METIS-II Workshop: New Approaches to Machine Translation

Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

11 January 2007

Program

Chair: Steven Krauwer

Welcome: Frank van Eynde

 

METIS session

 

An MT system embedding pattern knowledge – Stella Markantonatou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Vassiliki Spilioti, Marina Vassiliou, Olga Yannoutsou

 

Dealing with bilingual divergences in MT using target language N-gram models – Maite Melero, Antoni Oliver, Toni Badia and Teresa Suńol

 

The effect of a few rules on a data-driven MT system – Vincent Vandeghinste, Peter Dirix,and Ineke Schuurman

 

A modular architecture for separating hypothesis formation from hypothesis evaluation in data-driven machine translation – Michael Carl and Paul Schmidt

 

Selected papers

 

The inner works of an automatic rule refiner for machine translation – Ariadna Font Llitjós, William A. Ridmann

 

A phrase-based hidden Markov model approach to machine translation – Jesús Andrés Ferrer, Alfons Juan Ciscar

 

A memory-based classification approach to marker-based EBMT – Antal van den Bosch, Nicolas Stroppa, Andy Way

 

Integrating corpus-based and rule-based approaches in an open-source machine translation system – Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada

 

A cheap MT evaluation method based on the notion of machine translationness – Joaquim Moré, Salvador Climent

 

Invited talk

Latest developments in (S)MT. MT Wars II: the empire (linguistics) strikes back – Harold Somers [abstract]

 

Backup paper

Analysis of translational correspondence in view of sub-sentential alignment – Lieve Macken