[Mt-list] REMINDER: WORKSHOP on MT at RANLP 2005 - last call

[Cristina Vertan]

Title: REMINDER: WORKSHOP on MT at RANLP 2005 - last call

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SECOND  CALL  FOR PAPERS

International Workshop

Modern Approaches in Translation Technologies (http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/view/RANLPMT2005/WebHome)

- Workshop in conjunction with the international Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing- RANLP 2005"-

(http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005/)

In the current globalized communications scene, both machine and computer-aided translation have become key technologies. Indeed, a recent survey regarding ten emerging technologies that will change the world, placed  Machine Translation at the leading number one position. It is expected that with the increased number of official languages in Europe, and the continuing growth of non-English Internet resources, machine translation and computer-aided translation systems will become indispensable tools in everyday work.

Machine Translation is a complex scientific task involving almost every aspect of natural language processing. Following the developments in language technology, during the last 10 years, corpus-based approaches to machine translation (statistical or example-based) tried, and partially succeeded to replace traditional rule-based approaches. The main advantage of corpus-based machine translation systems is that they are self-customising in the sense that they can learn the translations of terminology and even stylistic phrasing from previously translated materials.

However, after a first enthusiastic period it turned out that pure corpus-based methods also have limitations, which can only be overcome by introducing linguistic knowledge. Therefore current research focuses on hybrid methods, combining data-driven (corpus) and rule-driven methods. On the other hand, more practical CAT applications such as translation memories and bilingual concordancers along with the extensive use of electronic dictionaries and term tools/banks, emerged as popular, vital tools for professional translators.

The current workshop aims to bring together researchers working in machine and machine-aided translation. The workshop will alternate paper presentations with panel discussions.  Main topics of interest are:

o        Hybrid approaches to machine translation
o       Recent advances in machine aided translation
o   Evaluation of MT and CAT systems
o       Impact of Semantic Web activities on MT and CAT systems.
o       Tools for professional translators

We welcome original papers related (but not limited) to one or more of the following topics:

o Learning from parallel aligned corpora
o Integration of statistical and example-based approaches
o        Statistical support for rule-based machine translation
o Dynamic combination of example-based machine translation or translation memories with rule-based approaches
o    Template learning in example based machine translation
o Integration of Termbases, Translation Memories, and Parallel Corpora 
o  Evaluation criteria for MT and CAT systems
o     Usage of semantic web-ontologies for machine translation
o       Usage of semantic web annotations in corpus-based machine translation
o  Perspectives of grid technologies for MT and CAT systems.
o      Practical MT systems (MT for professionals, MT for multilingual eCommerce, MT for localization
o Automatic and semiautomatic acquisition of bilingual and multilingual lexica
o   Practical CAT tools (Translation memories, bilingual concordancers, terminology tools and resources)
o   Use of corpora in translation
We also encourage demonstrations of developed tools. Submissions for a demonstration session should include a 2 page demo-note describing the system-architecture and performance as well as technical requirements.

 

Invited Speaker :  Makoto Nagao (NICT, Tokyo)

Workshop organisers :
Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg)
John Hutchins (EAMT)
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)


Programme Committee includes:
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Science)
Michael Carl (Institut für Applied Information Research, Saarbrücken)
Chris Callison-Burch (Linear B/ University of Edinburgh)

Yves Champollion (Wordfast)
Daniel Grasmick (SAP, Germany)
Walther von Hahn (organiser) (University of Hamburg)
John Hutchins (organiser) (EAMT)

Susanne Jekat (Technical University Winterthur)

Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague)

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Paola Monachesi (UIL/OTS - University of Utrecht)
Andrea Mulloni (Interlanguage Ltd./ University of Wolverhampton)
Victor Pekar (University of Wolverhampton.)
Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic, Budapest)
Harold Somers (University of Manchester)
Cristina Vertan (Organiser) (University of Hamburg)
Andy Way (Dublin City University)

Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)

Deadlines:

*** Paper Submission 29th June 2005 ***

Notification of acceptance 20 July 2005

Camera Ready Papers 15th August 2005

Workshop 24 September 2005

Submission guidelines
Submissions  should be A4, one-column format and should not exceed seven pages, including  cover page,  figures, tables  and references. Times New Roman 12 font is preferred. The first page should state the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Continue with the first section of  your  paper.

Papers should be  submitted electronically in **PDF** format to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 

Each paper will be reviewed by up to three members of the program committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding camera-ready versions

Parallel submissions to the main conference and the workshop are allowed but the review process will be coordinated.  Please declare this in the notification form.

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Dr. Cristina Vertan
Natural Language Systems Division
Computer Science Department
University of Hamburg
Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30
22527 Hamburg GERMANY

Tel. 040 428 83 2519
Fax  040 428 83 2515

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

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