LINGUIST List 13.1860

Fri Jul 5 2002

Calls: Machine Translation, Pragmatics of Arguing

Editor for this issue: Renee Galvis <reneelinguistlist.org>

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1. Roger Harris, CFP (Reminder): 6th EAMT Workshop: Teaching Machine Translation
2. Igor Z. Zagar, CFP: 8th IPrA Conference - Panel on Argument Cultures

 


C A L L F O R P A P E R S (Reminder)

6th EAMT Workshop: Teaching Machine Translation
Date: 14 - 15 November 2002
Venue: UMIST, Manchester, England
Web-site: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/eamt-bcs/cfp.html


Call for Papers

The sixth EAMT Workshop will take place on 14-15 November 2002 hosted
by the Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester,
England.

Organised by the European Association for Machine Translation, in
association with the Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of
the British Computer Society, the Workshop will focus on the topic of:

 Teaching Machine Translation

The following topics are of interest:

 why and to whom should MT be taught?
 teaching the theoretical background of MT: linguistics, computer
	science,
 translation theory
 addressing preconceptions about MT in the classroom
 the use of commercial MT programs in hands-on teaching
 teaching computational aspects of MT to non-computational students
 web-based distance learning of MT MT education and industry:
 bridging the gap between academia and the real world
 teaching pre- and post-editing skills to MT users
 teaching MT evaluation
 building modules or `toy' MT systems in the laboratory
 experiences of the evaluation of MT instruction
 the role of MT in language learning
 translation studies and MT
 etc.

We invite submissions of an extended abstract of your proposed paper,
up to two pages, summarizing the main points that will be made in the
actual paper.

Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a full version of
the paper, maximum 12 pages, which will be included in the
proceedings.

A stylefile for accepted submissions will be available in due course.


Initially, an extended abstract should be sent, preferably by email as
an attachment in any of the standard formats (doc, html, pdf, ps) or
as plain text, to Harold.Somersumist.ac.uk.

Otherwise, hardcopy can be sent to:
Harold Somers, Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, PO Box 88,
Manchester M60 1QD, England, or by fax to +44 161 200 3091.


Programme Committee

 Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester
 Derek Lewis, University of Exeter
 Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton
 Mikel Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant
 Karl-Heinz Freigang, Universitat des Saarlandes
 David Wigg, South Bank University, London
 John Hutchins, EAMT
 Roger Harris, BCS


Important dates:

Deadline for extended abstract: 31 July 2002
Acceptance notification: 6 September 2002
Final copies due: 14 October 2002
Conference dates: 14-15 November 2002

CFP: International Pragmatics Association, 8th International Conference
Toronto, 13-18 July 2003
Panel on Argument Cultures

In line with the conference theme, "Linguistic pluralism : Policies,
practices and pragmatics," we invite new papers on the pragmatics of
arguing and argumentation in general, especially those with an
emphasis on argumentation and cultures; including work on:

- argument practices varying (or not) by gender, class, ethnicity,
power etc. of participants;
- argumentive transactions across the boundaries of cultures;
- norms for diverse forms of dialogue;
- participants' conceptions of arguing;
- conversational argument;
- argumentation and theories of facework, speech acts, implicature;
- argumentation in the language-system and other linguistic theories
of argumentation;
- different conceptions of arguing and argumentation in general.
 
For consideration, submit via email a 500 word abstract plus complete
contact information by September 15, 2002 to both panel organizers:

Igor Z. Zagar
University of Ljubljana
igor.zagarguest.arnes.si

Jean Goodwin
Northwestern University
jeangoodwinnorthwestern.edu

For details on conference arrangements, see the IPrA website at
<http://www.uia.ac.be/ipra/>;. NOTE: IPrA membership will be required
for all accepted presenters.