NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS : June 5, 2009
Beyond Translation Memories: New Tools for Translators
Machine Translation Summit XII, Ottawa, August 29^th 2009
* Workshop Purpose and Theme*
Since the late 1970s, when research on translation memories began, and
the late 1980s, when the first commercial TM products became available,
there have been few major breakthroughs which have led to new tools
designed to support the activity of human translators. Instead, most
research in the field has focussed on improving existing tools, be it
translation memories, full machine translation, terminology databases,
alignment editors, monolingual spelling or grammar checkers, voice
recognition, workflow management, etc. The results have certainly been
encouraging, often allowing translators and translation firms to work
more efficiently and effectively. But have all the needs of translation
practioners been fully satisfied? Beyond the recycling of full-sentence
repetitions and their so-called fuzzy matches, are there new avenues
left to explore?
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion --
and perhaps even the demonstration -- of such new tools for translators.
Researchers, developers and practioners are invited to share ideas,
approaches, perspectives and experiences that pertain to new technology
or new ways of using existing technology to support and facilitate the
translation process.
*Topics of interest*
**Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* new ways of combining existing tools (ex: hybrid Translation
Memory and Machine Translation systems)
* text translatability evaluation tools
* pre-translation authoring tools
* measuring /terminology implantation///
* cooperative translation systems
* web-based translation tools
* post-editing tools
* typing prediction tools
* speech recognition for translation dictation
* terminology search in comparable (as opposed to parallel) corpora
* information retrieval tools for finding background material
relevant to the source text
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Submission of papers***
Authors are invited to submit a paper (max 8 pages) on the topics
mentioned or related to the workshop theme. All papers should be written
in English. Submissions should follow the MT Summit formatting
guidelines. Papers should be anonymous and submitted with a separate
cover sheet including the following information:
* paper title;
* author's name(s), affiliation(s), address(es) and e-mail address(es).
Papers should be sent in PDF format to: Marie-Josée Goulet
<mailto:[email protected]>
Web page:
http://services.uqo.ca/UQO.Publication.ExploraPub/index.aspx?cdtypepubli=NOUV&nopubli=4443
<http://services.uqo.ca/UQO.Publication.ExploraPub/index.aspx?cdtypepubli=NOUV&nopubli=4443>
*Important Dates*
**EXTENDED submission deadline: June 5, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2009
Camera-ready submission deadline: July 20, 2009
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*Organization*
**Chair: Marie-Josée Goulet, University of Quebec in
Outaouais
Co-chairs: Christiane Melançon, University of Quebec in Outaouais
Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada
Elliott Macklovitch, University of Montreal
*Program Committee*
**Caroline Barrière, National Research Council of Canada
Lynne Bowker, University of Ottawa
Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada
Patrick Drouin, University of Montreal
Marie-Josée Goulet, University of Quebec in Outaouais
Tony Hartley, University of Leeds
Marie-Claude L'Homme, University of Montreal
Elliott Macklovitch, University of Montreal
Christiane Melançon, University of Quebec in Outaouais
Sharon O'Brien, Dublin City University
Michel Simard, National Research Council of Canada
Harold Somers, University of Manchester
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Elliott Macklovitch
Coordonnateur, Laboratoire RALI,
Dept. d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle
Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7
tél.: 514-343-7535 fax: (514) 343-2496
http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca
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