<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Dear all,</span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">The 7th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT 2011) will be held in Xiamen, China on September 23rd-24th, 2011 as a collocated event of MT Summit XIII. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As a convention, CWMT 2011 will organize a machine translation evaluation to promote substantial interactions among participants and help advance machine translation research. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Please find attached the Call for Participations/Papers of the workshop and the Machine Translation Evaluation Guidelines. We sincerely invite your submission of papers and participation in the evaluation. </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoPlainText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Evaluation Highlights:</span></b></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: -21pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">l<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Tasks include text-to-text translation of the following language pairs and domains:</span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">English-to-Chinese Translation for Scientific and Technological Text</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- Japanese-to-Chinese Translation for News</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- Mongolian-to-Chinese Translation for Daily Expressions</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- Tibetan-to-Chinese Translation for Government Documents</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- Uyghur-to-Chinese Translation for News</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- Kazakh-to-Chinese Translation for News</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- Kirgiz-to-Chinese Translation for News<span style="COLOR: black"></span></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- Deadline of </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">registration: June 26, 2011</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- Release of training data to participants: July 1, 2011<span style="COLOR: black"></span></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- Release of test data to participants: August 1-3, 2011</span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21pt; mso-para-margin-left: 2.0gd" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">- Workshop: September 23-24, 2011</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">For more information, please visit the workshop web-site: </span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 24pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .5gd; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0" class="Default"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://mt.xmu.edu.cn/cwmt2011/en"><font color="#800080" size="3" face="Times New Roman">http://mt.xmu.edu.cn/cwmt2011/en</font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Please e-mail </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:zhaohongmei@ict.ac.cn"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">zhaohongmei@ict.ac.cn</span></a></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"> for comments or questions.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">Thank you,</span></p>
<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">CWMT 2011 Machine Translation Evaluation Group</span></div>
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