Progress in Machine Translation

edited by

Sergei Nirenburg

 

Amsterdam/Oxford/Washington, DC       1993        Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto: Ohmsha

[ISBN: 90-5199-074-X; 4-274-07721-7 C3055]

 

Includes papers presented at the MT Summit III conference, Washington, DC, USA, July 1991

 

Contents

Preface   v

Part I: Project Descriptions       1

1    Advances in Machine Translation in IBM

                               Mori Rimon, Michael McCord, Ulrike Schwall and Pilar Martínez      3

2    Architecture Sketch of EUROTRA-II

                                Jörg Schütz, George Thurmair and Roberto Cencioni      15

3    Multilingual Machine Translation Systems in the Future

                                Hozumi Tanaka      29

4    Speech Translation at ATR

                                Akira Kurematsu      33

Part II: System Descriptions     43

5    ULTRA: A Multilingual Machine Translator

                                David Farwell and Yorick Wilks     45

6    Translation Techniques in Chinese

                                Wanying Jin     53

7    Capturing Language-Specific Semantic Distinctions in Interlingua-Based MT

      James Barnen, Inderjeet Mani, Elaine Rich, Chinatsu Aone, Kevin Knightand Juan Carlos Martinez    67

8    Applying an experimental MT system to a realistic problem

                                 Pierrette Bouillon and Katharina Boesefeldt     79

9    ArchTran:   A Corpus-based Statistics-oriented English-Chinese Machine Translation System

                                Shu-Chuan Chen, Jing-Shin Chang, Jong-Nae Wang and Keh-Yih Su      87

10    The METAL System. Status 1991

                                 Thomas Schneider     99

11     An Efficient Interlingua Translation System for Multi-lingual Document Production

                                 Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg, 3rd and Jaime G. Carbonell      105

12     Multi-lingual Sentence Generation from the PIVOT Interlingua

                                 Akitoshi Okumura, Kazunori Muraki and Susumu Akamine      119

13     EJ/JE Machine Translation System ASTRANSAC - Extensions toward Personalization

                                 Hideki Hirakawa, Hiroyasu Nogami and Shin-ya Amano      127

14     Toward High Performance Machine Translation: Preliminary Results from Massively Parallel Memory-Based Translation on SNAP

                                  Hiroaki Kitano, Dan Moldovan and Seungho Cha      139

15     Connectionist and Symbolic Processing in Speech-to-Speech Translation: The JANUS System

                                   A. N. Jain, A. E. McNair, A. Waibel, H. Saito, A. G. Hauptmann and J.Tebelskis     153

16     Toward an MT System without Pre-Editing - Effects of New Methods in ALT-J/E

                                  Satoru Ikehara, Satoshi Shirai, Akio Yokoo and Hiromi Nakaiwa      161

Part III: MT Tools     171

17     KIELIKONE Machine Translation Workstation

                                   H. Jäppinen, K. Hartonen, L. Kulikov, A. Nykänen and A. Ylä-Rotiala      173

18     The Translator’s Workbench: An Environment for Multi-Lingual Text Processing and Translation

                                   Marianne Kugler, Gerd Heyer, Ralf Kese, Beate von Kleist-Retzowand Guenter Winkelmann      185

19     Automation of Bilingual Lexicon Compilation

                                    I. Arturo Trujillo and David A. Plowman         191

Part IV: MT and National Governments     197

20    Government Support for MT in Germany

                                  Jan-Michael Czermak      199

21     Machine Translation: The Japanese Experience

                                 Makoto Nagao     203

22     MT, the Federal Government, and the Role of Translator Associations

                                 Deanna Hammond     209

PART V: MT in Use     211

23     Forum: Building the Customer Base

                               Howard R. Teicher, Michael Gainet, Edith Losa, Maria Pilar Martinez-Perez, Muriel Jerome O'Keeffe, Sue Walker Toledo and Michael Zarenchak    213

24     Organizational Use of Machine Translation Systems

                              Zenshiro Kawasaki      217

25     Machine Translation: Matching Reality to Expectations

                             Joann P. Ryan     225

26     MT Application for the Translation Agency

                            Keizou Sakurai, Masahiko Ozeki and Yoshiyuki Nishihara     237

27     Forum: MT User Experience

Muriel Vasconcellos, Bernard Scon, John Chandioux and Hideki Tanaka     243

28     Forum: Translators and MT

                          Alex Gross, Claude Bédard, Harold Hille, Martin Kay, Frederick Kleinand Sergei Nirenburg     253

29     Forum: Evaluation of MT Systems

Margaret King, Yorick Wilks, Sture Allen, Ulrich Heid and Doris Albisser     267

PART VI: Applications of MT Technology     283                                                                        

Forum: Applications of MT Technology

                         Sergei Nirenburg, Rod Johnson, Richard Kitteredge, Lori Levin, Hiroshi Uchida, Steven Weinstein, Yorick Wilks and Stephen Richardson     285

Bibliography      297

Author Index       319