Research Program Schedule -------------------------- Day-1 (Wed Aug 9) 9:00-10:30am Invited Talks: Daniel Marcu and Alan Melby 10:30-11:00am Break 11:00-Noon Session I (2 papers) New Approaches Submission 25: Context-Based Machine Translation Authors: Jaime Carbonell, Steve Klein, David Miller, Mike Steinbaum, Tomer Grassiany and Jochen Frey Submission 64: Induction of Probabilistic Synchronous Tree-Insertion Grammars for Machine Translation Authors: Rebecca Nesson, Stuart Shieber and Alexander Rush Noon-1:30pm Lunch 1:30-3:00pm Session II (3 papers) Hybrid Methods Submission 11: Better Learning and Decoding for Machine Translation Using SXYZ Authors: Yuan Ding and Martha Palmer Submission 32: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Methods for Bi-directional English Chinese Translation in the Flight Domain Authors: Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang and John Lee Submission 38: Multi-Engine Machine Translation by Recursive Sentence Decomposition Authors: Bart Mellebeek, Karolina Owczarzak, Josef Van Genabith and Andy Way 3:00-3:30pm Break 3:30-5:00pm Poster Session (10 posters) Day-2 (Thu Aug 10) 9:00-10:30am Session III (3 papers) Phrase-based Stat-MT Submission 105: Constraining the Phrase-Based, Joint Probability Statistical Translation Model Authors: Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch and Miles Osborne Submission 68: Word-Based Alignment, Phrase-Based Translation: What's the Link? Authors: Adam Lopez and Philip Resnik Submission 13: Improving Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation with Morpho-Syntactic Analysis and Transformation Authors: Thai Phuong Nguyen and Akira Shimazu 10:30-11:00am Break 11:00-Noon Invited Talk II: Joe Olive Noon-1:30pm Lunch Noon-5:00pm Technology Showcase Day-3 (Fri Aug 11) 9:00-10:00am Session IV (2 papers) EBMT Submission 26: Example-Based Machine Translation of the Basque Language Authors: Nicolas Stroppa, Declan Groves, Andy Way and Kepa Separasola Submission 29: Wrapper Syntax for Example-based Machine Translation Authors: Bart Mellebeek, Karolina Owczarzak, Declan Groves, Josef Van Genabith and Andy Way 10:00-10:30am Break 10:30-Noon Session V (3 papers) Evaluation I Submission 17: Toward an Interagency Language Roundtable Based Assessment of Speech-to-Speech Translation Capabilities Authors: Douglas Jones, Timothy Anderson, Sabine Atwell, Brian Delaney, James Dirgin, Michael Emonts, Neil Granoein, Martha Herzog, Timothy Hunter, Sargon Jabri, Wade Shen and Jurgen Sottung Submission 111: Measuring MT Adequacy Using Latent Semantic Analysis Authors: Florence Reeder Submission 109: Combining Evaluation Metrics Via Loss Functions Authors: Calandra Tate and Clare Voss Noon-1:30pm Lunch 1:30-2:00pm Session VI (1 paper) - Evaluation II Submission 50: A Study of Translation Edit Rate with Targeted Human Annotation Authors: Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Rich Schwartz, Linnea Micciulla and John Makhoul 2:00-3:00pm Panel - MT Hybrid Methods 3:00-3:30pm Break 3:30-5:00pm Session VII (3 papers) Efficient Algorithms Submission 96: Scalable Discriminative Training for Word and Tree Transducers Authors: Benjamin Wellington, Joseph Turian, Chris Pike and Dan Melamed Submission 106: Novel Probabilistic Finite-State Transducers for Cognate and Transliteration Modeling Authors: Charles Schafer Submission 28: Translation of Multiword Expressions Using Parallel Suffix Arrays Authors: Paul McNamee and James Mayfield ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Poster Presentations: (10) POSTER SESSION Submission 3: Statistical Syntax-Directed Translation with Extended Domain of Locality Authors: Liang Huang, Kevin Knight and Aravind Joshi Submission 8: Minimally Supervised Morphological Segmentation with Applications to Machine Translation Authors: Jason Riesa and David Yarowsky Submission 23: Machine Translation for Languages Lacking Bitext via Multilingual Gloss Transduction Authors: Brock Pytlik and David Yarowsky Submission 30: Challenges in Building an Arabic-English GHMT System with SMT Components Authors: Nizar Habash, Bonnie Dorr and Christof Monz Submission 56: Ambiguity Reduction for Machine Translation: Human-Computer Collaboration Authors: Marcus Sammer, Kobi Reiter, Stephen Soderland, Katrin Kirchhoff and Oren Etzioni Submission 62: Guarani: A case study in resource development for quick ramp-up MT Authors: Ahmed Abdelali, James Cowie, Steve Helmreich, Wanying Jin, Maria Pilar Milagros, Bill Ogden, Hamid Mansouri Rad and Ron Zacharski Submission 87: Towards Communicating Simple Sentences Using Pictorial Representations Authors: Rada Mihalcea and Ben Leong Submission 90: Integration of POStag-based source reordering into SMT decoding by an extended search graph Authors: Josep Maria Crego and José B. Mariño Submission 98: Corpus Variations for Translation Lexicon Induction Authors: Rebecca Hwa, Carol Nichols and Khalil Sima'an Submission 110: Direct Application of a Language Learner Test to MT Evaluation Authors: Florence Reeder