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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#990000" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #990000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">ASLIB - Call for Papers
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</span></font><b><font color="#000066" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000066; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Translating and the Computer 32 Conference
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#000066" size="2" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000066; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Supported by BCS NLTSG, EAMT, ITI, TILP</span></font></b></p>
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<p><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000066; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Abstract deadline extended to 15th July 2010!</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></p>
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<p dir="ltr" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial">The Conference will take place on 18-19 November 2010 at De Vere West One, near Oxford Circus, London</font><br>
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This will be the thirty-second conference in the series. This 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:</span></font></p>
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">language resources exchange
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">tools, technologies and standards
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">web-based collaboration models
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">translation process control
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the conference. Talks are slanted towards a practitioner's point of view, even
when dealing with the latest product developments and theoretical research. The papers (and the presentations)
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">should focus on the user aspects of translation or translation-related software</span></b>. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations are especially welcome. A list of possible topics appears below.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The conference is a meeting point for translation professionals from:
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">large international and multilateral institutions such as those of the European Union and the United Nations System</span></font>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">translation agencies across the world
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">professional translators
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">tools and technology developers
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">researchers and academics<span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">TOPICS</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><br>
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The range of topics includes (but is not limited to):</span></font></p>
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Machine translation (MT) related topics</span></font>
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">hybrid rule-based/statistical MT systems
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">general use of MT systems
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">controlled languages and their use in MT
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">revising for MT</span></font>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">integrated MT, Translation Memory (TM) and terminology systems
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">sharing practical and critical experiences of implementing MT into the production workflow
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><span class="GramE"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">is</span></font></span><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> or should MT be
different for end users and for translators?</span></font> </li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">post-editing MT
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">case-studies of cost-savings</span></font>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">portability of MT systems across languages and domains</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></font>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">MT for social networks</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></font>
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</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Speech in the translation process</span></font>
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">use of voice recognition to dictate translation</span></font>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">use of voice recognition to transcribe audio originals and translations</span></font>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">voice recognition systems
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><span class="GramE"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">can</span></font></span><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> speech recognition
help translators using TM or MT systems?</span></font> </li></ul>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CAT tools including TM and various translation aids
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">hybrid solutions in practice including post-editing
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</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Terminology
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">translation/Localisation in emerging markets/ non-European/ US context
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</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Standards and sharing</span></font>
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">application of XML tools and XML standards
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">standardisation / normalisation in the industry
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the future of TMX (Translation Memory
<span class="SpellE">eXchange</span>), TBX (<span class="SpellE">TermBase</span> <span class="SpellE">
eXchange</span>) </span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">practical experiences in transfer of terminology data from one format to another (<span class="SpellE">MultiTerm</span>, NTRF, etc)
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">exchange between terminology, lexicography and MT-lexicons
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">tools and technologies for term extraction</span></font>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">TM and Terminology collection Copyright Issues
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">wikis</span></font></span><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> and other
forms of massive online collaboration in translation </span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">practical reports on
<span class="SpellE">crowdsourcing</span></span></font> </li></ul>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Around the translation process</span></font>
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the Internet and translation aids/services
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Project Management
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">quality assurance tools
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">revision aids/tools
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">online revision
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">workflow systems
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">multilingual document management/workflow
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">resources for translation including corpora
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">reference material and electronic referencing
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">corpus-based translation studies<span>
</span></span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Open Source Software/ Workflow and implications
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">post-editing</span></font>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">quality assurance
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">exact Translation: problems using tools, requirements
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</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Training and Research</span></font>
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">training possibilities for Translators
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">e-Learning for translators
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">research in MT and multilingual NLP
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">bridging language industry and academia
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">measure the productivity/quality of e-translation
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">case studies, including especially cost-savings studies of technology-based solutions
</span></font></li></ul>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Other topics</span></font>
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Language Services of International Organisations
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SUBMISSION
<span class="GramE">GUIDELINES<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <br>
Authors</span></span></span></font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> 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. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Abstracts should be sent by EMAIL by 15th July 2010 to: Nicole
<span class="SpellE">Adamides</span>, Conference Organiser, <span class="SpellE">
Aslib</span>, Email: </span></font><u><font color="blue" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">conferences@aslib.com</span></font></u><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The abstracts will be considered by the Programme Chairs, namely: Alain
<span class="SpellE">Désilets</span>, National Research Council of Canada; Daniel
<span class="SpellE">Grasmick</span>, Lucy Software and Services; Professor <span class="SpellE">
Ruslan</span> <span class="SpellE">Mitkov</span>, University of Wolverhampton; Chris
<span class="SpellE">Pyne</span>, SAP; <span class="SpellE">Reinhard</span> <span class="SpellE">
Schäler</span>, TILP; and <span class="SpellE">Olaf</span>-Michael <span class="SpellE">
Stefanov</span>, Vienna.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The authors of abstracts will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submissions by 1 August 2010. Speakers' presentations
must be submitted by 12 November 2010. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In brief, the deadlines are:</span></font></p>
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<li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">EXTENDED to 15 July 2010 - deadline for abstracts
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1 August 2010 - all authors will be notified of decisions
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">10<sup>
</sup>October 2010 – deadline for papers to be included in the Proceedings</span></font>
</li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">12 November 2010 - speakers’ presentations to be submitted
</span></font></li><li style="COLOR: black" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">27 November 2010 - presentations posted on the conference web site in a password protected area
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Many thanks</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Nicole</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Nicole
<span class="SpellE">Adamides</span><br>
</span></font></b><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Conference Organiser<br>
<a href="mailto:conferences@aslib.com"><font color="#0000ff">conferences@aslib.com</font></a>
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