Corpora: CFP-2: MT 2000 Conference, Exeter, United Kingdom. Nov 2000

From: Roger Harris (rwsh@dircon.co.uk)
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    British Computer Society
    Natural Language Translation Specialist Group
    URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm
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    Date: Thursday 1st June 2000
    From: Roger Harris (rwsh@dircon.co.uk)
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    EXTENDED DEADLINE 19 June 2000
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    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MT AND MULTILINGUAL NLP

    MT 2000:
    MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS
    IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

    Exeter, United Kingdom
    20-22 November 2000

    The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG) of the
    British Computer Society (BCS) and the University of Exeter announce
    an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter (UK)
    on 20-22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful
    conference "Machine Translation: 10 Years On" held in 1994 in Cranfield.

    Against the backdrop of increasingly multilingual society, MT2000 will
    look at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of
    the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only
    recent machine translation research and products, but latest
    multilingual developments in general. The organisers aim to attract a
    wide range of contributions from researchers, users, educationalists
    and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering.

    The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
    speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will
    be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection
    of papers will be published in book form soon after the conference.
    There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity to hold poster
    sessions.

    * Topics

    We invite papers covering multilingual aspects of any NLP
    task/application. We encourage the representation of a broad
    range of areas; the following list of possible topics is not
    exhaustive and is intended to indicate areas of probable interest.

    Machine translation (developments, techniques, applications)
    Translation aids
    Controlled Languages
    Computer-assisted language learning
    Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation)
    Evaluation
    Part-of-speech tagging
    Parsing
    Information retrieval
    Information extraction
    Automatic abstracting
    Word-sense disambiguation
    Lexical knowledge acquisition
    Anaphora resolution
    Text categorisation
    Dialogues systems
    Web-based NLP applications
    NL generation
    Speech processing
    Translation studies
    Terminology
    Lexicography
    Syntax
    Semantics
    Discourse
    Pragmatics

    * Invited speakers

    Martin Kay (Xerox Parc)
    Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
    Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)

    * Programme Committee

    Mona Baker (UMIST, Manchester)
    Christian Boitet (Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble)
    Francis Bond (NTT, Kyoto)
    Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon)
    Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan)
    Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
    Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney)
    Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice)
    Laurie Gerber (Systran Software Inc.)
    Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble)
    Changning Huang (Microsoft, China)
    John Hutchins (University of Anglia)
    Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Labs)
    Gareth Jones (University of Exeter)
    Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto)
    Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton)
    Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal)
    Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht)
    Tara O'Leary (TRADOS Ireland)
    Derek Lewis (University of Exeter), Co-Chair
    Gabriel Lopez (New Lisbon University)
    Bente Maegard (Center of Language Technology, Copenhagen)
    Chris Manning (Stanford University)
    Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
    Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Co-Chair
    Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)
    Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante)
    Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University)
    Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
    Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge)
    Lucia Rino (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
    Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University Barcelona)
    Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex, Brighton)
    Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
    Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon)
    Arturo Trujillo (Vocalis plc, Cambridge)
    Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
    Agnes Tutin (Stendahl University Grenoble)
    Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York)
    Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)
    Lotfi Zadeh (University of California)

    * Submission Guidelines

    Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should
    be written in English and should not exceed 7 single-column
    pages (preferred font: Times New Roman 12) including figures,
    tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
    the title of the paper, the author's name(s), the author's surface and
    email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Electronic
    submissions (attached postscript files, pdf, rtf or Word files) are
    encouraged.

    The address for e-mail paper submissions is: D.R.Lewis@exeter.ac.uk
    In addition, the abstracts of the papers should be separately emailed
    to Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk).

    The papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.
    Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines on how to produce
    the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
    Proceedings.

    * Schedule

    Paper Submission Due: 19 June 2000
    Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2000
    Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 2000
    Conference: 20-22 November 2000

    * Venue

    The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the
    University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon
    in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the
    most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport is
    a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links to London,
    Birmingham and other UK cities.

    * Exhibitions

    The conference will host exhibitions of software products and books
    related to multilingual NLP. Companies/organisations interested in
    exhibiting their products should contact Derek Lewis (see below).

    * Call for participation

    A call for participation, including the conference program and
    attendance fees, will be posted in August.

    * Further information

    Further information can be obtained from

    Derek Lewis
    Queen's Building
    University of Exeter
    Exeter
    United Kingdom
    EX4 4QH
    Telephone/fax: ++44 (0)1392 264296 / 264306
    E-mail: D.R.Lewis@exeter.ac.uk

    or from

    David Wigg, NLTSG
    Telephone: +44 (0) 1732 455446
    E-mail: wiggjd@bcs.org.uk

    Conference web site:
    http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/index.htm
    Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk

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