17.2450, Confs: Translation,Standard Arabic Lang/UK

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Subject: 17.2450, Confs: Translation,Standard Arabic Lang/UK

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Date: 30-Aug-2006
From: David Wigg < wiggjd at bcs.org.uk >
Subject: Arabic NLP/MT Conference 

	
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:12:51
From: David Wigg < wiggjd at bcs.org.uk >
Subject: Arabic NLP/MT Conference 
 



Arabic NLP/MT Conference 

Date: 23-Oct-2006 - 23-Oct-2006 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: David Wigg 
Contact Email: wiggjd at bcs.org.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.bcs-mt.org.uk/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Translation 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Meeting Description: 

The British Computer Society
Natural Language Translation Specialist Group
Proposed Arabic NLP/MT Conference 
Monday, 23 October 2006, London, U.K. 

Subject: Arabic and NLP/MT: Announcement of Conference
 
The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT
 
London, Monday 23 October 2006
 
The Machine Translation SIG of the British Computer Society will be holding a one day Conference on the subject of the Challenge of Arabic for Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation in London, UK on Monday 23 October 2006.
 
A full list of the papers to be presented can be found on our website at http://www.bcs-mt.org.uk which will be updated with further information from time to time.
 
The Keynote speaker will be Prof. Anne de Roeck of The Open University UK.
 
The Conference will be held in the excellent meeting facilities of The British Computer Society in central London.
 
It is not possible to announce the fees for attendance at this stage but they are expected to be not more than £50 with generous reductions for students. Anyone with an interest in attending who registers this interest informally before the 12 September will receive a 10% discount on their fees when registering officially from Tuesday 12 September when the fees will be known. To register an interest before then without commitment to attend please e-mail David Wigg at wiggjd at bcs.org.uk with a copy to Roger Harris at rwsh at nationalfinder.com. Please provide a clear subject line to avoid the message being dumped as spam. However, requests will be acknowledged.
 
Please register a possible interest in attending as soon as can.
 
The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group
The British Computer Society
http://www.bcs-mt.org.uk





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