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AMTA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Georgetown-IBM Experiment Demonstrated in January 1954
The public demonstration of a Russian-English machine translation system in New York in January 1954 – a collaboration of IBM and Georgetown University – caused a great deal of...
W. John Hutchins
AMTA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Interlingual Annotation for MT Development
MT systems that use only superficial representations, including the current generation of statistical MT systems, have been successful and useful. However, they will experience a p...
Florence Reeder, Bonnie J. Dorr, David Farwell, Ni...
AMTA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Structurally Diverse Minimal Corpus for Eliciting Structural Mappings Between Languages
Abstract. We describe an approach to creating a small but diverse corpus in English that can be used to elicit information about any target language. The focus of the corpus is on ...
Katharina Probst, Alon Lavie
AMTA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Fluency Error Categorization Scheme to Guide Automated Machine Translation Evaluation
Abstract. Existing automated MT evaluation methods often require expert human translations. These are produced for every language pair evaluated and, due to this expense, subsequen...
Debbie Elliott, Anthony Hartley, Eric Atwell
AMTA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Normalizing German and English Inflectional Morphology to Improve Statistical Word Alignment
German has a richer system of inflectional morphology than English, which causes problems for current approaches to statistical word alignment. Using Giza++ as a reference implemen...
Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon
AMTA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Contribution of End-Users to the TransType2 Project
TransType2 is a novel kind of interactive MT in which the system and the user collaborate in drafting a target text, the system’s contribution taking the form of predictions that...
Elliott Macklovitch
AMTA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Weather Report Translation Using a Translation Memory
We describe the use of a translation memory in the context of a reconstruction of a landmark application of machine translation, the Canadian English to French weather report trans...
Thomas Leplus, Philippe Langlais, Guy Lapalme
AMTA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Multi-align: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Techniques to Improve Alignments for Adaptable MT
Abstract. An adaptable statistical or hybrid MT system relies heavily on the quality of word-level alignments of real-world data. Statistical alignment approaches provide a reasona...
Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr, Nizar Habash
AMTA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Speech-to-Speech Translation System for Catalan, Spanish, and English
Victoria Arranz, Elisabet Comelles, David Farwell,...