[Corpora-List] CFP: Workshop on Chinese Multi-Word Expressions and Machine Translation

[Rayson, Paul]

Dear all, 

Please find below a call for papers for a workshop on Chinese Multi-Word Expressions (MWE) and Machine Translation.

Regards,
Paul.

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1.  Workshop name:
Chinese Multi-Word Expressions and Machine Translation Workshop

Jointly Organized by UCREL, Lancaster University & CCID (China Centre for Information Industry Development)

2.  Date:  June 9-10, 2006

3.  Venue: Event Room, 2nd floor, CCID Mansion, 66 Zizhuyuan Road, Beijing, China

4.  Focus and Content of the workshop

1)  Extraction of Chinese multiword expressions (MWE)
2)  Design, standard and building of Chinese MWE database
3)  Chinese MWE classification and analysis 
4)  Automatic computer processing of Chinese MWEs 
5)  Strategy and algorithms of Chinese MWE translation in MT 
6)  Other application studies such as corpus linguistics, MT and cross-lingual information retrieval etc.

5.  Chairman of Program Committee

Prof. Xu Xiaolan, Vice-president of China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID)
Dr. Paul Rayson, Director of UCREL, Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK

6.  Deadline for the submission of abstracts
 
May 10, 2006

7.  Please email the abstract of paper to info at trans.ccidnet.com

8.  Person to Contact for enquiries：

    Yuan Qi,        yq at trans.ccidnet.com

9. Workshop registration Fee:

RMB 600Yuan (Inclusive of Tea-breaks, Lunch and workshop proceedings) 

10.  Recommended Hotel: Holiday Inn, Downtown Beijing (10 minutes from workshop venue)

Address: 98 BEILISHILU, XICHENGQU, BEIJING 100037, CHINA
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/pc/1/en/hd/pegdt?irs=y
email: Email: hidt at downtownbj.com


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Dr. Paul Rayson
Director of UCREL
Computing Department, Infolab21, South Drive, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK.
Web: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/
Tel: +44 1524 510357 Fax: +44 1524 510492