11.924, Confs: Workshop on Embedded MT Systems-ANLP/NAACL2000

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Subject: 11.924, Confs: Workshop on Embedded MT Systems-ANLP/NAACL2000

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Date:  Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:05:08 EDT
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject:  Workshop on Embedded MT Systems (ANLP/NAACL2000)

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Date:  Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:05:08 EDT
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject:  Workshop on Embedded MT Systems (ANLP/NAACL2000)


                 Call for Participation

                     ANLP-NAACL2000
              Workshop on Embedded MT Systems

                  Thursday, May 4th, 2000
                       Seattle, WA

       http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems


 9:00 -  9:10  Overview


I. Embedded MT with Task Focus
 9:10 -  9:15  Introduction

 9:15 -  9:45  Stochastic Finite-State Models for
               Spoken Language Machine Translation
                   Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Riccardi (AT&T Labs - Research)

 9:45 - 10:15  Mandarin-English Information (MEI):
               Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval
                   Helen Meng (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong),
                   Sanjeev Khudanpur (Johns Hopkins U.),
                   Doug Oard (Univ. of Maryland),
                   Hsin-Min Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

10:15 - 10:40  Towards Translingual Information Access
               Using Portable Information Extraction
                    Michael White (CoGenTex, Inc.), Claire Cardie (Cornell)
                    Chung-hye Han (U Penn), Nari Kim (U Penn),
                    Benoit Lavoie (CoGenTex, Inc.), Martha Palmer (U Penn),
                    Owen Rambow (CoGenTex, Inc.), Juntae Yoon (U Penn)


10:40 - 11:10  BREAK    (refreshments provided)


II. Embedded MT with Evaluation Focus
11:10 - 11:15  Introduction

11:15 - 11:45  When is an Embedded MT System "Good Enough" for Filtering?
                    Clare R. Voss (ARL), Carol Van Ess-Dykema (DOD)

11:45 - 12:15  Task Tolerance of MT Output in Integrated Text Processes
                    John S. White, Jennifer B. Doyon,
                    Susan W. Talbott (Litton PRC)


12:15 - 1:30   LUNCH     (not provided)


III. Preprocessing & Real-Time Focus
 1:30 - 1:35  Introduction

 1:35 - 2:05  Pre-processing Closed Captions for Machine Translation
                   Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Paul McFetridge,
                   Devlan Nicholson, Janine Toole
                   (Simon Fraser Univ. & Gavagai Technology Inc.)

 2:05 - 2:35  At Your Service: Embedded MT as a Service
                   Florence Reeder (MITRE Corp.)

 2:35 - 3:05   TransType: a Computer-Aided Translation Typing System
                   Phillipe Langlais, George Foster, Guy Lapalme
                   (RALI/DIRO - U. of Montreal)


 3:05 -  3:30  BREAK  (refreshments provided)


IV.  Future Plans
 3:30 - ?   Special Issue of MT Journal
                          review draft call for papers,
                          discuss submission schedule





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