Appel: 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in MT

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First Call for Papers


TMI-2004 - The 10th International Conference on Theoretical and
Methodological Issues in Machine Translation

Location:  Baltimore, MD USA

Dates: October 4-6, 2004

Detailed information will soon be available at www.his.se/tmi04

The previous conference in this series (TMI 2002) held in Keihanna,
Kyoto, emphasized the synergy between empirical and knowledge-based
approaches to Machine Translation. Another topic of interest was MT
for new, so-called "low-density" languages.We continue to focus on
these issues in the current TMI.Up to now, the papers presented at the
TMI conferences were concerned with text-to-text translation. This
year, we would like to extend the scope of the research presented at
the TMI by including work on spoken language and sign language in
Machine Translation. Papers addressing integration of speech
processing and machine translation are especially welcome.  This
year's TMI conference takes place in connection to and in colaboration
with AMTA-2004 (the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas).  AMTA-2004 takes as its main theme the
way "from real users to researchers". Consequently, papers addressing
the issue of user needs, and the interaction between market
requirements andresearch programs, should preferably be submitted to
AMTA. The TMI conference welcomes research papers addressing the
following main issues:


  - acquisition and organization of lexical, syntactic, semantic and
pragmatic knowledge for MT
- innovative algorithms and system architectures for MT
- combining stochasticand rule-based approaches
- alignment and use of parallel corpora
- discourse understanding for MT
- language specific morphpological categories in translation
- language typology research in relation to MT
- speech-to-speech translation, sign-to-text/sign-to-speech translation
- multi-lingual summarization.

However, innovative papers that address other MT-related issues will
be also considered.

General submission guidelines:

- papers should not be longer than 10 pages (in the letter format)
- the minimum character font size is 11 pt
- final formatting guidelines will be available at the conference
   website


Important Dates:

Submission deadline:      May 31
Notification:             June 28
Final copy due:           July 26


General Chair:

Sergei Nirenburg, UMBC, USA

Program Committee Chairs:

Barbara Gawronska (University of Skövde, Sweden)
Steve Beale (UMBC, USA)

Program Committee:

Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Keihanna, Japan)
Alex Fraser (ISI, USA)
Maghi King (ISSCO, Switzerland)
Stephan Oepen (CSLI, USA)
Marge McShane (UMBC, USA)
Melanie Siegel (DFKI, Germany)
Bengt Sigurd (Lund University, Sweden)
Harold Somers (UMIST, UK)
Anna Sågvall Hein (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Jean Veronis (Université de Provence, France)
Taro Watanabe (ATR, Japan)





Barbara Gawronska
Professor of Computational Linguistics
Dept. of Humanities and Information
University of Skövde
Box 408
541 28 Skövde, Sweden
tel +46 (0)500 44 89 18
barbara.gawronska at isp.his.se



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