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cs.rutgers.edu>REMINDER Just two weeks before close of EARLY BOOKING (15 May) MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001 The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites you to participate in the Eighth "Machine Translation Summit" which is being held in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain from the 18th to the 22nd September 2001. The MT Summit conferences bring together the global MT community to review the state of the art of machine translation, computer-aided translation support tools and multilingual tools, both in the commercial world and in the research sphere. It is a unique opportunity to learn about the latest developments in the field, for researchers, users and vendors to exchange experiences and to get valuable feedback, and for meeting others involved in this technology. There will be a full programme of papers, presentations by invited speakers, panel sessions, exhibitions, demonstrations, and workshops (on the day preceding the conference and on the final day). There will be excursions, a banquet and a folk music performance, and also some activities for spouses and partners of delegates. VENUE The conference is taking place in Santiago de Compostela in North West Spain(Galicia), famous as a pilgrimage destination since the early Middle Ages, a city full of ancient buildings, from its eleventh-century cathedral to its seventeenth and eighteenth century houses, convents and palaces. The old town has been listed as a 'world heritage city' by Unesco. The venue for the conference is the Hostal de los Reyes Cat=F3licos (Hostal dos Reis Cat=F3licos), originally founded in 1499 as a Royal hospital for pilgrims, a magnificent building in the Spanish Renaissance style. It is now both the oldest and one of the most impressive hotels in the world. The opening session and the banquet will take place in the Comedor Real, other sessions will be in the hotel's auditorium and other rooms, and the exhibition and demonstrations will be housed in the Chapel. The opening reception will take place in the Pazo de Raxoi (City Council), an 18th century building next to the Hostal. HOTELS Santiago de Compostela is a major tourist centre attracting many visitors throughout the year. We have reserved accommodation in the Hostal itself and in a number of hotels close by (many restored 17th and 18th century buildings). All except one are within walking distance of the Hostal venue. (A bus will be provided for the Hotel Puerta del Camino). Because of the high demand for hotel rooms in Santiago and the substantial deposits, we ask for about half the full hotel charge when booking, and we encourage you to book early to be certain of your preference. WEBSITE INFORMATION For details of the hotels, excursions and workshops see the MT Summit website (www.eamt.org/summitVIII) or send email to: summitVIIIMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>The Second International Workshop on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies The Computing Research Laboratory and the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) are pleased to announce plans for the Second International Workshop on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies (SLPLT-2). The workshop is scheduled to take place Friday, September 14, and Saturday, September 15, 2001, in Jain, Spain, immediately following and as part of the 17th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (September 12-14, 2001). It will precedes the Machine Translation Summit VIII which will be held in Santiago de Compostella, Spain, September 18-21, 2001. The goal of the International Workshops on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies is to promote the creation of an infrastructure for carrying out research and development in the computational processing of spoken and written Spanish. They do this by bringing together researchers and developers from Europe and the Americas to present the most recent advances in the field and to catalog available resources for research and development as well as by promoting cooperative efforts among participants from the different geographical regions. The size of the workshop is limited to approximately 80 participants (at least 20 from each region) and the structure of activities emphasizes broad descriptions of research and development activities and infrastructure accompanied by ample discussions. Also integral to their success are a number of social events, which will provide a more informal context for establishing networks of contacts. Program The program consists of morning and afternoon panel sessions each day. In addition, there will be a reception after the first day's activities and a banquet after the second. Friday, September 14 9:30-1:30: Research Activities and Interests Summary reports of the research activities and interests from a number of R&D centers from each of the three regions (including text and dialog analysis, text generation and speech recognition and synthesis). There will be a 30-minute break at 11:30. 1:30-3:30: LUNCH 3:30-7:00: Technologies and Applications Summary reports on current or planned R&D efforts related to the development of specific applications (including Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, Query and Dialog Systems, Expert and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Text Summarization, Text Processing, Document Handling, etc.). There will be a 30-minute break at 5:00. 8:00-9:30: RECEPTION Saturday, September 15 9:30-1:30: Research and Development Infrastructure Summary reports on existing and planned infrastructure resources for supporting Spanish language processing R&D (including corpora; databases--geographical place names, company names, person names; knowledge bases--ontologies, thesauri, dictionaries; processing tools--tokenizers, POS-taggers, syntactic analyzers, lexica, text generators, corpus analysis tools, speech processing tools, etc.). There will be a 30-minute break at 11:15. 1:30-3:30: LUNCH 3:30-7:00: Funding Opportunities and Future Directions Reports from funding agencies on pending initiatives and position papers on future needs for Spanish language processing technologies and the kinds of research needed to meet those needs. There will be a 30-minute break at 5:00. 10:00: BANQUET Submissions We are requesting that those interested in participating submit a five page (2000-2500 words) paper addressing one of the above panel topics and a brief two page (800-1000 words) biographical sketch. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee each representing one of the regions. Submissions will be accepted in Spanish or in English and the presentations are expected to be in whichever language is used for the written submission. Both Spanish and English are official languages for the workshop. Submissions will be accepted in either electronic form or hard copy although the former is preferred. Format instructions will follow those for submissions to SEPLN-2001 (refer to: http://sepln2001.ujaen.es). Please send submissions to: David Farwell Computing Research Laboratory Box 30001/3CRL New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA E-mail: davidMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue