[Mt-list] CfP: MTfor historical languages- 14th April

[vertan]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
MACHINE TRANSLATION FOR HISTORICAL LANGUAGES

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 14th April 2009 ***

https://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/MTHistWorkshop

Workshop in conjunction with the 13th EAMT Conference (www.talp.cat/eamt09/)
Barcelona, Spain, 13th May 2009


During last years a lot of effort has been put in digitalisation of  
old manuscripts and making them available in form of digital libraries.

Most part of these libraries are available not only to researchers in  
a certain domain (classical philology, historians) but also to normal  
users. This raise new requirements to the functionalities offered by  
such digital libraries. Texts are written either in classical  
languages (ancient Greek, Latin) or in historic variants of nowadays  
language which cannot be  understood as well by untrained people. The  
access of normal users to the content of these libraries can be really  
acquired only by providing translations.
While well-known manuscripts have been already translated in  
wide-spoken languages a great part of material remains unaccessible to  
the large foreign-language public.

Language  technology, in particular machine translation have the  
potential to solve the above problem. We are looking for original  
contributions covering one of the following topics:

   * dedicated machine translation systems for historical languages
   * adaptation of existent MT-systems for modern languages for their  
historical variants
   * components of rule-baed systems dedicated to historical languages
   * lexicons for historical languages
   * parallel corpora and SMT for historical texts
   * translation memories and computer aided translation tools for  
historical languages

Papers in English language, no longer than 10 pages have to be sent in  
PDF format per e-mail no later than 14th April to  
cristina.ver...@uni-hamburg.de with  the mention "Workshop MT  
historical languages". We would hightly appreciate if a short email  
with intended title and authors, will be sent till 0th April.

Accepted papers will be published in a workhop-procedings volume. We  
encourage also System demonstrations as well as position papers and  
reports about  work in progress.

Dr. Cristina Vertan
University of Hamburg / Department of Computer Science
Natural Language Systems Division
Vogt-Kölln Strasse 30
22527 Hamburg
Germany


phone: +4940428832519 / + 4940428384767
fax: +4940428832515

http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~cri


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