[Mt-list] Machine translation Twenty Five years On Cranfield 21st to 22nd November

[Alfred_Vella]

Apologies for duplicate postings.

Machine translation Twenty Five years On:

Mitchell Hall, Cranfield

21st - 22nd November 2009


We hope that you have enjoyed Translating and the computer 31.

Our workshop/conference 'Machine translation Twenty Five years On' is being 
held at Mitchell Hall, Cranfield on the 21st - 22nd November 2009. The 
Program is on the reverse of this note.

The event is expected to be a very small event but one where all 
participants are expected to participate;)

There are places left and if you would like to know more visit 
http://nltsg.bcs.org/mtconf2009

Because of the short notice costs have been reduced contact Alfred Vella on 
+44(0)1908 648566 or email alf...@thevellas.com



Time Day 1 Saturday 21 November

10:00 - 10:30  Registration and coffee

10:30 - 11:00  Ian Kelly: Welcome

11:00 - 12:00  Christian Boitet, Hervé Blanchon, Mark Seligman, Valérie 
Bellynck: Evolution of MT with the Web

12:00 - 13:00  Christian Boitet and Hervé Blanchon: Usage of SECTra_w to 
Manage the High-Quality Translation of an Online Encyclopedia (EOLSS) Using 
Classical MT, UNL segmentation and enconversion, and Collaborative 
Post-Edition.

13:00 - 14:00  Lunch

14:00 - 15:00  Jon Riding: MT & MAT for Developing World Vernacular 
Languages.

15:00 - 15:30  Jaakko Väyrynen, Tero Tapiovaara, Kimmo Kettunen, and Marcus 
Dobrinkat: Normalized Compression Distance as automatic MT evaluation 
metric.

15:30 - 16:00  Tea

16:00 - 17:00  Ian Kelly: Discussion: How MT has failed

20:00   Conference dinner


Day 2 Sunday 22

09:00 - 10:00  Christian Boitet, Cong Phap Huyny, Valérie Bellynck, and Hong 
Thai Nguyen: Implementation of the iMAG concept of interactive Multilingual 
Access Gateways to allow multilingual access to elected web sites with 
incremental quality increase through collaborative post-edition of MT 
pretranslations by visitors.

10:00 - 10:30  Hong-Thai Nguyen and Christian Boitet: Lexical synergy 
between MT & Translator Aids: PIVAX, a generic online contributive lexical 
database platform.

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee

11:00 - 11:30  Nasredine Semmar and Meriama Laib: Evaluating a French to 
English Sentence Aligner Based on a Cross-language Information Retrieval 
Approach.

11:30 - 12:00  Niraj Aswani and Robert Gaizauskas: Evolving a General 
Framework for Text Alignment: Case Studies with Two South Asian Languages.

12:00 - 12:30  Iustina Ilisei, Diana Inkpen, Gloria Corpas Pastor and Ruslan 
Mitkov: Towards Simplification: A Supervised Learning Approach.

12:30 - 13:00  ALL: How should we communicate - or is there no need?

13:00 - 14:00  Close and Lunch

thanks

Alfred 

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