Corpora: AMTA-2002: Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals

From: Robert Frederking (Robert_Frederking@lti.cs.cmu.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 22:24:53 MET

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                   --- CALL FOR TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ---

               The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
                                AMTA-2002 Conference

                                 Tiburon, California
                                 (near San Francisco)
                                  October 8-12, 2002

    Conference theme: FROM RESEARCH TO REAL USERS

    Ever since the showdown between Empiricists and Rationalists a decade
    ago at TMI-92, MT researchers have hotly pursued promising paradigms
    for MT, including data-driven approaches and hybrids that integrate
    these with more traditional rule-based components. During the same
    period, commercial MT systems with standard transfer architectures
    have evolved along a parallel and almost unrelated track, increasing
    their coverage and achieving much broader acceptance and usage. This
    raises a number of interesting questions (see the main conference Call
    For Participation), primarily concerned with why this disconnect
    exists, and whether it is going to change.

    TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

    Proposals for tutorials and workshops are now being solicited on these
    and other topics of direct interest and impact for MT researchers,
    developers, vendors or users of MT technologies. We welcome and
    encourage participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations,
    AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe, as well.

    Workshops will be held on Tuesday October 8th. Approximately 7 hours
    may be allocated per workshop.
    Tutorials will be held on Wednesday October 9th. Tutorials would
    typically last 3 hours, although other arrangements might be possible.

    Proposals should state the topic(s) to be addressed, the rationale for
    addressing it and the structure of the activities. Proposals should
    be in English and not longer than 4 pages.

    Please submit proposals as soon as possible to Bob Frederking at
    <ref@cs.cmu.edu>. Proposals must be submitted on or before Friday,
    April 12, 2002.

    For general conference information and further details
    as they become available, visit:
            http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2002/

    CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

    Elliott Macklovitch, General Chair

    Stephen D. Richardson, Program Chair

    Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Local Arrangements Chair

    Bob Frederking, Workshops and Tutorials

    Laurie Gerber, Exhibits Coordinator

    --
    Robert E. Frederking			Email: ref@cs.cmu.edu
    Language Technologies Institute		Telephone: +1-412-268-6656
    Carnegie Mellon University		FAX: +1-412-268-6298
    5000 Forbes Avenue
    Pittsburgh, PA 15213  USA		http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/
    



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