(2008) Arne Mauser, Saša Hasan, & Hermann Ney: Automatic evaluation measures for statistical machine translation – system optimization.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 4pp. [PDF, 74KB]

(2008) Aurélien Max, Rafik Makhloufi, & Philippe Langlais: Explorations in using grammatical dependencies for contextual phrase translation disambiguation. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.114-119. [PDF, 568KB]

 (2008) Arul Menezes & Chris Quirk: Syntactic models for structural word insertion and deletion.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.735-744. [PDF, 178KB]

(2008) Haitao Mi, Liang Huang, & Qun Liu: Forest-based translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 192-199. [PDF, 185KB]

(2008) Haitao Mi & Liang Huang: Forest-based translation rule extraction.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.206-214. [PDF, 170KB]

(2008) Michael Mohler & Rada Mihalcea: BABYLON parallel text builder: gathering parallel texts for low-density languages. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 4pp. [PDF, 63KB]

(2008) Robert C.Moore & Chris Quirk: Random restarts in minimum error rate training for statistical machine translation.  Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.585-592. [PDF, 552KB]

(2008) Yohei Morishita, Takehito Utsuro, & Mikio Yamamoto: Integrating a phrase-based SMT model and a bilingual lexicon for human in semi-automatic acquisition of technical term translation lexicon. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.153-162. [PDF, 988KB]

(2008) Jin’ichi Murakami, Masato Tokuhisa, & Satoru Ikehara: Statistical machine translation with long phrase table and without long parallel sentences. Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 454-461. [PDF, 538KB]

(2008) Preslav Nakov: Improved statistical machine translation using monolingual paraphrases. ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 21-25, Patras, Greece; pp.338-342. [PDF, 199KB]

(2008) Hermann Ney: Statistical machine translation: where do we stand? [abstract]. Invited talk at SLTC 2008: Second Swedish Language Technology Conference, November 20-21, 2008, Stockholm; p.37. [PDF, 227KB]

(2008) Thai Phuong Nguyen, Akira Shimazu, Tu-Bao Ho, Minh Le Nguyen, & Vinh Van Nguyen: A tree-to-string phrase-based model for statistical machine translation. CoNLL: proceedings of the  Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 16-17 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.143-150. [PDF, 392KB]

(2008) ThuyLinh Nguyen & Stephan Vogel: Context-based Arabic morphological analysis for machine translation. CoNLL: proceedings of the  Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 16-17 August 2008, Manchester, UK; pp.135-142. [PDF, 123KB]

(2008) Lene Offersgaard, Claus Povlsen, Lisbeth Almsten, & Bente Maegaard: Domain specific MT in use. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.150-159. [PDF, 554KB]

(2008) Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Ismael García-Varea, & Francisco Casacuberta: Phrase-level alignment generation using a smoothed loglinear phrase-based statistical alignment model. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.160-169. [PDF, 536KB]

(2008) Alexandre Patry & Philippe Langlais: MISTRAL: a statistical machine translation decoder for speech recognition lattices.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 6pp. [PDF, 265KB]

(2008) Michael Paul, Hideo Okuma, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita, Shigeki Matsuda, Tohru Shimizu, & Satoshi Nakamura: Multilingual mobile-phone translation services for world travelers. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Posters and demonstrations, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.165-168. [PDF, 373KB]

(2008) Slav Petrov, Aria Haghighi, & Dan Klein: Coarse-fine syntactic machine translation using language projections.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.108-116. [PDF, 306KB]

(2008) John F.Pitrelli, Burn L.Lewis, Edward A.Epstein, Martin Franz, Daniel Kiecza, Jerome L.Quinn, Ganesh Ramaswamy, Amit Srivastava, & Paola Virga: Aggregating distributed STT, MT, and information extraction engines: the GALE interoperability-demo system. Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008; pp.2743-2746; abstract [PDF, 63KB]

(2008) John F.Pitrelli, Burn L.Lewis, Edward A.Epstein, Jerome L.Quinn, & Ganesh Ramaswamy: A data format enabling interoperation of speech recognition, translation and information extraction engines: the GALE type system. Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008; pp.1654-1657; abstract [PDF, 67KB]

(2008) Matt Post & Daniel Gildea: Parsers as language models for statistical machine translation. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.172-181. [PDF, 538KB]

(2008) Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Jayprasad Hegde, Ritesh M.Shah, & Sasikumar M: Simple syntactic and morphological processing can help English-Hindi statistical machine translation. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.513-520. [PDF, 368KB]

(2008) Hammam Riza & Oskar Riandi: Toward Asian speech translation system: developing speech recognition and machine translation for Indonesian language. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; 6pp. [PDF, 81KB]

(2008) Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Jorge Civera, Francisco Casacuberta, Enrique Vidal, & Hieu Hoang: Improving interactive machine translation via mouse actions. EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.485-494. [PDF, 148KB]

(2008) Germán Sanchis & Joan A. Sanchis: Vocabulary extension via PoS information for SMT. MATMT 2008: Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation, Donostia-San Sebastian [Spain], February 14th 2008: Proceedings; pp. 63-70. [PDF, 379KB]

(2008) Germán Sanchis-Trilles & Joan Andreu Sánchez: Using parsed corpora for estimating stochastic inversion transduction grammars.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 3pp. [PDF, 48KB]

(2008) Tim Schlippe, ThuyLinh Nguyen, & Stephan Vogel: Diacritization as a machine translation problem and as a sequence labeling problem. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.270-278 [PDF, 701KB]

(2008) Lane Schwartz: Multi-source translation methods. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.279-288 [PDF, 650KB]

(2008) Holger Schwenk: Smoothing and data selection in large SMT systems. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 30 slides. [PDF, 276KB]

(2008) Holger Schwenk & Yannick Esteve: Data selection and smoothing in an open-source system for the 2008 NIST machine translation evaluation. Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008; pp.2727-2730; abstract [PDF, 64KB]

(2008) Holger Schwenk & Philipp Koehn: Large and diverse language models for statistical machine translation. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.661-666. [PDF, 364KB]

(2008) Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, & Ralph Weischedel: A new string-to-dependency machine translation algorithm with a target dependency language model. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 577-585. [PDF, 147KB]

(2008) Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, & Richard Schwartz: Language and translation model adaptation using comparable corpora. EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.857-866. [PDF, 132KB]

(2008) Sara Stymne & Maria Holmqvist: Processing of Swedish compounds for phrase-based statistical machine translation. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.182-191. [PDF, 532KB]

(2008) Jean Tavernier, Rosa Cowan, & Michelle Vanni: Holy Moses! Leveraging existing tools and resources for entity translation.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 5pp. [PDF, 74KB]

(2008) Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki, & Achim Ruopp: Applying morphology generation models to machine translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 514-522. [PDF, 586KB]

(2008) Roy W.Tromble, Shankar Kumar, Franz Och, & Wolfgang Macherey: Lattice minimum Bayes-risk decoding for statistical machine translation. EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.620-629. [PDF, 285KB]

(2008) Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki, & Jun’ichi Tsujii: Building a bilingual lexicon using phrase-based statistical machine translation via a pivot language. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Posters and demonstrations, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.127-130. [PDF, 115KB]

(2008) Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki, & Jun’ichi Tsujii: Building a bilingual lexicon using phrase-based statistical machine translation via a pivot language. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Posters and demonstrations, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.127-130. [PDF, 115KB]

(2008) Rohini U, Vamshi Ambati, & Vasudev Varma: Statistical machine translation models for personalized search. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.521-528. [PDF, 432KB]

(2008) Nicola Ueffing, Jens Stephan, Evgeny Matusov, Loďc Dugast, George Foster, Roland Kuhn, Jean Senellart, & Jin Yang: Tighter integration of rule-based and statistical MT in serial system combination. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.913-920. [PDF, 205KB]

 (2008) Jakob Uszkoreit & Thorsten Brants: Distributed word clustering for large scale class-based language modelling in machine translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 755-762. [PDF, 222KB]

(2008) Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Noah A. Smith, & Stephan Vogel: Wider pipelines: n-best alignments and parses in MT training. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.192-201. [PDF, 614KB]

(2008) Martin Volk: The automatic translation of film subtitles: a machine translation success story? In: J.Nivre, M.Dahllöf, and B.Megyesi (eds.) Resourceful language technology: Festschrift in honor of Anna Sĺgvall Hein, Uppsala University, 2008; pp. 202-214. [PDF, 44KB]

(2008) Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, & Hideki Isozaki: NTT SMT system 2008 at NTCIR-7.  Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 420-422. [PDF, 389KB]

(2008) Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, & Chengqing Zong: Domain adaptation for statistical machine translation with domain dictionary and monolingual corpora. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.993-1000. [PDF, 182KB]

(2008) Xianchao Wu, Naoaki Okazaki, Takashi Tsunakawa, & Jun’ichi Tsujii: Improving English-to-Chinese translation for technical terms using morphological information. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.202-211 [PDF, 799KB]

(2008) Xiao Tong, Chen Rushan, Li Tianning, Ren Feiliang, Zhang Zhuyu, Zhu Jingbo, & Wang Huizhen: Technical report of NEUNLPLab system for CWMT08. CWMT’2008: the 4th China Workshop on Machine Translation, November 27-28, 2008, Beijing; 20 slides [PDF of PPT, 169KB]

(2008) Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, & Haizhou Li: Linguistically annotated BTG for statistical machine translation. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.1009-1016. [PDF, 141KB]

(2008) Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, & Haizhou Li: A linguistically annotated reordering model for BTG-based statistical machine translation. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Short papers, June 16-17, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 149-152. [PDF, 319KB]

(2008) Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu, & Shouxun Liu: Refinements in BTG-based statistical machine translation. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.505-512. [PDF, 336KB]

(2008) Jia Xu, Jianfeng Gao, Kristina Toutanova, & Hermann Ney: Bayesian semi-supervised Chinese word segmentation for statistical machine translation. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.1017-1024. [PDF, 137KB

(2008) Yushi Xu & Stephanie Seneff: Two-stage translation: a combined linguistic and statistical machine translation framework. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.222-231 [PDF, 671B]

(2008) Eiko Yamamoto, Akira Terada, & Hitoshi Isahara: Applicability of resource-based machine translation to airplane manuals. AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.464-469. [PDF, 587KB]

(2008) Mikio Yamamoto, Jyunya Norimatsu, Mitsuru Koshikawa, Takahiro Fukutomi, Taku Nishio, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, & Takehito Utsuro: Diversion of hierarchical phrases as reordering templates. Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 466-470. [PDF, 917KB]

(2008) Keiji Yasuda, Ruiqiang Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto, & Eiichiro Sumita: Method of selecting training data to build a compact and efficient translation model. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.655-660. [PDF, 447KB]

(2008) Keiji Yasuda, Andrew Finch, Hideo Okuma, Masao Utiyama, Hirofumi Yamamoto, & Eiichiro Sumita: System description of NiCT-ATR SMT for NTCIR-7.  Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 415-419. [PDF, 430KB]

(2008) Dakun Zhang, Le Sun, & Wenbo Li: A structured prediction approach for statistical machine translation. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.649-654. [PDF, 521KB]

(2008) Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Nan Duan, Chi-Ho Li, & Ming Zhou: Measure word generation for English-Chinese SMT systems. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 89-96. [PDF, 237KB]

(2008) Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong, & Shoushan Li: Sentence type based reordering model for statistical machine translation. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.1089-1096. [PDF, 151KB]

(2008) Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, Aiti Aw, Haizhou Li, Chew Lim Tan, & Sheng Li: A tree sequence alignment-based tree-to-tree translation model. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 559-567. [PDF, 317KB]

(2008) Ruiqiang Zhang, Keiji Yasuda, & Eiichiro Sumita: Chinese word segmentation and statistical machine translation. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing 5 (2), art.4. [abstract, PDF, 13KB]

(2008) Ruiqiang Zhang & Eiichiro Sumita: Chinese unknown word translation by subword re-segmentation. IJCNLP 2008: Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India; pp.225-232. [PDF, 360KB]

(2008) Bing Zhao & Yaser Al-Onaizan: Generalizing local and non-local word-reordering patterns for syntax-based machine translation.  EMNLP 2008: Proceedings of  the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; pp.572-581. [PDF, 538KB]

(2008) Shiqi Zhao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Ting Liu, & Sheng Li: Combining multiple resources to improve SMT-based paraphrasing model. ACL-08: HLT. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Proceedings of the conference, June 15-20, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; pp. 1021-1029.

(2008) Zhu Junguo, Qi Haoliang, Yang Muyun, Li Jufeng, & Li Sheng: Patent SMT based on combined phrases for NTCIR-7.  Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan; pp. 471-474. [PDF, 448KB]

(2008) Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, Franz Och, & Jay Ponte: A systematic comparison of phrase-based, hierarchical and syntax-augmented statistical MT. Coling 2008:  22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the conference, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester UK; pp.1145-1152. [PDF, 153KB]

(2008) Simon Zwarts & Mark Dras: Morphosyntactic target language matching in statistical machine translation. Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2008 (ALTW2008): Proceedings of the Workshop, 8-10 December 2008, CSIRO ICT Centre, Hobart; pp.169-177. [PDF, 62KB]

(2007) proceedings of IWSLT 2007: International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 15-16 October 2007, Trento, Italy.

(2007) see ACL 2007: proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 23, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.

(2007) proceedings of SSST, NAACL-HLT-2007 AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, 26 April 2007, Rochester, NY.

(2007) Takako Aikawa, Lee Schwartz, Ronit King, Mo Corston-Oliver, & Carmen Lozano: Impact of controlled language on translation quality and post-editing in a statistical machine translation environment. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.1-7 [PDF, 314KB]

(2007) Tomoyosi Akiba & Kei Shimizu: Statistical machine translation based passage retrieval for cross-lingual question answering – experiments at NTCIR-6. Proceedings of NTCIR-6 Workshop Meeting, May 15-18, 2007, Tokyo, Japan; 6pp. [PDF, 192KB]

(2007) Jesús Andrés-Ferrer, Ismael Garcia-Varea, & Francisco Casacuberta: Combining translation models in statistical machine translation. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.11-20 [PDF, 505KB]; presentation [PDF, 212KB]

(2007) Jesús Andrés-Ferrer & Alfons Juan-Císcar: A phrase-based hidden Markov model approach to machine translation.  METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 11 January 2007; 6pp. [PDF, 76KB]

(2007) Abhishek Arun: Discriminative training for phrase-based machine translation. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007; 31pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 544KB]

(2007) Abhishek Arun & Philipp Koehn: Online learning methods for discriminative training of phrase based statistical machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.15-20 [PDF, 133KB]

(2007) Srinivas Bangalore, Patrick Haffner, & Stephan Kanthak: Statistical machine translation through global lexical selection and sentence reconstruction. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 152-159 [PDF, 458KB]

(2007) Thorsten Brants, Ashok C.Popat, Peng Xu, Franz J.Och, & Jeffrey Dean: Large language models in machine translation. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 858-857. [PDF, 297KB]

(2007) Matthias Buch-Kromann: Breaking the barrier of context-freeness: towards a linguistically adequate probabilistic dependency model of parallel texts. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.31-40 [PDF, 432KB]; presentation [PDF, 1285KB]

(2007) Marine Carpuat & Dekai Wu: Context-dependent phrasal translation lexicons for statistical machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.73-80 [PDF, 425KB]

(2007) Marine Carpuat & Dekai Wu: How phrase sense disambiguation outperforms word sense disambiguation for statistical machine translation. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.43-52 [PDF, 313KB]

(2007) Marine Carpuat & Dekai Wu: Improving statistical machine translation using word sense disambiguation. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 61-72. [PDF, 439KB]

(2007) Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng, & David Chiang: Word sense disambiguation improves statistical machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 33-40 [PDF, 516KB]

(2007) Jing-Shin Chang & Chun-Kai Kung: A Chinese-to-Chinese statistical machine translation model for mining synonymous simplified-traditional Chinese terms. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.81-87 [PDF, 314KB]

(2007) Pi-Chuan Chang & Kristina Toutanova: A discriminative syntactic word order model for machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 9-16 [PDF, 235KB]

(2007) Erik A. Chapla: Statistical machine translation of Japanese. MSc thesis, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, March 2007 (AFIT/GE/ENG/07-06). 96pp. [PDF, 1407KB]

(2007) Boxing Chen, Marcello Federico, & Mauro Cettolo: Better n-best translations through generative n-gram language models. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.105-110 [PDF, 77KB]

(2007) David Chiang: Hierarchical phrase-based translation. Computational Linguistics 33 (2), pp. 202-228. [PDF, 597KB]

(2007) Trevor Cohn & Mirella Lapata: Machine translation by triangulation: making effective use of multi-parallel corpora. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 728-735 [PDF, 197KB]

(2007) Marta R.Costa-jussŕ, Josep M.Crego, David Vilar, José A.R.Fonollosa, José B.Marińo, & Hermann Ney: Analysis and system combination of phrase- and N-gram-based statistical machine translation systems. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.137-140 [PDF, 169KB]

(2007) Josep M. Crego & José B. Marińo: Extending MARIE: an n-gram-based SMT decoder. ACL 2007: proceedings of demo and poster sessions, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 213-216 [PDF, 334KB]

(2007) Josep M. Crego & José B. Marińo: Syntax-enhanced n-gram-based SMT. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.111-118 [PDF, 188KB]

(2007) Paul C. Davis, Zhuli Xie, & Kevin Small: All links are not the same: evaluating word alignments for statistical machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.119-126 [PDF, 122KB]

(2007) D. Déchelotte, H.Schwenk, H.Bonneau-Maynard, A.Allauzen, & G.Adda: A state-of-the-art statistical machine translation system based on Moses. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.127-133 [PDF, 142KB]

(2007) Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight, Wei Wang & Daniel Marcu: What can syntax-based MT learn from phrase-based MT? EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 755-763. [PDF, 240KB]

(2007) John DeNero & Dan Klein: Tailoring word alignments to syntactic machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 17-24 [PDF, 415KB]

(2007) Etienne Denoual: Analogical translation of unknown words in a statistical machine translation framework. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.135-141 [PDF, 94KB]

(2007) Mona Diab, Mahmoud Ghoneim, & Nizar Habash: Arabic diacritization in the context of statistical machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.143-149 [PDF, 105KB]

(2007) Chris Dyer: Decoder-guided backoff: using word lattices to improve translation from morphologically complex languages. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007; 54pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 1158KB]

(2007) Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Estimating phrase pair relevance for translation model pruning. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.159-165 [PDF, 157KB]

(2007) Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Translation model pruning via usage statistics for statistical machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.21-24 [PDF, 93KB]

(2007) Nicola Ehling, Richard Zens, & Hermann Ney: Minimum Bayes risk decoding for BLEU.  ACL 2007: proceedings of demo and poster sessions, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 101-104 [PDF, 334KB]

(2007) Andreas Eisele: Hybrid machine translation: combining rule-based and statistical MT systems. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007; 36pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 777KB]

(2007) Daniele Falavigna, Nicola Bertoldi, Fabio Brugnara, Roldano Cattoni, Mauro Cettolo, Boxing Chen, Marcello Federico, Diego Giuliani, Roberto Gretter, Deepa Gupta, & Dino Seppi: The IRST English-Spanish translation system for European Parliament speeches. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2833-2836; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007) M. Federico: Efficient handling of n-gram language models for statistical machine translation. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007; 31pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 474KB]

(2007) Karim Filali & Jeff Bilmes: Generalized graphical abstractions for statistical machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.33-36 [PDF, 155KB]

(2007) Alexander Fraser & Daniel Marcu: Measuring word alignment quality for statistical machine translation. Computational Linguistics 33 (3), pp. 293-303. [PDF, 163KB]

(2007) Deepa Gupta, Mauro Cettolo, & Marcello Federico: POS-based reordering models for statistical machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp. 207-213 [PDF, 152KB]

(2007) Nizar Habash: Syntactic preprocessing for statistical machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.215-222 [PDF, 118KB]

(2007) Saša Hasan, Richard Zens, & Hermann Ney: Are very large n-best lists useful for SMT? NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.57-60 [PDF, 89KB]

(2007) Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima’an, & Andy Way: Supertagged phrase-based statistical machine translation.  ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 288-295 [PDF, 175KB]

(2007) Sanjika Hewavitharana, Alon Lavie, & Stephan Vogel: Experiments with a noun-phrase driven statistical machine translation system. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.247-253 [PDF, 241KB]

(2007) Hieu Hoang: Asynchronous factored translation. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007;  18pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 33KB]

(2007) Mark Hopkins & Jonas Kuhn: Deep grammars in a tree labeling approach to syntax-based statistical machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, 28 June 2007; pp.33-40 [PDF, 156KB]

(2007) Mark Hopkins & Jonas Kuhn: Machine translation as tree labeling. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007; 79pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 454KB]

(2007) Xiaoguang Hu, Haifeng Wang, & Hua Wu: Using RBMT systems to produce bilingual corpus for SMT. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 287-295. [PDF, 131KB]

(2007) Fei Huang & Kishore Papineni: Hierarchical system combination for machine translation. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 277-286. [PDF, 158KB]

(2007) Liang Huang & David Chiang: Forest rescoring: faster decoding with integrated language models. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 144-151 [PDF, 215KB]

(2007) Pierre Isabelle, Cyril Goutte, & Michel Simard: Domain adaptation of MT systems through automatic post-editing.  MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.255-261 [PDF, 151KB]

 (2007) Heng Ji & Ralph Grishman: Collaborative entity extraction and translation. In: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: selected papers from RANLP ’97, ed. Nicolas Nikolov, John Benjamins Publ.Co.: Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2000; pp.73-84. [PDF, 303KB]

(2007) J. Howard Johnson, Joel Martin, George Foster & Roland Kuhn: Improving translation quality by discarding most of the phrasetable. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 967-975. [PDF, 182KB]

(2007) Jae Dong Kim & Stephan Vogel: Iterative refinement of lexicon and phrasal alignment. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.281-288 [PDF, 121KB]

(2007) Katrin Kirchhoff, Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash, & Mona Diab: Semi-automatic error analysis for large-scale statistical machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.289-296 [PDF, 192KB]

(2007) Kevin Knight & Philipp Koehn: Statistical machine translation. Tutorial at MT Summit XI, 10 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; abstract, 1p. [PDF, 106KB]; part 1 by Philipp Koehn, 128pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 601KB]; part 2 by Kevin Knight, 180pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 2292KB]

(2007) Philipp Koehn: EuroMatrix – machine translation for all European languages. Invited talk at MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; 33pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 478KB]

(2007) Philipp Koehn & Hieu Hoang: Factored translation models. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 868-876. [PDF, 225KB]

(2007) Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch, Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Brooke Cowan, Wade Shen, Christine Moran, Richard Zens, Chris Dyer, Ondřej Bojar, Alexandra Constantin, Evan Herbst: Moses: open source toolkit for statistical machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of demo and poster sessions, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 177-180 [PDF, 119KB]

(2007) Tadashi Kumano, Hideki Tanaka, & Takenobu Tokunaga: Extracting phrasal alignments from comparable corpora by using joint probability SMT model. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.95-103 [PDF, 366KB]

(2007) Gorka Labaka, Nicolas Stroppa, Andy Way, & Kepa Sarasola: Comparing rule-based and data-driven approaches to Spanish-to-Basque machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.297-304 [PDF, 558KB]

(2007) Philippe Langlais, Alexandre Patry & Fabrizio Gotti: A greedy decoder for phrase-based statistical machine translation. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.104-113 [PDF, 302KB]; presentation [PDF, 1120KB]

(2007) Caroline Lavecchia, Kamel Smaďli, & David Langlois: Building a bilingual dictionary from movie subtitles based on inter-lingual triggers. Translating and the Computer 29. Proceedings of the twenty-ninth international conference on Translating and the Computer, 29-30 November 2007 (London: Aslib, 2007); 19pp. [PDF, 139KB]

(2007) Chi-Ho Li, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou, Minghui Li, & Yi Guan: A probabilistic approach to syntax-based reordering for statistical machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 720-727 [PDF, 7105KB]

(2007) Yang Liu, Yun Huang, Qun Liu, & Shouxun Lin: Forest-to-string statistical translation rules. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 704-711 [PDF, 198KB]

(2007) Adam Lopez: Hierarchical phrase-based translation with suffix arrays. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 976-985. [PDF, 313KB]

(2007) Yajuan Lü, Jin Huang & Qun Liu: Improving statistical machine translation performance by training data selection and optimization. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 343-350. [PDF, 235KB]

(2007) Wolfgang Macherey & Franz Josef Och: An empirical study on computing consensus translations from multiple machine translation systems. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 986-995. [PDF, 169KB]

(2007) Evgeny Matusov, Dustin Hillard, Mathew Magimai-Doss, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mari Ostendorf, & Hermann Ney: Improving speech translation with automatic boundary prediction. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2449-2452; abstract [PDF, 61KB]

(2007) Jonathan May & Kevin Knight: Syntactic re-alignment models for machine translation. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 360-368. [PDF, 180KB]

(2007) Robert C. Moore & Chris Quirk: Faster beam-search decoding for phrasal statistical machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.321-327 [PDF, 241KB]

(2007) Sara Morrissey, Andy Way, Daniel Stein, Jan Bungeroth, & Hermann Ney: Combining data-driven MT systems for improved sign language translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.329-336 [PDF, 189KB]

(2007) Hermann Ney, E.Matusov, A.Mauser, D.Vilar, & R.Zens: Statistical MT from TMI-1988 to TMI-2007: what has happened? Invited talk at TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; abstract, 2pp. [PDF, 16KB]; presentation [PDF, 245KB]

(2007) Lene Offersgaard & Claus Povlsen: Patent documentation – comparison of two MT strategies. MT Summit XI Workshop on patent translation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.19-23. [PDF, 60KB]

(2007) Hideo Okuma, Hirofumi Yamamoto, & Eiichiro Sumita: Introducing translation dictionary into phrase-based SMT. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.361-368 [PDF, 446KB]

(2007) Alicia Pérez, M.Inés Torres, M.Teresa González, & Francisco Casacuberta: An integrated architecture for speech-input multi-target machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.133-136 [PDF, 130KB]

(2007) Kristin Precoda, Jing Zheng, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco, Colleen Richey, Andreas Kathol, & Sachin Kajarekar: IraqComm: a next generation translation system. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2841-2844; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007) Chris Quirk, Raghavendra Udupa U., & Arul Menezes: Generative models of noisy translations with applications to parallel fragment extraction. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.377-384 [PDF, 249KB]

(2007) Sharath Rao, Ian Lane, & Tanja Schultz: Improving spoken language translation by automatic disfluency removal: evidence from conversational speech transcripts. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.385-389 [PDF, 140KB]

(2007) Aarthi Reddy, Richard Rose, Alain Désilets: Integration of ASR and machine translation models in a document translation task. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2457-2460; abstract [PDF, 61KB]

(2007) Stephen Richardson: Microsoft machine translation: from research to real user. Invited talk at MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; 35pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 3535KB]

(2007) Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu Mittal, & Yi Liu: Statistical machine translation for query expansion in answer retrieval. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 464-471 [PDF, 104KB]

(2007) Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Spyros Matsoukas, & Richard Schwartz: Improved word-level system combination for machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 312-319 [PDF, 135KB]

(2007) Kay Rottmann & Stephan Vogel: Word reordering in statistical machine translation with a POS-based distortion model. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.171-180 [PDF, 3725KB]; presentation [PDF, 1129KB]

(2007) Anna Sĺgvall Hein: Rule-based and statistical machine translation with a focus on Swedish [abstract]. Invited talk at TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; 1p. [PDF, 15KB]

(2007) Alberto Sanchis, Alfons Juan, & Enrique Vidal: Estimation of confidence measures for machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.407-412 [PDF, 129KB]

(2007) Germán Sanchis & Francisco Casacuberta: Reordering via n-best lists for Spanish-Basque translation. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.191-198 [PDF, 309KB]; poster [PDF, 115KB]

(2007) Ruhi Sarikaya & Yonggang Deng: Joint morphological-lexical language modeling for machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.145-148 [PDF, 157KB]

(2007) Ruhi Sarikaya, Yonggang Deng, & Yuqing Gao: Context dependent word modeling for statistical machine translation using part-of-speech tags. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.2821-2824; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007) Holger Schwenk, Marta R.Costa-jussŕ, & José A.R.Fonollosa: Smooth bilingual n-gram translation. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 858-857. [PDF, 218KB]

(2007) Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan, & Haizhou Li: Ordering phrases with function words. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 712-719 [PDF, 213KB]

(2007) Michel Simard, Cyril Goutte, & Pierre Isabelle: Statistical phrase-based post-editing. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.508-515 [PDF, 224KB]

(2007) Daniel Stein, Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney, Sara Morrissey, & Andy Way: Hand in hand: automatic sign language to English translation. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.214-220 [PDF, 280KB]; poster [PDF, 97KB]

(2007) Nicolas Stroppa, Antal van den Bosch, & Andy Way: Exploiting source similarity for SMT using context-informed features. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.231-240 [PDF, 309KB]; presentation [PDF, 149KB]

(2007) David Talbot & Miles Osborne: Randomised language modelling for statistical machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 512-519 [PDF, 176KB]

(2007) David Talbot & Miles Osborne: Smooth bloom filter language models: saving space by flipping coins. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007; 45pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 1394KB]

(2007) Yik-Cheung Tam, Ian Lane, & Tanja Schultz: Bilingual LSA-based adaptation for statistical machine translation [abstract].  Machine Translation 21 (4) December 2007; pp.187-207.

(2007) Christoph Tillmann & Tong Zhang: A block bigram prediction model for statistical machine translation. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing 4 (3), art.6. [abstract, PDF, 12KB]

(2007) Kristina Toutanova & Hisami Suzuki: Generating case markers in machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.49-56 [PDF, 168KB]

(2007) Nicola Ueffing & Hermann Ney: Word-level confidence estimation for machine translation. Computational Linguistics 33 (1), pp. 9-40. [PDF, 279KB]

(2007) Nicola Ueffing, Gholamreza Haffari, & Anoop Sarker: Semi-supervised model adaptation for statistical machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 21 (2), June 2007; pp.77-94.

(2007) Nicola Ueffing, Gholamreza Haffari, & Anoop Sarkar: Transductive learning for statistical machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 25-32 [PDF, 309KB]

(2007) Akira Ushioda: Phrase alignment for integration of SMT and RBMT resources. MT Summit XI Workshop on patent translation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.8-12. [PDF, 66KB]

(2007) Akira Ushioda: Phrase alignment based on bilingual parsing. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.241-250 [PDF, 312KB]

(2007) Masao Utiyama & Hitoshi Isahara: A comparison of pivot methods for phrase-based statistical machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.484-491 [PDF, 495KB]

(2007) Ashish Venugopal & Andreas Zollmann: Hierarchical and syntax structured MT. First Machine Translation Marathon, Edinburgh, April 16-20, 2007; 52pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 383KB]

(2007) Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, & Stephan Vogel: An efficient two-pass approach to synchronous-CFG driven statistical MT. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.500-507 [PDF, 279KB]

(2007) Sami Virpioja, Jaako J.Väyrynen, Mathias Creutz, & Markus Sadeniemi: Morphology-aware statistical machine translation based on morphs induced in an unsupervised manner. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.491-498 [PDF, 105KB]

(2007) Martin Volk & Sřren Harder: Evaluating MT with translations or translators: what is the difference? MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.499-506 [PDF, 61KB]

(2007) Chao Wang, Michael Collins, & Philipp Koehn: Chinese syntactic reordering for statistical machine translation.  EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 737-745. [PDF, 161KB]

(2007) Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor & Sandor Szedmak: Kernel regression based machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.185-188 [PDF, 134KB]

(2007) Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada, & Hideki Isozaki: Online large-margin training for statistical machine translation. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 764-773. [PDF, 199KB]

(2007) Yuk Wah Wong & Raymond J.Mooney: Generation by inverting a semantic parser that uses statistical machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.172-179 [PDF, 192KB]

(2007) Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang: Comparative study of word alignment heuristics and phrase-based SMT. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.507-514 [PDF, 168KB]

(2007) Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang: Pivot language approach for phrase-based statistical machine translation. ACL 2007: proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 856-863 [PDF, 205KB]

(2007) Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang: Pivot language approach for phrase-based statistical machine translation [abstract].  Machine Translation 21 (3), September 2007; pp.165-181.

(2007) Jia Xu, Yonggang Deng, Yuqing Gao, & Hermann Ney: Domain dependent statistical machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.515-520 [PDF, 289KB]

(2007) Hirofumi Yamamoto & Eiichiro Sumita: Bilingual cluster based models for statistical machine translation. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 514-523. [PDF, 166KB]

(2007) Keiji Yasuda, Hirofumi Yamamoto, & Eiichiro Sumita: Method of selecting training sets to build compact and efficient language model. MT Summit XI Workshop: Using corpora for natural language generation: language generation and machine translation (UCNLG+MT), 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.31-37 [PDF, 1632KB]

(2007) Richard Zens & Hermann Ney: Efficient phrase-table representation for machine translation with applications to online MT and speech translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.492-499 [PDF, 299KB]

(2007) Richard Zens, Saša Hasan, & Hermann Ney: A systematic comparison of training criteria for statistical machine translation. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 524-532. [PDF, 186KB]

(2007) Luke S. Zettlemoyer & Robert C. Moore: Selective phrase pair extraction for improved statistical machine translation. NAACL-HLT-2007 Human Language Technology: the conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY; Companion volume, pp.209-212 [PDF, 121KB]

(2007) Jerneja Žganec Gros & Stanislav Gruden: English-Slovenian statistical machine translation: from a lower- to a highly-inflected language. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.529-533 [PDF, 123KB]

(2007) Jerneja Žganec Gros & Stanislav Gruden: The VoiceTRAN machine translation system. Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007; pp.1521-1524; abstract [PDF, 23KB]

(2007) Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Chi-Ho Li, & Ming Zhou: Phrase reordering model integrating syntactic knowledge for SMT. EMNLP-CoNLL-2007: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, June 28-30, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; pp. 533-540. [PDF, 325KB]

(2007) Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, Ai Ti Aw, Jun Sun, Sheng Li, & Chew Lim Tan: A tree-to-tree alignment-based model for statistical machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.535-542 [PDF, 243KB]

(2007) Ruiqiang Zhang & Eiichiro Sumita: Boosting statistical machine translation by lemmatization and linear interpolation. ACL 2007: proceedings of demo and poster sessions, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007; pp. 181-184 [PDF, 91KB]

(2007) Ying Zhang & Stephan Vogel: PanDoRA: a large-scale two-way statistical machine translation system for hand-held devices. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.543-550 [PDF, 472KB]

(2007) Simon Zwarts & Mark Dras: Statistical machine translation of Australian aboriginal languages: morphological analysis with languages of differing morphological richness. Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007 (ALTW2007): Proceedings of the Workshop, 10-11 December 2007, Melbourne Zoo; pp.134-142. [PDF, 297KB]

(2007) Simon Zwarts & Mark Dras: Syntax-based word reordering in phrase-based statistical machine translation: why does it work? MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.559-566 [PDF, 98KB]

(2006) proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2006  Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, New York, NY, USA, June 2006. 

(2006) Statistical machine translation gets real: the LanguageWeaver profile. Global by Design, December 2006; pp. 8-19 [PDF, 2115KB]

(2006) Yaser Al-Onaizan & Kishore Papineni: Distortion models for statistical machine translation. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.529-536. [PDF, 135KB]

(2006) Srinivas Bangalore, Stephan Kanthak, & Patrick Haffner: Finite-state transducer-based statistical machine translation using joint probabilities. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 16-22 [PDF,179 KB]

(2006) Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch & Miles Osborne: Constraining the phrase-based, joint probability statistical translation model. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.10-18 [PDF, 244KB]

(2006) Phil Blunsom & Trevor Cohn: Discriminative word alignments with conditional random fields. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.65-72. [PDF, 248KB]

(2006) Chris Brockett, William B.Dolan, & Michael Gamon: Correcting ESL errors using phrasal SMT techniques.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.249-256. [PDF, 109KB]

(2006) Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn & Miles Osborne: Improved statistical machine translation using paraphrases.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 17-24 [PDF, 178KB]

(2006) Marine Carpuat, Yihai Shen, Xiaofeng Yu, & Dekai Wu: Toward integrating word sense and entity disambiguation into statistical machine translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 37-44  [PDF, 330KB]

(2006) Nicola Cancedda: SMART: research directions. [Xerox, 2006]; 3pp. [PDF, 25KB]

(2006) Roldano Cattoni, Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, Boxing Chen, & Marcello Federico: A web-based demonstrator of a multi-lingual phrase-based translation system. EACL-2006: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Posters and demonstrations, Trento, Italy, April 5-6, 2006; pp.91-94 [PDF, 184KB]

(2006) Chunguang Chai, Jinhua Du, Wei Wei, Peng Liu, Keyan Zhou, Yanqing He, & Chengqing Zong: NLPR translation system for IWSLT 2006 evaluation campaign. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 91-94 [PDF, 114KB]

(2006) Boxing Chen, Roldano Cattoni, Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, & Marcello Federico: The ITC-irst SMT system for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp.53-58  [PDF, 83KB]

(2006) Boxing Chen, Mauro Cettolo, & Marcello Federico: Reordering rules for phrase-based statistical machine translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 182-189 [PDF, 319KB]

(2006) Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi, & Changle Zhou: The XMU phrase-based statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 153-157 [PDF, 86KB]

(2006) Jorge Civera & Alfons Juan: Mixtures of IBM Model 2. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.159-167 [PDF, 142KB]

(2006) Marta R. Costa-jussŕ, Josep M. Crego, Adriŕ de Gispert, Patrik Lambert, Maxim Khalilov, José A.R.Fonollosa, José B. Marińo, & Rafael Banchs: TALP phrase-based system and TALP system combination for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 123-129 [PDF, 223KB]

(2006) Marta R. Costa-jussŕ & José A.R. Fonollosa: Statistical machine reordering.  EMNLP-2006: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, July 2006; pp. 70-76. [PDF, 254KB]

(2006) Brooke Cowan, Ivona Kučerová, & Michael Collins: A discriminative model for tree-to-tree translation.  EMNLP-2006: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, July 2006; pp. 232-241. [PDF, 338KB]

(2006) Josep M. Crego, Adriŕ de Gispert, Patrick Lambert, Maxim Khalilov, Marta R. Costa-jussŕ, José B. Marińo, Rafael Banchs, & José A.R.Fonollosa: The TALP Ngram-based SMT systems for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 116-122 [PDF, 207KB]

(2006) Josep Maria Crego & José B.Marińo: Improving statistical MT by coupling reordering and decoding [abstract]. Machine Translation 20 (3),2006; pp.199-215.

(2006) Josep M.Crego & José B.Marińo: Integration of POStag-based source reordering into SMT decoding by an extended search graph. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.29-36 [PDF, 287KB]

(2006) Brian Delaney, Wade Shen, & Timothy Anderson: An efficient graph search decoder for phrase-based statistical machine translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 197-204 [PDF, 250KB]

(2006)Yonggang Deng & William Byrne: MTTK: an alignment toolkit for statistical machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 265-268 [PDF, 135KB]

(2006) Yuan Ding & Martha Palmer: Better learning and decoding for syntax based SMT using PSDIG. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.37-45 [PDF, 391KB]

(2006) Matthias Eck, Ian Lane, Nguyen Bach, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Muntsin Kolss, Bing Zhao, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: The UKA/CMU statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 130-137 [PDF, 170KB]

(2006) Andreas Eisele: Parallel corpora and phrase-based statistical machine translation for new language pairs via multiple intermediaries.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.845-848 [PDF, 329KB]

(2006) George Foster, Roland Kuhn, & Howard Johnson: Phrasetable smoothing for statistical machine translation.  EMNLP-2006: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, July 2006; pp. 53-61. [PDF, 122KB]

(2006) Michel Galley, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Steve DeNeefe, Wei Wang, & Ignacio Thayer: Scalable inference and training of context-rich syntatic translation models.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.961-968. [PDF, 438KB]

(2006) Jesús Giménez & Lluís Mŕrquez: Low-cost enrichment of Spanish WordNet with automatically translated glosses: combing general and specialized models. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, July 2006; pp.287-294. [PDF, 108KB]

(2006) Adriŕ de Gispert & José B. Marińo: Catalan-English statistical machine translation without parallel corpus: bridging through Spanish.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.65-68. [PDF, 64KB]

(2006) Adria de Gispert & José B.Marińo: Linguistic tuple segmentation in n-gram-based statistical machine translation. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1049; abstract [PDF, 90KB]

(2006) Deepa Gupta & Marcello Federico: Exploiting word transformation in statistical machine translation from Spanish to English. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.75-80 [PDF, 140KB]

(2006) Nizar Habash, Bonnie Dorr & Christof Monz: Challenges in building an Arabic-English GHMT system with SMT components. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.56-65 [PDF, 116KB]

(2006) Nizar Habash & Fatiha Sadat: Arabic preprocessing schemes for statistical machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 49-52 [PDF, 72KB]

(2006) Saša Hasan, Oliver Bender, & Hermann Ney: Reranking translation hypotheses using structural properties.  EACL-2006: Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning Structured Informationa in Natural Language Applications, April 3, 2006, Trento, Italy; pp.41-48. [PDF, 100KB]

(2006)  Saša Hasan, Anas El Isbihani  & Hermann Ney: Creating a large-scale Arabic to French statistical machine translation system. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.855-858 [PDF, 312KB]

(2006) Bryant Huang & Kevin Knight: Relabeling syntax trees to improve syntax-based machine translation quality.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 240-247 [PDF, 747KB]

(2006) Liang Huang, Kevin Knight & Aravind Joshi: Statistical syntax-directed translation with extended domain of locality. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.66-73 [PDF, 162KB]

(2006) Liang Huang, Kevin Knight, & Aravind Joshi: A syntax-directed translator with extended domain of locality. HLT-NAACL-2006: Computationally Hard Problems and Joint Inferenec in Speech and Language Processing. Proceedings of the workshop, 9 June 2006, New York City, NY, USA; pp.1-8. [PDF, 120KB]

(2006) Dafydd Jones & Andreas Eisele: Phrase-based statistical machine translation between English and Welsh.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.75-77. [PDF, 54KB]

(2006) David Kauchak: Contributions to research on machine translation. PhD thesis, University of California, San Diego, 2006. xiv,92pp. [PDF, 491KB]

(2006) Shahram Khadivi, Richard Zens, & Hermann Ney: Integration of speech to computer-assisted translation using finite-state automata. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, July 2006; pp.467-474. [PDF, 348KB]

(2006) Katrin Kirchhoff, Kevin Duh, & Chris Lim: The University of Washington machine translation system for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 145-152  [PDF, 168KB]

(2006) Philipp Koehn: Statistical machine translation and hybrid machine translation (contribution to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 300KB]

(2006) Mamoru Komachi, Yuji Matsumoto & Masaaki Nagata: Phrase reordering for statistical machine translation based on predicate-argument structure. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 77-82 [PDF, 139KB]

(2006) Roland Kuhn, Denis Yuen, Michel Simard, Patrick Paul, George Foster, Eric Joanis, & Howard Johnson: Segment choice models: feature-rich models for global distortion in statistical machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 25-32 [PDF, 95KB]

(2006) Patrik Lambert & Rafael E. Banchs: Tuning machine translation parameters with SPSA. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 190-196  [PDF, 92KB]

(2006) Patrik Lambert & Rafael Banchs: Grouping multi-word expressions according to part-of-speech in statistical machine translation. EACL-2006: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Workshop on Multi-word expressions in a Multilingual Context, Trento, Italy, April 3, 2006; pp.9-16 [PDF, 318KB]

(2006) Philippe Langlais & Fabrizio Gotti: EBMT by tree-phrasing [abstract]. Machine Translation 20 (1),2006; pp.1-23.

(2006) Jonghoon Lee, Donghyeon Lee, & Gary Geunbae Lee: Improving phrase-based Korean-English statistical machine translation. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1371; abstract [PDF, 76KB]

(2006) Percy Liang, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Dan Klein, & Ben Taskar: An end-to-end discriminative approach to machine translation. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.761-768. [PDF, 136KB]

(2006) Yang Liu, Qun Liu, & Shouxun Lin: Tree-to-string alignment template for statistical machine translation. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.609-616. [PDF, 392KB]

(2006) Adam Lopez & Philip Resnik: Word-based alignment, phrase-based translation: what’s the link?  AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.90-99 [PDF, 183KB]

(2006) Daniel Marcu, Wei Wang, Abdessamad Echihabi, & Kevin Knight: SPMT: statistical machine translation with syntactified target language phrases. EMNLP-2006: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, July 2006; pp. 44-52. [PDF, 164KB]

(2006) Daniel Marcu & Alan K.Melby: Data-driven machine translation: a conversation with linguistics and translation studies. AMTA 2006:  7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; invited talk [PDF of PPT presentation, 998KB]; expanded version with annotations and revisions, January 2008; PDF, 768KB]

(2006) José B.Marińo, Rafael E.Banchs, Josep M.Crego, Adriŕ de Gispert, Patrik Lambert, José A.R.Fonollosa, & Marta R.Costa-jussŕ: N-gram-based machine translation.  Computational Linguistics 32 (4), pp. 528-549. [PDF, 277KB]

(2006) Sameer Maskey, Bowen Zhou, & Yuqing Gao: A phrase-level machine translation approach for disfluency detection using weighted finite state transducers. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1886; abstract [PDF, 81KB]

(2006) Evgeny Matusov, Nicola Ueffing, & Hermann Ney: Computing consensus translation from multiple machine translation systems using enhanced hypotheses alignment. EACL-2006: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, April 3-7, 2006; pp.33-40 [PDF, 91KB]

(2006) Mirjam Sepesy Maučec & Zdravko Kačič: Statistical machine translation using the IJS-ELAN corpus.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.87-90. [PDF, 117KB]

(2006) Arne Mauser, Evgeny Matusov, & Hermann Ney: Training a statistical machine translation system without GIZA++.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.714-720 [PDF, 325KB]

(2006) Arne Mauser, Richard Zens, Evgeny Matusov, Saša Hasan, & Hermann Ney: The RWTH statistical machine translation system for the IWSLT 2006 evaluation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 103-110 [PDF, 135KB]

(2006) Bart Mellebeek, Karolina Owczarzak, Declan Groves, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy Way: A syntactic skeleton for statistical machine translation. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.195-202

(2006) Dragos Stefan Munteanu & Daniel Marcu: Extracting parallel sub-sentential fragments from non-parallel corpora. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.81-88. [PDF, 1598KB]

(2006) Dragos Stefan Munteanu & Daniel Marcu: Improving machine translation performance by exploiting non-parallel corpora. Computational Linguistics 31 (4), pp. 477-504 [PDF, 1060KB]

(2006) Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, & Kazuteru Ohashi: A clustered global phrase reordering model for statistical machine translation. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.713-720. [PDF, 182KB]

(2006) Rebecca Nesson, Stuart Shieber & Alexander Rush: Induction of probabilistic synchronous tree-insertion grammars for machine translation. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.128-137 [PDF, 376KB]

(2006) Thai Phuong Nguyen & Akira Shimazu: Improving phrase-based statistical machine translation with morphosyntactic transformation [abstract]. Machine Translation 20 (3),2006; pp.147-166.

(2006) Alexandre Patry, Fabrizio Gotti, & Philippe Langlais: MOOD: a modular object-oriented decoder for statistical machine translation.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.709-714 [PDF, 281KB]

(2006) Thai Phuong Nguyen & Akira Shimazu: Improving phrase-based statistical machine translation with morpho-syntactic analysis and transformation. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.138-147 [PDF, 282KB]

(2006) Maja Popović & Hermann Ney: POS-based reorderings for statistical machine translation. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.1278-1283 [PDF, 255KB]

(2006) Maja Popović & Hermann Ney: Statistical machine translation with a small amount of bilingual training data. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.25-29. [PDF, 115KB]

(2006) Chris Quirk & Simon Corston-Oliver: The impact of parse quality on syntactically-informed statistical machine translation.  EMNLP-2006: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, July 2006; pp. 62-69. [PDF, 203KB]

(2006) Christopher Quirk & Arul Menezes: Dependency treelet translation: the convergence of statistical and example-based machine translation? [abstract] Machine Translation 20 (1),2006; pp.43-65.

(2006) Chris Quirk & Arul Menezes: Do we need phrases? Challenging the conventional wisdom in statistical machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 9-16 [PDF, 97KB]

(2006) Jason Riesa & David Yarowsky: Minimally supervised morphological segmentation with applications to machine translation. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.185-192 [PDF, 613KB]

(2006) Jason Riesa, Behrang Mohit, Kevin Knight, & Daniel Marcu: Building an English-Iraqi Arabic machine translation system for spoken utterances with limited resources. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 2012; abstract [PDF, 80KB]

(2006) Stefan Riezler & John T. Maxwell III: Grammatical machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 248-255 [PDF, 299KB]

(2006) Fatiha Sadat & Nizar Habash: Combination of Arabic preprocessing schemes for statistical machine translation.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.1-8. [PDF, 104KB]

(2006) Marcus Sammer, Kobi Reiter, Stephen Soderland, Katrin Kirchhoff & Oren Etzioni: Ambiguity reduction for machine translation: human-computer collaboration.  AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.193-202 [PDF, 247KB]

(2006) J. A. Sánchez & J. M. Benedí: Obtaining word phrases with stochastic inversion translation grammars for phrase-based statistical machine translation. EAMT-2006: 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, June 19-20, 2006, Oslo, Norway. Proceedings; p.179-186 [PDF, 129KB]

(2006) Holger Schwenk, Marta R. Costa-jussŕ & José A. R. Fonollosa: Continuous space language models for the IWSLT 2006 task. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 166-173 [PDF, 165KB]

(2006) Holger Schwenk, Daniel Dechelotte, & Jean-Luc Gauvain: Continuous space language models for statistical machine translation. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, July 2006; pp.723-730. [PDF, 508KB]

(2006) Stephanie Seneff: Combining interlingua with SMT (contribution to panel on “Hybrid machine translation”).  AMTA 2006: 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [PDF of PPT presentation, 109KB]

(2006) Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, & Tim Anderson: The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2006 MT system. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 71-76  [PDF, 804KB]

(2006) Wade Shen, Richard Zens, Nicola Bertoldi, & Marcello Federico: The JHU workshop 2006 IWSLT system. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 59-63  [PDF, 420KB]

(2006) David Smith & Charles Schafer: An overview of statistical machine translation.  Tutorial at AMTA 2006 conference, August 8, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 44pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 1081KB]

(2006) Anna Sĺgvall Hein & Per Weijnitz: Approaching a new language in machine translation – considerations in choosing a strategy. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.7-12. [PDF, 95KB]

(2006) David Stallard, Fred Choi, Kriste Krstovski, Prem Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, & Shirin Saleem: A hybrid phrase-based/statistical speech translation system. Interspeech 2006: ICSLP Ninth International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, paper 1732; abstract [PDF, 74KB]

(2006) Gary Stix: Machine translation. Statistical methods hold the promise of moving computerized translation out of the doldrums. Scientific American, March 2006; pp.92-95. [PDF, 282KB]

(2006) David Talbot & Miles Osborne: Modelling lexical redundancy for machine translation.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.969-976. [PDF, 207KB]

(2006) Christoph Tillmann: Efficient dynamic programming search algorithms for phrase-based SMT. HLT-NAACL-2006: Computationally Hard Problems and Joint Inferenec in Speech and Language Processing. Proceedings of the workshop, 9 June 2006, New York City, NY, USA; pp.9-16. [PDF, 183KB]

(2006) Christoph Tillmann & Tong Zhang: A discriminative global training algorithm for statistical MT. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.721-728. [PDF, 179KB]

(2006) Jesús Tomás & Francisco Casacuberta: Statistical phrase-based models for interactive computer-assisted translation.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, July 2006; pp.835-841. [PDF, 358KB]

(2006) Raghavendra Udupa U. & Hemanta K.Maji: Computational complexity of statistical machine translation. EACL-2006: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, April 3-7, 2006; pp.25-32 [PDF, 142KB]

(2006) Nicola Ueffing: Using monolingual source-language data to improve MT performance. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 174-181 [PDF, 103KB]

(2006) David Vilar, Maja Popovic, & Hermann Ney: AER: do we need to “improve” our alignments? International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 205-212 [PDF, 108KB]

(2006) David Vilar, Jia Xu, Luis Fernando D’Haro, & Hermann Ney: Error analysis of statistical machine translation output.  LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 May 2006; pp.697-702 [PDF, 272KB]

(2006) Wei Wang, Kevin Knight & David Marcu: Capitalizing machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 1-8 [PDF, 171KB]

(2006) Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, & Hideki Isozaki: Left-to-right target generation for hierarchical phrase-based translation.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.777-784. [PDF, 224KB]

(2006) Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada, & Hideki Isozaki: NTT statistical machine translation for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 95-102 [PDF, 118KB]

(2006) Benjamin Wellington, Joseph Turian, Chris Pike & I.Dan Melamed: Scalable purely-discriminative training for word and tree transducers. AMTA 2006: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, “Visions for the Future of Machine Translation”, August 8-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; pp.251-260 [PDF, 176KB]

(2006) Benjamin Wellington, Sonja Waxmonsky, & I.Dan Melamed: Empirical lower bounds on the complexity of translational equivalence. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.977-984. [PDF, 121KB]

(2006) Yuk Wah Wong & Raymond J. Mooney: Learning for semantic parsing with statistical machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 439-446 [PDF, 205KB]

(2006) Deyi Xiong, Qun Liu, & Shouxun Lin: Maximum entropy based phrase reordering model for statistical machine translation. Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, 17-21 July 2006; pp.521-528. [PDF, 420KB]

(2006) Mei Yang & Katrin Kirchhoff: Phrase-based backoff models for machine translation of highly inflected languages. EACL-2006: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, April 3-7, 2006; pp.41-48 [PDF, 209KB]

(2006) Hao Zhang & Daniel Gildea: Efficient search for inversion transduction grammar.  EMNLP-2006: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, July 2006; pp. 224-231. [PDF, 172KB]

(2006) Hao Zhang, Liang Huang, Daniel Gildea, & Kevin Knight: Synchronous binarization for machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 256-263 [PDF, 206KB]

(2006) Ruiqiang Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Michael Paul, Hideo Okuma, Keiji Yasuda, Yves Lepage, Etienne Denoual, Daichi Mochihashi, Andrew Finch, & Eiichiro Sumita: The NiCT-ATR statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2006. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 83-90  [PDF, 176KB]

(2006) Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: The CMU-UKA syntax augmented machine translation system for IWSLT-06. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2006], November 27-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan; pp. 138-144 [PDF, 218KB]

(2006) Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, & Stefan Vogel: Bridging the inflection morphology gap for Arabic statistical machine translation.  HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, New York, NY, USA, June 2006; pp. 201-204 [PDF, 147KB]

(2006) Simon Zwarts & Mark Dras: This phrase-based SMT system is out of order: generalized word reordering in machine translation. Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006 (ALTW2006): Proceedings of the Workshop, 30 November - 1 December 2006, University of Sydney; pp.149-156. [PDF, 86KB]

(2005) proceedings of ACL-2005: Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts – Data-driven machine translation and beyond, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 29-30 June 2005

(2005) Toni Badia, Gemma Boleda, Maite Melero, & Antoni Oliver: An n-gram approach to exploiting a monolingual corpus for machine translation MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Second Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation; pp.1-7. [PDF, 1877KB]

(2005) Oliver Bender, Saša Hasan, David Vilar, Richard Zens, & Hermann Ney: Comparison of generation strategies for interactive machine translation. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 33-40. [PDF, 83KB]

(2005) Andrea Burbank, Marine Carpuat, Stephen Clark, Markus Dreyer, Pamela Fox, Declan Groves, Keith Hall, Mary Hearne, I. Dan Melamed, Yihai Shen, Andy Way, Ben Wellington, & Dekai Wu: Final report of the 2005 Language Enginering Workshop on statistical machine translation by parsing, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Speech and Language Processing, November 12, 2005. 67pp. [PDF, 645KB]

(2005) Clara Cabezas & Philip Resnick: Using WSD techniques for lexical selection in statistical machine translation. College Park, ND: Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, July 2005 (CS-TR-4736, LAMP-TR-124, UMIACS-TR-2005-42) 12pp. [PDF, 240KB]

(2005) Chris Callison-Burch & Philipp Koehn: Introduction to statistical machine translation, [lecture 1]. ESSLLI-2005: 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-19 August 2005; 14pp. [PDF of PPT presentation, 296KB]; lecture 2: theory and praxis of decoding, by Philipp Koehn, 9pp. [PDF, 92KB]; lecture 3: word alignment and phrase models, by Philipp Koehn, 8pp. [PDF, 121KB]; lecture 4: evaluation of translation quality, by Chris Callison-Burch, 10pp. [PDF, 226KB]; lecture 5: syntax-based models, by Philipp Koehn, 7pp. [PDF, 70KB]

(2005) Chris Callison-Burch, Colin Bannard, & Josh Schroeder: Scaling phrase-based statistical machine translation to larger corpora and longer phrases. ACL-2005: 43rd Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-30 June 2005; pp.255-262. [PDF, 151KB]

(2005) Chris Callison-Burch, Colin Bannard, & Josh Schroeder: A compact data structure for searchable translation memories. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 59-65. [PDF, 135KB]

(2005) Michael Carl: A system-theoretical view of EBMT [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp.229-249.

(2005) Marine Carpuat & Dekai Wu: Evaluating the word sense disambiguation performance of statistical machine translation. IJCNLP-05: Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 11-13 October 2005, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea; pp.120-125. [PDF, 93KB]

(2005) Marine Carpuat & Dekai Wu: Word sense disambiguation vs. statistical machine translation. ACL-2005: 43rd Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-30 June 2005; pp. 387-394. [PDF, 78KB]

 (2005) M. Cettolo, M. Federico, N. Bertoldi, R. Cattoni & B. Chen: A look inside the ITC-irst SMT system. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.451-457. [PDF, 217KB]

(2005) Boxing Chen, Roldano Cattoni, Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, & Marcello Federico: The ITC-irst SMT system for IWSLT-2005. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 14 slides [PDF of PPT, 168KB]

(2005) David Chiang: A hierarchical phrase-based model for statistical machine translation. ACL-2005: 43rd Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-30 June 2005; pp. 263-270. [PDF, 203KB]

(2005) David Chiang, Adam Lopez, Nitin Madnani, Christof Monz, Philip Resnik, & Michael Subotin: The Hiero machine translation system: extensions, evaluation and analysis. HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 779-786. [PDF, 227KB]

(2005) Michael Collins, Philipp Koehn, & Ivona Kučerová: Clause restructuring for statistical machine translation. ACL-2005: 43rd Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-30 June 2005; pp. 531-540. [PDF, 129KB]

(2005) Marta R. Costa-jussŕ, José A. R. Fonollosa: Tuning a phrase-based statistical translation system for the IWSLT 2005 Chinese to English and Arabic to English tasks. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 6pp. [PDF, 52KB]

(2005) Josep M. Crego, Marta R. Costa-jussŕ, José B. Marińo, & José A. R. Fonollosa: Ngram-based versus phrase-based statistical machine translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 175KB]

(2005) Josep M. Crego, Adriŕ de Gispert, & José B. Marińo: The TALP ngram-based SMT system for IWSLT'05. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 124KB]

(2005) Josep M. Crego, José B. Marińo, & Adriŕ de Gispert: Reordered search, and tuple unfolding for Ngram-based SMT. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.283-289. [PDF, 231KB]

(2005) Steve DeNeefe & Kevin Knight: ISI’s 2005 statistical machine translation entries. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 4pp. [PDF, 83KB]

(2005) Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight, & Hayward H. Chan: Interactively exploring a machine translation model. ACL-2005: Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 2005; pp. 97-100. [PDF, 123KB]

(2005) Yonggang Deng & William Byrne: HMM word and phrase alignment for statistical machine translation.  HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 169-176. [PDF, 189KB]

(2005) Yuan Ding & Martha Palmer: Machine translation using probabilistic synchronous dependency insertion grammars.  ACL-2005: 43rd Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-30 June 2005; pp. 541-548. [PDF, 369KB]

(2005) Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Low cost portability for statistical machine translation based on n-gram coverage. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.227-234. [PDF, 199KB]

(2005) Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Low cost portability for statistical machine translation based on n-gram frequency and TF-IDF. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 7pp. [PDF, 135KB]

(2005) Marcello Federico & Nicola Bertoldi: A word-to-phrase statistical translation model. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing 2 (2), pp.1-24. [abstract, PDF, 13KB]

(2005) Heidi J. Fox: Dependency-based statistical machine translation.  ACL-2005: Student Research Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 2005; pp. 91-96. [PDF, 101KB]

(2005) Adriŕ de Gispert: Phrase linguistic classification and generalization for improving statistical machine translation. ACL-2005: Student Research Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 2005; pp. 67-72. [PDF, 90KB]

(2005) Sharon Goldwater & David McClosky: Improving statistical MT through morphological analysis.  HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 676-683. [PDF, 152KB]

(2005) Declan Groves & Andy Way: Hybrid data-driven models of machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp. 301-323.

(2005) Saša Hasan & Hermann Ney: Clustered language models based on regular expressions for SMT. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 119-125. [PDF, 77KB]

(2005) Sanjika Hewavitharana, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Augmenting a statistical translation system with a translation memory. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 126132. [PDF, 74KB]

(2005) Sanjika Hewavitharana, Bing Zhao, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Matthias Eck, Chiori Hori, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: The CMU statistical machine translation system for IWSLT2005. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 93KB]

(2005) Almut Silja Hildebrand, Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, & Alex Waibel: Adaptation of the translation model for statistical machine translation based on information retrieval. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 133-1142. [PDF, 100KB]

(2005) Fei Huang, Ying Zhang, & Stephan Vogel: Mining key phrase translations from web corpora. HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 483-490. [PDF, 310KB]

(2005) Young-Sook Hwang & Yutaka Sasaki: Context-dependent SMT model using bilingual verb-noun collocation. ACL-2005: 43rd Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-30 June 2005; pp. 549-556. [PDF, 1005KB]

(2005) Kenji Imamura, Hideo Okuma, & Eiichiro Sumita: Practical approach to syntax-based statistical machine translation. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.267-274. [PDF, 165KB]

(2005) Hideki Kashioka: Training data modification for SMT: considering groups of synonymous sentences. ACL-2005: Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 30 June 2005; pp. 19-24. [PDF, 113KB]

(2005) Shahram Khadivi, András Zolnay, & Hermann Ney: Automatic text dictation in computer-assisted translation. Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech: 9th European  Conference on  Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005; pp.2265-2268; abstract [PDF, 55KB]

(2005) Yookyung Kim, Jun Huang, Youssef Billawala, Demitrios Master, & Farzad Ehsani: Sehda S2MT: incorporation of syntax into statistical translation system. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 6pp. [PDF, 116KB]

(2005) Kevin Knight & Daniel Marcu: Machine translation in the year 2004. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 18-23, 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA; vol.5, pp. 965-968 [PDF, 3119KB]

(2005) Will Knight: Software learns to translate by reading up. New Scientist, 22 February 2005. [PDF, 70KB]

(2005) Philipp Koehn: Europarl: a parallel corpus for statistical machine translation. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.79-86. [PDF, 123KB]

(2005) Philipp Koehn, Amittai Axelrod, Alexandra Birch Mayne, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborne & David Talbot: Edinburgh system description for the 2005 IWSLT speech translation evaluation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 123KB]

(2005) Shankar Kumar & William Byrne: Local phrase reordering models for statistical machine translation.  HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 161-168. [PDF, 193KB]

(2005) Patrik Lambert & Rafael Banchs: Data inferred multi-word expressions for statistical machine translation . MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.396-403. [PDF, 182KB]

(2005) Philippe Langlais, Simona Gandrabur, Thomas Leplus, & Guy Lapalme: The long-term forecast for weather bulletin translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (1), 2005; pp.83-112.

(2005) Young-Suk Lee: IBM statistical machine translation for spoken languages. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 1029KB]

(2005) Hemali Majithia, Philip Rennart & Evelyne Tzoukermann: Rapid ramp-up for statistical machine translation: minimal training for maximal coverage . MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.438-444. [PDF, 160KB]

(2005) José B. Marińo, Rafael E. Banchs, Josep María Crego, Adriŕ de Gispert, Patrik Lambert, José A. R. Fonollosa, & Marta Ruiz: Bilingual n-gram statistical machine translation. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.275-282. [PDF, 197KB]

(2005) Arul Menezes & Chris Quirk: Dependency treelet translation: the convergence of statistical and example-based machine-translation? MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Second Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation; pp.99-108. [PDF, 314KB]

(2005) Arul Menezes & Chris Quirk: Microsoft Research treelet translation system: IWSLT evaluation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 4pp. [PDF, 240KB]

(2005) David Nadeau, Caroline Barričre & George Foster: Bike: bilingual keyphrase experiments. International workshop: Modern approaches in translation technologies, Borovets, Bulgaria, 24 September 2005; p.36-41 [PDF, 184KB]

(2005) Hermann Ney: One decade of statistical machine translation: 1996-2005. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit: invited paper; pp.i-12-17 [PDF, 136KB]

(2005) Franz Josef Och: Statistical machine translation: foundations and recent advances MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 12, 2005, Tutorial Note. [PDF of PPT presentation, 2436KB]

(2005) Kazuteru Ohashi, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kuniko Saito, & Masaaki Nagata: NUT-NTT statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2005. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 6pp. [PDF, 149KB]

(2005) Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Ismael García-Varea, & Francisco Casacuberta: Thot: a toolkit to train phrase-based statistical translation models. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.141-148. [PDF, 237KB]

(2005) Wei Pang, Zhendong Yang, Zhenbiao Chen, Wei Wei, Bo Xu & Chengqing Zong: The CASIA phrase-based machine translation system. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 114KB]

(2005) Michael Paul, Eiichiro Sumita, & Seiichi Yamamoto: A machine learning approach to hypotheses selection of greedy decoding for SMT MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Second Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation; pp.117-124. [PDF, 424KB]

(2005) Michael Paul, Takao Doi, Youngsook Hwang, Kenji Imamura, Hideo Okuma, & Eiichiro Sumita: Nobody is perfect: ATR’s hybrid approach to spoken language translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 120KB]

(2005) Chris Quirk, Arul Menezes, & Colin Cherry: Dependency treelet translation: syntactically informed phrasal SMT.  ACL-2005: 43rd Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-30 June 2005; pp. 271-279. [PDF, 118KB]

(2005) Hendra Setiawan, Haizhou Li, & Min Zhang: Learning phrase translation using level of detail approach. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.243-250. [PDF, 250KB]

(2005) Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, & Tim Anderson: The MIT-LL/AFRL MT system. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 5pp. [PDF, 70KB]

(2005) Michel Simard, Nicola Cancedda, Bruno Cavestro, Marc Dymetman, Eric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada, Philippe Langlais, & Arne Mauser: Translating with non-contiguous phrases. HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 755-762. [PDF, 180KB]

(2005) Christoph Tillmann & Tong Zhang: A localized prediction model for statistical machine translation. ACL-2005: 43rd Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-30 June 2005; pp. 557-564. [PDF, 189KB]

(2005) Hajime Tsukada, Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hideto Kazawa, & Hideki Isozaki: The NTT statistical machine translation system for IWSLT2005. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 6pp. [PDF, 65KB]

(2005) Nicola Ueffing & Hermann Ney: Word-class confidence estimation for machine translation using phrase-based translation models.  HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 763-770. [PDF, 336KB]

(2005) David Vilar, Evgeny Matusov, Saša Hasan, Richard Zens, & Hermann Ney: Statistical machine translation of European parliamentary speeches. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.259-266. [PDF, 214KB]

(2005) Stephan Vogel: PESA: phrase pair extraction as sentence splitting. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.251-258. [PDF, 192KB]

(2005) Stephan Vogel: Statistical machine translation part I: hands-on introduction. [Tutorial at] IJCNLP-05: Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 11-13 October 2005, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea; p.275. [PDF, 44KB]

(2005) Daniel J. Walker: The Open A.I. KitTM: general machine learning modules from statistical machine translation MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Open Source Machine Translation; pp.1-6. [PDF, 162KB]

(2005) Toon Witkam: A new road to automatic translation. [Utrecht: private publication, 26 November 2005]. 13pp. [PDF, 177KB]

(2005) Dekai Wu: Statistical machine translation part II: tree-based SMT. [Tutorial at] IJCNLP-05: Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 11-13 October 2005, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea; p.276. [PDF, 33KB]

(2005) Dekai Wu: MT model space: statistical versus compositional versus example-based machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 19 (3-4), 2005; pp.213-227.

(2005) Bo Xu, Z.B.Chen, W.Wei, W.Pan, & Z.D.Yang: Phrase-based statistical machine translation for MANOS system. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit: invited paper; pp.i-23-26 [PDF, 289KB], also PDF of PPT presentation [639KB]

(2005) Jia Xu, Evgeny Matusov, Richard Zens, & Hermann Ney: Integrated Chinese word segmentation in statistical machine translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 7pp. [PDF, 105KB]

(2005) Richard Zens, Oliver Bender, Saša Hasan, Shahram Khadivi, Evgeny Matusov, Jia Xu, Yuqi Zhang, & Hermann Ney: The RWTH phrase-based statistical machine translation system. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 8pp. [PDF, 114KB]

(2005) Ruiqiang Zhang, Genichiro Kikui, Hirofumi Yamamoto, & Wai-Kit Lo: A decoding algorithm for word lattice translation in speech translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 7pp. [PDF, 91KB]

(2005) Ruiqiang Zhang, Genichiro Kikui, Hirofumi Yamamoto: Using multiple recognition hypotheses to improve speech translation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation [IWSLT 2005], 24-25 October, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 7pp. [PDF, 78KB]

(2005) Bing Zhao, Niyu Ge, & Kishore Papineni: Inner-outer bracket models for word alignment using hidden blocks. HLT-EMNLP-2005: Proceedings of Human Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, October 2005; pp. 177-184. [PDF, 592KB]

(2005) Bing Zhao & Alex Waibel: Learning a log-linear model with bilingual phrase-pair features for statistical machine translation. IJCNLP-05: Fourth SIGHAN  Workshop on Chinese Language Processing. Proceedings of the workshop, 14-15 October 2005, Jeju Island, Korea; pp. 79-86. [PDF, 1301KB]

(2005) Evgeny Matusov, Stephan Kanthak, & Hermann Ney: Efficient statistical machine translation with constrained reordering. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 181-188 [PDF, 110KB]

(2005) Maja Popovic & Hermann Ney: Exploiting phrasal lexica and additional morpho-syntactic language resources for statistical machine translation with scarce training data. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 212-218. [PDF, 65KB]

(2005) Nicola Ueffing & Hermann Ney: Application of word-level confidence measures in interactive statistical machine translation. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 262-270. [PDF, 173KB]

(2005) Ashish Venugopal & Stephan Vogel: Considerations in maximum mutual information and minimum classification error training for statistical machine translation. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 271-279. [PDF, 89KB]

(2005) Jia Xu, Richard Zens, & Hermann Ney: Sentence segmentation using IBM word alignment model 1. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 280-287. [PDF, 145KB]

(2005) Ying Zhang & Stephan Vogel: An efficient phrase-to-phrase alignment model for arbitrarily long phrase and large corpora. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 294-301. [PDF, 187KB]

Transfer-based MT (see also Lexical transfer, Syntactic transfer)

(2009) Ondřej Bojar, David Mareček, Václav Novák, Martin Popel, Jan Ptáček, Jan Rouš, & Zdeněk Žabokrtský: English-Czech MT in 2008. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.125-129. [PDF, 75KB]

(2009) Tessa Cornally: Achieving a better machine translation from French to English via a controlled language. ISMTCL: International Symposium on Data and Sense Mining, Machine Translation and Controlled Languages, and their application to emergencies and safety critical domains, July 1-3, 2009, Centre Tesničre, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France (Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2009); pp.69-73 [abstract]

(2009) Mikel L.Forcada, Francis M.Tyers, & Gema Ramírez-Sánchez: The Apertium machine translation platform: five years on. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, 2-3 November 2009, Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Spain; ed. Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Francis M.Tyers; pp. 3-10. [PDF, 253KB]

 (2009) Yvette Graham, Josef van Genabith, & Anton Bryl: F-structure transfer-based statistical machine translation. Proceedings of the LFG09 conference, Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds.) CSLI Publications, 2009; pp.318-337. [PDF, 1227KB]

(2009) Yvette Graham & Josef van Genabith: An open source rule induction tool for transfer-based SMT. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 91, 2009; pp.37-46. [PDF, 321KB]

(2009) Greg Hanneman, Vamshi Ambati, Jonathan H.Clark, Alok Parlikar, & Alon Lavie: An improved statistical transfer system for French-English machine translation. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.140-144. [PDF, 101KB]

(2009) Petr Homola, Vladislav Kuboň, & Jernej Vičič: Shallow transfer between Slavic languages. (IIS-2009) Recent Advances in Intelligent Information Systems, ed. M.A.Klopotek, A. Przepiórkowski, S.T. Wierzchon, K. Trojanowski, Kraków, Poland, June 15-18, 2009; pp.219-232. [PDF, 390KB]

(2009) Aingeru Mayor & Francis M.Tyers: Matxin: moving towards language independence. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, 2-3 November 2009, Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Spain; ed. Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Francis M.Tyers; pp. 11-17. [PDF, 205KB]

(2009) Pasquale Minervini: Apertium goes SOA: an efficient and scalable service based on the Apertium rule-based machine translation platform. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, 2-3 November 2009, Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Spain; ed. Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Francis M.Tyers; pp. 59-65. [PDF, 236KB]

(2009) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L. Forcada, & Andy Way: Hybrid rule-based – example-based MT: feeding Apertium with sub-sentential translation units. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way; pp.11-18. [PDF, 150KB]; presentation [PDF of PPT, 192KB]

(2009) Francis M.Tyers & Jacob Nordfalk: Shallow-transfer rule-based machine translation for Swedish to Danish. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, 2-3 November 2009, Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Spain; ed. Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Francis M.Tyers; pp. 27-33. [PDF, 178KB]

(2009) Kevin Unhammer & Trond Trosterud: Reuse of free resources in machine translation between Nynorsk and Bokmĺl. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, 2-3 November 2009, Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Spain; ed. Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Francis M.Tyers; pp. 35-42. [PDF, 219KB]

(2009) Vincent Vandeghinste & Scott Martens: Top-down transfer in example-based MT. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 12-13 November 2009, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, ed. Mikel L. Forcada [and] Andy Way; pp.69-76. [PDF, 359KB]

(2009) István Varga & Soichi Yokoyama: Transfer rule generation for a Japanese-Hungarian machine translation system. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.356-362. [PDF, 152KB]

(2009) Eric Wehrli, Luka Nerima & Yves Scherrer: Deep linguistic multilingual translation and bilingual dictionaries.  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 31 March 2009; pp.90-94. [PDF, 71KB]

(2008) Ondřej Bojar, Silvie Cinková, & Jan Ptáček: Towards English-to-Czech MT via tectogrammatical layer. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, no.90, December 2008; pp.57-68. [PDF, 169KB]

(2008) Petr Homola & Vladislav Kuboň: Improving machine translation between closely related Romance languages . EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.72-77. [PDF, 527KB]

(2008) Michael Jellinghaus: A data-driven approach to deep machine translation. Second Machine Translation Marathon, Wandlitz, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 May 2008; 28 slides. [PDF, 405KB]

(2008) Igor Mel’čuk & Leo Wanner: Morphological mismatches in machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 22 (3), September 2008; pp.101-152.

(2008) Simon Mille & Leo Wanner: Multilingual summarization in practice: the case of patent claims. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.120-129. [PDF, 602KB]

(2008) Sibansu Mukhopadhyay, Biswanath Barik, & Sudeshna Sarkar: Problems of transfer grammar: the Hindi postpositional correlatives in Bangla. ICON-2008: 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, CDAC Pune, India, 20-22 December 2008; 10pp. [PDF, 180KB]

(2008) Luka Nerima & Eric Wehrli: Generating bilingual dictionaries by transitivity. LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 4pp. [PDF, 205KB]

(2008) Attila Novák, László Tihanyi, & Gábor Prószéky: The MetaMorpho translation system. ACL-08: HLT. Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings, June 19, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (ACL WMT-08); pp.111-114.  [PDF, 169KB]

(2008) Vincent Vandeghinste, Peter Dirix, Ineke Schuurman, Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Marina Vassiliou, Olga Yannoutsou, Toni Badia, Maite Melero, Gemma Boleda, Michael Carl, & Paul Schmidt: Evaluation of a machine translation system for low resource languages: METIS-II.  LREC 2008: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26-30 May 2008; 8pp. [PDF, 78KB]

(2008) Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Jan Ptáček, & Petr Pajas: TectoMT: highly modular MT system with tectogrammatics used as transfer layer. ACL-08: HLT. Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings, June 19, 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (ACL WMT-08); pp.167-170. [PDF, 136KB]

(2007) Doug Arnold, Louis Des Tombe, & Steven Krauwer: MT in the 1970s and 1980s. [priv.publ., April 2007]. 16pp. [PDF, 76KB]

(2007) Eckard Bick: Dan2eng: wide-coverage Danish-English machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.37-43 [PDF, 621KB]

(2007) Michael Carl, Sandrine Garnier, & Paul Schmidt: Demonstration of the German to English METIS-II MT system. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.41-42 [PDF, 251KB]; poster [PDF, 276KB]

(2007) Michael Carl: METIS-II: the German to English MT system.  MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.65-72 [PDF, 166KB]

(2007) Ariadna Font Llitjós, Jaime Carbonell, & Alon Lavie: Improving transfer-based MT systems with automatic refinements. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.183-190 [PDF, 339KB]

(2007) Ariadna Font Llitjós & Stephan Vogel: A walk on the other side: adding statistical components to a transfer-based translation system. SSST, NAACL-HLT-2007 AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, 26 April 2007, Rochester, NY; pp.72-79 [PDF, 113KB]

(2007) Gorka Labaka, Nicolas Stroppa, Andy Way, & Kepa Sarasola: Comparing rule-based and data-driven approaches to Spanish-to-Basque machine translation. MT Summit XI, 10-14 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proceedings; pp.297-304 [PDF, 558KB]

(2007) Maite Melero & Toni Badia: Demonstration of the Spanish to English METIS-II MT system. TMI-2007: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Skövde [Sweden], 7-9 September 2007; pp.132-133 [PDF, 220KB]

(2007) Lene Offersgaard & Claus Povlsen: Patent documentation – comparison of two MT strategies. MT Summit XI Workshop on patent translation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark; pp.19-23. [PDF, 60KB]

(2006) Helena M.Caseli, Maria das Graças V.Nunes, & Mikel L.Forcada: Automatic induction of bilingual resources from aligned parallel corpora: application to shallow-transfer machine translation [abstract]. Machine Translation 20 (4),2006; pp.227-245.

(2006) Jan Tore Lřnning & Stephan Oepen: Re-usable tools for precision machine translation.  Coling-ACL 2006: Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, July 2006; pp.53-56. [PDF, 213KB]

(2006) Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz & Mikel L.Forcada: Opentrad Apertium open-source machine translation system: an opportunity for business and research. Translating and the Computer 28: proceedings of the Twenty-eighth International Conference on Translating and the Computer, 16-17 November 2006, London. (London: Aslib, 2006); 15pp. [PDF, 145KB]

(2006) Anna Sĺgvall Hein & Per Weijnitz: Approaching a new language in machine translation – considerations in choosing a strategy. LREC-2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.7-12. [PDF, 95KB]

(2005) Ińaki Alegria, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Gorka Labaka, Mikel Lersundi, Aingeru Mayor, Kepa Sarasola, Mikel L. Forcada, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, & Lluís Padró: An open architecture for transfer-based machine translation between Spanish and Basque  MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Open Source Machine Translation; pp.7-14. [PDF, 155KB]

(2005) Carme Armentano-Oller, Antonio M. Corbí-Bellot, Mikel L. Forcada, Mireia Ginestí-Rosell, Boyan Bonev, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, & Felipe Sánchez-Martínez: An Open-Source shallow-transfer machine translation toolbox: consequences of its release and availability  MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 16, 2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Open Source Machine Translation; pp.23-30. [PDF, 255KB]

(2005) R. Mahesh K. Sinha & Anil Thakur: Divergence patterns in machine translation between Hindi and English. MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, Conference Proceedings: the tenth Machine Translation Summit; pp.346-353. [PDF, 288KB]

(2005) Niladri Chatterjee, Shailly Goyal, Anjali Naithani: Resolving pattern ambiguity for English to Hindi machine translation using WordNet. International workshop: Modern approaches in translation technologies, Borovets, Bulgaria, 24 September 2005; p.18-25 [PDF, 245KB]

(2005) Antonio M.Corbi-Bellot, Mikel L. Forcada, Sergio Ortíz-Rojas, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Ińaki Alegria, Aingeru Mayor, & Kepa Sarasola: An open-source shallow-transfer machine translation engine for the Romance languages of Spain. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 79-86. [PDF, 130KB]

(2005) Ariadna Font Llitjós, Jaime G. Carbonell, & Alon Lavie: A framework for interactive and automatic refinement of transfer-based machine translation. 10th EAMT conference "Practical applications of machine translation", 30-31 May 2005, Budapest; pp. 87-96. [PDF, 468KB]

Word-for-word approach

(2009) Stephen Soderland, Christopher Lim, Mausam, Bo Qin, Oren Etzioni, & Jonathan Pool: Lemmatic machine translation. MT Summit XII: proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit, August 26-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; pp.128-135. [PDF, 214KB]

(2008) Clare R.Voss, Matthew Aguirre, Jeffrey Micher, Richard Chang, Jamal Laoudi, & Reginald Hobbs: Boosting performance of weak MT engines automatically: using MT output to align segments & build statistical post-editors. EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, September 22 & 23, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings, ed. John Hutchins and Walther v.Hahn; pp.192-201. [PDF, 506KB]