TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 25 CONFERENCE, 20-21 November 2003, London This conference is one of the few international events which focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such has been particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including translators, business managers, researchers and language experts. The event, which is organised by Aslib, has the support of EAMT, IAMT, BCS - Natural Language Group, Institute of Linguists. Once again, this year the conference will address the latest developments in translation (and translation-related) software. It will address the needs of the following conference attendees: industry public administration agencies freelancers development This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user aspects of translation or translation-related software rather than on theoretical issues. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations are espe cially welcome. TOPICS The range of topics includes (but is not limited to) use of MT systems machine-aided translation and translation aids controlled languages and their use in MT speech translation terminology localisation multilingual document management/workflow case studies of technology-based solutions the Internet and translation aids/services the value of "free" versus "charging" services/sites on the Internet SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are required to submit an abstract of a MINIMUM of 500 words of the paper they would like to present, together with an outline of the structure of the paper and short BIOGRAPHY. Abstracts should be sent by POST or EMAIL before 25 June 2003 (extended deadline) to: Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser Aslib, The Association for Information Management Temple Chambers, 3-7 Temple Avenue, London, EC4Y 0HP Tel: +44(0) 20 7583 8900 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7583 8401 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The abstracts will be considered by the Programme Chairs, namely: Daniel Grasmick and Chris Pyne, SAP; Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton and Olaf-Michael Stefanov, United Nations. The authors of abstracts will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submissions by 1 August 2003. The full length versions of the accepted papers (authors will be provided with detailed camera-ready copy guidelines) will be included in the conference proceedings and must be submitted by 10th October 2003.
NICOLE ADAMIDES, Training Aslib/IMI, Temple Chambers, 3-7 Temple Avenue, London, EC4Y 0HP Tel: +44 (0)20 7583 8900 Fax: +44 (0)20 7583 8401 www.aslib.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For MT-List info, see http://www.eamt.org/mt-list.html
