[Corpora-List] MT-Summit XI. Call for tutorials and workshops

[svetlana sheremetyeva]

Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals
   
  MT SUMMIT XI
September 10-14, 2007
Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen
Denmark
   
  The Program Committee of The 11th MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT (MT SUMMIT XI) invites proposals for tutorials and workshops. The tutorials and workshops will be co-located with MT Summit XI at Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark. Tutorials will take place on 10 September; workshops on either 10 September or 11 September.
   
  I. Tutorial proposals
   
  Tutorial subjects can cover technological, practical and educational issues in Machine Translation.  The tutorial organizers will be responsible for advertising the tutorial, and guaranteeing a high quality MT-relevant training, worthy of the prestige and range of the conference.
   
  The tutorial proposals should include
   
  - Length of the tutorial (half day or full day)
- Title of the tutorial
- Outline of the tutorial
- Intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced)
- Complete information on the presenter(s) (name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail 
  address, brief biography) 
- Description of why the tutorial is important for MT development 
- Short description on how the tutorial will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficient 
  audience 
   
  After the acceptance of a tutorial proposal the organizer(s) should:
   
  - Create a "Call for participation" for the tutorial (to appear on the MT Summit website, 
  the MT list, and elsewhere)
- Create a Web page for the tutorial, the link of which will be published on the - MT 
  SUMMIT XI Web site 
  
II. Workshop proposals
   
  Proposals for workshops are invited for one-day workshops which focus on specific problem 
  areas of machine translation and to advance the state of the art in these areas. Particularly welcome will be workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners to share research results and practical development experiences in relevant fields. Issues on teaching machine translation to different groups of students (computer scientists, linguists, translators, language administrators, language learners, etc.) can be of special interest.
   
  The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, reviewing and 
  selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality of presentations and workshop 
  activities. The workshop organizers need to make sure that each submitted paper will 
  receive at least two reviews. 
   
  The workshop proposals should include 
   
  - Theme and goal of the workshop 
- Complete information on organizers (name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail 
  address, brief biography) 
- Proposed members of a Board of Reviewers (Workshop Program Committee)
- Description of the workshop topic 
- Description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Machine Translation 
- Planned activities 
- Short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently 
  wide range of submissions and high quality contributions
- Estimate of the number of participants. 
   
  After the acceptance of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should:
   
  - Create a "Call for papers/participation" for the workshop (to appear on the MT Summit 
  website, the MT list, and elsewhere)
- Create a Web page for the tutorial/workshop, the link of which will be published on the 
  MT SUMMIT XI Web site  
- Review and select papers
- Organize the creation of the final versions (to be ready one month before the Summit 
  takes place). It is proposed that published proceedings of workshop will be in a standard 
  format, to be determined later by the Summit organizers.
- Schedule the workshop activities 
   
  Please send your tutorial and workshop proposals to both Workshop Co-Chairs.
   
  III. Important Dates
   
  27 Jan. 2007        Proposals for tutorials and workshops
12 Feb. 2007        Notification of acceptance for tutorials and workshops
   
  IV. Workshop Co-Chairs
   
  John Hutchins
Affiliation: University of East Anglia, UK
E-mail: jhutchins at beeb.net
   
  Svetlana Sheremetyeva
Affiliation: LanA Consulting ApS, Denmark
E-mail: lanaconsult at mail.dk
   
  

 

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