The Fourth SIG-IL Workshop will be held in conjunction with the AMTA 2000 conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on October 10, 2000.
The workshop will focus on the value of IL approaches for dealing with particular MT areas (such as tense/aspect/mood or noun-phrase structure) or with difficult MT problems (such as translation mismatches or non-literal language).
In the morning, participants will divide into workgroups. All of the workgroups will address certain "difficult" MT problems. However, each workgroup will be facilitated by leaders representing different IL approaches to Machine Translation.
Each workgroup will be provided by the facilitator with appropriate resources from that approach that bear on the problems: parse outputs, portions of ontologies, lexical entries, etc. They will then examine these resources, along with already implemented solutions, with an eye towards producing new solutions or improving old ones.
In the afternoon, the participants will reassemble as a group, and each workgroup will present its results, followed by discussion among the group as a whole.
No background is necessary for participation, and some material will be available beforehand for participants. This workshop should be useful for those who are interested in obtaining a better understanding of how IL systems work and how they approach certain problems, as well as for those who are interested in details of particular IL approaches.
Issues:
(1) source language ambiguity -- word sense dismabiguation
(2) Translation mismatches -- mismatched thematic roles
(3) Representation and translation of verbal features: tense, aspect, mood
Presenters:
New Mexico State University, Computing Research Laboratory
Mikrokosmos
Stephen Helmreich
Carnegie Mellon University, Institute for Language Technology:
Caterpillar KANT
Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura
University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Science
Lexical Conceptual Structures
Bonnie Dorr, Nizar Habash
Comments/questions may be mailed to Steve Helmreich at: shelmrei@crl.nmsu.edu
Copyright 2001 Computing Research Laboratory/NMSU.