LINGUIST List 7.179

Sun Feb 4 1996

Calls: Machine translation

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1. Eduard Hovy, ** Announcement: AMTA-96 Conference, Montreal, October 1996 **

 *** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ***
 Association for Machine Translation in the Americas


 AMTA-96 Conference, Montreal, October 2-5, 1996


 Accelerating Machine Translation Development:
 Research, Business, and Personal Use



Following the very successful AMTA conference near Washington, DC in
October 1994, the second conference of the Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas will be held in Montreal, Canada, at the
Radisson Hotel, on October 2-5, 1996.

Once again there will be something for everyone! Retaining the
pattern established by its predecessor, AMTA-96 will offer a blend of
invited talks, panel discussions, research papers, system
demonstrations and descriptions, tutorials, workshops, book exhibits,
and social events. The three days of the conference will also
facilitate gatherings of the Special Interest Groups on topics ranging
from interlinguas and ontologies, lexicons, standards and data
exchange, MT on PCs, and MT evaluation.

The overall intent of the conference is to bring together MT
developers, researchers, and users, to share the latest information on
MT and to forge partnerships for addressing the challenge of language
barriers that impede communication on the Information Highway.
Participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations in Europe and
Asia is strongly encouraged.

Invited talks and panel discussions will highlight topical and contro-
versial questions, encouraging lively interactions, as they did at
AMTA-94. In the theory sessions, technical papers will address a wide
range of topics, while in practical sessions, the problems of
developing and bringing MT systems to market will be discussed, with
online demonstrations. In addition, booths can be rented to display
systems and products.

AMTA will also hold its General Members' Meeting during the conference.




 AMTA-96: PAPER AND SYSTEM DESCRIPTION/DEMONSTRATION SUBMISSIONS.


Authors/system developers are invited to submit two kinds of
presentations:

1. Theoretical papers: Unpublished papers are requested about original
 work on all aspects of Machine Translation. Papers should be in
 English, not longer than 10 pages, with minimum character font size
 of 11 pt.

2. System descriptions with optional system demonstrations: Approx. 30
 minutes will be allocated per system description/demo. Submissions
 should be in English, not longer than 4 pages. If a system demon-
 stration is included, please provide the following information:
 - hardware platform,
 - operating system,
 - name and contact information of system operations specialist.


First page: Both types of submission should include an additional first
page with the following information:
- paper title,
- author(s)' name(s), address(es), telephone and fax numbers, email
 address(es),
- one-paragraph abstract,
- for theoretical papers: subject area keyword(s)
 for system descriptions/demos: the words "System description/demo".


Submissions are due at either addresses below on April 15, 1996.

Softcopy submissions (papers that do not print will be returned to the
author):
 email address: hovyisi.edu
 subject line: AMTA-96 submission
 paper encoding:
 - ASCII plain text
 - Microsoft Word (RTF format)
 - PostScript

Hardcopy submissions (please send four (4) copies):
 AMTA-96: Eduard Hovy
 USC Information Sciences Institute
 4676 Admiralty Way
 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
 USA



Organization and further details.

Local arrangements chair:
 Elliott Macklovitch, CITI, Montreal (email: mackloviciti.doc.ca)
Program chair:
 Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey (email: hovyisi.edu)





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Eduard Hovy
email: hovyisi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute
tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731 4676 Admiralty Way
fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html