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<P class=style1 align=left><FONT size=2>TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 31<BR>19-20
November 2009, at the Congress Centre, London</FONT></P>
<P class=style1 align=left><SPAN class=328354513-02042009></SPAN><FONT size=2><A
href="http://www.aslib.com/conferences">w<SPAN
class=328354513-02042009>ww.aslib.com/conferences</A></SPAN><BR><BR>An ASLIB
conference supported by BCS Natural Language Translation Specialist Group ,
European Association for Machine Translation , International Association for
Machine Translation, Institute of Translation and Interpreting and the
Chartered Institute of Linguists.</FONT></P>
<P class=style1 align=left><FONT size=2>This will be the thirty-first conference
in the series. The Aslib event draws together a diverse group of delegates, who
gain new insights and brainstorm ideas on the use of information technology for
translation. In general, the areas looked at are:</FONT></P>
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<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>language resources exchange </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>tools, technologies and standards </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>web-based collaboration models </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>translation process control
</FONT></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<P class=style6 align=left><FONT size=2>This call for papers invites abstracts
of papers to be presented at the conference. Talks are slanted towards a
practi<SPAN class=843325410-02042009>ti</SPAN>oner's point of view, even when
dealing with the latest product developments and theoretical research. The
papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user aspects of translation
or translation-related software. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations are
especially welcome. A list of possible topics appears below. </FONT></P>
<P class=style1 align=left><FONT size=2>The conference is a meeting point for
translation professionals from: </FONT></P>
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<LI><FONT size=2>large multinational institutions such as the European
Commission, the United Nations </FONT>
<LI><FONT size=2>translation agencies across the world </FONT>
<LI><FONT size=2>professional translators </FONT>
<LI><FONT size=2>tools and technology developers </FONT>
<LI><FONT size=2>translation and localisation researcher
</FONT></LI></UL></UL></UL></DIV>
<P class=style6 align=left><FONT size=2><B>TOPICS</B><BR><BR>The range of topics
includes (but is not limited to):</FONT></P>
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<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>use of MT systems </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>CAT tools including TM and various
translation aids </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>controlled languages and their use in MT
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>speech translation </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>terminology </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>localisation </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>multilingual document management/workflow
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>case studies of technology-based solutions
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>the Internet and translation aids/services
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Application of XML tools and XML standards
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Project Management </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>quality assurance tools </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>workflow systems </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>resources for translation including corpora
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Integrated MT TM and terminology systems
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Standardization / normalization in the
industry </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Corpus -based translation studies
investigations </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Voice recognition systems </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Training possibilities for Translators
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Translation/Localisation in emerging
markets/ non-European/ US context </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Open Source Software/ Workflow and
implications </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>TM Copyright Issues </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Practical experiences in transfer of
terminology data from one format to another (MultiTerm, NTRF, etc) </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Language Services of International
Organisations </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Exchange between terminology, lexicography
and MT-lexicons </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Term extractions - tools and technologies
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Statistical MT with case studies on cost
savings </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Hybrid solutions in practice including
post-editing </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>e-Learning for translators </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Practical and critical experience sharing of
system implementation MT/TM workflow </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Wikis and other forms of massive online
collaboration in translation </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>Exact Translation: problems using tools,
requirements </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>how to measure the productivity/quality of
e-translation </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>terminology extraction (automated) </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>hybrid machine translation; evaluation of MT
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>research in MT and NLP </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>post-editing, quality assurance </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>bridging language industry and academia
</FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>MT by final users and by translators
revising it </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>revision aids/tools </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>online revision </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2>use of corpora, reference material </FONT>
<LI class=style1><FONT size=2><SPAN class=style1>practical reports on
crowdsourcing</SPAN><BR></FONT></LI></UL></UL></UL></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT
size=2><B>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</B> <BR>Authors are required to submit an
abstract of a MINIMUM of 500 words of the paper they would like to present,
together with an outline of the structure of the paper and short biography.
</FONT></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2>Abstracts should be sent by EMAIL
by the 1st July 2009 to: Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser, Aslib,
Email:<SPAN class=843325410-02042009> <A title=mailto:tc31@aslib.com
href="BLOCKED::mailto:tc31@aslib.com">tc31@aslib.com</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=style1 align=left><FONT size=2>The abstracts will be considered by the
Programme Chairs, namely: Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada;
Daniel Grasmick, Lucy Software and Services; Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University
of Wolverhampton; Chris Pyne, SAP; Reinhard Schäler, TILP; and Olaf-Michael
Stefanov, Vienna.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>The
authors of abstracts will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their
submissions by 1 August 2009. Speakers' presentations must be submitted by 12
November 2009. </FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>In
brief, the deadlines are:</FONT></P>
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<LI><FONT size=2><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1 July
2009 - deadline for abstracts</FONT> </FONT>
<LI><FONT size=2><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1 August
2009 - all authors will be notified of decisions</FONT> </FONT>
<LI><FONT size=2><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">12
November 2009 - speakers’ presentations to be submitted</FONT> </FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>27 November 2009
- presentations posted on the conference web site in a password protected area
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<DIV align=left><STRONG><EM><FONT face="Futura Lt" size=2>Nicole Adamides,
Training Manager</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
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size=2><STRONG>ASLIB</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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