14.889, Calls: Machine Translation, USA/Applied Ling, Turkey

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-889. Thu Mar 27 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.889, Calls: Machine Translation, USA/Applied Ling, Turkey

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1)
Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:38:25 +0000
From:  webmaster at amtaweb.org
Subject:  9th Machine Translation Summit

2)
Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:19:31 +0000
From:  bilalk at metu.edu.tr
Subject:  1st METU Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:38:25 +0000
From:  webmaster at amtaweb.org
Subject:  9th Machine Translation Summit


9th Machine Translation Summit
Short Title: MT Summit

Date: 23-SEP-03 - 28-SEP-03
Location: New Orleans, LA, United States of America
Contact: Elliott Macklovitch
Contact Email: mtix at iro.umontreal.ca
Meeting URL: http://www.mt-summit.org

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 11-May-2003

Meeting Description:

The ninth Machine Translation Summit, organized by the International
Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) and hosted by the
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), will be
held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 23 to 28 September 2003. We
invite all those with an interest in translation automation --
researchers, developers, translation service providers, users, or
managers -- to participate in the conference. There are three
categories of submissions, each with its own requirements; see the
Conference Website for details.  Submissions should be emailed to the
Program Chair by May 11, 2003: mtix at iro.umontreal.ca

MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT IX

September 23-28, 2003
New Orleans, USA
http://www.mt-summit.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

Important dates:

- May 11, 2003 : 	Deadline for the submission of papers
- June 30, 2003 : 	Notification of acceptance sent to authors
- July 31, 2003 : 	Camera-ready copy due
- September 23, 2003 : 	Conference opens

Invited Speakers:
MT Summit IX will feature invited talks by the following speakers:

	Pierre Isabelle
	Area Manager, Content Analysis,
	Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble
	''Multilingual Document Processing at XRCE''

	Akitoshi Okumura
	Senior Manager, Human Language Technology Group
    	NEC Corporation, Japan
	''Development of Speech Translation for Hand-held Devices''

	Donald Barabé
	Director, Business Development
	Translation Bureau, Public Works and Government Services Canada
	''Soaring Demand, Shrinking Supply in Translation:
	 How We Plan to Make Ends Meet''




-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:19:31 +0000
From:  bilalk at metu.edu.tr
Subject:  1st METU Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching


1st METU Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching
Short Title: METU - PSTGRD

Date: 12-Sep-2003 - 13-Sep-2003
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Contact: Bilal KIrkIcI
Contact Email: bilalk at metu.edu.tr
Meeting URL: http://www.fedu.metu.edu.tr/pstgrd

Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics
Call Deadline: 31-May-2003

Meeting Description:

1st Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching at
Middle East Technical University

We are happy to announce that the 1st Postgraduate Conference in
Linguistics and Language Teaching at Middle East Technical University
will be held on 12 & 13 September 2003. The conference is organized by
postgraduates for postgraduates, and aims at providing a friendly
platform for the presentation of postgraduate research.

We welcome submissions from all postgraduates (students currently
enrolled in an MA or PhD programme) in any field of linguistics and
language teaching, including all 47 areas determined by the
International Association of Applied Linguistics (but not excluding
others).

For further details, please visit our conference web-site.

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