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ims.uni-stuttgart.de>Content-Length: 4722 ******** CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ******** Special Issue on Lexical Choice in Text Generation and Machine Translation The Machine Translation Journal Editor: Sergei Nirenburg Guest Editor: Leo Wanner (Waterloo and Stuttgart) The Journal of Machine Translation is inviting submissions for a Special Issue on Lexical Choice in Text Generation and Machine Translation. This is the second special issue of the MT Journal that explicitly addresses Text Generation. The first issue (edited by Richard Kittredge, Montreal) was devoted to research in Text Generation that has been applied to Machine Translation or to multilingual language generation. This Issue is devoted to a specific problem --- that of lexical choice --- which arises in both Text Generation and Machine Translation regardless of the underlying theoretical model and the application area of the research. Although lexical choice is of great importance to both Text Generation and Machine Translation, it has very often been ignored as semantic constructions have tended to be associated directly with lexical units. Only recently has lexical choice started to become one of the major areas of research in Generation, and it still remains a significant unresolved issue in Machine Translation. The problem of lexical choice is particularly difficult because it is inseparably intertwined with the problems of syntactic realization, discourse generation, knowledge representation, lexicon organization, etc. This means that solutions to lexical choice require that other tasks in generation and machine translation have already been solved to some degree. This Issue addresses all critical topics in the problem of lexical choice in Text Generation and Machine Translation. One of the basic topics is the placement of the lexical choice process in the generation and translation process, and, subsequently, the range of phenomena that the lexical choice process has to deal with. Another basic topic is the acquisition of constraints for the guidance of the lexical choice process. Until now, lexical choice processes have only rarely "consciously" decided upon the selection of one out of several possible lexicalizations --- although it is generally accepted that decisions are to be made in accordance with (target) language- constraints and culture-specific constraints. An additional basic topic is the most suitable organization of semantic and lexical resources for lexical choice. High quality research papers are invited on these and other topics, including but not limited to: - Finding appropriate lexical equivalents in Machine Translation. - The role of lexical choice in Multilingual Generation. - Acquisition of lexical resources relevant to lexical choice. - Organization of semantic resources and the lexicon for lexical choice. - Design and implementation of lexical choice processes. - Interdependency between lexical choice and the other tasks in generation and machine translation. - Phenomena to be addressed by lexical choice. - Contextual criteria for lexical choice. FORMAT: Articles may be submitted in hard-copy or electronic (plain ASCII or .ps) format to the guest editor. If submitting hard-copy, four copies of the paper are required. The length of the papers should be approximately 20-30 pages (12-point font). DEADLINE: Submissions are due on September, 15 1995 GUEST EDITOR: Leo Wanner Computer Science Department University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1 Email: lwannerMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue