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Second International Conference on Theoretical and
Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages
June 12 - 14, 1988
Hamburg Hall
Center for Machine Translation
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
*** Purpose ***
The field of Machine Translation (MT) has gradually regained its
importance as an academic discipline and an engineering application. The
number of research teams in MT has grown significantly over the past five
years, and correspondingly, the rate of progress, measured both in the
scientific output and the technological innovation has become increasingly
steep. The requirements for information exchange in the field have grown
accordingly. The conference is aimed at fulfilling that requirement for
information exchange.
*** Topics of the Conference ***
The conference will cover a wide set of interrelated topics in machine
translation including: parsing, generation, computational lexicons, multiple
approaches to translation (knowledge-based, interactive, post and pre-editing,
etc...), theoretical and comparative analysis, case studies, computational
tools for the system developer or translator, and new algorithms and
architectures for natural language processing.
*** Center for Machine Translation ***
The Center for Machine Translation was established at Carnegie Mellon
University in July 1986. The center is dedicated to the development of a
new generation of machine translation systems with capabilities ranging
far beyond the current technology. Current research initiatives include:
knowledge-based machine translation, knowledge representation and
acquisition, unification algorithms, multilingual parsing algorithms,
fluent text generation and development of computational lexicons,
grammars and knowledge bases.
*** Conference Program and Schedule ***
Saturday, June 11
Participants arrive in Pittsburgh
Sunday, June 12
--- General Session ---
8:30 am Registration/Coffee & Donuts
8:50 am Welcome
--- Session 1: Issues in Analysis I ---
9:00 am "Meaning Understanding in Machine Translation"
Hirosato Nomura, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan)
9:30 am "Coordination: Some Problems and Solutions for Parsing
English with an ATN"
Lee Ann Schwartz, Pan American Health Organization (United States)
10:00 am "A Method of Analyzing Japanese Speech Act Types"
Kiyoshi Kogure, Hitoshi Iida, Kei Yoshimoto, Hiroyuki Maeda,
Masako Kume, Susumu Kato, ATR (Japan)
10:30 am COFFEE
--- Session 2: Issues in Generation ---
11:00 am "On Lexical Selection in MT Generation"
Sergei Nirenburg, Rita McCardell, Eric Nyberg, Scott Huffman,
Edward Kenschaft, Irene Nirenburg, Carnegie Mellon University
(United States)
11:30 am "Natural Language Generation using the Meaning Text Model"
Richard Kittredge, A. Polguere, L. Jordanskaya
University of Montreal (Canada)
--- Session 3: EUROTRA Perspectives ---
Noon "'Relaxed' Compositionality in MT"
Doug Arnold, University of Essex (United Kingdom)
Steven Krauwer, Louis des Tombe
University of Utrecht (Netherlands)
Louisa Sadler, University of Essex (United Kingdom)
12:30 pm "CAT2 - Implementing a Formalism for Multi-Lingual MT"
Randall Sharp, IAI (West Germany)
1:00 pm LUNCH
--- Panel 1: Real-Time Interpretive MT ---
2:30 pm Masaru Tomita (Chair), Carnegie Mellon University (United States)
Shin-ya Amano, Toshiba (Japan)
Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University (United States)
Akira Kurematsu, ATR (Japan)
4:00 pm DEMONSTRATIONS
5:30 pm RECEPTION
6:30 pm DINNER
Monday, June 13
8:30 am Coffee & Donuts
--- Session 4: Grammatical Issues ---
9:00 am "Functional Descriptions as a Formalism for Linguistic Knowledge
Representation in a Generation Oriented Approach"
Miyo Otani, Nathalie Simonin, Cap Sogeti Innovation (France)
9:30 am "Computational Complexity of Left-Associative Grammar"
Roland Hausser, Universitat Munchen (West Germany)
10:00 am "Reversible Logic Grammars for MT"
Pierre Isabelle, Canadian Workplace Automation Research Center
(Canada)
10:30 am COFFEE
--- Session 5: System Descriptions ---
11:00 am "ETOC: A MAHT System Using Approximate Text-Matching
Based on Heuristic Rules"
E. Sumita, Y. Tsutsumi, IBM (Japan)
11:30 am "ATLAS: A MT System by Interlingua"
Hiroshi Uchida, Fujitsu (Japan)
Noon "Translational Ambiguity Rephrased"
Danit Ben-Ari, Mory Rimon, IBM (Israel)
Daniel M. Berry, Technion (Israel)
12:30 pm "A Principle-based Korean/Japanese MT System: NARA"
Hee-Sung Chung, E & I Research (Korea)
1:00 pm LUNCH
--- Session 6: Issues in Analysis II ---
2:30 pm "A Comparative Study of Japanese and English Sublanguage Patterns"
Virginia Teller, Hunter College SUNY (United States)
Michiko Kosaka, Monmouth College (United States)
Ralph Grishman, New York University (United States)
3:00 pm "Noun Phrase Identification in Dialogue and its Application"
Izuru Nogaito, Hitoshi Iida, ATR (Japan)
3:30 pm COFFEE
--- Panel 2: Paradigms for MT ---
4:00 pm Jaime Carbonell (Chair), Carnegie Mellon University
(United States)
Harold Sommers, UMIST (United Kingdom)
Peter Brown, IBM (United States)
Victor Raskin, Purdue University (United States)
6:00 pm DINNER - Mt. Washington (**)
Tuesday, June 14
8:30 am Coffee & Donuts
--- Session 7: Methodological Considerations ---
9:00 am "Methodological Considerations in the METAL Project"
Winfield Bennett, University of Texas (United States)
9:30 am "Application of a Natural Language Interface to a MT Problem"
John S. White, Heidi M. Johnson, Yukiko Sekine
Martin Marietta Corporation (United States)
Gil C. Kim, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(Korea)
10:00 am "Complex Procedures for MT Quality"
Michael Zarechnak, Georgetown University (United States)
10:30 am COFFEE
--- Panel 3: Historical Perspectives ---
11:00 am Makoto Nagao (Chair), Kyoto University (Japan)
Christian Boitet, Universite de Grenoble (France)
Rolf Stachowitz, Lockheed Artificial Intelligence Center
(United States)
12:30 pm LUNCH and CONCLUDING REMARKS
Requests for more information or applications contact:
MT CONFERENCE:
Center for Machine Translation
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 268-6591