7.179, Calls: Machine translation

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-179. Sun Feb 4 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  148
 
Subject: 7.179, Calls: Machine translation
 
Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at emunix.emich.edu> (On Leave)
            T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. <dseely at emunix.emich.edu>
 
Associate Editor:  Ljuba Veselinova <lveselin at emunix.emich.edu>
Assistant Editors: Ron Reck <rreck at emunix.emich.edu>
                   Ann Dizdar <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
                   Annemarie Valdez <avaldez at emunix.emich.edu>
 
Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers at emunix.emich.edu>
 
Editor for this issue: dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar)
 
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Date:  Sat, 03 Feb 1996 11:13:09 EST
From:  hovy at ISI.EDU (Eduard Hovy)
Subject:  ** Announcement: AMTA-96 Conference, Montreal, October 1996 **
 
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Date:  Sat, 03 Feb 1996 11:13:09 EST
From:  hovy at ISI.EDU (Eduard Hovy)
Subject:  ** Announcement: AMTA-96 Conference, Montreal, October 1996 **
 
 
 
      *** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ***
         Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
 
 
           AMTA-96 Conference, Montreal, October 2-5, 1996
 
 
            Accelerating Machine Translation Development:
               Research, Business, and Personal Use
 
 
 
Following the very successful AMTA conference near Washington, DC in
October 1994, the second conference of the Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas will be held in Montreal, Canada, at the
Radisson Hotel, on October 2-5, 1996.
 
Once again there will be something for everyone!  Retaining the
pattern established by its predecessor, AMTA-96 will offer a blend of
invited talks, panel discussions, research papers, system
demonstrations and descriptions, tutorials, workshops, book exhibits,
and social events.  The three days of the conference will also
facilitate gatherings of the Special Interest Groups on topics ranging
from interlinguas and ontologies, lexicons, standards and data
exchange, MT on PCs, and MT evaluation.
 
The overall intent of the conference is to bring together MT
developers, researchers, and users, to share the latest information on
MT and to forge partnerships for addressing the challenge of language
barriers that impede communication on the Information Highway.
Participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations in Europe and
Asia is strongly encouraged.
 
Invited talks and panel discussions will highlight topical and contro-
versial questions, encouraging lively interactions, as they did at
AMTA-94.  In the theory sessions, technical papers will address a wide
range of topics, while in practical sessions, the problems of
developing and bringing MT systems to market will be discussed, with
online demonstrations.  In addition, booths can be rented to display
systems and products.
 
AMTA will also hold its General Members' Meeting during the conference.
 
 
 
 
   AMTA-96: PAPER AND SYSTEM DESCRIPTION/DEMONSTRATION SUBMISSIONS.
 
 
Authors/system developers are invited to submit two kinds of
presentations:
 
1. Theoretical papers: Unpublished papers are requested about original
   work on all aspects of Machine Translation.  Papers should be in
   English, not longer than 10 pages, with minimum character font size
   of 11 pt.
 
2. System descriptions with optional system demonstrations: Approx. 30
   minutes will be allocated per system description/demo.  Submissions
   should be in English, not longer than 4 pages.  If a system demon-
   stration is included, please provide the following information:
   - hardware platform,
   - operating system,
   - name and contact information of system operations specialist.
 
 
First page: Both types of submission should include an additional first
page with the following information:
- paper title,
- author(s)' name(s), address(es), telephone and fax numbers, email
  address(es),
- one-paragraph abstract,
- for theoretical papers: subject area keyword(s)
  for system descriptions/demos: the words "System description/demo".
 
 
Submissions are due at either addresses below on April 15, 1996.
 
Softcopy submissions (papers that do not print will be returned to the
author):
  email address: hovy at isi.edu
  subject line: AMTA-96 submission
  paper encoding:
    - ASCII plain text
    - Microsoft Word (RTF format)
    - PostScript
 
Hardcopy submissions (please send four (4) copies):
  AMTA-96: Eduard Hovy
  USC Information Sciences Institute
  4676 Admiralty Way
  Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
  USA
 
 
 
Organization and further details.
 
Local arrangements chair:
  Elliott Macklovitch, CITI, Montreal (email: macklovi at citi.doc.ca)
Program chair:
  Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey (email: hovy at isi.edu)
 
 
 
 
 
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Eduard Hovy
email: hovy at isi.edu          USC Information Sciences Institute
tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731    4676 Admiralty Way
fax: 310-823-6714            Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html
 
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