MT Summit IV

 “International Cooperation for Global Communication”

July 20-22, 1993

Kobe, Japan

 

Proceeedings

1.    Keynote Speech

Nagao, Makoto (International Association for Machine Translation)

"Machine Translation: What have we to do?".................................................................................................... 3

2.   Invited Speech

Hutchins, John (University of East Anglia)

"Latest Developments in Machine Translation Technology:

Beginning a New Era in MT Research".............................................................................................................. 11

Vasconcellos, Muriel (International Association for Machine Translation)

"The Present State of Machine Translation Usage Technology;

Or: How Do I Use Thee? Let Me Count the Ways".......................................................................................... 35

Yokoi, Toshio (Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Ltd.)

"From Electronic Dictionaries to Very Large-Scale Knowledge Bases"........................................................ 47

3.   Big Project

Chiba, Seibi (Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Ltd.)

"The Electronic Dictionary Project - Current Status and Future Plans"........................................................ 65

Funaki, Susumu (Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization)
"Multi-lingual Machine Translation (MMT) Project"...................................................................................... 73

Ahmad Zaki Abu Bakar (Malaysian National Institute of Translation)

"Utilization of Machine Translation".................................................................................................................. 79

Morimoto, Tsuyoshi (ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Laboratories)

Kurematsu, Akira (University of Electro-Communications)

"Automatic Speech Translation at ATR"........................................................................................................... 83

Rolling, Loll (E.C. Commission)

"E.C. Language Projects"...................................................................................................................................... 97

Takebayashi, Yoichi (Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Ltd.)

"EDR Electronic Dictionary".............................................................................................................................. 117

Wahlster, Wolfgang (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)

"Verbmobil: Translation of Face-To-Face Dialogs"....................................................................................... 127

Wilks, Yorick (University of Sheffield)

"Corpora and Machine Translation"................................................................................................................ 137

Yasuhara, Hiroshi (Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Ltd.)

"An Example-Based Multilingual MT System in a Conceptual Language"............................................... 147


Uchida, Hiroshi (Fujitsu Laboratories)

Zhu, Meiying (Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization)

"Interlingua for Multilingual Machine Translation"...................................................................................... 157

4. Panel Discussion

The Future of Machine Translation Technology

Boitet, Christian (ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories)
"Practical Speech Translation Systems will Integrate Human Expertise, Multimodal
Communication, and Interactive Disambiguation
"......................................................................................... 173

Isabelle, Pierre (Canadian Workplace Automation Research Center)

"Machine-Aided Human Translation and the Paradigm Shift".................................................................... 177

Low, Hwee-Boon (National University of Singapore)

"Some Lessons Learnt by a New Comer"........................................................................................................ 181

Nirenburg, Sergei (Carnegie Mellon University)

"A Direction of MT Development"................................................................................................................... 189

Rohrer, Christian (Universitaet Stuttgart)

"The Future of MT Technology"...................................................................................................................... 195

Tsujii, Junichi (University of Manchester)

"After Linguistics-based MT"........................................................................................................................... 197

Evaluation Method of Machine Translation

King, Margaret [Chairperson] (University of Geneva)

"Panel on Evaluation: MT Summit IV    Introduction"................................................................................... 201

Nomura, Hirosato (Kyushu Institute of Technology)

"Strategy for Machine Translation Evaluation"............................................................................................. 205

Rolling, Loll (E.C. Commission)

"Panel Contribution on MT Evaluation".......................................................................................................... 209

Vasconcellos, Muriel (International Association for Machine Translation)

"Evaluation Method of Machine Translation"............................................................................................... 211

Yokoyama, Shoichi (Yamagata University)

"Evaluation Method of Machine Translation: from the Viewpoint of Natural Language

Processing"........................................................................................................................................................... 215

International Cooperation

Rolling, Loll (E.C. Commission)

"Panel on International Cooperation".............................................................................................................. 221

Yang, Tianxing (Ministry of Electronics Industry, P.R.C.)

"The R&D Activities of MT in China"............................................................................................................. 223

 

 

[Conference report in MT News International  no. 6, September 1993]