--- title: "AMTA 2012 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "AMTA 2012 — accepted papers: 8 papers in the Elamur Research library (San Diego, California, USA), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2012/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2012/) [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/) / 2012 # AMTA 2012 — accepted papers AMTA 2012 is the 2012 edition of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), held in San Diego, California, USA, November 2012 (publisher: Association for Machine Translation in the Americas). The ACL Anthology lists 97 papers of it in 4 tracks; our library holds 8 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. [**97** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**8** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2012/#works) · [**67** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2012/#works)**San Diego, California, USA** where it was held**November 2012** when ## Tracks Main 57Research Papers 29Tutorials 6Keynote Presentations 5 ## All accepted papers (97) The most cited first; 8 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Detailed Analysis of Phrase-based and Syntax-based MT: The Search for Systematic Differences](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.27/)**Rasoul Samad Zadeh Kaljahi, Raphael Rubino, Johann Roturier et al. · Research Papers 2. **[A General Framework to Weight Heterogeneous Parallel Data for Model Adaptation in Statistical MT](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.21/)**Kashif Shah, Loïc Barrault, Holger Schwenk · Research Papers 3. **[A Graph-based Strategy to Streamline Translation Quality Assessments](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.13/)**Daniele Pighin, Lluís Formiga, Lluís Màrquez · Research Papers 4. **[A New Method for Automatic Translation Scoring-HyTER](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-government.9/)**Daniel Marcu 5. **[A Poor Man's Translation Memory Using Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.26/)**Michel Simard, Atsushi Fujita · Research Papers 6. **[A User-Based Usability Assessment of Raw Machine Translated Technical Instructions](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-commercial.4/)**Stephen Doherty, Sharon O'Brien 7. **[ARNE - A tool for Namend Entity Recognition from Arabic Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shihadeh-2012-arne-tool-namend-entity-recognition/)**Carolin Shihadeh, Günter Neumann*our summary* 8. **[Addressing some Issues of Data Sparsity towards Improving English- Manipuri SMT using Morphological Information](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-monomt.6/)**Thoudam Doren Singh 9. **[An LSP Perspective: Business & Process Challenges Implementing MT Solutions: Is MT Delivering Expected Value?](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-commercial.7/)**Rustin Gibbs, Joe DiDamo 10. **[Approaches to Arabic Name Transliteration and Matching in the DataFlux Quality Knowledge Base](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kay-2012-approaches-arabic-name-transliteration-matching/)**Brant N. Kay, Brian C. Rineer*our summary* 11. **[Automatic Speech Recognition & Hybrid MT for HQ Closed-Captioning & Subtitling for Video Broadcast](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-commercial.15/)**Hassan Sawaf 12. **[Average Pause Ratio as an Indicator of Cognitive Effort in Post-Editing: A Case Study](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-wptp.3/)**Isabel Lacruz, Gregory M. Shreve, Erik Angelone 13. **[Beyond MT: Source Content Quality and Process Automation](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-commercial.10/)**Jenny Lu, Patricia Paladini Adell 14. **[Building MT for a Severely Under-Resourced Language: White Hmong](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.10/)**William Lewis, Phong Yang · Research Papers 15. **[Challenges in Predicting Machine Translation Utility for Human Post-Editors](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.6/)**Michael Denkowski, Alon Lavie · Research Papers 16. **[Compact Rule Extraction for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.16/)**Baskaran Sankaran, Gholamreza Haffari, Anoop Sarkar · Research Papers 17. **[Conditional Significance Pruning: Discarding More of Huge Phrase Tables](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.28/)**Howard Johnson · Research Papers 18. **[Detailed Analysis of Different Strategies for Phrase Table Adaptation in SMT](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.19/)**Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel · Research Papers 19. **[Developing an Open-domain English-Farsi Translation System Using AFEC: Amirkabir Bilingual Farsi-English Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-caas14.3/)**Fattaneh Jabbari, Somayeh Bakshaei, Seyyed Mohammad Mohammadzadeh Ziabary et al. 20. **[Domain Adaptation in Machine Translation: Findings from the 2012 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-keynotes.1/)**Hal Daumé III, Marine Carpuat, Alex Fraser et al. · Keynote Presentations 21. **[Duolingo: Learn a Language for Free while Helping to Translate the Web](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-keynotes.4/)**Luis von Ahn · Keynote Presentations 22. **[Error Detection for Post-editing Rule-based Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-wptp.9/)**Justina Valotkaite, Munshi Asadullah 23. **[Evaluating Parallel Corpora: Assessing Utility in Government Translation Memory (TM) Systems](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-government.11/)**Erica Michael 24. **[Evaluation of Domain Adaptation Techniques for TRANSLI in a Real-World Environment](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-commercial.6/)**Atefeh Farzindar, Wael Khreich 25. **[Exploiting Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base for the Extraction of Linguistic Resources: Application on Arabic-French Comparable Corpora and Bilingual Lexicons](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-caas14.10/)**Rahma Sellami, Fatiha Sadat, Lamia Hadrich Belguith [See all 97 papers in AMTA 2012 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2012/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (8) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Machine Translation of Labeled Discourse Connectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meyer-2012-machine-translation-labeled-discourse-connectives/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Thomas Meyer, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Najeh Hajlaoui, et al.*2012 · 55 citations* 2. **[Morphological Segmentation and Part of Speech Tagging for Religious Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohamed-2012-morphological-segmentation-part-speech-tagging/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Emad Mohamed*2012 · 4 citations* 3. **[Approaches to Arabic Name Transliteration and Matching in the DataFlux Quality Knowledge Base](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kay-2012-approaches-arabic-name-transliteration-matching/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Brant N. Kay, Brian C. Rineer*2012 · 3 citations* 4. **[ARNE - A tool for Namend Entity Recognition from Arabic Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shihadeh-2012-arne-tool-namend-entity-recognition/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Carolin Shihadeh, Günter Neumann*2012 · 3 citations* 5. **[MT and Arabic Language Issues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/habash-2012-mt-arabic-language-issues/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Nizar Habash*2012 · 1 citation* 6. **[Using Arabic Transliteration to Improve Word Alignment from French- Arabic Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saadane-2012-arabic-transliteration-improve-word-alignment/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Houda Saadane, Ouafa Benterki, Nasredine Semmar, et al.*2012 · 1 citation* 7. **[Rescoring N-Best Hypotheses for Arabic Speech Recognition: A Syntax- Mining Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abuzeina-2012-rescoring-n-best-hypotheses-arabic/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Dia AbuZeina, Moustafa Elshafei, Husni Al-Muhtaseb, et al.*2012* 8. **[The Conundrum of New Online Languages: Translating Arabic Chat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ross-2012-conundrum-new-online-languages-translating/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Joel Ross*2012* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Semitic languages (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Morphology (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [French (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/) · [Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Andrea Gesmundo**1 work here · 55 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-gesmundo/) · [🧑‍🔬**Andrei Popescu-Belis**1 work here · 55 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrei-popescu-belis/) · [🧑‍🔬**Thomas Meyer**1 work here · 55 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-meyer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Emad Mohamed**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emad-mohamed/) · [🧑‍🔬**Günter Neumann**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gunter-neumann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Houda Saadane**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houda-saadane/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nasredine Semmar**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nasredine-semmar/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nizar Habash**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**University of Geneva** Geneva · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/) · [🔬**Idiap Research Institute** Martigny-Combe · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous AMTA 2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2010/) - [next → AMTA 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2018/) - [↑ back to AMTA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)