10.1132, Confs: Machine Translation

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1132. Tue Jul 27 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1132, Confs: Machine Translation

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Date:  Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:36:04 +0100 (BST)
From:  iat at ccl.umist.ac.uk
Subject:  TMI-99: Final Reminder

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Date:  Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:36:04 +0100 (BST)
From:  iat at ccl.umist.ac.uk
Subject:  TMI-99: Final Reminder


		   8th International Conference on
     Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation
				TMI-99
			  August 23-25, 1999
			     Chester, UK
	       http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/


	                Final Announcement
                       ====================

The eighth conference in the TMI series will take place over
August 23-25, 1999 in the historic city of Chester, UK.

			   Important dates
			
Conference dates
	   Tutorials:              Sun,     Aug 22,    1999
	   Papers and Panels:	   Mon-Wed, Aug 23-25, 1999
	   Workshop:		   Thur,    Aug 26,    1999

Electronic registration still possible. Note: if you have registered
electronically but have not recevied an email with your invoice,
please register again as we have experienced some difficulties with
the TMI-99 registration webpage.

Tutorial Program:
=================

Two tutorials are being offered on August the 22nd:

* Introduction to MT and translation tools
  (Organiser: John Hutchins. Tutors: Reinhard Schdler, Ian Gordon,
   Dorothy Senez, Jvrg Schltz, Rita Nlbel and A.N. Other)
* Acquisition of Knowledge about a Low-Density Language for Use in MT
  (Sergei Nirenburg)

Details of the program, including a schedule, and details of how to
register, will be found at the web site.

Conference Program (provisional):
=================================

                    Monday (23rd August) TMI-99 Sessions

 09:00 Registration

 10:00 Authoring Multilingual Documents Symbolically
       Donia Scott (Invited Speaker)
       Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), University of Brighton

 11:00 Break

 11:30 Mental Spaces, Space Builders and Bilingual Summarization of News
       Reports
       Barbara Gawronska, Jaana Anttila, Dan-Ivar Jacobsson
       Department of Languages, University of Skvvde, Sweden

 12:00 Long Time No See: Overt Semantics for Machine Translation
       Evelyne Viegas, Wanying Jin, Stephen Beale
       Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University,
       Las Cruces NM

 12:30 Lunch

 14:00 Adding Linguistic Knowledge to a Lexical Example-Based Translation
       System
       Ralf D. Brown
       Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
       Pittsburgh PA

 14:30 A Unified Example-Based and Lexicalist Approach to Machine Translation
       Davide Turcato, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich, Janine Toole
       Natural Language Laboratory, School of Computer Science, Simon Fraser
       University, Burnaby BC

 15:00 Learning, Forgetting and Remembering: Statistical Support for
       Rule-Based MT
       Oliver Streiter, Leonid L. Iomdin*, Munpyo Hong, Ute Hauck
       Institute for Applied Information Science, Saarbrlcken, Germany
       * Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow

 15:30 Break

 16:00 Automatic Generation of Semantic Dependency Rules for Japanese Noun
       Phrases with Particles no
       Satoru Ikehara, Shinnji Nakai, Jinmchi Murakami
       Tottori University, Japan

 16:30 An Example-Based Approach to Japanese-to-English Translation of Tense,
       Aspect, and Modality
       Masaki Murata, Qing Ma, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hitoshi Isahara
       Kansai Advanced Research Center,Communications Research Laboratory,
       Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Kobe, Japan

               Tuesday (24th August) TMI-99 Sessions

 10:00 Bilingual Clustering Using Monolingual Algorithms
       Sergio Barrachina, Juan Miguel Vilar
       Departamento de Informatica, Universidad Jaume I, Castellsn, Spain

 10:30 Extracting Bilingual Collocations from Non-Aligned Parallel Corpora
       Kumiko Ohmori, Masanobu Higashida
       NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories, Yokosuka, Japan

 11:00 Break

 11:30 A Language Neutral, Sparse-Data Algorithm for Extracting Translation
       Patterns
       Kevin McTait, Arturo Trujillo
       Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester

 12:00 Extraction of Translation Equivalents from Non-Parallel Corpora
       Takaaki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo
       NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto

 12:30 Lunch

 14:00 A Confidence Index for Machine Translation
       Arendse Bernth
       IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, Yorktown Heights NY

 14:30 Errors of Omission in Translation
       Graham Russell
       RALI, Universiti de Montrial

 15:00 Profiling Translation Projects: An Essential Part of Routing
       Translations
       Nancy L. Underwood, Bart Jongejan
       Center for Sprogteknologi, Kxbenhavns Universitet, Copenhagen

 15:30 Break

 16:00 Lexical Selection with a Target Language Monolingual Corpus and MRD
       Hyun Ah Lee, Jong C. Park, Gil Chang Kim,
       Department of Computer Science, Korean Advanced Institute of Science
       and Technology,
       Taejon, Korea

 16:30 Explanation-based Learning for Machine Translation
       Janine Toole, Fred Popowich, Devlan Nicholson, Davide Turcato,
       Paul McFetridge
       Natural Language Laboratory, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC

                    Wednesday (25th August) TMI-99 Sessions

 10:00 "The Limits of my Language Mean the Limits of my World":
       is Machine Translation a Cultural Threat to anyone?
       Nicholas Ostler (Invited Speaker)
       President, Foundation for Endangered Languages

 11:00 Break

 11:30 Experiments in Translingual Information Retrieval Using Web-based MT and
       WordNet
       Krzysztof Czuba, Xin Liu
       Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
       Pittsburgh PA

 12:30 Lunch

 14:00 Automatic Addition of Verbal Semantic Attributes for a
       Japanese-to-English Valency
       Transfer Dictionary
       Hiromi Nakaiwa
       NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto

 14:30 Argument Status in Japanese Verb Sense Disambiguation
       Timothy Baldwin, Hozumi Tanaka
       Tokyo Institute of Technology

 15:00 A Valency Dictionary Architecture for Machine Translation
       Timothy Baldwin*, Francis Bond**, Ben Hutchinson***
       * Tokyo Institute of Technology
       ** NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto
       *** University of Sydney

 15:30 Break

 16:00 Multiple Strategies for Automatic Disambiguation in Technical
       Translation
       Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Enrique Torrejon, Robert Igo
       Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
       Pittsburgh PA

 16:30 Multi-Engine Machine Translation: Accomplishment of MATES/CK system
       Min Zhang, KeySun Choi
       CAIR, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea

Workshop:
==========

After the conference (i.e. on August 26th), we will hold a one-day
workshop.

* Problems and Potential of English-to-German MT systems

Convener:  Claudia Gdaniec (IBM  T.J. Watson Research Center)	
Email:     cgdaniec at us.ibm.com
Web site:  http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/cgdaniec/tmi99.html

Synopsis:

Many German speakers have had a chance, and a need, to taste
English-German MT translation through the many products available on
the market and through the growing opportunities on the
Internet. Reactions have been anywhere from acceptance to
disappointment to derision.  This workshop is aimed at getting
developers, researchers, and users together for an opportunity to
present, discuss -- and ideally reach some agreement on -- the status
of, and desired and possible improvements to, English-to-German MT
systems.

The workshop will address the many areas of MT application: heavy-duty
translation of technical documentation; casual in-house and at-home
translation; on-the-fly Web page translation; MT in information and
knowledge management; MT in electronic commerce; Internet chat and
e-mail translation. There will be presentations of positive and negative
experiences with text types and linguistic quality as well as of
desired priorities in terms of linguistic domains and technical
requirements by users, developers, and researchers.

Conference Site:
================

The conference meetings will be held at Chester College, in the city
of Chester, UK.  More information about the conference site can be
found at the web site: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/ .

TMI-99 is supported by the European Association for Machine
Translation and by Aslib, The Association for Information Management.


TMI-99 Officers:
    Program Chair: Francis Bond, NTT CS Labs, Kyoto
    Local Chairs:  Arturo Trujillo and Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester
    General Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, NMSU, Las Cruces NM

Please address any further enquiries to the local chairs:

Arturo Trujillo (iat at ccl.umist.ac.uk)
Harold Somers   (harold at ccl.umist.ac.uk)
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TMI-99
Department of Language Engineering
UMIST
PO Box 88                          Fax: +44 161 200 3099
Manchester M60 1QD
England                             Web: www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/

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