MT Summit 2015

Name: MT Summit 2015
Start: 2015-10-29
End: 2015-11-03
Location: Florida, United States of America

Machine Translation Summit

MT Summit XV was organised by AMTA.

Location

Florida, United States of America

Schedule

Day 1


8:30	Breakfast and registration for workshops and tutorials
9:00	Tutorial Introduction to machine translation Jay Marciano
	Tutorial Computer aided translation: Advances and challenges Philipp Koehn
	Workshop 6th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation Full-text patent translation at WIPO; scalability, quality and usability Bruno Pouliquen Initiatives of the Japan Patent Office Kei Kato Improving translator productivity with MT: a patent translation case study John Tinsley Response-based learning for patent translation Stefan Riezler Promoting science and technology exchange using machine translation Toshiaki Nakazawa Simplify sentence structure for improving human post-editing efficiency on Chinese-to-English patent machine translation Xiaona Ren, Yongpeng Wei, Rile Hu Enhancing function word translation with syntax-based statistical post-editing John Richardson, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Sadao Kurohashi A hybrid system for Chinese-English patent machine translation Hongzheng Li, Kai Zhao, Renfen Hu, Yun Zhu, Yaohong Jin Collecting bilingual technical terms from patent families of character-segmented Chinese sentences and morpheme-segmented Japanese sentences Zi Long, Takehito Utsuro, Tomoharu Mitsuhashi, Mikio Yamamoto Resampling Approach for Instance-based Domain Adaptation from Patent Domain to Newspaper Domain in Statistical Machine Translation Keisuke Noguchi, Takashi Ninomiya Towards cross-lingual patent wikification Takashi Tsunakawa, Hiroyuki Kaji
14:00	Tutorial Using Microsoft Translator Hub and Collaborative Translator Framework Chris Wendt
	Tutorial Neural Networks in MT Kyunghyun Cho

Day 2


8:30	Breakfast and registration
9:00	Opening
9:10	Invited talk Neural Machine Translation: Introduction and Progress Report Kyunghyun Cho
9:45	Invited talk Continuous Wide-Band Machine Translation - Report from the 2015 Jelinek Summer Workshop Kevin Duh
10:30	🕑
11:00	Commercial users Machine Translation for enterprise technical communications – a journey of discovery Morgan O’Brien, Ana Duarte Researchers Learning bilingual distributed phrase represenations for statistical machine translation ChaoChao Wang, Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Chunyu Kit Government users Translation of HLT Resources: Balancing Cost Savings and Accuracy Dr. Paul Rodrigues
11:30	Commercial users Enterprise application of MT: Progress and Challenge Craig Plesco, Nestor Rychtyckyj Researchers Bandit Structured Prediction for Learning from Partial Feedback in Statistical Machine Translation Artem Sokolov, Stefan Riezler, Tanguy Urvoy Government users Adaptation of Topic Detection Corpora for Multilingual Evaluation of Document Similarity John S. White
12:00	Commercial users MT at NetApp – This is how we do it Edith Bendermacher, Pablo Vazquez Researchers Learning bilingual phrase representations with recurrent neural networks Hideya Mino, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita Government users Dictionaries, Gazetteers and Grammars: Improving the Pipeline Dr. Mike Maxwell, Dr. Anton Rytting
12:30	IAMT Council Lunch Meeting
12:30	🍴
14:00	Commercial users Machine Translation in Mobile Games – Augmenting Social Media Text Normalization with Incentivized Feedback Nikhil Bojja, Arun Nedunchezhian, Pidong Wang Researchers METEOR for Multiple Target Languages using DBnary Zied Elloumi, Hervé Blanchon, Gilles Sérasset, Laurent Besacier Government users The “Get Started Guide” for Implementing Post-Editing Machine Translation (PEMT) in the Government Environment Melchior Baltazar
14:30	Commercial users Beyond Text, Machine Translation and NLP for e-discovery Jean Senellart, Denis Gachot, Joshua Johanson Researchers Machine translation evaluation made fuzzier: A study on post-editing productivity and evaluation metrics in commercial settings Carla Parra Escartín, Manuel Arcedillo Government users On Incorporating PEMT into Operational Government Translation Workflow Vanesa Jurica
15:00	Researchers A Systematic Evaluation of MBOT in Statistical Machine Translation Nina Seemann, Fabienne Braune, Andreas Maletti Government users Advances in Computer Aided Translation Beyond Post-Editing Philipp Koehn
15:30	🕑
16:00	Commercial users Solving Specific Content Challenges with Flexible Machine Translation Quinn Lam
16:30	Commercial users Designing User Experience for Machine Translated Conversations Tanvi Surti
17:00	Commercial users Adjusting Interaction Levels in a Speech Translation System for Healthcare Mark Seligman, Mike Dillinger
16:00	Poster Session 11 poster presentations
18:00	General Business Meeting

Day 3


8:30	Breakfast and registration
9:00	Invited Talk Automated Translation Connecting Europe Spyridon Pilos
9:45	Invited Talk Machine Translation: The Next Decade Macduff Hughes
10:30	🕑
11:00	Commercial users A Survey of Usage Environment of Machine Translation by Professional Translators Tomoki Nagase, Tatsuhiro Kudoh, Katsunori Kotani, Wenjun ye, Takeshi Mori, Yoshiyuki Sakamoto, Nobutoshi Hatanaka, Takamitsu Takeda, Shu Hirata, Hiromi Nakaiwa
	Researchers Patent Claim Translation based on Sublanguage-specific Sentence Structure Masaru Fuji, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Yuji Matsumoto
11:30	Commercial users Why are we (still) waiting? What premium translators need to use MT effectively Robin Bonthrone, Konstantin Lakshin
	Researchers Japanese News Simplification: Task Design, Data Set Construction, and Analysis of Simplified Text Isao Goto, Hideki Tanaka, Tadashi Kumano
12:00	Commercial users Machine Translation and Terminology Management Jennifer DeCamp
	Automatic Detection of Antecedents of Japanese Zero Pronouns Using a Japanese-English Bilingual Corpus Dong Zhan, Hiromi Nakaiwa
11:00	Panel Discussion Government Translation Technology Insertion: Observations and Way Ahead Tanya Helmen, Danielle Silverman, Liz Richerson, Vanesa Jurica
12:30	🍴
14:00	Technology showcase
18:00	MT Summit Banquet

Day 4


8:30	Breakfast and registration
9:00	Commercial users Machine Translation Quality Estimation - A Linguist’s Approach Juan Rowda
	Researchers Morphological Constraints for Phrase Pivot Statistical Machine Translation Ahmed El Kholy, Nizar Habash
	Government users Operational Scales in Machine Translation Evaluation Douglas Jones
9:30	Commercial users Quality Evaluation of Four Translations of a Kidney Document: focus on reliability Alan K. Melby
	Researchers Using Joint Models for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Shafiq Joty, Ahmed Abdelali, Stephan Vogel
	Government users Translation Online Testing System (TOTS) in Actio Ewa Zeoli
10:00	Commercial users Industry Shared Metrics with the TAUS Dynamic Quality Dashboard and API Achim Ruopp
	Researchers A Distributed Inflection Model for Translating into Morphologically Rich Languages Ke M. Tran, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz
	Government users Terminology Management Maturity Model Tim Jackson
10:30	🕑
11:00	Invited Talk Conversational Spoken Language Translation in High- and Low-Resource Settings Matt Post
11:45	Panel Translators & MT David Rumsey, Jost Zetzsche, Jose Palomares
12:30	🍴
14:00	Commercial users Yandex.Translate approach to the translation of Turkic languages Irina Galinskaya, Farkhat Aminov
	Researchers A Pilot Study Towards End-to-End MT Training Feifei Zhai, Liang Huang
	Government users A Machine Assisted Human Translation System for Technical Document Vishwajeet Kumar, Ashish Kulkarni, Pankaj Singh, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Ganesh Arnaal
14:30	Commercial users How Much Cake to Eat: The Case for Domain-Specific Engines Alex Yanishevsky
	Researchers An Empirical Study on Segment Prioritization for Incrementally Retrained Post-Editing SMT Jinhua Du, Ankit Srivastava, Andy Way, Alfredo Maldonado-Guerra, David Lewis
15:00	Commercial users Productivity promotion strategies for collaborative translation on huge volume technical documents Guiping Zhang, Na Ye, Fang Cai, Chuang Wu, Xiangkui Sun, Jinfu Yuan, Dongfeng Cai
	Researchers Effects of word alignment visualization on post-editing quality & speed Lane Schwartz, Isabel Lacruz, Tatyana Bystrova
15:30	🕑
16:00	Commercial users MT quality evaluations: from test environment to production Elaine O’Curran
	Researchers Japanese Controlled Language Rules to Improve Machine Translatability of Municipal Documents Rei Miyata, Anthony Hartley, Cécile Paris, Midori Tatsumi and Kyo Kageura
	Government users New Developments and Offerings in Cybertrans Carl Rubino
16:30	Commercial users MT Quality Estimation for E-Commerce Data José G. C. de Souza, Marcello Federico, Hassan Sawaf
	Government users MT for High Quality Translations of Medical Manuals for Use in Afghanistan Steve LaRocca, Ghulam Hazrat Jahed
17:00	Commercial users Accurately Predicting Post-editing Time & Labor for Cost-Management Carla Schelfhout

Day 5


8:30	Breakfast and registration for workshops and tutorials
9:00	WTPT 2015: Post-editing Technology and Practice [How to teach machine translation post-editing? Experiences from a post-editing course](https://aclanthology.org/2015.mtsummit-wptp.1.pdf) Maarit Koponen [Quality assessment of postedited versus translated wildlife documentary films: a three-level approach](https://aclanthology.org/2015.mtsummit-wptp.2.pdf) Carla Ortiz Boix, Anna Matamala [The impact of machine translation error types on post-editing effort indicators](https://aclanthology.org/2015.mtsummit-wptp.3.pdf) Joke Daems, Sonia Vandepitte, Robert Hartsuker, Lieve Macken [Living on the edge: productivity gain thresholds in machine translation evaluation metrics](https://aclanthology.org/2015.mtsummit-wptp.4.pdf) Carla Parra Escartin, Manuel Arcedillo [Domain adaptation for social localisation-based SMT: a case study using the Trommons platform](https://aclanthology.org/2015.mtsummit-wptp.5.pdf) Jinhua Du, Andy Way, Zhengwei Qiu, Asanka Wasala, Reinhard Schaler
14:00	Beyond Post-editing: Interactive and Adaptive Translation Technologies Spence Green