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7th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues
in Machine Translation (TMI-97)
July 24-28, 1997
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
First Announcement and Call for Papers
The seventh conference in the now well-established TMI series will take
place in July 1997 in the historic city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The
date will mark (roughly) the 50th anniversary of Warren Weaver's famous
memo which launched modern MT research.
TMI-97 will have three major themes:
Yesterday
-- Contributions should refer to an `old' paper (published before
1965) and show how it is still somewhat relevant to MT today...
Today
-- Contributions should reflect on current trends in MT, especially
the move towards hybrid solutions involving both established and
novel techniques; we want to focus on particular problems and
trends rather than overall descriptions of existing systems
(focus on theoretical and methodological rather than
implementational issues)...
Tomorrow
-- How is MT being integrated with new technologies and media, for
example delivery via the Internet, speech translation, MT as part
of document collection processing, MT and summarization,
information retrieval and extraction, multimodality and
multimedia, etc.
Submissions referring to the above themes are encouraged. However, submissions
on other theoretical and methodological issues will be considered as well.
TMI-97 Officers:
General Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA
Program Committee Chair: Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester, UK
Publicity and Local Arrangements: Charlene Shepard and James Hamilton,
Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA
Program Committee:
Lynn Carlson (US Department of Defense)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
John Hutchins (University of East Anglia, UK)
Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA)
Virginia Teller (CUNY, USA)
Walther von Hahn (Universitat Hamburg, Germany)
Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Details on submissions and submission guidelines, and a Latex style file
can be found on the Web at http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/harold/TMI/. There
you will find a style file and a model paper (for which you will also need
the separate example eps file).
Important dates
Paper submissions February 17, 1997
Acceptance notification April 15, 1997
Final copies due June 2, 1997
Conference dates July 24-28, 1997
Fees and Schedules
In progress. Please watch our web page for future announcements.
Conference Site
The conference meetings will be held on the campus of St. John's College
in Santa Fe.
Accommodations
Fort Marcy Hotel Suites have been selected as the primary conference
accommodations. The hotel is low-rise and consists of 1-, 2- and
3-bedroom air-conditioned suites, with one or two bathrooms, fully
equipped kitchens, living rooms equipped with TVs, video and CD players.
All the suites also feature fireplaces, though in July you will probably
not need them. We were able to negotiate favorable rates for the
participants of TMI-97. Final arrangements, which should be completed in
the near future, will be published on the conference web page.
Student level accommodations will also be available in the dormitories
at St. John's College.
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Please visit the conference web site at http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/TMI/ for
further details and conference information updates.
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