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  <Title>Hideo Watanabe, IBM TRL ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS:</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at the 2001 Workshop on Data Driven Machine Translation, which is part of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics held on July 7, 2001 in Toulouse, France.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> With the increased availability of online corpora, data-dri ven approaches have become central to the NL community . A variety of data-dri ven approaches have been used to help build Machine Translation systems -example-based, statistical MT, and other machine learning approaches and there are all sorts of possibilities for hybrid systems. We have endea vored to bring together proponents of as man y techniques as possible to engage in a discussion of which combinations will yield maximal success in translation. We have chosen to center the workshop on Data Driven MT, by which we mean all approaches which develop algorithms and programs to exploit data in the development of MT, primarily the use of large bilingual corpora created by human translators, and serving as a source of training data for MT systems.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> To further this theme, the conference program also includes an invited talk on the subject. We would like to thank our invited speak er, Hermann Ney, for his participation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Organizing a workshop like this is a bit of an effort -especially given what seemed to be very tight deadlines. Luckily, we had exceptionally cooperati ve program committee members and reviewers. From an initial slate of 26 submissions, the y selected the papers in this proceedings in a blind refereeing process. We deeply and sincerely thank all who reviewed: we would have run aground without their efforts.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Additionally , we would like to thank Deborah Coughlin for joining us in organizing the workshop. She was able to implement the reviewing process, organize the reception of the papers and master all the nitty-gritty without which the workshop and the proceedings could not happen.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> We most gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsor , Microsoft Research, for generous support of this acti vity.</Paragraph>
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