CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
-- The 6th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation (PSLT 2015) –
Held as a part of Machine Translation Summit XV
Miami, Florida, USA
October 30, 2015
WORKSHOP WEBSITE: http://www.aamtjapio.com/pslt2015
REGISRATION: Registration to the workshop is available via Machine Translation Summit XV website: http://www.amtaweb.org/mt-summit-xv/
PROGRAM:
9:00- 9:10 Opening
9:10-10:30 Session 1 (MT in Patent Organizations)
9:10- 9:50 [Invited talk] Bruno Pouliquen (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Full-text Patent Translation at WIPO: Scalability, Quality and Usability
9:50-10:30 [Invited talk] Kei Kato (Japan Patent Office)
Initiatives of the Japan Patent Office on Machine Translation
10:50-11:50 Session 2 (Effective Use of Patent MT)
10:50-11:30 [Invited talk] John Tinsley (Iconic Translation Machines Ltd.)
Improving Translator Productivity with MT: A Patent Translation Case Study
11:30-11:50 Xiaona Ren, Yongpeng Wei and Rile Hu
Simplify Sentence Structure for Improving Human Post-editing Efficiency on Chinese-to-English Patent Machine Translation
13:20-15:00 Session 3 (Challenges for Advanced Patent MT)
13:20-14:00 [Invited talk] Stefan Riezler (Heidelberg University)
Response-Based Learning for Patent Translation
14:00-14:20 John Richardson, Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi
Enhancing Function Word Translation with Syntax-Based Statistical Post-Editing
14:20-14:40 Hongzheng Li, Kai Zhao, Renfen Hu, Yun Zhu and Yaohong Jin
A Hybrid System for Chinese-English Patent Machine Translation
14:40-15:00 Zi Long, Takehito Utsuro, Tomoharu Mitsuhashi and Mikio Yamamoto
Collecting Bilingual Technical Terms from Patent Families of Character-Segmented Chinese Sentences and Morpheme-Segmented Japanese Sentences
15:20-16:40 Session 4 (Beyond Patent Translation)
15:20-16:00 [Invited talk] Toshiaki Nakazawa (Japan Science and Technology Agency)
Promoting Science and Technology Exchange using Machine Translation
16:00-16:20 Keisuke Noguchi and Takashi Ninomiya
Resampling Approach for Instance-based Domain Adaptation from Patent Domain to Newspaper Domain in Statistical Machine Translation
16:20-16:40 Takashi Tsunakawa and Hiroyuki Kaji
Towards Cross-lingual Patent Wikification
16:40-16:50 Closing
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Hiroyuki Kaji [Co-chiar] (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Katsuhito Sudoh [Co-chiar] (NTT, Japan)
Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
Hiroshi Echizen-ya (Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan)
Terumasa Ehara (Ehara NLP Research Laboratory, Japan)
Isao Goto (NHK, Japan)
Kinji Hanawa (Japan Patent Information Organization, Japan)
Takayuki Hayakawa (Japan Patent Information Organization, Japan)
Munpyo Hong (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Kenji Imamura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Hideki Isozaki (Okayama Prefectural University, Japan)
Hiroaki Kawai (Japan Patent Information Organization, Japan)
Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Akira Kumano (Toshiba Solutions Corporation, Japan)
Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Jong-Hyeok Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Bente Maegaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Toshimichi Moriya (Japan Patent Information Organization, Japan)
Toshiaki Nakazawa (Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan)
Takashi Ninomiya (Ehime University, Japan)
Tadaaki Oshio (Japan Patent Information Organization, Japan)
Svetlana Sheremetyeva (Lanaconsult, Denmark)
Sayori Shimohata (Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Japan)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST, Japan)
Takashi Tsunakawa (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Takehito Utsuro (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Shoichi Yokoyama (Yamagata University, Japan)
Jiajun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)