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<P class=MsoNormal align=center><BR>23<SUP>rd</SUP> Annual Conference and
Exhibition: </P>
<P class=MsoNormal align=center>TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER </P>
<P class=MsoNormal align=center>29-30 November 2001</P>
<P class=MsoNormal align=center>One Great George Street, London SW1</P>
<P class=MsoNormal align=center>Supported by: IAMT, EAMT, BCS and ITI</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This conference is one of the few international events which
focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such has been
particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including translators, business
managers, researchers and language experts. Once again, this year the conference
will address the latest developments in translation (and translation-related)
software.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will address the needs
of the following conference attendees:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>- industry</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>- public administration</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>- agencies</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>- freelancers</P>
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"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be
presented at the conference.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user aspects of translation
or translation-related software rather than on theoretical issues.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Presentations accompanied by
demonstrations are especially welcome.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>TOPICS</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The range of topics includes (but is not limited to)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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</SPAN>use of MT systems</P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">-<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>machine-aided translation and translation aids</P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">-<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>controlled languages and their use in MT</P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">-<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>speech translation</P>
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style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>terminology</P>
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style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>localisation</P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">-<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>multilingual document management/workflow</P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">-<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>case studies of technology-based solutions</P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">-<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>the Internet and translation aids/services</P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">-<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>the value of “free” versus “charging” services/sites on the Internet</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Abstracts should be sent by <SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase">post</SPAN> or <SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase">email</SPAN> before 15<SUP>th</SUP> June 2001
to:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Aslib, The Association for Information Management</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Email: <A
href="mailto:nicole.adamides@tinyworld.co.uk">nicole.adamides@tinyworld.co.uk</A><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>WWW:
<A href="http://www.aslib.com/">www.aslib.com</A></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>The abstracts will be considered by the Programme Chairs,
namely:Daniel Grasmick, SAP; Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of
Wolverhampton; Chris Pyne, Lionbridge Technologies Deutschland and Olaf-Michael
Stefanov, United Nations.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The authors of abstracts will be notified of acceptance or
rejection of <BR>their submissions by 1 August 2001. The full length versions of
the <BR>accepted papers (authors will be provided with detailed camera-ready
copy <BR>guidelines) will be included in the conference proceedings and must be
<BR>submitted by 10th October 2001.</P>
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