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
[email protected] 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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