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cs.rutgers.edu>****************** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *************************** EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP II held in conjunction with NAACL/ANLP2000 Thursday, May 4, 2000 Seattle, Washington, USA Embedded MT Systems homepage for this workshop http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems WHAT IS AN "EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT) SYSTEM"? An "embedded MT system" is a computational system with one or more MT engines among its components. These systems accept multilingual, multimodal inputs and create various outputs that enable the users to access the original information in their own language. An MT component embedded in an end-to-end system allows users to perform their specific tasks on foreign language input that they previously only had been able to perform in their native language. To date, these tasks have included summarization, content extraction, filtering and document retrieval. BACKGROUND The first workshop on Embedded MT Systems was held in conjunction with the biennial meeting of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), in October, 1998, in Langhorne, PA. The Embedded MT Systems Workshop II is a response to the growing community commitment to translingual information research, e.g., the DARPA TIDES initiative. By holding the workshop at the combined NAACL and ANLP conferences this year, there will be an opportunity for a multi-disciplinary mix of researchers and developers to attend, contribute and benefit from the workshop. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION As the strengths and weaknesses of machine translation engines have become better understood and accepted, there has been a marked increase in the development of a range of computer systems containing an MT component. This workshop will focus on the system designs, the associated information access tasks of such end-to-end systems, and the measures of system effectiveness. Of particular interest are systems that accept one or another of various types of input including hard-copy pages, online text files, and speech (natural or transcribed). These inputs present real-world, noisy data that challenge MT engine capabilities. We would like to know the degradation in performance that these challenges present and the compensation strategies that system developers have tested or used. We also seek submissions describing possible channel-specific feedback processes from other system components that help correct the noisy input. Papers describing multiple MT engines and algorithms for selecting among their outputs are encouraged. It would be interesting to hear how these complex MT components have been integrated into specific applications. For example, do certain MT engines produce results better suited for summarization, retrieval, or online foreign language tutoring? The field of MT evaluation currently lacks an adequate methodology. There are no widely used standards and few statisticians have been called upon to assess the metrics that have been proposed. We will look for submissions that include measures for the individual system components and end-to-end system evaluation. Also of interest are measures that evaluate user performance on specific tasks. We expect that the range of papers from both the first and this second workshop will provide sufficient material for us to pursue a special journal issue dedicated to Embedded MT Systems. IMPORTANT DATES Intent to submit: Friday, Feb. 11, 2000 Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000 Notification of acceptance of papers: Friday, March 3, 2000 Camera-ready papers due: Monday, March 13, 2000 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Electronic submission of Intent to Submit should have the following subject line: "NAACL-ANLP2000 WORKSHOP - Intent to submit" Body of message should include Identification Page information: - title of submission - names of all authors - primary author name and email address, phone and fax - presentation type preference (select one or more per system: demo, poster, or paper) - keywords Authors may submit short papers, full-length papers, poster presentations and/or demos. For electronic submission, include the Identification Page Information (see above) as a separate page from the paper itself. Reviewing will be blind. No author information should be included with the main body of the paper. Full paper submissions may be up to 5000 words in length, including references. Submissions for poster presentations and short papers may be up to 2000 words in length, including references. Demo presentations are encouraged in conjunction with papers or posters. For demo-only presentations, submissions up to two pages long should describe the system design and capabilities with respect to (ii) above: an end-to-end process flow covering the system input, any pre-MT processing, the MT component itself, any post-MT processing, and the system output. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Both are available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page: http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/ Please send submissions and questions to: vossMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
fs1.art.man.ac.uk>FURTHER CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on perfective auxiliaries The University of Manchester Organisers: Delia Bentley (delia.bentleyMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue