Standardizing ontologms ~s a challenging task Ontologms have been created based on different backgrounds, different purposes and different people However, standardizing them is useful not only for applications, such as Machine Translation and Information Retrmval, but also to Improve the. ontologms themselves During the process of standardization, people can find bugs or gaps in ontologms So st...

In the 1980s the dominant framework of MT was essentially ‘rule-based’, e.g. the linguistics-based approaches of Ariane, METAL, Eurotra, etc.; or the knowledge-based approaches at Carnegie Mellon University and elsewhere. New approaches of the 1990s are based on large text corpora, the alignment of bilingual texts, the use of statistical methods and the use of parallel corpora for ‘example-base...

In this paper we discuss ongoing activity within the approach to natural language processing known as ontological semantics, as defined in Nirenburg and Raskin (forthcoming). After a brief discussion of the principal tenets on which this approach is built, and a revision of extant implementations that have led toward its present form, we concentrate on some specific aspects that are key to the ...

The International Conference, Machine Translation Ten Years On, took place at Cranfield University, 12-14 November 1994. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of the previous international conference on Machine Translation (MT) held at Cranfield. The 1994 conference was organised by Cranfield University in conjunction with the Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Comput...