C A L L F O R P A P E R S (Reminder)
6th EAMT Workshop: Teaching Machine Translation
Date: 14 - 15 November 2002
Venue: UMIST, Manchester, England
Web-site: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/eamt-bcs/cfp.html
Call for Papers
The sixth EAMT Workshop will take place on 14-15 November
2002
hosted by the Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST,
Manchester, England.
Organised by the European Association for Machine Translation,
in association with the Natural Language Translation Specialist
Group
of the British Computer Society, the Workshop will focus on the
topic
of:
Teaching Machine Translation
The following topics are of interest:
why and to whom should MT be taught?
teaching the theoretical background of MT: linguistics, computer
science, translation theory
addressing preconceptions about MT in the classroom
the use of commercial MT programs in hands-on teaching
teaching computational aspects of MT to non-computational
students
web-based distance learning of MT MT education and industry:
bridging the gap between academia and the real world
teaching pre- and post-editing skills to MT users
teaching MT evaluation
building modules or `toy' MT systems in the laboratory
experiences of the evaluation of MT instruction
the role of MT in language learning
translation studies and MT
etc.
We invite submissions of an extended abstract of your proposed
paper,
up to two pages, summarizing the main points that will be made in
the actual paper.
Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Programme
Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a full version of
the paper, maximum 12 pages, which will be included in the
proceedings.
A stylefile for accepted submissions will be available in due course.
Initially, an extended abstract should be sent, preferably by email
as an attachment in any of the standard formats (doc, html, pdf,
ps)
or as plain text, to Harold.Somers@umist.ac.uk.
Otherwise, hardcopy can be sent to:
Harold Somers, Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, PO
Box
88, Manchester M60 1QD, England, or by fax to +44 161 200
3091.
Programme Committee
Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester
Derek Lewis, University of Exeter
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton
Mikel Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant
Karl-Heinz Freigang, Universität des Saarlandes
David Wigg, South Bank University, London
John Hutchins, EAMT
Roger Harris, BCS
Important dates:
Deadline for extended abstract: 31 July 2002
Acceptance notification: 6 September 2002
Final copies due: 14 October 2002
Conference dates: 14-15 November 2002
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