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mike.rosner, 9th Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation
Yukio Tono, International Symposium on Learner Corpora in Asia
Message 1: 9th Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:29:32 -0500 (EST)
From: mike.rosner <mike.rosnerum.edu.mt>
Subject: 9th Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation
9th Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation
Short Title: EAMT04
Date: 26-Apr-2004 - 28-Apr-2004
Location: Valletta, Malta
Contact: Mike Rosner
Contact Email: mike.rosnerum.edu.mt
Meeting URL: http://www.eamt.org/eamt04/
Linguistic Sub-field: Translation
Call Deadline: 25-Jan-2004
Meeting Description:
SPECIAL THEME for this workshop will be machine-translation-related
issues concerningn Semitic languages and Languages of the newly
accessioned states of the European Union. Papers on machine
translation systems and computer-based translation aids relating to
these languages will be of particular interest. Papers relating to
other aspects of machine translation, and other languages, will also
be considered.
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) will be
holding its Ninth Workshop in Malta on 26-27 April 2004. The meeting
is one of a series of annual workshops acting as a forum for the
exchange of ideas concerning all aspects of machine translation within
the European and adjacent regions. (For information about previous
workshops see the EAMT website: www.eamt.org.) As in previous EAMT
workshops, contributions will be particularly welcomed from
developers, vendors and users of MT systems and translation aids.
The SPECIAL THEME for this workshop will be
machine-translation-related issues concerning Semitic languages,
Languages of the newly accessioned states of the European Union.
Papers on machine translation systems and computer-based translation
aids relating to these languages will be of particular
interest. However, papers relating to other aspects of machine
translation, and other languages, will also be considered such as:
*Translation Memories
*Web-based MT services
*Issues for developers and users of MT and translation aids
*Economic aspects of MT Evaluation of MT systems
SUBMISSION of papers:
We invite submissions as either extended abstracts (minimum 2 pages)
or as full papers (maximum 10 pages). Submissions should be sent
before 25 January 2004, by email as attachments in DOC, RTF, or plain
text, to the chairman John Hutchins , with the words EAMT 2004
Workshop in the subject heading).
Notification of acceptance will be made on or before 15 February,
together with any comments from reviewers for revision.
FINAL VERSIONS of papers Final versions of papers (maximum 12 pages,
DOC or RTF files) should be sent for inclusion in the proceedings
before 12th March. (Any papers received after that date will not be
included in the printed proceedings). A stylesheet for accepted
submissions will be available in due course on the EAMT website.
It is anticipated that papers will be made available in electronic
form on the EAMT website after the conference -- for this purpose,
authors may also send PDF or PS versions of their papers.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
John Hutchins (chair, EAMT president)
Michael Rosner (University of Malta)
Anthony Clarke (CLS Corporate Language Services)
Jaro Lajovic (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Mustafa Yaseen (University of Amman, Jordan)
Jan Hajic (Charles University, Prague)
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (San Francisco State University)
VENUE, registration:
Details about the venue in MALTA, registration fees, hotel
accommodation, etc. will be circulated from mid January or early
February. Full details, including a list of all speakers and an online
registration form, will be posted here in early March. Local
arrangements organiser is Mike Rosner from whom further details can be
obtained.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions: 25 January 2004
Acceptance notification: 15 February 2004
Final copies due: 12 March 2004
Registration: early March 2004
Conference dates: 26-27 April 2004
Message 2: International Symposium on Learner Corpora in Asia
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 01:00:50 +0900
From: Yukio Tono <tonove.catv.ne.jp>
Subject: International Symposium on Learner Corpora in Asia
International Symposium on Learner Corpora in Asia
Date: 13-March-2004 - 14-March-2004
Location: Tokyo, JAPAN
Contact: Yukio Tono
Contact Email: y.tonomeikai.ac.jp
Meeting URL:http://www.eng.ritsumei.ac.jp/icle-j/symposium/
Linguistic Sub-field: Corpus Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition
Call Deadline: 1-Feb-2004
Meeting Description:
This international symposium on learner corpora aims to gather those
involved in designing, compiling and using corpora of second language
learners for the purpose of studying interlanguage features, second
language acquisition, and language teaching and learning, especially
in Asian contexts. The target language can be any language as long as
it is a corpus of L2 (second language) learners. We hope to provide an
opportunity among participants to share technical and professional
expertise they have in learner corpus research in order to promote
this exciting research methodology for SLA researchers in English and
other languages.
This symposium is partially supported by the Ministry of Education,
Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B).
Provisional program:
March 13 (Sat): hands-on tutorials
a) Using MonoConc & ParaConc for learner corpora
by Michael Barlow (Auckland, NZ)
b) TagEditor: a supporting tool for transcription and error tagging
by Emi Izumi (CRL,
c) How to use XML for error tagging
by Knut Hofland (NCCH, Norway)
March 14 (Sun): paper presentation & colloquium
10:00 - 15:00 Invited lectures & individual papers
15:30 - 17:30 Colloquium
Invited speakers:
Michael Barlow
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Knut Hofland
Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Norway
Hitoshi Isahara
Communication Research Laboratory, Japan
Scientific Committee:
Yoshihiko Ikegami (Showa Women's University, Japan)
John Milton (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Knut Hofland (NCCH, Norway)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK)
Programme Committee:
Tomoko Kaneko (Showa Women's University, Japan)
Kojiro Asao (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Yukio Tono (Meikai University, Japan)
Takako Kobayashi (Showa Women's University, Japan)
Misuzu Takami (Showa Women's University, Japan)
Yoshimasa Ogawa (Showa Women's University, Japan)
Naoko Akahori (Showa Women's University, Japan)
Registration : the detail will appear on our dedicated website:
http://www.eng.ritsumei.ac.jp/icle-j/symposium/
Official language : English
Call for abstracts:
You are invited to submit proposals on any of the following topics:
- design issues of learner corpora
- annotations (including error tagging) of learner corpora
- error analysis and learner corpora
- using learner corpora for verifying SLA theories
- using learner corpora for describing interlanguage
- using learner corpora for language teaching
- tools for learner corpus creation & exploitation
Abstracts (200 - 300 words, including your name, affiliation, contact
address, email address) should be sent by email to the following
address:
Yukio Tono
y.tonomeikai.ac.jp
Important dates:
Call deadline: February 1st 2004
Notice of acceptance: February 10th 2004
Deadline of the extended abstract for the proceedings:
February 29th 2004
Yukio Tono, Ph.D.
Secretary of Asialex
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Applied Linguistics
Meikai University, Urayasu, JAPAN
Email: y.tonomeikai.ac.jp
URL: http://leo.meikai.ac.jp/~tono/