[Corpora-List] Aslib Conference: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 26

[Ruslan Mitkov]

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Ruslan Mitkov

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Aslib Conference: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 26
18-19 November 2004, London
For the latest programme and booking details please visit:
www.aslib.com/conferences.


We are pleased to announce that Professor Tony Hartley (Leeds University)
and Daniel Grasmick (SAP AG) will be the Conference Chairs.


This will be the 26th Conference in the series, and the programme will
include opportunities for discussion, to network and to examine various
products and services at the attached exhibition.


There are a few changes to the programme to announce:
1.  Unfortunately Barrou Diallo cannot now give his presentation on Day
One.  In that slot, we now have Dr Joanna Drugan (of Leeds University) who
will give a paper on Multilingual document management and workflow in the
European institutions. Details of this paper can be found on the Aslib web
site at
www.aslib.com/training/conferences/programme.html


2.  Hanspeter Sigrist, who was due to speak on Day Two, cannot now attend.
  We are very pleased to announce that Klaus Ahrend, Acting Head of Unit,
European Commission, Directorate-General for Translation (Unit DGT.03 -
Interinstitutional Relations and General Affairs), will give a keynote
presentation on Multilingualism in an enlarged Union - Challenges and
opportunities for the European Commission's translation service.


3. We are also very pleased to announce that Dr Gregor Thurmair, Linguatec,
will present a paper on rule-based versus statistics-based MT.


Confirmed exhibitors to date are:
- StorePoint International Ltd
- SDL
- PASS Engineering
- Language Technology Centre
- RWS Group
- Grant & Cutler
- ATRIL
- ITI


If 3 delegates from your organisation book into the  conference, the 3rd
delegate only has to pay 50% of the fee. There is still
time to book in!


Sponsor: StorePoint International Ltd.
Supported by BCS Natural Language Translation Specialist Group, EAMT, IAMT,
ITI, IoL and TILP.


Further information can be received from Nicole Adamides,
Email nadamides at aslib.com