FIRST DAY: 25 March 2004 (Thursday)
| 9:50-10:00 | Opening Address: (Program Chair) |
| 10:00-11:00 | Invited Speech: Trends in Natural Language Processing to Overcome Language Barriers Prof. Eduard Hovy (USC) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Oral Presentaion 1: A Method for Retrieving Translations of Collocation in Web Data Masahiro Shibata, Yoichi Tomiura, Shosaku Tanaka |
| 11:30-12:00 | Oral Presentaion 2: An Analysis of Translation Equivalents of Japanese-Mongolian Functional Expressions Sanduijav Enkhbayar, Takehito Utsuro, Satoshi Sato |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30-14:30 | Invited Speech: Projects corresponding to multilingual environment in the "Asia Broadband Program" Mr. Shuichi Honda (Japanese Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications ) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Oral Presentaions 3: The m17n Library - A General Purpose Multilingual Library for Unix/Linux Applications - Nishikimi Mikiko, Handa Kenichi, Takahashi Naoto, Tomura Satoru |
| 15:00-15:30 | Oral Presentaions 4: Agent-Mediated Architecture for Efficient Goal-Oriented Communication across Languages Akira Kataoka, Yamato Takahashi, Setsuo Yamada, Naoki Asanoma, Osamu Furuse |
| 15:30-16:00 | Refreshment Break |
| 16:00-17:00 | Invited Speech: Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Management for Practical Machine Translation Prof. Tiejun Zhao (HIT) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Oral Presentaion 5: Example-Based Machine Translation Based on Translation Corresponding Tree Representation WONG Fai , TANG Chi Wai, DONG Ming Chui, MAO Yu Hang, LI Yi Ping |
| 17:30-18:00 | Oral Presentaion 6: Development of Chinese-Japanese MT System based on Language-Independent Translation Engine Mihoko Kitamura, Tetsuji Nakagawa, Seika Kim, Toshiki Murata |
SECOND DAY: 26 March 2004 (Friday)
| 10:00-11:00 | Invited Speech: Disabled by language? Problems of limited majority language skills in doctor-patient communication Prof. Harold Somers (UMIST) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Oral Presentaion 7: MT-Aided Analysis of Comprehension of English Verb Preposition Constructions Ge Naisheng, Zhu Jiang, Wang Haifeng |
| 11:30-12:00 | Oral Presentaion 8: Domain Lexico-Taxonomy: An Approach Towards Multi-domain Language Processing Chu-Ren Huang, Xiang-Bing Li, Jia-Fei Hong |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30-15:00 | Poster Presentations:
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| 15:00-15:15 | Refreshment Break |
| 15:15-17:15 | Panel Discussion: NLP for Language e-Learning : Asian Perspectives Yoshihiko Nitta, Thomas Chuang, Hitoshi Isahara, Kin Chew Lim, Virach Sornlertlamvanich |
| 17:15-18:00 | Discussion |