Jeffrey Allen: references

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Jeff Allen - Technical Manager / Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and
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PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCE TALKS, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Language Technologies

ALLEN, Jeffrey. (in preparation for presentation). Several case studies on the implementation of Controlled Language, Machine Translation, and/or Translation Memory in Industrial and Corporate Sectors. Invited talk at the 2nd Multilingual Documentation for the Automotive Industry TOPTEC Symposium. Sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), to take place 12-13 October 2000 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. (invitation). Implementation of Controlled Language and Authoring/Translation Memory systems. Invited talk at the annual conference of Technical Information Creation and Distribution (TICAD200), 3 November 2000, Birmingham, England.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. (in preparation). Who owns Translation Memory? Regular column article in International Journal for Language and Documentation (IJLD), Issue 6, July 2000.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. The Risks of Spelling Variation and Reform. Regular column article in International Journal for Language and Documentation (IJLD), Issue 4, April 2000, pp. 40-41.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. (submitted) Rebuttal to Douglas Hoftstadter on Controlled Language and Machine Translation. To appear in special June 2000 issue on Machine Translation in Language International magazine. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. Controlled Language - Changing Faces. Regular column article in International Journal for Language and Documentation (IJLD), Issue 3, January 2000, pp. 20-21.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Results of the "Survey of percentages for documentation written on the topic of Controlled Language (CL)". In TC-Forum magazine, volume 4-99, pp. 4-5.


ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Adapting the concept of "Translation Memory" to "Authoring memory" for a Controlled Language writing environment. Presented at the 21st Conference of "Translating and the Computer", sponsored by ASLIB, 10-11 November 1999, London.


ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Implementing Controlled Language and Machine Translation in the automotive industry. Invited talk at the 1st Multilingual Documentation for the Automotive Industry TOPTEC Symposium. Co-sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the Localisation Industry Standards Association (LISA), and ALPNET held 21-22 October in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
See: http://www.praetorius1.demon.co.uk/new/toptec1.html)

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. La standardisation du créole hadˇtien par l'intermédiaire de la linguistique computationnelle. Paper presented at the 9cˇ Colloque du Comité International des Etudes Créoles. Held at the Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 24-29 June 1999.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Different kinds of Controlled Languages. In TC-Forum magazine, volume 1-99, pp. 4-5.


ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1998. Lexical variation in Haitian Creole and orthographic issues for Machine Translation (MT) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications. Paper presented at the First Workshop on Embedded Machine Translation systems of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) conference, Philadelphia, 28 October 1998.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1998. Practical issues for implementing new Natural Language Processing technologies in industrial environments. Seminar presented to the R&D team of Trados SA, Brussels, Belgium, 25 July 1998. (not available: however, a revised publicly accessible version is available via the TopTec Seminar listed in this bibliography).

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1998. Intelligence artificielle: apport de la traduction automatique et le traitement automatique de la parole au créole hadˇtien. Seminar and system demonstration presented at the Université Caradˇbe, Port-au-Prince (Haiti), 28 March 1998.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1998. A formula for successfully implementing new Natural Language Processing technologies at General Motors. Seminar presented at General Motors, Information Systems and Services, Detroit, Michigan, 26 February 1998. (not available: however, a revised publicly accessible version is available via the TopTec Seminar listed in this bibliography).

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1997. Le créole hadˇtien au XXIe sicˇcle : nouveaux avancements en technologies informatisées. Talk presented at the 'Des Créoles de la Caradˇbe' International Workshop, Duke University, 10-15 September 1997.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1996. L'intéreţt pour la traduction automatique dans l'industrie. Seminar presented at Bradley University (Peoria, Illinois), 2 December 1996.

ALLEN, Jeffrey and Christopher HOGAN. 1998. Expanding lexical coverage of parallel corpora for the Example-Based Machine Translation approach. In Proceedings of the First International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC98), 28-30 May 1998, Granada, Spain. Vol. 2, pp. 747-754.

ALLEN, Jeffrey and Christopher HOGAN. 2000. Toward the development of a post-editing module for MT raw output : a new productivity tool for processing controlled language. Presented at the Third International Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW2000), to be held in Seattle, Washington, 29-30 April 2000.

Jeffrey ALLEN and Marilyn MASON. 2000. Survey of Human Language Technologies for Creole Languages. To be presented at the Society for Caribbean Linguistics Meeting, August 2000. Mona, Jamaica.

ALLEN, Jeffrey and John SMART. 1999. English Language history, Controlled English Checkers, Writing Techniques, Examples of CE. Invited talk at the annual conference of Technical Information Creation and Distribution (TICAD99), 3 November 1999, Birmingham, England.



Language Resource Databases

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. The ELDA Language Resources survey: languages needed. To appear in the International Journal for Language and Documentation. Number 6. June 2000.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. ELRA/ELDA and Language Resources for Controlled Language and Translation Systems. Presentation made at the Third International Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW2000), Seattle, Washington, 29-30 April 2000, held in conjunction with the ANLP/NAACL2000 Language Technology Joint Conference, Seattle, Washington.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. Language Resources surveyed by ELRA/ELDA. Talk presented at the Large Corpora and Annotation Standards meeting held in conjunction with the ANLP/NAACL2000 Language Technology Joint Conference, Seattle, Washington, 4 May 2000.

  • More information available at: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/ANLP-NAACL2000.html


ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. The ELRA/ELDA survey of Language Resources. In Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) Newsletter. Vol. IX. No. 2, pp. 25-30.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. Legal and Ethical Problems for the Distribution of Language and Terminology Resource Databases. Invited paper presented at the Conference for a Terminology Infrastructure in Europe held at UNESCO, Paris, 13-15 March 2000.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. ELRA 1999 Call for Proposals-ELRA Commission Production of Language Resources. European Language Resources Association (ELRA) Newsletter, January-March 1999, 4.1:8-9.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Results of ELRA 1999 Call for Proposals - ELRA Commission Production of Language Resources. European Language Resources Association (ELRA) Newsletter, April-June 1999, 4.2:6-7.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Report on ELDA's Survey of Language Resource User needs. In European Language Resources Association (ELRA) Newsletter, Vol. 4 No. 4, October - December 1999, pp. 8-9.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Language Resources Go Digital: Update on the European Language Resources Association. In Language International magazine, Vol. 11, No. 6. pp. 38-39. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Using Language Resources for Speech, Text and Terminology processing systems. Invited talk presented at the Copenhagen Business School, sponsored by the Language Technologies and Modern Languages Departments, 1 December 1999, Copenhagen, Denmark.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Language Resources: an Issue of Information Management. Keynote talk on Resources presented at the Conference on Co-operation in the Field of Terminology in Europe sponsored by the European Association For Terminology (EAFT) and the Union Latine. 17-19 May 1999, Palais des Congrcˇs de Paris.

ALLEN, Jeffrey and Khalid CHOUKRI. (accepted). Survey of Language Engineering needs: a Language Resources perspective. To present at the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000) to take place 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece.

CHOUKRI, Khalid, Valérie MAPELLI, and Jeffrey ALLEN. 1999. New developments within the European Language Resources Association. Paper presented at Eurospeech99. Budapest, Hungary, 4-12 September 1999.

CHOUKRI, Khalid, and Jeffrey ALLEN. 2000. The perspective of the European Language Resources Association on Meta-Descriptions and Annotation Schemas for Multimodal/Multimedia Language Resources. Presented at the First EAGLES/ISLE Workshop on Meta-Descriptions and Annotation Schemas for Multimodal/Multimedia Language Resources. Satellite workshop of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece.

ESKENAZI, Maxine, Christopher HOGAN, Jeffrey ALLEN, and Robert FREDERKING. 1997. Issues in database creation : recording new populations, faster and better labelling. In Proceedings of Eurospeech97. Vol. 4: 1699-1702. Conference held in Rhodes, Greece, 22-25 September 1997.

ESKENAZI, Maxine, Christopher HOGAN, Jeffrey ALLEN, and Robert FREDERKING. 1998. Issues in database design: recording and processing speech from new populations (poster session). In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC98), 28-30 May 1998, Granada, Spain. Vol. 2, pp. 1289-1293.

  • Available at: http://www.ling.su.se/Creole/Papers_On-Line.html#DB_Design


LENZO, Kevin, Christopher HOGAN, and Jeffrey ALLEN. 1998. Rapid-Deployment Text-to-Speech in the DIPLOMAT System. Poster presented at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. 30 November - 4 December 1998, Sydney, Australia.

MASON, Marilyn and Jeffrey ALLEN. 2000. Issues from corpus analysis that have influenced the on-going development of various Haitian Creole text- and speech-based NLP systems and applications. Presented at the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece.

MORENO, Asunción, Borge LINDBERG, Christoph DRAXLER, GaĎl RICHARD, Khalid CHOUKRI, Stephan EULER, and Jeffrey Allen. (accepted). SpeechDat Car: A Large Speech Database For Automotive Environments. To present at the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece.


Training Courses for Technical Writers and Translators

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1995. Grammar review course for technical writing. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department, Caterpillar Inc. September - October 1995. (not publicly available)

ALLEN, Jeffrey and Greg GOUZEV. 1996. Translation system training course. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department. Caterpillar Inc. July 1996. (not publicly available)

ALLEN, Jeffrey and Paula JOHNSON. 1995. Caterpillar Technical English (CTE) training guide. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department,Caterpillar Inc. September 1995. (not publicly available)

JOHNSON, Paula and Jeffrey ALLEN. 1995. Caterpillar Technical English controlled language reference manual. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department. Caterpillar Inc. September 1995. (not publicly available)


Listed below are other publications, papers and other works on language, linguistics,
bilingualism, minority languages

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1998. Review of Language reclamation: French creole teaching in the Caribbean and the UK by Hubisi Nwenmely. 1996. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 13.1: 409-415.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1997. Review of Caribbean language issues: old and new edited by Pauline Christie. 1996. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press. Published in 13.2 of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. (I unfortunately do not remember the page numbers).

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1996. Review of Dictionnaire élémentaire franćais-créole by Pierre Pinalie. 1994. Paris: L'Harmattan & PUC. In Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 11.1: 156-158.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1995. The Psycho-social aspects of language learning. Peoria, Illinois: Translation Department & Personnel Relocation Services.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1994. Sainte-Lucie: relexification, décréolisation, recréolisation ou adlexification? Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies doctoral Thesis. Département des Sciences du Langage & Centre de Recherches Linguistiques et Sémiologiques, Université Lyon 2. 183 pp.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1994. Review of Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole by Jones Mondesir (compiler) and Lawrence Carrington (ed). 1992. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. In Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 9.1: 175-181.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1994. "Has the adoption of words from English led to a new phoneme in Kwéynˇl?" Paper presented at the Workshop on Developmental Issues in Creole Languages and Linguistics held at the University of Westminster (Britain), 30 April 1994.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1994. "L'influence adstratale des variétés anglaises sur le kwéynˇl sainte-lucien". Paper presented at the Colloque Morphologie et Syntaxe des Langues Créoles held at the Université de Provence (France), 23-25 June 1994.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1994. "Influence of English varieties on St. Lucian French Creole" Seminar presented at the Sociolinguistics club of Indiana University, 24 October 1994.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1994. "Survival of a patois in Chalamont, France". Seminar presented at the Sociolinguistics club of Indiana University, 24 October 1994. Seminar based on a 3-month dialectology survey undertaken in France.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1993. "Les créoles rę base lexicale du franćais: un parcours historique". Seminar presented at the Université Lyon 2, 4 February 1993.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1992. Sainte-Lucie: Description sociolinguistique d'une ”le antillaise. Ma”trise (Masters) Thesis. Département des Sciences du Langage, Université Lyon 2. 111 pp.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1992. "Former lexifier language acquisition: a case for creole language studies". Paper presented at the Colloque International: Les Langues dans l'Europe Communautaire at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (Netherlands), 25-28 November 1992.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1992. "Francophonie ou Créolophonie?" Seminar presented at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Ma”tres (IUFM) de Lyon, 7 October 1992.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1992. "Les théories de la pidginisation et la créolisation". Seminar presented at the Université Lyon 2, 24 January 1992.

HASSEN, Karen and Jeffrey ALLEN. (in preparation) Controlled Language Training: Reactions, Comments and Responses. (Manuscript).

HOGAN, Christopher and Jeffrey ALLEN. 1999. Phonemic and Orthographic realizations of ‘r’ and ‘w’ in Haitian Creole. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Phonetic Sciences ICPhS 98, San Francisco, 1-7 August, 1999.

ALLEN, Jeff and Jean-Cléophat GERMAIN, Carnegie Mellon University. (1997 or 1998 issue) Review of Learner's Dictionary of Haitian Creole by Valdman, Albert (in collaboration with Charles Pooser and Rozevel Jean-Baptiste). 1996. A Learner's Dictionary of Haitian Creole. Bloomington: Indiana University Creole Institute. To appear in an upcoming issue of the Carrier Pidgin.

ALLEN, Jeff and Jocelyne TROUILLOT-LEVY. 1998. Televised interview on TeleHaiti on the status of computerized language systems for Creole and standardization of Haitian Creole. Interview aired 6pm, March 27, 1998 and 6am March 28, 1998, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

ALLEN, Jeffrey and Christopher HOGAN. Le 'r' et le 'w' en créole hadˇtien: 1, 2 ou 3 phonemes? Paper presented at the 9cˇ Colloque du Comite International des Etudes Créoles. Held at the Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 24 - 29 juin 1999.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. (Forthcoming) Reviewed by Jeff Allen, European Language Resources Association (ELRA). Vilsaint, Fequiere and Maude Heurtelou, 1995. English Haitian-Creole Science Dictionary. Coconut Creek, Florida: Educa Vision. To appear in an upcoming issue of the Carrier Pidgin.

Allen, Jeff (chapter co-author) 1997. Carrington, Lawrence et al. "Developing a conducive context for vernacular literacy." In Andrée Tabouret Keller et al. (eds). Vernacular Literacy Revisited. Clarendon University Press.


Conference Committee, Editorial, and Special Interest Group work

ALLEN, Jeffrey. Editor of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) Newsletter. Since January 1999.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. Regular contributing columnist on language and documentation technologies for the International Journal for Language and Documentation (IJLD). First bi-monthly column article appeared in Issue 3, January 2000.

  • Information about the IJLD at: http://www.praetorius1.demon.co.uk/pls/ijld.htm


ALLEN, Jeffrey. Conference organizer and Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the 2nd international Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW2000).
Information about CLAW2000 is available at: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000

ALLEN, Jeffrey. National Contact Person (NCP) in France for the Technical Communicators' Forum, a quarterly journal and e-mail discussion list for international technical communicators.
Information about TC-FORUM at http://www.tc-forum.org

ALLEN, Jeffrey. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA2000).

ALLEN, Jeffrey. Member of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Machine Translation Certification. European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) and Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA).

ALLEN, Jeffrey. Member of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Machine Translation Post-Editing. European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) and Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA).