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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA'98, held in Langhorne, PA, USA, in November 1998. The book presents 43 revised full papers carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings together with nine systems descriptions. Among the topics covered are lexicon extraction, quality and robustness in MT, MT systems, parsing, cross-language information retrieval, lexical semantics, statistical methods, MT and the Internet, data mining, reuse of translated terms, multilingual information systems, etc.

At last, a right up-to-the-minute volume on a topic of huge national and international importance. As governments around the world battle voter apathy, the need for new and modernized methods of involvement in the polity is becoming acute. This work provides information on advanced research and case studies that survey the field of digital government. Successful applications in a variety of government settings are delineated, while the authors also analyse the implications for current and future policy-making. Each chapter has been prepared and carefully edited within a structured format by a known expert on the individual topic.

Recognizing that the generation of natural language is a goal- driven process, where many of the goals are pragmatic (i.e., interpersonal and situational) in nature, this book provides an overview of the role of pragmatics in language generation. Each chapter states a problem that arises in generation, develops a pragmatics-based solution, and then describes how the solution is implemented in PAULINE, a language generator that can produce numerous versions of a single underlying message, depending on its setting.