Gurpreet Singh Josan
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:51:19 -0700
CALL FOR PAPERS for INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSLATION - IJT (Vol. 23, No. 1, Jan-Jun 2011) International Journal of Translation – IJT (started in 1989), is a peer-reviewed international journal that has been publishing original research papers devoted to TRANSLATION STUDIES. It is published in March and September every year. It is indexed at Translation Studies Abstracts and sent for indexing at ERIC Database from 2010 onwards It provides a forum for the discussion of the various theories of translation and interpreting and their practical application; the various processes involved in literary, machine and technical translations; the experience and the points of view of translators while translating & the translated texts from the point of view of cultural and sociolinguistic appropriateness. >From when the computers came into being, Machine translation is viewed as a >potential tool for breaking language barrier. In a country like India where >intercultural relations gain new expansions, it will be of special importance >to explore the benefits and applications of machine translation process. >Keeping in mind the importance of Machine Translation in Indian Society, IJT >is devoting a special issue to machine translation among Indian languages. Papers related (directly or indirectly) to machine translation among Indian languages or from English to Indian Languages or vice versa are most relevant. More specifically, the main topics of interest include, though are not limited to, the following: · Machine translation methodologies (MT) · Computer-assisted translation (CAT) · Machine translation tools · Lexical resources for MT · Dictionaries and grammars for translation · Machine translation problems · Machine translation and morphology · Applications of translation to CLIR, text summerisation, question answering systems, E-governance etc. · Connectionist approaches to translation · Compilation and use of bi- and multilingual corpora for MT · Discourse phenomena and their treatment in machine translation · MT for software localization and internationalization · Computational implications of Indian Language character sets for machine translation · Performance evaluation of MT systems for Indian languages. · OOV words dealing in MT etc. The topics suggested by this issue can be discussed in term of concepts, surveys, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. All contributions are peer reviewed. Publication has no cost for the authors, and the editorial house sends for free one complete copy of the issue to every author. This guarantees the quality of the papers: the publisher's income comes from the readers, not from the authors. The papers pertaining to the areas mentioned above should be submitted electronically in MS-Word and PDF file formats to the Guest Editor/Editors, at their e-mail addresses given below not later than 30th September 2010. Please indicate “IJT Special issue on MT among IL” in the Subject line of all email correspondence. All papers submitted to IJT should be original, neither having been previously published nor being considered elsewhere at the time of submission. Manuscripts should be in conformity with the IJT format, which can be made available on request or according to the 6th APA format. Guest Editors: Editors Dr. GURPREET SINGH LEHAL Harpreet Kaur Bahri Punjabi University, Patiala Deepinder Singh Bahri E-mail: gsle...@gmail.com C/o BAHRI PUBLICATIONS 1749A/5, Govindpuri Extension Dr. GURPREET SINGH JOSAN Kalkaji, New Delhi 110019 Head&AssociateProfessor, E-mail:bahr...@vsnl.comdept of Information Technology,Rayat&Bahra Collegeof Engineering and Bio-TechnologySahauran, DistMohali,140104 E-mail: josangurpr...@rediffmail.com
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