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From: Clare R. Voss (voss@cfar.umd.edu)
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    ****************** CALL FOR PAPERS ***************************
     

                EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS
                            WORKSHOP II
              held in conjunction with NAACL/ANLP2000

                      Thursday, May 4, 2000
                     Seattle, Washington, USA

             Embedded MT Systems homepage for this workshop
              http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems

    WHAT IS AN "EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT) SYSTEM"?

    An "embedded MT system" is a computational system with one
    or more MT engines among its components. These systems
    accept multilingual, multimodal inputs and create various outputs
    that enable the users to access the original information in their
    own language. An MT component embedded in an end-to-end system
    allows users to perform their specific tasks on foreign language
    input that they previously only had been able to perform in
    their native language. To date, these tasks have included
    summarization, content extraction, filtering and document
    retrieval.

    BACKGROUND

    The first workshop on Embedded MT Systems was held in conjunction
    with the biennial meeting of the Association for Machine Translation
    in the Americas (AMTA), in October, 1998, in Langhorne, PA. The
    Embedded MT Systems Workshop II is a response to the growing
    community commitment to translingual information research,
    e.g., the DARPA TIDES initiative. By holding the workshop at
    the combined NAACL and ANLP conferences this year, there will be
    an opportunity for a multi-disciplinary mix of researchers and
    developers to attend, contribute and benefit from the
    workshop.

    WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

    As the strengths and weaknesses of machine translation engines
    have become better understood and accepted, there has been a marked
    increase in the development of a range of computer systems containing
    an MT component. This workshop will focus on the system designs, the
    associated information access tasks of such end-to-end systems,
    and the measures of system effectiveness.

    Of particular interest are systems that accept one or another of
    various types of input including hard-copy pages, online text
    files, and speech (natural or transcribed). These inputs
    present real-world, noisy data that challenge MT engine capabilities.
    We would like to know the degradation in performance that
    these challenges present and the compensation strategies that
    system developers have tested or used. We also seek
    submissions describing possible channel-specific feedback
    processes from other system components that help correct the
    noisy input.

    Papers describing multiple MT engines and algorithms for selecting
    among their outputs are encouraged. It would be interesting
    to hear how these complex MT components have been integrated into
    specific applications. For example, do certain MT engines produce
    results better suited for summarization, retrieval, or online
    foreign language tutoring?

    The field of MT evaluation currently lacks an adequate methodology.
    There are no widely used standards and few statisticians have been
    called upon to assess the metrics that have been proposed. We will
    look for submissions that include measures for the individual system
    components and end-to-end system evaluation. Also of interest are
    measures that evaluate user performance on specific tasks.

    We expect that the range of papers from both the first and this
    second workshop will provide sufficient material for us to pursue
    a special journal issue dedicated to Embedded MT Systems.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Intent to submit: Friday, Feb. 11, 2000
    Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000
    Notification of acceptance of papers: Friday, March 3, 2000
    Camera-ready papers due: Monday, March 13, 2000

    SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

    Electronic submission of Intent to Submit should have the
    following subject line:
       "NAACL-ANLP2000 WORKSHOP - Intent to submit"
    Body of message should include Identification Page information:
       - title of submission
       - names of all authors
       - primary author name and email address, phone and fax
       - presentation type preference
           (select one or more per system: demo, poster, or paper)
       - keywords

    Authors may submit short papers, full-length papers, poster
    presentations and/or demos.

    For electronic submission, include the Identification
    Page Information (see above) as a separate page from the paper
    itself. Reviewing will be blind. No author information should be
    included with the main body of the paper. Full paper submissions
    may be up to 5000 words in length, including references.
    Submissions for poster presentations and short papers may be up
    to 2000 words in length, including references.

    Demo presentations are encouraged in conjunction with papers
    or posters. For demo-only presentations, submissions up to
    two pages long should describe the system design and
    capabilities with respect to (ii) above:
    an end-to-end process flow covering the system
    input, any pre-MT processing, the MT component itself, any
    post-MT processing, and the system output.

    FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

    Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style.
    Both are available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page:
        http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/

    Please send submissions and questions to: voss@arl.mil
    Notification of receipt will be sent to the primary author.

    ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

    Carol Van Ess-Dykema, US Dept. of Defense
    Clare R. Voss, US Army Research Lab
    Florence Reeder, MITRE Corp.

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Gary Coen, Boeing Phantom Works
    Bob Frederking, LTI, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
    Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN
    Inge Gorm Hansen and Henrik Selsoe Sorenson, Copenhagen Business School
    Lori Levin, LTI, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
    Bill Ogden, CRL, NMSU
    Kathi Taylor, Georgetown U.



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