VAN EYNDE

Language
MACHINE TRANSLATION

Workshop

FRANK VAN EYNDE

Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Leuven

Second week
frank.vaneynde@ccl.kuleuven.ac.be

Course description

There will be 5 sessions. They will be devoted to the following themes:

Translation and Compositionality
Computational Semantics and Machine Translation this also includes the integration of linguistic and extra-linguistic knowledge
Competence-based vs. performance-based models for MT the former are typically rule- or constraint-based; the latter are typically corpus- or example-based
Formalisms for Machine Translation
Machine Translation of spoken language

For each of these topics I foresee three talks of 30 minutes; at most one talk per session will be done by an invited speaker:

Monday, August 24:

Jan Landsbergen(IPO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands): "Compositional Translation Revisited"
Pius ten Hacken (University of Basel, Switzerland): "Science and Technology in Machine Translation"

Tuesday, August 25:

Michael Carl (IAI, Saarbruecken, Germany): "Meaning preservation in Machine Translation"
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom): " "New Paradigms" in MT: the State of the Play now that the Dust has Settled"

Wednesday, August 26:

Ismael García-Varea & Francisco Casacuberta (University of Valencia, Spain): "Statistical Translation in Limited Domain Tasks"
Michael Carl, Leonid L. Iomdin & Oliver Streiter (IAI, Saarbruecken, Germany and IPPI, Moscow, Russia): "Towards a Dynamic Linkage of Example-based and Rule-based Machine Translation"

Thursday, August 27:

Remi Zajac (New Mexico State University, USA): "MT Express"
Krzysztof Jassem, Maciej Lison, Filip Gralinski & Boguslaw Rutkowski (University of Poznan, Poland): "A Polish-to-English Electronic Dictionary Designed for the Purpose of MT"

Friday, August 28:

Demonstrations of the systems presented by

M. Carl, L. L. Iomdin and O. Streiter
K. Jassem, M. Lison, F. Gralinski and B. Rutkowski

Prerequisites
None

Literature

Some recent relevant literature

W.J. Hutchins and H.L. Somers. An introduction to Machine Translation. Academic Press, London, 1992.
F. Van Eynde (ed). Linguistic Issues in Machine Translation. Pinter, London, 1993.
M.T. Rosetta. Compositional Translation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1994.
The journal Machine Translation (Kluwer, Dordrecht)
The proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation
The series Studies in Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing (CEC, Luxembourg)

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Language	MACHINE TRANSLATION
Workshop	FRANK VAN EYNDE Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Leuven
Second week	frank.vaneynde@ccl.kuleuven.ac.be
Course description	There will be 5 sessions. They will be devoted to the following themes: Translation and Compositionality Computational Semantics and Machine Translation this also includes the integration of linguistic and extra-linguistic knowledge Competence-based vs. performance-based models for MT the former are typically rule- or constraint-based; the latter are typically corpus- or example-based Formalisms for Machine Translation Machine Translation of spoken language For each of these topics I foresee three talks of 30 minutes; at most one talk per session will be done by an invited speaker: Monday, August 24: Jan Landsbergen(IPO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands): "Compositional Translation Revisited" Pius ten Hacken (University of Basel, Switzerland): "Science and Technology in Machine Translation" Tuesday, August 25: Michael Carl (IAI, Saarbruecken, Germany): "Meaning preservation in Machine Translation" Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom): " "New Paradigms" in MT: the State of the Play now that the Dust has Settled" Wednesday, August 26: Ismael García-Varea & Francisco Casacuberta (University of Valencia, Spain): "Statistical Translation in Limited Domain Tasks" Michael Carl, Leonid L. Iomdin & Oliver Streiter (IAI, Saarbruecken, Germany and IPPI, Moscow, Russia): "Towards a Dynamic Linkage of Example-based and Rule-based Machine Translation" Thursday, August 27: Remi Zajac (New Mexico State University, USA): "MT Express" Krzysztof Jassem, Maciej Lison, Filip Gralinski & Boguslaw Rutkowski (University of Poznan, Poland): "A Polish-to-English Electronic Dictionary Designed for the Purpose of MT" Friday, August 28: Demonstrations of the systems presented by M. Carl, L. L. Iomdin and O. Streiter K. Jassem, M. Lison, F. Gralinski and B. Rutkowski
Prerequisites	None
Literature	Some recent relevant literature W.J. Hutchins and H.L. Somers. An introduction to Machine Translation. Academic Press, London, 1992. F. Van Eynde (ed). Linguistic Issues in Machine Translation. Pinter, London, 1993. M.T. Rosetta. Compositional Translation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1994. The journal Machine Translation (Kluwer, Dordrecht) The proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation The series Studies in Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing (CEC, Luxembourg)