--- title: "AMTA 2004 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "AMTA 2004 — accepted papers: 2 papers in the Elamur Research library (Geneva, Switzerland), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2004/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2004/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [AMTA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/) / 2004 # AMTA 2004 — accepted papers AMTA 2004 is the 2004 edition of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), held in Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004 (publisher: Association for Machine Translation in the Americas). The ACL Anthology lists 50 papers of it in 3 tracks; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Geneva, [Switzerland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/switzerland/) · 🗓 August 2004 [**50** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2004/#works) · [**238** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2004/#works) ## Tracks Technical Papers 30Main 17Tutorial Descriptions 3 ## All accepted papers (50) The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Transcription Scheme for Languages Employing the Arabic Script Motivated by Speech Processing Applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W04-1611/)**Shadi Ganjavi, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth Narayanan 2. **[A fluency error categorization scheme to guide automated machine translation evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.8/)**Debbie Elliott, Anthony Hartley, Eric Atwell · Technical Papers 3. **[A modified Burrows-Wheeler transform for highly scalable example-based translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.4/)**Ralf D. Brown · Technical Papers 4. **[A speech-to-speech translation system for Catalan, Spanish, and English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.2/)**Victoria Arranz, Elisabet Comelles, David Farwell et al. · Technical Papers 5. **[A structurally diverse minimal corpus for eliciting structural mappings between languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.24/)**Katharina Probst, Alon Lavie · Technical Papers 6. **[A super-function based Japanese-Chinese machine translation system for business users ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.30/)**Xin Zhao, Fuji Ren, Stefan Voß · Technical Papers 7. **[Alignment of bilingual named entities in parallel corpora using statistical model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.17/)**Chun-Jen Lee, Jason S. Chang, Thomas C. Chuang · Technical Papers 8. **[An Unsupervised Approach for Bootstrapping Arabic Sense Tagging ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W04-1609/)**Mona T. Diab 9. **[An experiment on Japanese-Uighur machine translation and its evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.23/)**Muhtar Mahsut, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Kazue Sugino et al. · Technical Papers 10. **[Arabic Script-Based Languages Deserve to be Studied Linguistically ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W04-1608/)**Martin Kay 11. **[Automatic Arabic Document Categorization Based on the Naïve Bayes Algorithm ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W04-1610/)**Mohamed El Kourdi, Amine Bensaid, Tajje-eddine Rachidi 12. **[Automatic Diacritization of Arabic for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W04-1612/)**Dimitra Vergyri, Katrin Kirchhoff 13. **[Case study: implementing MT for the translation of pre-sales marketing and post-sales software deployment documentation at Mycom International ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.1/)**Jeffrey Allen · Technical Papers 14. **[Computer Processing of Arabic Script-based Languages. Current State and Future Directions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W04-1601/)**Ali Farghaly 15. **[Counting, measuring, ordering: translation problems and solutions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.10/)**Stephen Helmreich, David Farwell · Technical Papers 16. **[Designing a controlled language for the machine translation of medical protocols: the case of English to Chinese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.5/)**Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield, Xiahong Wu · Technical Papers 17. **[Developing an Arabic Treebank: Methods, Guidelines, Procedures, and Tools](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maamouri-2004-developing-arabic-treebank-methods-guidelines/)**Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies*our summary* 18. **[Error analysis of two types of grammar for the purpose of automatic rule refinement ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.21/)**Ariadna Font Llitjós, Katharina Probst, Jaime Carbonell · Technical Papers 19. **[Extraction of name and transliteration in monolingual and parallel corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.20/)**Tracy Lin, Jian-Cheng Wu, Jason S. Chang · Technical Papers 20. **[FarsiSum - A Persian Text Summarizer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W04-1615/)**Martin Hassel, Nima Mazdak 21. **[Feedback from the field: the challenge of users in motion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.11/)**L. Hernandez, J. Turner, M. Holland · Technical Papers 22. **[Finite-State Morphological Analysis of Persian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W04-1607/)**Karine Megerdoomian 23. **[Improving domain-specific word alignment with a general bilingual corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.29/)**Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang · Technical Papers 24. **[Interlingual annotation for MT development ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-papers.26/)**Florence Reeder, Bonnie Dorr, David Farwell et al. · Technical Papers 25. **[Introduction to statistical machine translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2004.amta-tutorials.3/)**Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight · Tutorial Descriptions [See all 50 papers in AMTA 2004 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2004/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (2) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. [**Developing an Arabic Treebank: Methods, Guidelines, Procedures, and Tools**Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies*2004 · 140 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maamouri-2004-developing-arabic-treebank-methods-guidelines/) 2. [**Issues in Arabic Orthography and Morphology Analysis**Tim Buckwalter*2004 · 98 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/buckwalter-2004-issues-arabic-orthography-morphology-analysis/) ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Treebanks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Ann Bies**1 work here · 140 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ann-bies/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mohamed Maamouri**1 work here · 140 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-maamouri/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tim Buckwalter**1 work here · 98 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-buckwalter/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous AMTA 1996](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/1996/) - [next → AMTA 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2006/) - [↑ back to AMTA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)