Friday, October 28th - Workshops and Tutorials | ||||
7:30am | Registration and Complimentary Breakfast | |||
9:00am | Introduction to MT Tutorial (Jay Marciano) | Interacting with Machine Translation (iMT) Workshop | Assessing Translation Quality Metrics Workshop | |
9:30am | ||||
10:00am | ||||
10:30am | Break | |||
11:00am | Introduction to MT Tutorial (Jay Marciano) | Interacting with Machine Translation (iMT) Workshop | Assessing Translation Quality Metrics Workshop | |
11:30am | ||||
12:00pm | ||||
12:30pm | Lunch | |||
1:00pm | ||||
1:30pm | CAT Tool Workshop | |||
2:00pm | Dependency-Based Statistical MT Tutorial (Qun Liu and Liangyou Li) | Interacting with Machine Translation (iMT) Workshop | Assessing Translation Quality Metrics Workshop | |
2:30pm | ||||
3:00pm | ||||
3:30pm | Break | |||
4:00pm | Dependency-Based Statistical MT Tutorial (Qun Liu and Liangyou Liu) | Assessing Translation Quality Metrics Workshop | CAT Tool Workshop | |
4:30pm | ||||
5:00pm | ||||
5:30pm | ||||
6:00pm | Welcome Reception | |||
Main conference tracks key | |||
Plenary sessions | Research track | Commercial track | Government track |
Saturday, October 29th - Main Conference | |||
7:30am | Registration and Complimentary Breakfast | ||
9:00am | Opening Invited talk: Rico Sennrich Neural Machine Translation: Breaking the Performance Plateau Invited talk: Mike Dillinger MT Escaped from the Lab: Now what? | ||
9:30am | |||
10:00am | |||
10:30am | Break | ||
11:00am | Machine Translation Quality and Post-Editor Productivity Marina Sanchez-Torron and Philipp Koehn | Crowdsource for MT at Yandex Irina Galinskaya | A Taxonomy of Weeds: A Field Guide for Corpus Curators to Winnowing the Parallel Text Harvest Katherine M. Young, Jeremy Gwinnup and Lane O. Schwartz |
11:30am | Instance Selection for Online Automatic Post-Editing in a multi-domain scenario Rajen Chatterjee, Mihael Arcan, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi | MT Post-editing in a Cloud-based environment Ivan Smolnikov | Principle-Based Preparation of Bitext Data Michelle Vanni |
12:00pm | Fuzzy-match repair using black-box machine translation systems: what can be expected? John Ortega, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez and Mikel Forcada | Machine Translation Adaptation from Translation Memories in ModernMT Marcello Federico | Standards, Metrics, Methods, and Tools for Assessing the Quality of Production Translation Jennifer DeCamp |
12:30pm | Lunch | ||
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2:00pm | Fast, Scalable Phrase-Based SMT Decoding Hieu Hoang, Nikolay Bogoychev, Lane Schwartz and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt | Web App UX Layout Sniffer - Rehearsal for UI Localization Raymond Peng | MATERIAL: IARPA's Upcoming Machine Translation Program Carl Rubino |
2:30pm | An Effective Diverse Decoding Scheme for Robust Synonymous Sentence Translation Youngki Park, Hwidong Na, Hodong Lee, Jihyun Lee and Inchul Song | Multilingual Search with Machine Translation in the Intel Communities Ryan Martin | Machine Translation of Canadian Court Decisions Lucie Langlois, Michel Simard and Elliott Macklovitch |
3:00pm | Ranking suggestions for black-box interactive translation prediction systems with multilayer perceptrons Daniel Torregrosa, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz and Mikel Forcada | MT Thresholding: Achieving a defined quality bar with a mix of human and machine translation Dag Schmidke | |
3:30pm | Break | ||
4:00pm | Multi-domain Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation Based on Feature Augmentation Kenji Imamura and Eiichiro Sumita | Machine Translation Acceptance Among Professional Linguists: Are We Nearing the Tipping Point Yves Champollion | Putting the "human" back in HLT: The importance of human evaluation in assessing the quality and potential uses of translation technology Erica Michael, Petra Bradley, Paul McNamee and Matt Post |
4:30pm | Bilingual Methods for Adaptive Training Data Selection for Machine Translation Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George Foster, Colin Cherry and Fei Huang | What can we really learn from post-editing? Rihards Kalnins | |
5:00pm | The Impact of Different Phonological Patterns on Arabic-English Statistical Machine Translation Sawsan Alqahtani, Mahmoud Ghoneim and Mona Diab | An Empirical Study based on Post-editing Effort for English to Arabic Machine Translation Hassan Sajjad | |
5:30pm | AMTA General Business Meeting | ||
Sunday, October 30th - Main Conference | |||
7:30am | Registration and Complimentary Breakfast | ||
9:00am | Invited talk: Spence Green Interactive Machine Translation: From Research to Practice Invited talk: Douglas A. Jones DARPA Human Language Technology Programs | ||
9:30am | |||
10:00am | |||
10:30am | Break | ||
11:00am | Neural Interactive Translation Prediction Rebecca Knowles and Philipp Koehn | Divide and Conquer Strategy for Large Data MT Dimitar Shterionov | Panel: Stages of Translation Technology Insertion Erica Michael, Petra Bradley, Paul McNamee, Matt Post, Lucie Langlois, Michel Simard, Elliott Macklovitch, Danielle Silverman and Nicole Sherry |
11:30am | Guided Alignment Training for Topic-Aware Neural Machine Translation Wenhu Chen, Evgeny Matusov, Shahram Khadivi and Jan-Thorsten Peter | The reasonable effectiveness of data - using industry shared, public and web data for domain adaptation Achim Ruopp | |
12:00pm | Improving Neural Machine Translation on resource-limited pairs using auxiliary data of a third language Ander Martinez and Yuji Matsumoto | MT for Uralic Languages - Yandex Approach Irina Galinskaya | |
12:30pm | Lunch | ||
1:00pm | |||
1:30pm | |||
2:00pm | Technology Showcase | ||
2:30pm | |||
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3:30pm | |||
4:00pm | |||
4:30pm | |||
5:00pm | |||
7:00pm | Banquet at Maggie Mae’s | ||
Monday, October 31st - Main Conference | |||
7:30am | Registration and Complimentary Breakfast | ||
9:00am | Panel MT Commercialization: Past, Present and Future Moderator: Daniel Marcu (ISI/USC and FairTradeTranslation) Panelists: Macduff Hughes (Google), Valery Jacot (Autodesk), Dragos Stefan Munteanu (SDL), Chris Wendt (Microsoft) | ||
9:30am | |||
10:00am | |||
10:30am | Break | ||
11:00am | Which Words Matter in Defining Phrase Reordering Behavior in Statistical Machine Translation? Hamidreza Ghader and Christof Monz | Seamlessly integrating machine translation into existing translation processes (STAR MT and Transit NXT) Nadira Hofmann | Center for Advanced Study of Language Michael Maxwell |
11:30am | Translation of Unknown Words in Low Resource Languages Biman Gujral, Huda Khayrallah and Philipp Koehn | Building a Translation Memory to Improve Machine Translation Coverage and Quality Duncan Gillespie | Machine Translation for a Low-Resource, Polysynthetic Language Jeffrey Micher |
12:00pm | Automatic Construction of Morphologically Motivated Translation Models for Highly Inflected, Low- Resource Languages John Hewitt, Matt Post and David Yarowsky | Enhancing a Production TM-MT Environment Using a Quotation TM Hitokazu Matsushita | Proto-MT Evaluation for Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Response Scenarios Douglas Jones |
12:30pm | Lunch | ||
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1:30pm | |||
2:00pm | Improving Machine Translation for Post-Editing via Real Time Adaptation Dragos Munteanu | Toward Temporally-aware MT: Can Information Extraction Help Preserve Temporal Interpretations? Taylor Cassidy and Clare Voss | |
2:30pm | Improving KantanMT Training Efficiency with FastAlign Dimitar Shterionov | Sign Language Translation Patricia O'Neill-Brown and Nicolas Malyska | |
3:00pm | Speech translation user experience in practice Chris Wendt | Tuning for Neural Machine Translation Guido Zarrella | |
3:30pm | Break | ||
4:00pm | Evaluation of machine translation quality in e-commerce environment Maxim Khalilov | Invisible MT Patricia O'Neill-Brown | |
4:30pm | I ate too much cake - Now what? Alex Yanishevsky | MoJo: Bringing Hybrid MT to CAMT Marianna Martindale | |
5:00pm | What? Why? How? - Factors that impact the success of commercial MT projects John Tinsley | New Development at Systran Beth Flaherty | |
5:30pm | Farewell Reception | ||
Tuesday, November 1st - Workshops and Tutorials | |||
7:30am | Registration and Complimentary Breakfast | ||
9:00am | Workshop on MT for Semitic Languages | Computer-Aided Translation: Advances and Challenges Tutorial (Philipp Koehn) | |
9:30am | |||
10:00am | |||
10:30am | Break | ||
11:00am | Workshop on MT for Semitic Languages | Computer-Aided Translation: Advances and Challenges Tutorial (Philipp Koehn) | |
11:30am | |||
12:00pm | |||
12:30pm | Lunch | ||
1:00pm | |||
1:30pm | |||
2:00pm | Workshop on MT for Semitic Languages | ModernMT Tutorial (Marcello Federico & Marco Trombetti) | Advances in Neural MT Tutorial (Kyunghyun Cho) |
2:30pm | |||
3:00pm | |||
3:30pm | Break | ||
4:00pm | Workshop on MT for Semitic Languages | ModernMT Tutorial (Marcello Federico & Marco Trombetti) | Advances in Neural MT Tutorial (Kyunghyun Cho) |
4:30pm | |||
5:00pm | |||