[Corpora-List] Machine translation 25 years on

[Alfred Vella]

International Conference
MACHINE TRANSLATION
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ON
21-22 November 2009
Organised by: The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of The
British Computer Society (BCS-NLTSG)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Conference
The first Cranfield International Conference on Machine Translation,
jointly organised by the BCS-NLTSG and Cranfield University, was held in
1984.  A second Cranfield conference was held in 1994.
Machine Translation is now some 60 years old and in view of the success of
the previous Cranfield conferences, we are marking the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the first conference at Cranfield by holding another this
November.
The title for the Conference is:
Machine Translation: Twenty-Five Years On
Papers are invited which centre on any aspect of translation by machine or
aided by machine.
We are particularly interested in what has been achieved in Machine
Translation (MT) and Machine Assisted Translation (MAT) in the twenty-five
years from 1984, and also what is expected to happen in R & D in MT and
MAT in the next twenty-five years. 
Other aspects of translation are welcome too – for it is by the
interchanging of ideas that progress is made.
We invite papers reporting on recent advances in  all aspects of Machine
Translation, Computer-aided translation and Multilingual Natural Language
Processing in general, including (but not limited to): terminology
extraction and terminology  management; electronic dictionaries;
corpus-based language processing; word-sense disambiguation; machine
translation;  machine-aided translation; translation memory systems;
translation aids and tools; cross-lingual information retrieval; text
alignment; CALL; language resources; evaluation.
Emphasis at the Conference will be given to the latest research in MT and
MAT, illustrated wherever possible by computer demonstrations of working
systems.
Since the last conference, the influence of the Web cannot be ignored.
It is expected that the Conference will help to give an impetus for
further research and development in MT and MAT in the coming years.
We think everyone agreed how successful and enjoyable both the '84 and ’94
Cranfield Conferences were. We are expecting the 2009 Cranfield Conference
to be even better.
Scientific Committee Includes:
Margarita Alonso Ramos (University of Coruña, Spain)
Masoud Ashraf (BCS NLT SG, UK)
Mona Baker (Manchester University, UK)
Chris Bates(BCS NLT SG, UK)
Christian Boitet (Université Joseph Fourier, France)
Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Michael Carl (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Douglas Clarke (BCS NLT SG, UK)
Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga, Spain)
Atefeh Farzindar (NLP Technologies, Canada)
Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Mikel L.Forcada (University of Alicante, Spain)
Gabriela Gonzalez (ETRAD, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Veronique Hoste (University College Ghent, Belgium)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Alma Kharrat (Microsoft, USA)
Richard Kittredge (CoGenTex, Inc., USA)
Elina Lagoudaki (Imperial College, UK)
Veronica Lawson (BCS NLT SG, UK)
Derek Lewis (BCS NLT SG, UK)
Marie-Claude L'Homme (University of Montreal, Canada) 
Elliot Macklovitch (University of Montreal, Canada)
Belinda Maia (University of Porto, Portugal)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Paola Monachesi (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 
Jon Riding (British & Foreign Bible Society, UK)
Lucia Specia (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 
Mark Stevenson (University Of Sheffield)
Alfred Vella (Liverpool University and Open University, UK)
David Wigg (BCS NLTSG, UK)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
Important Dates
Date for submission of draft papers/posters for review 30th July 2009 
Deadline for submission of proposals for practical demonstrations 30th
July 2009 
Notification of acceptance for papers, posters and demonstrations no later
than 31st August 2009 but normally within 4 weeks of submission.
Deadline for final versions of Papers and posters 30th September 2009 
Registration Deadline 30th September 2009 
‘Machine Translation 25 Years on’ 21st and 22nd November 2009
Format of papers
The proceedings are being prepared by Alfred Vella, Derek Lewis and
Douglas Clarke (editors of the previous sets of proceedings), Please see
http://nltsg.bcs.org/mtconf2009/papers.html 
Alternative Programme
An alternative programme can be arranged for persons accompanying
delegates. Among places which can be visited are: Milton Keynes, The Open
University, Cambridge, Oxford, Blenheim Palace, Bletchley Park Museum and
Stratford-upon-Avon.
Fees are expected to be:
Conference: Covering attendance at sessions, banquet, exhibition, and
receipt of proceedings to be around 350 GBP plus VAT. The price includes
the registration fee of 50 GBP, but does not include accommodation and
other meals.
Residential accommodation is available at Cranfield at 45.50 GBP + VAT per
person per night for bed and breakfast.
Non-residential delegates may pay for individual meals separately.
Please send expressions of interest and/or abstracts of papers to: [
mailto:mtconf at bcs.org ]mtconf at bcs.org
For more information please go to [ http://nltsg.bcs.org/mtconf2009/
]http://nltsg.bcs.org/mtconf2009/ 


Thanks

Alfred

Dr Alfred Vella
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