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font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;" class="">(Apologies for cross-posting. </font><b style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">Please, distribute it among potentially interested colleagues</span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;" class="">)</span><br class="" style=""></b></font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 3.75pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="5" color="#303030" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" color="#D22D23" class="" style=""><b class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></b></font></span></font></div><div
style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 3.75pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="5" color="#303030" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" color="#D22D23" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">Translating and the Computer Conference 2014</b></font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 7.5pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="#01804A" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" color="#D22D23" class="" style="">A unique meeting point for experts in language research and technology</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;"
class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">27 – 28 November 2014, London, UK</b></font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""> </font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="4" color="#D22D23" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 15pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">Call for abstracts</b></font></span></font></div><div
style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style="">First the Computer, then Internet and more recently the Cloud, are changing and modelling expectations and processes in the Language and Localization industry. These are accompanied by new requirements for Standards and Intercompatibility. The digital age is modifying the concept of text and quality. Content is a key item together with strings, chunks, segments and words.</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt 3.75pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"
class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style="">• How does this affect demand and supply of language services?</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• What are the tools available to meet the new demands?</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• What are the resources and how can they be managed in this evolving context?</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• How do these changes affect translators and other language professionals?</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• What is the training necessary to deal with these new requirements?</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">The Translating and the Computer Conference seeks submissions including, but not limited to:</b></font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt 3.75pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style="">• Terminology</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Translation technology (on and off-line)</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""> - Memories</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""> - Corpora (use of, data collection and structuring)</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif"
class="" style=""><br class="" style=""> - Workflow (preprocessing, postprocessing and feedback loops, progress tracking)</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""> - Quality Assurance (revision aids, standards, processes and metrics)</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Fit for purpose translation (professional, human, automatic, gisting / self-service)</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Machine Translation and Post Editing (technological advances, user interfaces, real-world case studies)</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Collaborative and Crowd-sourced Translations</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Translation of real-time, user-generated content</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class=""
style=""><br class="" style="">• Translation of the spoken word (video, audio, interpreting)</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Standards (interoperability, return on investment, impact on quality)</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#333333" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><b class="" style=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" color="#D22D23" class="" style="">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</font></b></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class=""
style="">The conference committee seeks original unpublished papers on all aspects of using computer hardware and software to assist in translation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to those listed above. Papers may report on research, on commercial translation products as well as users and actual implementations.</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style="">Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of a maximum of 750 words of the paper they would like to present, together with a short 200 word abstract and short biography. While the extended abstract is limited to 750 words (longer papers will NOT be considered), it should provide sufficient
information to allow evaluation of the submission by the committee. The short abstracts of accepted papers will be used for online programme and event advertising.</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style="">Abstracts must be submitted via the START conference submission system: </font><a href="https://exchcas.unv.wlv.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=GZ-kJGqY0Um9YUJrRGGqAAO-EFXyWNEIRM4jfLAyodZAZ02yPV0fum3BaQWZjvJnZhcNMCyJdnA.&URL=http%3a%2f%2flistmanager.emeraldinsight.com%2ft%2f38301%2f27718893%2f103491317%2f7%2f" target="_blank" class="" style=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><font color="#D22D23" class="" style=""><b class=""
style="">https://www.softconf.com/e/tc2014</b></font></font></a></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style="">Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submissions by 28 July 2014. Authors whose submissions are accepted for oral presentation will subsequently have the option to submit a full paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings, which will be produced on CD for conference delegates. Speakers' final presentations must be submitted by 3 November 2014, in order to be included in the conference proceedings. Speakers will be required to register for the conference and pay a reduced registration fee.</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family:
'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#333333" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><b class="" style=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" color="#D22D23" class="" style="">SCHEDULE</font></b></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">20 June 2014</b></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""> - deadline for abstracts</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">28 July 2014</b></font><font
face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""> - all authors notified of decisions</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">3 November 2014</b></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""> - speakers' full papers to be submitted</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">14 November 2014</b></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""> - speakers’ presentations to be submitted</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">27-28 November 2014</b></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""> – conference takes place in London</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe
UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="4" color="#D22D23" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 15pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">Programme Chairs</b></font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt 3.75pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style="">• Juliet Macan, Arancho Doc srl.</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Olaf-Michael Stefanov, United Nations (ret), JIAMCATT</font><font
face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• João Esteves-Ferreira, Tradulex, International Association for Quality Translation</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="4" color="#D22D23" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 15pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">Programme Committee</b></font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt 3.75pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style="">• Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada (NRC)</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif"
class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• David Chambers, World Intellectual Property Organisation (ret)</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Gloria Corpas Pastor, University of Malaga</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• David Filip, LRC, CNGL, LT-Web, University of Limerick</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Pamela Mayorca, Institute of Translating and Interpreting</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">• Paola Valli, University of Trieste</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 15pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2" color="#1E1E1E" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style="">For more information,
please go to the website </font><a href="https://exchcas.unv.wlv.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=GZ-kJGqY0Um9YUJrRGGqAAO-EFXyWNEIRM4jfLAyodZAZ02yPV0fum3BaQWZjvJnZhcNMCyJdnA.&URL=http%3a%2f%2flistmanager.emeraldinsight.com%2ft%2f38301%2f27718893%2f103491318%2f8%2f" target="_blank" class="" style=""><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style=""><font color="#D22D23" class="" style=""><b class="" style="">www.translatingandthecomputer.com</b></font></font></a><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="" style="">.</font></span></font></div><div class="" style="">-----------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class="" style="">Sanja Stajner</font></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
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helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class="" style="">http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in3168/index.html<br class="" style=""></font></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;" class="">PhD student at the Research Group in Computational Linguistics</span><br class="" style=""></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class="" style="">Research Institute of Information and Language Processing (RIILP)</font></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;" class=""><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class="" style="">University of Wolverhampton, UK</font></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>