--- title: "AMTA 2006 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "AMTA 2006 — accepted papers: 2 papers in the Elamur Research library (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), with our summaries, ranked by…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2006/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2006/) [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/) / 2006 # AMTA 2006 — accepted papers AMTA 2006 is the 2006 edition of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, August 2006 (publisher: Association for Machine Translation in the Americas). The ACL Anthology lists 54 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. 📍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) · 🗓 August 2006 [**54** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2006/#works) · [**4,102** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2006/#works) ## Tracks Technical Papers 28Main 21Tutorials 5 ## All accepted papers (54) The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Gentle Introduction to Ontologies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-tutorials.1/)**Eduard Hovy · Tutorials 2. **[A Study of Translation Edit Rate with Targeted Human Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/snover-2006-study-translation-edit-rate-targeted/)**Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Rich Schwartz et al. · Technical Papers*our summary* 3. **[Ambiguity Reduction for Machine Translation: Human-Computer Collaboration ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.22/)**Marcus Sammer, Kobi Reiter, Stephen Soderland et al. · Technical Papers 4. **[An Overview of Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-tutorials.4/)**David Smith, Charles Schafer · Tutorials 5. **[Arabic Dialect Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-tutorials.3/)**Mona Diab, Nizar Habash · Tutorials 6. **[Better Learning and Decoding for Syntax Based SMT Using PSDIG ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.5/)**Yuan Ding, Martha Palmer · Technical Papers 7. **[Challenges in Building an Arabic-English GHMT System with SMT Components ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.7/)**Nizar Habash, Bonnie Dorr, Christof Monz · Technical Papers 8. **[Combining Evaluation Metrics via Loss Functions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.27/)**Calandra Tate, Clare Voss · Technical Papers 9. **[Combining Linguistic and Statistical Methods for Bi-directional English Chinese Translation in the Flight Domain ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.24/)**Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, John Lee · Technical Papers 10. **[Combining interlingua with SMT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-panel2.4/)**Stephanie Seneff 11. **[Constraining the Phrase-Based, Joint Probability Statistical Translation Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.2/)**Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborne · Technical Papers 12. **[Context-Based Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.3/)**Jaime Carbonell, Steve Klein, David Miller et al. · Technical Papers 13. **[Corpus Variations for Translation Lexicon Induction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.9/)**Rebecca Hwa, Carol Nichols, Khalil Sima'an · Technical Papers 14. **[Direct Application of a Language Learner Test to MT Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.19/)**Florence Reeder · Technical Papers 15. **[Document and Media Exploitation Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-users.4/)**Nick Bemish 16. **[Evaluating MT prior to deployment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-users.1/)**Donald A. DePalma 17. **[Example-Based Machine Translation of the Basque Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.26/)**Nicolas Stroppa, Declan Groves, Andy Way et al. · Technical Papers 18. **[Expecting the Unexpected: Using MT Operationally ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-users.2/)**Florence Reeder 19. **[First strategies for integrating hybrid approaches into established systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-panel2.5/)**Jean Senellart, John S. White 20. **[GPHIN use of MT in disease outbreak detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-users.5/)**Michael Blench 21. **[Guarani: A Case Study in Resource Development for Quick Ramp-Up MT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.1/)**Ahmed Abdelali, James Cowie, Steve Helmreich et al. · Technical Papers 22. **[Improving Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation with Morpho-Syntactic Analysis and Transformation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.16/)**Thai Phuong Nguyen, Akira Shimazu · Technical Papers 23. **[Induction of Probabilistic Synchronous Tree-Insertion Grammars for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.15/)**Rebecca Nesson, Stuart Shieber, Alexander Rush · Technical Papers 24. **[Integration of POStag-based Source Reordering into SMT Decoding by an Extended Search Graph ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.4/)**Josep M. Crego, José B. Mariño · Technical Papers 25. **[Language Research at DARPA ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-talks.2/)**Joseph Olive [See all 54 papers in AMTA 2006 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2006/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (2) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. [**A Study of Translation Edit Rate with Targeted Human Annotation**Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Rich Schwartz, et al.*2006 · 3,828 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/snover-2006-study-translation-edit-rate-targeted/) 2. [**Statistical Syntax-Directed Translation with Extended Domain of Locality**Liang Huang, Kevin Knight, Aravind Joshi*2006 · 274 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2006-statistical-syntax-directed-translation-extended/) ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) ## 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. [🧑‍🔬**Bonnie Dorr**1 work here · 3,828 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-dorr/) · [🧑‍🔬**John Makhoul**1 work here · 3,828 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-makhoul/) · [🧑‍🔬**Matthew Snover**1 work here · 3,828 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-snover/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aravind Joshi**1 work here · 274 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aravind-joshi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kevin Knight**1 work here · 274 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/) · [🧑‍🔬**Liang Huang**1 work here · 274 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liang-huang/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work 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 2004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2004/) - [next → AMTA 2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2010/) - [↑ back to AMTA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)