[Corpora-List] WS @ MT Summit XII: "New Tools for Translators"

[Elliott Macklovitch]

  SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS


  Beyond Translation Memories: New Tools for Translators


    Machine Translation Summit XII, Ottawa, August 29^th 2009

 

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*Workshop Purpose and Theme*

Since the late 1970s, when research on translation memories began, and 
the late 1980s, when the first commercial TM products became available, 
there have been few major breakthroughs which have led to new tools 
designed to support the activity of human translators. Instead, most 
research in the field has focussed on improving existing tools, be it 
translation memories, full machine translation, terminology databases, 
alignment editors, monolingual spelling or grammar checkers, voice 
recognition, workflow management, etc. The results have certainly been 
encouraging, often allowing translators and translation firms to work 
more efficiently and effectively. But have all the needs of translation 
practioners been fully satisfied? Beyond the recycling of full-sentence 
repetitions and their so-called fuzzy matches, are there new avenues 
left to explore?

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion -- 
and perhaps even the demonstration -- of such new tools for translators. 
Researchers, developers and practioners are invited to share ideas, 
approaches, perspectives and experiences that pertain to new technology 
or new ways of using existing technology to support and facilitate the 
translation process.

 

*Topics of interest*

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * new ways of combining existing tools (ex: hybrid Translation
      Memory and Machine Translation systems)
    * text translatability evaluation tools
    * pre-translation authoring tools
    * measuring /terminology implantation///
    * cooperative translation systems
    * web-based translation tools
    * post-editing tools
    * typing prediction tools
    * speech recognition for translation dictation
    * terminology search in comparable (as opposed to parallel) corpora
    * information retrieval tools for finding background material
      relevant to the source text

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* Submission of papers***

Authors are invited to submit a paper (max 8 pages) on the topics 
mentioned or related to the workshop theme. All papers should be written 
in English. Submissions should follow the MT Summit formatting 
guidelines. Papers should be anonymous and submitted with a separate 
cover sheet including the following information:

    * paper title;
    * author's name(s), affiliation(s), address(es) and e-mail address(es).

 

Papers should be sent in PDF format to: Marie-Josée Goulet 
<mailto:marie-josee.goulet at uqo.ca>

Web page: 
http://services.uqo.ca/UQO.Publication.ExploraPub/index.aspx?cdtypepubli=NOUV&nopubli=4443 
<http://services.uqo.ca/UQO.Publication.ExploraPub/index.aspx?cdtypepubli=NOUV&nopubli=4443>

 

 

*Important Dates*

**Paper submission deadline:                              May 29, 2009

Notification of acceptance:                               June 29, 2009

Camera-ready submission deadline:                 July 20, 2009

 
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*Organization*

**Chair:               Marie-Josée Goulet, University of Quebec in 
Outaouais

Co-chairs:        Christiane Melançon, University of Quebec in Outaouais

Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada

Elliott Macklovitch, University of Montreal

 

 

*Program Committee*

* *Caroline Barrière, National Research Council of Canada
Lynne Bowker, University of Ottawa
Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada
Patrick Drouin, University of Montreal
Marie-Josée Goulet, University of Quebec in Outaouais
Tony Hartley, University of Leeds
Marie-Claude L'Homme, University of Montreal
Elliott Macklovitch, University of Montreal
Christiane Melançon, University of Quebec in Outaouais
Sharon O'Brien, Dublin City University
Michel Simard, National Research Council of Canada
Harold Somers, University of Manchester

     

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