Arabic-L:LING:Machine Translation Summit XII

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1) Subject:Machine Translation Summit XII

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Date: 03 Mar 2009
From:Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at ptd.net>
Subject:Machine Translation Summit XII

Machine Translation Summit XII –Tutorial and Workshop Proposals Due  
March 6
Short Title: MT Summit
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date: 26-30 August 2009

Conference Web Site: http://summitxii.amtaweb.org
Contact Person: Laurie Gerber (lgerber at amtaweb.org)
Linguistic Subfield(s): Computational Linguistics

Summary of Submission Deadlines

March 6, 2009: Final day for Tutorial and Workshop proposals

April 28, 2009: Deadline for Research paper submissions

May 28, 2009: Deadline for Commercial User, Government User, and  
Translator Training and Tools presentation proposals

Summary of Conference Schedule

August 26, 2009  Tutorial day

August 27-29, 2009: Main conference

August 28, 2009: Technology Showcase

August 30, 2009: Workshop day

Complete call for Papers and Presentation Proposals available on the  
conference website

Call for Tutorial Proposals

AMTA conference tutorials introduce our members to exciting  
innovations, to practical skills, or to different disciplinary  
perspectives. MT is a kaleidoscopic universe of ideas, concerns, and  
capabilities that requires the efforts and talents of professionals in  
multiple disciplines. The goal of cross-language meaning transfer is  
shared among translators, technologists, and researchers of all  
stripes -- but we often need cross-training to improve communication.  
Tutorials at AMTA provide background for the main conference sessions,  
and enhance our members' effectiveness by offering a means for  
understanding issues, solutions, and perspectives of multiple  
approaches and different disciplines.

Tutorials will be held on Wednesday, August 26. Tutorials are half-day  
(3 hour) instructional sessions.

Topics

We ask that tutorials be of interest to a broad audience and  
particularly invite:

Tutorials on post-processing tools: how are people doing post- 
processing now?

Tutorials on Human Translation: how do people translate? What are the  
stumbling blocks?

Introduction to Machine Translation - introduce new or prospective  
commercial users to machine translation technology, evaluation, and  
use, including fundamental vocabulary and concepts

Introduction to MT Evaluation

Making a business case for MT: What are the important measures when  
assessing the potential and actual benefits from adopting machine  
translation?

Tutorialss on MT for Low-Resource Languages

Catching up with MT: Summary of Research, Tools, and Issues from 2008  
meetings of AAMT, EAMT, AMTA, etc.

Tutorials that introduce tool developers and researchers to the  
current landscape of translation technology and standards that machine  
translation needs to interoperate with in a production environment
Tutorials that introduce tool developers and researchers to human  
translation, including professional standards, training, and  
technology adoption trends.
Technical and scientific tutorials on high-impact issues, approaches,  
and techniques
Tutorials which explain a recent development in the field or provide  
technical guidance
Introductory, overview, or survey tutorials on high-interest, leading- 
edge R&D topics
  If you have an idea but are new to the process of proposing  
tutorials, please contact us. We can assist you in developing your idea.

What to submit

Submissions should include the title and a brief description of the  
proposed tutorial's topic and content, including a short outline of  
the presentation or interactive activity, showing that the content can  
be covered in three hours. Be sure to include technical requirements  
and a description of the professional expertise of the tutorial  
presenters.

How to submit

Send submissions to Reggie Hobbs (hobbs at arl.army.mil) and Jennifer  
DeCamp (jdecamp at mitre.org), with a copy to the main conference email  
address (summitxii at amtaweb.org). We will evaluate Tutorial proposals  
as soon as they are submitted. The last day for submissions is March  
6, 2009.

Important Dates
March 6, 2009: Deadline for Tutorial proposals

August 10, 2009: Deadline for submission of tutorial materials for  
copying

August 26, 2009: Tutorial day

Call for Workshop Proposals

Proposals for workshops are now being solicited on topics of direct  
interest and impact for MT researchers, developers, vendors or users  
of MT technologies. AMTA workshops bring together groups of people  
(peers) involved in a specific problem area of machine translation, to  
advance the state of the art in that area.  Workshops focus on group  
participation rather than instruction.

Workshops are typically held the day after the main conference, and  
this year will be held on Sunday 30th August. Workshops will normally  
last a whole day (approx. 8 hours). Workshops can take a variety of  
forms, including refereed and invited papers, hands-on exercises,  
discussion and debate, or other activities. Proposers will be asked to  
issue their own ''Call for Papers'', and to maintain a web site giving  
information about the submission procedure and, later on, the full  
program. Working language of the workshops will normally be English;  
however, it is acceptable to have a second (or alternative) working  
language if this is appropriate to the theme of the workshop. This  
should be stated clearly on the proposal.

Submissions should be made to the Workshop Chair (e-mail: hassan at apptek.com 
) by March 6th. They should include the theme and goal of the  
workshop, the planned activities, a calendar of deadlines for  
submission including the dates for workshop submissions, notification  
and, if appropriate, camera-ready copy (we advise that you follow the  
submission dates for the main conference), and an estimate of the  
number of participants.

Note that we will evaluate Workshop proposals as soon as they are  
submitted. The last day for submissions is March 6, 2009

Important Dates
March 6, 2009: Deadline for Workshop proposals
August 10, 2009: Deadline for Submission of Workshop Proceedings for  
copying

August 30, 2009: Workshop day

Technology Showcase

Machine translation technology has been ready for deployment in many  
environments for many years, but many prospective users hesitate to  
dive in, or perhaps they don’t believe that MT will work for their  
application. The technology showcase provides an opportunity to see  
working MT systems embedded in software systems that solve real world  
problems. The developers and integrators are on hand to demonstrate  
the systems, and talk about the users and the use cases.

User groups and integrators are especially encouraged to demonstrate  
the systems they have built to solve real-wlrld problems. Developers  
are encouraged to demonstrate solutionized MT and related tools and  
systems.

The Technology Showcase will be held Friday afternoon, August 28, and  
will be open to the public and the press.

For more information, contact Jennifer DeCamp (jdecamp at mitre.org) and  
Reggie Hobbs (hobbs at arl.army.mil) with a copy tosummitxii at amtaweb.org
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A few words about Ottawa, Canada

Ottawa is Canada’s capital and the fourth-largest city in Canada (1.2  
million people). Nestled on the banks of the Ottawa, Gatineau, and  
Rideau Rivers, Ottawa has more scientists, engineers, and PhDs per  
capita than any other city in the country. It is known for the large  
number of parks and lakes that surround it, as well as for the  
numerous cultural institutions it contains.

The conference venue, the Fairmount Château Laurier, is located in the  
heart of downtown next to the Parliament Buildings and not far from  
the National Gallery and the National Arts Centre. It is a magnificent  
limestone edifice with turrets and masonry reminiscent of a French  
château.

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