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8th International Conference on
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation
TMI-99
August 23-25, 1999
Chester, UK
http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/
First Announcement and Call for Papers
The eighth conference in the TMI series will take place over
August 23-25, 1999 in the historic city of Chester, UK.
In addition to general theoretical and methodological
issues, TMI-99 will have a major theme:
Modalities and MT: Where can MT be used?
Submissions referring to the above theme are encouraged.
However, substantial, original, and unpublished research on
any other issues relevant to machine translation are also
welcome. Proposals are also solicited for one day workshops
(see below).
Details on submissions and submission guidelines, along with a Latex
style file, will be put up on our web site. Papers should be in
English, not longer than 10 pages (around 5,000 words).
Important dates
Paper submissions March 12, 1999
Acceptance notification May 14, 1999
Final copies due July 2, 1999
Conference dates
Tutorials: Aug 22, 1999
Papers and Panels: Aug 23-25, 1999
Workshops: Aug 26, 1999
Conference Site
The conference meetings will be held at Chester College, in
the city of Chester UK. More information about the conference cite
can be found at the web site: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/.
TMI-99 is supported by the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)
Call for Workshop Proposals
Proposals are solicited for one-day workshops addressing
specific issues of interest in machine translation. If you
would like to organize a workshop, send your proposals
before November 30, 1998 to the program chair
<bond@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>. The proposal should include the
theme and goal of the workshop, the planned activities, and
a list of potential participants.
TMI-99 Officers:
Program Chair: Francis Bond, NTT CS Labs, Kyoto
Local Chairs: Arturo Trujillo and Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester
General Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, NMSU, Las Cruces NM
Program Committee:
Laurie Gerber (SYSTRAN, USA)
Emmanuel Planas (GETA, France)
Melanie Siegel (DFKI, Germany)
Stephen Beale (CRL, USA)
Kevin Knight (ISI, USA)
Kentaro Ogura (NTT, Japan)
Masahiko Haruno (ATR, Japan)
Hiromi Nakaiwa (NTT, Japan)
Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
Terumasa Ehara (NHK Japan)
Kristiina Jokinen (ATR, Japan)
Graham Wilcock (UMIST, UK)
Please address any further enquiries to the program chair:
Francis Bond <bond@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>
Machine Translation Research Group
NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2-4 Hikari-dai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, JAPAN, 619-0237
Tel: 0774-93-5313 (+81)
Fax: 0774-93-5345 (+81)
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