(SANITIZED) SEMINAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00171R001800120010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 9, 1976
• Content Type: AG

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FBIS SEMINAR
Sponsor
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
Coordinator
Jim Mathias, MRM, Inc.
March 8 and 9, 1976
Ramada Inn - Rosslyn B
Second Floor
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FBIS SEMINAR
Monday, March 8, 1976
MORNING SESSION - 9:00 a. m. - 1:00 p. m.
Introduction -
Foundations of Machine Translation
Linguistics - Wallace L. Chafe, U. of California, Berkeley
Operations - Martin Kay, Xerox
Developmental Machine-Aided Translation Systems
On-line Aid - Erhard Lippmann, IBM
ALP - Eldon G. Lytle, Brigham Young University
Berkeley MT - William S-Y Wang, U. of California, Berkeley
AFTERNOON SESSION - 2:00 p. m. - 5:00 p. m.
Available Machine-Aided Translation Systems
METEO - John Chandioux, Montreal University
Xonics MT - Bedrich Chaloupka, Xonics Corp.
SYSTRAN - Peter Toma, Latsec Corp.
EVENING SESSION - 7:00 p. m. - 10:00 p. m.
Scheduled Demonstrations
Smart Basic 800 Language Translation - multilanguage
Montreal Weather Forecast Translation (English to French)
Xonics Machine Translation (Russian to English)
Wilks Preference Semantic Translation Program (French to English)
Latsec - SYSTRAN (Russian to English)
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FBIS SEMINAR
Tuesday, March 9, 1976
MORNING SESSION - 9:00 a. m. - 12:30 p. m.
Operating Experience
Georgetown Background - Michael Zarechnak, Georgetown
Oakridge Translation - Martha Gerrard/Fred Hutton
FTD Translation - Major Lynn Hansen
Optical Character Recognition
State of the Art - Robert Shillman, MIT
Chinese - William Stallings, CNR
AFTERNOON SESSION - 1:30 p. m. - 4:30 p. m.
Artificial Intelligence Contribution to Machine Translation
Meaning Representation - Roger Schank, Yale
Context/Topic Specific Knowledge - Charles Rieger, Maryland
Semantics and World Knowledge in MT - Yorick Wilks, Edinburgh
Formal Representation - Robert F. Simmons, Texas
Summary - Moderators and Commentators
Moderators Commentators
David Hays, N. Y. U. Sally Sedelow, NSF
Richard See, NAMRU Stanley Petrick, IBM
Ira Goldstein, MIT
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NOTE: Brief reports on the following projects will be presented during
the seminar as time allows:
Leibnitz Group, J. Chandioux for B. Vauquois, Grenoble
CULT, J. Mathias for S. C. Loh, Chinese University of H. K.
FRG Translation Aid System, J. Mathias for F. Krollman, Germany
Chinese On-line Retrieval, J. Mathias for CETA, U. S. A.
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